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Sad day for gamers: Intel's 36-core Beast Lake CPU, rumored to blow away AMD's X3D, is canceled

The rumored Beast Lake range of processors, set to offer monstrous gaming performance, has been canned by Intel, a leaker tells us.

That's the latest from YouTube leaker Moore's Law is Dead (MLID), who tells us that Beast Lake - which he first aired info on, and apparently represented the "full realization of Intel's Royal Core project" - is now canned. This is disappointing given that it comes on top of a lot of negative news filtering out of Intel right now, not the least of which is the whole thorny issue of stability, and how that might affect next-gen Arrow Lake sales as consumers are rapidly losing trust in Team Blue (or certainly that's the case for some folks out there). The whispers around Beast Lake were of a mighty gaming CPU with jaw-dropping single-core performance to take on AMD's X3D silicon, but - that simply won't be happening.

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