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Single-board computers in the 3.5-inch form-factor have become extremely popular for embedded applications involving a mix of high performance requirements as well as extended peripherals support. Typical use-case scenarios include digital signage, edge inferencing solutions, retail applications, and IoT gateways. The requirements in these segments call for processors and components that can operate in a wide temperature range. The chassis and cooling solution handle other duties such as ruggedness and avoidance of moving parts. The Supermicro X13SRN-H-WOHS is a 3.5-inch SBC with a soldered-down Intel Core i7-1370PE - a Raptor Lake-P embedded processor with vPro support. It has plenty of I/O support, including a SlimSAS PCIe expansion slot. Supermicro also offers a ready-to-deploy solution using the SBC in the actively-cooled SYS-E102-13R-H box PC. This...
Intel's Xeon Cascade Lake vs. NVIDIA Turing: An Analysis in AI
It seems like the new motto for Silicon Valley for the last few years has been “Data is the new oil,” and for good reason. The number of companies...
56 by Johan De Gelas on 7/29/2019Intel Begins Commercial Shipments of 10nm Ice Lake CPUs to OEMs
Intel has begun shipments of its 10th generation Core "Ice Lake" processors as of the second quarter, according to the company in an earnings call this week. Made using...
115 by Anton Shilov on 7/26/2019Intel Q2 FY 2019 Earnings Report: Datacenter Drop
Intel announced their earnings for the second quarter of their 2019 fiscal year. Overall, revenue dropped 3% year-over-year to $16.5 billion, with gross margins still below the 60% that...
16 by Brett Howse on 7/26/2019Apple to Buy Bulk of Intel’s Smartphone Modem Business For $1 Billion
Intel's struggling smartphone modem business has finally found a suitor. This afternoon the company announced in conjunction with Apple that the tech company – and one of Intel's most...
33 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2019Talking TDP, Turbo and Overclocking: An Interview with Intel Fellow Guy Therien
One of the most misunderstood basic technical points over the past decade is related to power consumption and how different CPUs react differently to load. The basic premise is...
53 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/25/2019Honor Announces MagicBook Pro with 16.1-Inch Display
Honor has announced its new laptop featuring a rare 16.1-inch display with ultra-thin bezels. The MagicBook Pro notebook packs a quad-core processor from Intel as well as a discrete...
25 by Anton Shilov on 7/24/2019Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8284 CPU: When 300 MHz Cost $5,500
Besides Xeon processors that are officially mentioned on its website and price list, Intel has tens of ‘off roadmap’ server CPUs only available to select customers that have special...
82 by Anton Shilov on 7/18/2019ID Cooling IS-50X Low-Profile SFF Cooler, Rated for 130 W TDP
ID Cooling has introduced its new cooling system designed for small form-factor (SFF) PCs, for CPUs with a TDP rating of up to 130W. The IS-50X has a 120-mm...
13 by Anton Shilov on 7/17/2019HP Launches Z6 G4 Workstation with Intel Xeon Scalable & Quadro RTX 6000
HP has started sales of its fourth-generation Z6 workstation, which pack one or two of Intel’s Xeon Scalable processor, NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX graphics cards, as well as up to...
14 by Anton Shilov on 7/17/2019Next Generation Intel Atom Tremont: Potential L3 Cache
Intel has already disclosed that it will have a next generation Atom core, code named Tremont, which is to appear in products such as the Foveros-based hybrid Lakefield, as...
67 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/15/2019VAIO’s 2-Pound 12.5-Inch Laptop Weds Miniature Dimensions & Vast Connectivity
VAIO has introduced its new SX12 notebook that brings together miniature dimensions, low weight, decent specs, full-pitch keyboard, a long battery life, and vast connectivity options that include a...
26 by Anton Shilov on 7/12/2019The MSI GE75 Raider Laptop Review: Core i9 and RTX 2080 Performance
MSI went heavily into developing gaming products several years ago, and although the company’s laptop lineup isn’t exclusively gaming, that is by far the biggest portion of their portfolio...
33 by Brett Howse on 7/12/2019Intel’s Islay Canyon Mini NUCs Available: Whiskey Lake, Radeon 540X, 8GB LPDDR3
Several retailers have started sales of Intel’s NUC 8 Mainstream-G systems previously known as codenamed Islay Canyon. The ultra-compact form-factor PCs pack Intel’s 8th Gen Core i5/i7 processors for...
43 by Anton Shilov on 7/1/2019Intel and Microsoft to Continue Supporting Existing Huawei Notebooks
Ever since Huawei was placed on the United States’ Entity List – effectively banning them from receiving US technology – the fate of support for their existing products has...
13 by Anton Shilov on 6/25/2019GIGABYTE X299G Designare-10G Motherboard: Dual 10G Ethernet
GIGABYTE has released only a handful of its professional focused and creator-driven Designare branded motherboards, one for X299 and X399 for HEDT, as well as a Z390 version for...
8 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/14/2019Fireside Chat with Ian and Wendell: Ryzen 3000, Zen 2, Navi, Xeon W
The last couple of weeks have been a blitz, with the Computex trade show in Taipei almost immediately followed by E3 in Los Angeles. In both instances, AMD...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/14/2019Intel's X299 Goes Extreme, GIGABYTE X299G Xtreme Waterforce With 10G LAN, 16-Phase VRM
At Computex 2019, GIGABYTE unveiled a couple of new motherboards on Intel's X299 chipset in lieu of the new refreshed Skylake-X processors expected later this year. The GIGABYTE X299G...
21 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/13/2019From Mining to Mini-PC Gaming: Comino Goes High-End Gaming PCs
As noted multiple times, technologies developed during the cryptocurrency mining boom can be easily applied elsewhere. Comino, which last year demonstrated its liquid-cooled mining servers, is no longer focused...
6 by Anton Shilov on 6/13/2019Lenovo Reveals ThinkPad P73: A 17.3-Inch DTR Notebook with Dolby Vision
Lenovo on Tuesday introduced its new 17.3-inch mobile workstation, its most powerful notebook aimed at a broad set of workloads from content creation to oil and gas exploration. The...
7 by Anton Shilov on 6/12/2019Lenovo ThinkPad P53: Core i9, 128 GB RAM, Quadro RTX 5000, OLED
Lenovo has introduced what it calls the world’s highest-performing 15.6-inch mobile workstation. The ThinkPad P53 packs Intel’s eight-core Core i9 or Xeon processor, up to 128 GB of RAM...
9 by Anton Shilov on 6/12/2019