The Haswell launch gets just a little more complicated each day, with the latest wrinkle being that standard ATX power supplies that conform to the ATX 2.3 standard may not actually be capable of supporting Haswell's extremely low power sleep states. The result has been power supply manufacturers scrambling to see if their power supplies can handle Haswell's requested 0.05A on the 12V rail as opposed to the ATX 2.3 minimum's 0.5A. Both Corsair and Sea Sonic have been rigorously testing their power supplies to determine which ones definitely can handle Haswell's C6/C7 states, and both have a list of power supplies which are certified to run Haswell, and in the case of Corsair and their substantial portfolio, which power supplies should be able to...
Some Haswell TDPs Revealed: 15W & 28W Ultrabooks
Tonight Intel gave its (high-end) processor graphics a new name: Iris. Along with the new brand disclosure, Intel did let a few details slip about Haswell TDPs. High-end desktop parts...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/2/2013
Intel Iris & Iris Pro Graphics: Haswell GT3/GT3e Gets a Brand
We’ve known for a while that Intel’s Haswell processor would continue to drive GPU performance in a significant way. With Haswell, Intel will offer a higher end graphics configuration...
103 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/1/2013
Intel's Return to DRAM: Haswell GT3e to Integrate 128MB eDRAM?
We've known for a while now that Intel will integrate some form of DRAM on-package for the absolute highest end GPU configurations of its upcoming Haswell SoC. Memory bandwidth...
83 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/23/2013
Intel Details Haswell Overclocking at IDF Beijing
As we march towards the June 2nd release of Intel's Haswell processors, the company is slowly but surely filling in the missing blanks. Most recently we saw a shot...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/12/2013
Haswell GT3e Pictured, Coming to Desktops (R-SKU) & Notebooks
One of the worst kept secrets is Haswell will have four different GPU configurations: GT1, GT2, GT3 and GT3e. As with Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge, higher numbers mean...
64 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/10/2013
Intel Releases OpenCL 1.2 Driver and Tools Update for Ivy Bridge and Haswell
Intel has released an updated OpenCL driver for their 3rd Generation Core (Ivy Bridge) and 4th Generation Core (which we can safely call as Haswell) products that brings OpenCL...
22 by Rahul Garg on 4/9/2013
New Thunderbolt Controllers (DSL4510/4410) and Future 20Gbps Falcon Ridge TB Controller Announced
Last year we hinted that another Thunderbolt revision would happen this year, with a speed bump in 2014. It turns out that's exactly what's being announced at NAB this...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/8/2013
NVIDIA’s GeForce 700M Family: Full Details and Specs
With spring now well under way and the pending launch of Intel’s Haswell chips, OEMs always like to have “new” parts across the board, and so once more we’re...
91 by Jarred Walton on 4/1/2013
HandBrake to Get QuickSync Support
The latest version of Intel's Media SDK open sourced a key component of the QuickSync pipeline that would allow the open source community to begin to integrate QuickSync into...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/27/2013
Intel's PixelSync & InstantAccess: Two New DirectX Extensions for Haswell
As Intel continues its march towards performance relevancy in the graphics space with Haswell, it should come as no surprise that we're hearing more GPU related announcements from the...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/27/2013
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 16
It's the calm before the storm. The coming weeks are full of big announcements from smartphones to PC components, leaving us to talk about everything we can before the...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/17/2013
Intel's Quick Sync: Coming Soon to Your Favorite Open Source Transcoding Applications
Intel's hardware accelerated video transcode engine, Quick Sync, was introduced two years ago with Sandy Bridge. When it was introduced, I was immediately sold. With proper software support you...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/14/2013
Intel Brings Core Down to 7W, Introduces a New Power Rating to Get There: Y-Series SKUs Demystified
For all of modern Intel history, it has specified a TDP rating for all of its silicon. The TDP rating is given at a specific max core temperature (Tj_MAX...
56 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/14/2013
Intel Haswell GT3e GPU Performance Compared to NVIDIA's GeForce GT 650M
Haswell isn't expected to launch until the beginning of June in desktops and quad-core notebooks, but Intel is beginning to talk performance. Intel used a mobile customer reference board...
253 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/9/2013
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 13
We're back! In our first podcast of 2013 we go over some of the best products of 2012 and Haswell/ValleyView launch schedules. Brian talks about Field Test being removed...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/6/2013
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 8
As we march towards our review of the iPhone 5 (and some other really cool stuff you'll be seeing later this month), episode 8 of our weekly podcast got...
55 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/11/2012
Intel's Haswell Architecture Analyzed: Building a New PC and a New Intel
Atom was originally developed not to deal with ARM but to usher in a new type of ultra mobile device. That obviously didn't happen. UMPCs failed, netbooks were a...
244 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/5/2012
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 6
Sorry for the delay this week! With Brian in Seoul, me getting back from NYC and Ian in London it was difficult to all get together for our usual...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/27/2012
Making Sense of the Intel Haswell Transactional Synchronization eXtensions
Intel has released additional information regarding the Transactional Synchronization technology (TSX) inside their upcoming Haswell processor; it's basically an instruction set architecture (ISA) extension to make hardware accelerated transactional...
29 by Johan De Gelas & Cara Hamm on 9/20/2012