These days, when you're buying an x86 CPU, you're buying Intel or AMD. (Probably AMD, actually, as even used Ryzen 5000 chips are a good deal right now.) That just wasn't the case in the mid-1990s, though. There used to be more players in the CPU market, and we had all the freedom of choice we could've ever asked for.

Let's face it, you probably don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about your motherboard. Fair enough; neither do I. But did you know that there's a battery on it that can cause a whole lot of problems when it eventually dies?

Intel’s rumored Razor Lake mobile CPUs could introduce bLLC for much larger cache pools, while an early manufacturing claim has already shifted from TSMC N2X to the less clearly defined N2P V2.