Blowout capital expenditures from Amazon and reports of CPU price hikes sent Intel back toward its yearly highs.

Intel Arc GPU owners have found a workaround to enable XeSS 3 frame generation early, ahead of Intel’s official rollout later this month.

Intel Arc users are enabling XeSS 3 on unsupported GPUs, achieving up to triple FPS despite no official driver support yet.

After a big recent run up, Intel shares are taking a breather in Thursday's extended session, down about 5%. The company's latest guidance underwhelmed, with Intel unable to meet all its demand.

Among Wall Street analysts who cover Intel, bulls are in the minority. But that group of optimists got a little larger earlier this week when Seaport Research's Jay Goldberg upgraded the stock to buy.