Intel
During the Intel keynote hosted by CEO Pat Gelsinger, he gave the world a glimpse into the Intel Client roadmap until 2026. Meteor Lake launched last year on that roadmap, and Lunar Lake, which we dived into yesterday as Intel disclosed technical details about the upcoming platform. Pat also presented a wafer on stage, Panther Lake, and he gave some additional information about Intel's forthcoming Panther Lake platform, which is expected in 2025. We covered Intel's initial announcement about the Panther Lake platform last year. It is set to be Intel's first client platform using its Intel 18A node. Aside from once again affirming that things are on track for a 2026 launch, Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, also confirmed that they will be powering on...
The Intel Z690 Motherboard Overview (DDR5): Over 50+ New Models
To support the launch of Intel's latest 12th generation 'Alder Lake' processors, Intel has also pulled the trigger on its latest Z690 motherboard chipset. Using a new LGA1700 socket...
126 by Gavin Bonshor on 11/9/2021VIA To Offload Parts of x86 Subsidiary Centaur to Intel For $125 Million
As part of their third quarter earnings release, VIA Technologies has announced this morning that the company is entering into an unusual agreement with Intel to offload parts of...
42 by Ryan Smith on 11/5/2021The Intel 12th Gen Core i9-12900K Review: Hybrid Performance Brings Hybrid Complexity
Today marks the official retail availability of Intel’s 12th Generation Core processors, starting with the overclockable versions this side of the New Year, and the rest in 2022. These...
474 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 11/4/2021Updated: Intel Cans Xe-HP Server GPU Products, Shifts Focus To Xe-HPC and Xe-HPG
Update 11/01: In an additional tweet posted over the weekend by Raja Koduri, the Intel GPU frontman confirmed that Intel will be bringing products based on their Xe-HPG architecture to...
48 by Ryan Smith on 11/1/2021Bringing Geek Back: Q&A with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger
One of the overriding key themes of Pat Gelsinger’s ten-month tenure at Intel has been the eponymous will to ‘bring geek back’ to the company, implying a return to...
49 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/29/2021Intel's Aurora Supercomputer Now Expected to Exceed 2 ExaFLOPS Performance
As part of Intel’s 2021 Innovation event, the company offered a brief update on the Aurora supercomputer, which Intel is building for Argonne National Laboratory. The first of the...
14 by Ryan Smith on 10/27/2021Intel 12th Gen Core Alder Lake for Desktops: Top SKUs Only, Coming November 4th
Over the past few months, Intel has been drip-feeding information about its next-generation processor family. Alder Lake, commercially known as Intel’s 12th Generation Core architecture, is officially being announced...
395 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/27/2021Intel Reports Q3 2021 Earnings: Client Down, Data Center and IoT Up
Kicking off another earnings season, Intel is once again leading the pack of semiconductor companies in reporting their earnings for the most recent quarter. As the company gets ready...
32 by Ryan Smith on 10/21/2021Intel Reaffirms: Our Discrete GPUs Will Be On Shelves in Q1 2022
Today is when Intel does its third-quarter 2021 financial disclosures, and there’s one little tidbit in the earnings presentation about its upcoming new discrete GPU offerings. The earnings are...
75 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/21/2021The EVGA Z590 Dark Motherboard Review: For Extreme Enthusiasts
Getting the most out of Intel's Core i9-11900K primarily relies on two main factors: premium cooling for the chip itself, and a solid motherboard acting as the foundation. And...
28 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/15/2021An Interview with Intel Lab’s Mike Davies: The Next Generation of Neuromorphic Research
As part of the launch of the new Loihi 2 chip, built on a pre-production version of Intel’s 4 process node, the Intel Labs team behind its Neuromorphic efforts...
17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/30/2021Huawei MateBook X Pro (2021) Review: A Sleek and Vibrant Notebook
As a laptop vendor, Huawei is entering its fourth year. Relying on x86 silicon and a GPU here and there, one thing Huawei does well is the quality of...
84 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/28/2021Plugable TBT4-HUB3C Thunderbolt 4 Hub Capsule Review
Plugable is introducing its Thunderbolt 4 product lineup today, with the TBT4-HUB3C Thunderbolt 4 Hub leading the pack. Joining it are two Thunderbolt 4 cables - the 2m. long...
21 by Ganesh T S on 9/23/2021The OnLogic Helix HX500 Review: A Rugged Fanless 35W mini-PC
The emergence of edge computing as a paradigm has expanded the market for industrial PCs over the last few years. Traditionally an 'industrial PC' was built with a focus...
32 by Ganesh T S on 9/17/2021The ASRock Z590 OC Formula Review: An Iconic Brand Revival
Whether overclocking the CPU is your cup of morning tea/coffee/something stronger or not, there are specific motherboards built by professional overclockers and engineers designed to squeeze out as much...
24 by Gavin Bonshor on 9/10/2021The MSI GE76 Raider Review: Tiger Lake Plus Ampere Equals Framerate
Let us pretend we are desktop people, thinking about building a new system. What would we look for? If we are after a gaming system, clearly we need a...
33 by Brett Howse on 9/8/2021Multi-chip Intel Core i9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cooling
Back in March, Intel unveiled its 11th generation of desktop processors codenamed Rocket Lake. In its lineup, the flagship desktop chip is the Core i9-11900K, with eight cores, sixteen...
55 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/30/2021ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-1165G7 Mini-PC Review: An Ultra-Compact Tiger Lake Desktop
Intel introduced the Willow Cove micro-architecture with their Tiger Lake processors in the latter part of 2020. These were designed to span a wide range of performance levels and...
33 by Ganesh T S on 8/26/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: Graphics (Intel, AMD, Google, Xilinx)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/24/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: DPU + IPUs (Arm, NVIDIA, Intel)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021