Intel has officially introduced its Panther Lake processor lineup in Malaysia, marking a notable moment for the local tech scene. While the chips themselves were first announced globally back in October last year, this event feels more like a statement — a reminder that Malaysia remains an important market in Intel's broader strategy.

The ongoing global memory shortage isn't going away anytime soon. In fact, if recent projections are anything to go by, the situation could remain tight for several more years. Earlier, Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, suggested that supply constraints in the memory industry might stretch all the way to 2030. At the time, it sounded like a broad warning. But newer reports are starting to put real numbers behind that claim.

If you were hoping the memory chip situation would settle down soon, the latest warning from SK Group suggests that may not happen anytime soon. According to SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won, the supply crunch affecting the memory industry could continue all the way until 2030. His main point was simple: demand is rising faster than the industry can realistically expand wafer supply, and fixing that imbalance is not something that can be done in a year or two.

On paper, a 12-core CPU sounds like it should be comfortably competitive in 2026-era workloads, especially if you're lining it up against mainstream desktop parts. But real performance is a mix of architecture, clocks, platform maturity, and software optimisation, not just core count. That's why the latest Linux benchmark results for Loongson's 12-core 3B6000 are getting attention.