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Processor war kicks off again

see new CPU designs from AMD and Intel, heralding a renewed fight for desktop processor supremacy. AMD’s offering hopes to repeat its predecessor’s feat by thrashing Intel and being crowned the best gaming chip. Intel responded with its Alder Lake family and the forthcoming 7000-series Ryzen uses the new Zen 4 core architecture, so we start with a decent instructions per cycle bump (about eight to ten percent) before we even

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