An alleged AMD Ryzen 5 7600X "Zen 4" engineering sample (ES) has turned up on the Chinese black market, with the seller noting the CPU has a base clock of 4.4GHz, much lower than the retail specs. AMD ...

Anytime a new platform with processors and mainboards are in the works you can bet that there are engineering samples of the parts floating around well in advance of the CPU actually hitting stores.

TL;DR: An ultra-rare Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 engineering sample, clocked at 4.0GHz, surfaced on Reddit, sparking interest as a possible employee loaner chip. This unreleased NetBurst ...

Exclusive photos of an iPhone 5 engineering sample straight from a factory in China show the new phone will be slightly taller, slightly thinner and about the same width. A trusted source inside the ...

Core i5-12400, Core i5-12400F Hit eBay For $365 and $323. A significant number of Intel Core i5-12400 "Alder Lake" engineering samples (ES) have been listed on eBay. The Intel i5-12400 is a mid-range ...

Over the past couple of months, one of the reports that have been floating around is a Frankenstein AMD/Intel chip. Such a hybrid would combine an Intel CPU with AMD GPU to form a single chip. In ...