Intel
Across the internet, from online forums such as Reddit to various other tech media outlets, there's a lot of furor around reports of Intel's top-end 14th and 13th Gen K series of processors running into stability issues. As Intel's flagship chips, these parts come aggressively clocked in order to maximize performance through various implementations of boost and turbo, leaving them running close to their limits out of the box. But with high-end motherboards further goosing these chips to wring even more performance out of them, it would seem that the Intel desktop ecosystem has finally reached a tipping point where all of these efforts to boost performance have pushed these flagship chips to unstable conditions. To that end, Intel has released new gudiance to...
Intel’s 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake Detailed: Ice Lake Core with Xe Graphics
During a time of increased competitor activity, Intel has decided to disclose some of the high level details surrounding its next generation consumer processor, known as Rocket Lake or...
189 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/29/2020
Akasa Turing Fanless Case Review: Unrivalled Noiseless NUC
Silent computing systems are preferable for a multitude of use-cases ranging from industrial applications (where dust and fans make for a troublesome configuration) to noiseless HTPCs (particularly for audiophiles)...
28 by Ganesh T S on 10/26/2020
Intel: DG1 GPU Now Shipping, Xe-HPG DG2 GPU In Labs
Alongside today’s profitable-but-uneasy earnings report from Intel, the company’s earnings presentation also offered a short update on the status of their discrete GPUs. As of today, Intel’s DG1 GPU...
50 by Ryan Smith on 10/22/2020
Intel Reports Q3 2020 Earnings: Still Very Profitable, But Challenging Times Ahead
Once again kicking off our earnings season coverage for the tech industry is Intel, who reported their Q3 2020 financial results this afternoon. The traditional leader of the pack...
28 by Ryan Smith on 10/22/2020
Acer’s New Swift 3X Notebook, with Intel Iris Xᵉ MAX Discrete Graphics, from $900
At Acer’s global press conference today, one of the hot ticket items was the announcement of an upcoming laptop featuring an Intel’s discrete graphics option. The new Intel Xe...
39 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/21/2020
SK Hynix to Buy Intel’s NAND Memory Business For $9 Billion
In a joint press release issued early this morning, SK Hynix and Intel have announced that Intel will be selling the entirety of its NAND memory business to SK...
66 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2020
ASRock Industrial's NUC 1100 BOX Series Brings Tiger Lake to UCFF Systems
Intel's introduction of the Tiger Lake U-series processors with support for a range of TDPs up to 28W has resulted in vendors launching a number of interesting systems with...
13 by Ganesh T S on 10/13/2020
Intel Confirms Rocket Lake on Desktop for Q1 2021, with PCIe 4.0
In a blog post on Medium today, Intel’s John Bonini has confirmed that the company will be launching its next-generation desktop platform in Q1 2021. This is confirmed as...
88 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/7/2020
The NZXT N7 Z490 Motherboard Review: From A Different Direction
It's been nearly two years to the day since NZXT last released a motherboard, which was the Z370 N7. NZXT initially used ECS as its motherboard OEM, but has...
46 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/7/2020
Insights into DDR5 Sub-timings and Latencies
Today we posted a news article about SK hynix’s new DDR5 memory modules for customers – 64 GB registered modules running at DDR5-4800, aimed at the preview systems that...
87 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/6/2020
DDR5 is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix
Discussion of the next generation of DDR memory has been aflutter in recent months as manufacturers have been showcasing a wide variety of test vehicles ahead of a full...
46 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/6/2020
ASRock Z490 Aqua Motherboard Review: The $1100 LC Monoblock Flagship
It is no secret that Intel's 10th generation processors are power-hungry. Intel has been squeezing every last drop of MHz out of the 14 nm process with its fastest...
51 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/2/2020
A 15-inch Thin Laptop For The Road: No More Dongles With The XMG DJ 15
As a journalist and an editor that in any given year travels around the world to attend events, having the best device that helps me write news and generate...
46 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/1/2020
GIGABYTE Unveils BRIX PRO Mini-PCs with Tiger Lake-U
Intel's Tiger Lake launch was focused on ultrabooks and notebooks, as various SKUs with TDP ranging from 7 to 28W were launched. The performance of Intel's low-power parts (U-...
43 by Ganesh T S on 9/29/2020
MinisForum Unveils EliteMini H31G: 65W CPU & 75W GPU in a Compact Mini-PC
MinisForum has been making some interesting moves in the last few months with their computing platforms, ranging from the DMAF5 based on the Ryzen 3000H-series SoCs to the Ice...
3 by Ganesh T S on 9/29/2020
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Fold Available For Preorder: Hold Onto Your Wallet
Announced back at CES, Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold is now available for preorder. Combining a foldable 13.3-inch OLED display with Intel’s Lakefield Hybrid CPU, this Always Connected PC ushers...
16 by Brett Howse on 9/29/2020
Dell Catches A Tiger Lake For The XPS 13 And XPS 13 2-in-1
With Intel’s launch of their latest 11th generation Core products, code-named Tiger Lake, it is time for the fall refresh from Intel’s customers, and one of the first out...
28 by Brett Howse on 9/28/2020_carousel.jpg)
What Products Use Intel 10nm? SuperFin and 10++ Demystified
For our audience that regularly keeps track of Intel’s product portfolio, it would be hard to miss that the naming strategy of Intel’s process node technologies is a bit...
143 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/25/2020
Intel Launches 10nm Atom Embedded CPUs: Elkhart Lake Now Available
The embedded and edge markets for Intel have always been hidden away within its IoT business, however at the Investor Meeting last year it was highlighted as one of...
55 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/23/2020
Intel Hires a New Technical Focused Chief Strategy Officer
The title of Chief Strategy Office is an interesting one for Intel. The C-level executive in this position obviously has the goal of managing strategy within the company, although...
25 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/22/2020
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