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...
Why Thunderbolt Won't Come to the iPhone Anytime Soon
Before CES there was a bunch of silliness floating around about how Apple might bring Thunderbolt to the iPhone based on a creative interpretation of an Apple patent. Some...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on 1/14/2012
AOC's Thunderbolt Display
This one was pretty low key but AOC had their own Thunderbolt display at Intel's booth. No word on pricing or availability but hopefully we'll see more Thunderbolt equipped...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/13/2012
Sumitomo Electric's Thunderbolt Cable
Since the launch of Thunderbolt the only cable supplier has been Apple. Given that no current Thunderbolt devices come with a Thunderbolt cable (save Apple's own Thunderbolt Display which...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/13/2012
The First Thunderbolt Speed Bump: Likely in 2014
One of the most interesting use cases for Thunderbolt is as a connection to an external GPU for thin and light notebook users, especially Ultrabook/MacBook Air users that are...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012
Cactus Ridge: Understanding the New, More Affordable Thunderbolt Controller
Eagle Ridge, Image Courtesy iFixit When we first published the details of Intel's 2012 line of Thunderbolt controllers we pointed out that the specs of the two new controllers...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012
Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga 13 with Windows 8: This Is the Ultrabook We Want
We were back at Lenovo’s suite today and got a chance to spend a bit more time with a laptop that we didn’t get around to discussing on Tuesday...
31 by Jarred Walton on 1/12/2012
Intel's DX11 Demo, Now on an Ultrabook
Two days ago Intel made the mistake of playing a video of a DX11 game (F1 2011) instead of running the game itself on an Ivy Bridge Ultrabook. We...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/11/2012
Intel Shows off Thunderbolt, AppUp on Ivy Bridge Ultrabook Reference Design
Intel just dropped a bunch of news about its first smartphone platform partners and their respective products, followed by more news about Ultrabooks. Intel showed off its Ivy Bridge...
3 by Brian Klug on 1/10/2012
Intel's Medfield & Atom Z2460 Arrive for Smartphones: It's Finally Here
It's here. Intel's first smartphone SoC that you'll actually be able to buy in a device before the end of the year. The platform is called Medfield and Paul...
164 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2012
Intel Announces its Second Smartphone Platform Partner - Motorola
Intel just showed off the Lenovo K800, its first design win with Atom inside. The second partnership was just announced as well, and it's Motorola. None other than Motorola...
8 by Brian Klug on 1/10/2012
Intel Announces its First Medfield Smartphone Partner at CES 2012 - Lenovo K800
We're at the Intel keynote here at CES 2012 where Intel has announced one of its first Medfield design wins. Lenovo will be launching a phone based around Medfield...
7 by Brian Klug on 1/10/2012
Intel Confirms Working DX11 on Ivy Bridge
Yesterday we reported Intel ran a video of a DX11 title instead of running the actual game itself on a live Ivy Bridge notebook during Mooly Eden's press conference...
63 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2012
ASUS Eee PC Flare 1205C/1205CE, X101CH, and 1225B
A few weeks ago, Intel updated their Atom platform with the launch of Cedar Trail, the successor to Pine Trail. While CPU performance isn’t likely to have changed much—we’re...
10 by Jarred Walton on 1/9/2012
Intel's Functional Nikiski Concept PC: Transparent Touchpad Doubles as a Screen Window
Intel talked about the Nikiski concept PC at Computex last year. The concept is simple: replace the palm rest and touchpad on a notebook with a transparent strip with...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/9/2012
Intel Sort of Demonstrates Ivy Bridge Graphics at CES 2012
Intel's Mooly Eden just ran through a couple of demos running on Ivy Bridge based Ultrabooks. The first demo was a real time Havok render of a troll. The...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/9/2012
Zotac's Cedar Trail ZBOX ID80 Uses Discrete GPU
Intel announced its 32nm Atom platform for netbooks/nettops at the end of last year. Codenamed Cedar Trail the new Atom doesn't really change CPU performance all that much but...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/9/2012
LaCie at CES: 2big & eSATA Thunderbolt Hubs
We're expecting to see a lot of Thunderbolt devices at CES this year and we've already seen our first two new products, both from LaCie. The first is the...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/8/2012
Thunderbolt Goes Universal in H1'12
Thunderbolt initially launched in February when Apple updated the MacBook Pro, but since then the technology has been an Apple exclusive. The understanding was that Thunderbolt would be a...
25 by Kristian Vättö on 1/4/2012
Intel Core i7 3820 Review: $285 Quad-Core Sandy Bridge E
If you are a normal desktop user or even a power user with plans to run at over 4GHz, the vanilla LGA-1155 Sandy Bridge platform is good enough. You...
84 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/29/2011
Intel's Atom N2600, N2800 & D2700: Cedar Trail, The Heart of the 2012 Netbook
Netbooks aren't dead, but they're not quite the hip topic of discussion they were a few years ago. The focus on cost conscious computing hasn't changed since the introduction...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/28/2011
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