Intel’s 13th Gen processors arrive October 20th with $589 flagship Core i9-13900K

Intel’s new Core i9-13900K. | Image: Intel After weeks of teasers and leaks, Intel is finally making its 13th Gen processors official today. Intel’s 13th Gen desktop CPUs will start arriving on October 20th, led by the flagship Core i9-13900K priced at $589. That’s the same price as Intel’s previous 12900K flagship, despite Intel’s warning…

Solicitor General Asks SCOTUS to Grant Petition to Reject Tenth Circuit’s Extraterritorial Application of Lanham Act

On September 23, the office of the U.S. Solicitor General filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on the issues at play in Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc., a trademark case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a $90 million damages award for trademark infringement based…

Intel’s 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” CPUs are official, launch October 20

Enlarge / An overview of the improvements coming to Intel’s 13th-gen desktop chips. (credit: Intel) If there’s one thing Intel has gotten good at in the last few years, it’s refining a CPU architecture. Between 2015 and 2020, manufacturing troubles pushed Intel to release not one, not two, but five processor generations based on iterations of…

Alienware QD-OLED monitor picks open standards over G-Sync, is $200 cheaper

Enlarge / Alienware’s latest QD-OLED monitor, the AW3423DWF. (credit: Alienware) Alienware announced today a new QD-OLED monitor SKU that looks awfully similar to the Alienware AW3423DW released for $1,300 this spring. The AW3423DWF has many of the same specs but skips Nvidia G-Sync certification and hardware in favor of AMD’s and VESA’s open standards for…