The key innovation here is the new third-generation XeSS system, Intel's super sampling feature, which now boasts frame-generation. This inserts AI-generated frames into your gameplay, and the new version can go up to 4X (three AI frames for every one native frame).

Earlier in the year, Samsung's foundry business reportedly attracted a new set of orders from important clients. Instead of the "still in-progress" cutting-edge 2 nm GAA node process (aka SF2), key customers selected more mature production lines: 5 nm and 8 nm.

Samsung hires an AMD and Intel executive to improve Exynos chips, aiming to close the gap with Qualcomm in future Galaxy phones.

As one year ended and another began, Apple blew away the cobwebs by shunting a further batch of products into its “Vintage” category, including the last ever MacBook Air to run an Intel chipset.