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Visiting a Web page that quietly uses the visitor's computing power to mine digital currencies through a script on the page in question will result in a sudden degradation of the PC's performance, a senior infosec official says.

Promising “premium performance” for its “best gaming processor ever”, featuring a “boost in frame rate rate ‘of up to’ 25% gen over gen”, Intel is pulling out all the stops to outshine the land of AMD’s Ryzen sun.

COMMENT My faith in the AMD processor range has been reinforced by the impressive new Ryzen series.

The year 2017 is the one that must have shaken Intel to the core, having coasted on incremental updates for over half a decade, with AMD the stunning CPU disruptor in the consumer and now business space.

AMD’s new RYZEN 3 series completes the consumer to gamer processor roadmap complementing its 5 and 7 series – it now covers everything from low power draw notebooks to high-performance e-sports desktops.

Qualcomm’s latest mid-range 450 processor promises “significant improvements in battery life, graphics and compute performance, imaging and LTE connectivity” to the previous 435 chip.

AMD has released four new AMD Ryzen 5 models and claims the Ryzen 5, 1600X provides 87% more performance than a comparable Intel 7th generation Core i5-7600k processor.

Strong positive response to AMD’s new Ryzen 7 eight-core processors by the gaming community has brought forward the release of its cost-effective Ryzen 5, six-core and four-core processors.

AMD makes x86 processors, Radeon graphics engines, and cooling solutions. The range can be a little confusing so here is a primer.

AMD now offers ‘top-to-bottom’ x86 options for gaming, imaging, industrial control - based on price, performance, and power use.       

Last week, Intel launched its 6th-generation series of Core processors to the Australian and Asia Pacific media, and we video’d the launch event and media Q&A.

Germany’s Gamescom event on August 5 saw the introduction of two new Intel processors from the 14nm Skylake family, successor to the current range of Broadwell based Intel Core processors.

It wasn’t just Intel showing off new processors at CES, but perennial competitor AMD, too.

Chipmaker AMD is aiming for substantial energy efficiency gains in its products over the rest of the decade.

Intel used the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to reveal forthcoming CPUs that will be of interest to gamers and other users who require maximum performance.

AMD has announced that it plans to start shipping 64-bit ARM server CPUs in 2014.

With the "new iPad" only days old, users are complaining about over-heating issues.  Although they probably didn't read the instructions, we have the solution.

AMD's 'Fusion' processors, initially aimed at the more mobile market, have arrived in Australia, with more powerful versions due to come later in the year - is it enough to defeat the competing ARM tablet threat?

On Tuesday the 18th of January, Intel will launch its new 'Sandy Bridge' processors in Australia, followed by AMD on Tuesday the 1st of February, which will do the same with its Fusion 'APU' range.

Last year saw Intel's 'Core' processors go mainstream, 2011 now sees the second generation of Core processors arriving with cool new features, from ever faster performance, better built-in HD and 3D graphics, quicker video transcoding capabilities and support for wireless transmission of video to HDTVs.