AMD’s rumored upcoming budget CPU, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D, has just been spotted on GeekBench with solid single-core and multi-core results that put it on par with the 7600X3D, while having the same 96 MB of L3 cache. Unfortunately, for value-conscious gamers, the price of DDR5 right now might turn you away from the cheapest X3D chip on the AM5 platform.

Google Cloud has launched new Axion CPU and Ironwood TPU instances that combine Arm-based general-purpose computing with 7th-generation AI acceleration. Ironwood-based pods with up to 9,216 chips and 42.5 FP8 ExaFLOPS per pod vastly surpass Nvidia’s GB300 systems and form the foundation of Google’s AI Hypercomputer for large-scale model training and inference.