Analysis: Is USB finally going to kill the desktop?
Intel revealed more details about a revision of the current USB 3.0 specification called USB 3.1 at IDF 2014 in China. That update was announced last year by the USB Promoter Group and is likely to be...
View ArticleIntel unveils Braswell entry-level CPU and 20 new Chromebook designs
Intel has announced a new 14nm processor designed for smaller form factor devices, in addition to a further push to get Google Chromebooks out into the wild. Kirk Skaugen, SVP and GM of the PC Client...
View ArticleIntel to leverage Rockchip Chinese expertise for SoFIA launch
Intel has announced that it was entering a strategic partnership with fabless Chinese company Rockchip to "accelerate" and "expand" its family of Intel-based solutions for tablets. This hints at a...
View ArticleIntel Haswell-E products to land in September
Nearly a year after it was first mooted, rumors from Singapore are now suggesting that Intel will launch the enthusiast/workstation version of its latest micro-architecture, called Haswell-E, in...
View ArticleUpdated: Haswell: everything you need to know about Intel’s latest Core...
Intel’s new Haswell chips are here. The question is, should you care? As we’ll discover, the answer depends entirely on what you want from a PC. Haswell is a new family of 22nm processors from Intel,...
View ArticleAnalysis: Will Intel’s Skylake processor sink Broadwell before it can swim?
Just as Intel begins shipping its Broadwell CPUs early next year their successors will already be with software developers. Will there be any point in upgrading to the 5th Gen Core processors when a...
View ArticleAnalysis: Game developers have to start thinking differently, says Intel
This year’s Intel Developer Forum has seen a pretty significant amount of time given over to talking about PC gamers and the hardware they’re producing for that enthusiast market. On the back of the...
View ArticleAnalysis: Core M benchmarks: Why this CPU is the perfect candidate for the...
The first Broadwell processors from Intel may well have been rather heavily delayed, but we’ve tested the new 14nm Core M CPUs and they some of the most impressive mobile silicon we’ve ever seen. The...
View ArticleAnalysis: Core M benchmarks: Why this CPU is the perfect candidate for the...
The first Broadwell processors from Intel may well have been rather heavily delayed, but we’ve tested the new 14nm Core M CPUs and they some of the most impressive mobile silicon we’ve ever seen. The...
View ArticleIntel’s updated server chip road map shows SoC delay, new Xeon D-1500
Intel refreshed its public processor roadmap just over a week ago and while it does not reveal anything fundamentally new, it does show that the follow up to its Atom server SoC, the C2000, has been...
View ArticleIntel set to combine mobile and PC divisions
Intel could merge its mobile division and its PC division to create a Client Computing Group CCG that would be led by Kirk Skaugen, the current head of Intel’s PC division. The changes are likely to...
View ArticleIndustry voice: Storage trends in 2015: Death of the disk, and the importance...
Last year, we saw the continued transformation of enterprise IT infrastructure towards the next-generation data centre model. Fuelled by advances in compute, network and storage virtualisation,...
View ArticleIntel’s battery-boosting Skylake chips to land in August
Intel’s sixth-generation Skylake processors won’t be ready in time for Computex 2015 in June and will debut at some point in August with a showcase at the Intel Developer Forum being tipped as the...
View ArticleIntel’s Skylake expected to bring stamina and speed to your laptop
Leaked Intel presentation slides show what is believed to be Skylake‘s improvements over the company’s current Fifth Generation Broadwell processors. The new Skylake chips, expected later this year,...
View ArticleIntel appeals to gamers with Skylake’s improved Iris graphics
Over $34 billion are spent on PC games this year. Worldwide, there are 1.8 billion gamers, of which 1.2 billion consider themselves to be active gamers. Active gamers pay for a new game each month,...
View ArticleIntel Optane brings the storage octane to SSDs
With a dense, stackable design, Intel has been promoting the merits of 3D XPoint as being significantly faster than the storage available today. The technology was developed jointly between Intel and...
View ArticleUPDATED: Intel’s Skylake breaks seven clockspeed records
Skylake has been the talk of the town since it was unveiled two weeks ago. Today, at Intel’s developer’s conference, IDF 2015, the chip’s manufacturer provided additional details about the processor’s...
View ArticleApple iMacs and MacBooks in line for 95x GPU boost
Apple iMac and MacBook owners constantly bemoaning the gaming performance of their machines is ready to become a thing of the past thanks to a new external GPU designed specifically for Apple rigs....
View ArticleIntel has big changes in mind for the new MacBook Pro
While many are looking forward to Intel’s Sixth Generation Skylake CPU for its improved processing performance and power efficiency, the chip’s graphics may be its most underestimated asset. With...
View ArticleUpdated: Intel has big changes in mind for the new MacBook Pro
It’s all integrated While many are looking forward to Intel’s Sixth Generation Skylake CPU for its improved processing performance and power efficiency, the chip’s graphics may be its most...
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