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Like Microsoft, Apple seems to be exploring leaving Intel chips behind and moving to ARM for its Mac ecosystem.

At Computex, Intel revealed its 10th generation 10nm Ice Lake processors, alongside a new GPU generation and Thunderbolt 3 support for Wi-Fi 6 Gig+.

The faulty Meltdown and Spectre patch has caused rebooting problems, but was believed to be limited to legacy Intel chips. However, the company admits Skylake and Kaby Lake chips are also affected.

Intel has announced the specs and pricing for its new Xeon chips. The flagship 8180M costs $13,000, nearly twice as much as the model it replaces.

As promised, Microsoft is preventing updates for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on machines that have new silicon. The company announced the decision last year and is now putting it into practice.

The new Kaby Lake CPU will offer 4K capability, as well as significantly increased gaming, web browsing ,and video editing performance.

Support for Windows 7 will now end on January 4, 2020, while Windows 8 will be supported until 2023.

In an update of policy, Microsoft has decided to extend support for Windows 7 and 8.1 machines with Skylake CPUs until 2018. It seems the company has given in to demands by Lenovo, which is currently the biggest PC maker.

Intel will release a microcode update which shall restrict users from increasing the bclock setting on their “non-K” Skylake processors, thus preventing it from being overclocked.

Microsoft will provide support for PC’s running older Windows versions until July 17, 2017. After this date upgrades to Windows 10 will be mandatory.

Intel’s updated microcode to prevent Spectre exploits has been implemented by Microsoft across Windows 10 builds.

Currently in development for Windows 10 Redstone 3 preview, Power Throttling places background apps further away from CPU power consumption, allowing machines to focus more on important applications.

The company has clarified that users whose computers have a new (7th or later) generation processor should upgrade their OS to Windows 10 in order to receive Windows Updates.

On its devices event Microsoft has revealed the new Surface Pro 4 featuring 12.3 inches, a reduced bezel and a a 267 ppi screen with 5 million pixels.

New Intel CPU flaw (CVE-2022-0001) lets attackers steal data. Affects most Intel CPUs since 2015.

The company is preparing to rebrand its client chips as Core Ultra, starting with the upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs.

Microsoft is reportedly opting for AMD processors for its new 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 instead of long-time chip partner Intel.

Microsoft is reportedly disappointed with Intel and is testing a Surface Laptop with an AMD Picasso processor under the hood.

Microsoft teased a pre-release Windows DataCenter Class machine with 896 cores, 1792 threads, and 32 sockets.

Microsoft will launch its Surface Studio 2 and the device passed through a benchmark today with an excellent Geekbench score.