We don't have much gaming-oriented news to report; the CPU market is fairly stable. Sure, AMD launched its Kaveri-based APUs and some high core count Opterons, while Intel introduced LGA 1150-based Celerons. But those aren't the CPUs you're looking for.

We begin this month's update with news from AMD.

Most recently, the company announced 12- and 16-core Opteron processors, which actually host six and eight Piledriver modules, respectively. The 12-core Opteron 6338P (2.3 GHz) and 16-core Opteron 6370P (2.0 GHz) are 99 W CPUs. Of course, these have little bearing on the gaming space. More than anything, I find it interesting that AMD continues working on more complex versions of the processors we're so familiar with on the desktop, and that enterprise customers are using them specifically to drive servers running many virtual machines.