Intel’s latest laptops get rid of replaceable memory

It’s getting pretty hard to find a laptop with a user-accessible SO-DIMM slot to upgrade the memory. And it’s about to get a lot harder. Starting with its upcoming Lunar Lake laptop CPU series, Intel will install memory into the processor SoC itself, o…

Intel ditches hyperthreading for Lunar Lake CPUs

Intel’s fastest processors have included hyperthreading, a technique that lets more than one thread run on a single CPU core, for over 20 years — and it’s used by AMD (which calls it “simultaneous multi-threading”) as well. But you won’t see a little “…