Congatec has released images of the conga-TS170 module that has been designed for graphics intensive applications. The board uses 6th Generation Intel Core processor with the flagship CPU being the Intel Core i7-6820EQ (4 x Continue reading “Intel Skylake GT4e Core Photo Shows Very Long Chip!”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 9, 2016 at 3:35pm
Over the weekend a report titled ‘Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected‘ was published that was written by Professor Bianca Schroeder of the University of Toronto, and Raghav Lagisetty and Arif Merchant Continue reading “SLC and MLC NAND Flash Are Equally Reliable on SSDs”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 29, 2016 at 4:16pm
One of our readers just pointed us to a story over at Phoronix that states the future Intel desktop processors will support Clang (C language family frontend for LLVM compiler infrastructure project). We aren’t talking Continue reading “Intel Cannonlake Added To LLVM’s Clang – AVX-512”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 21, 2016 at 4:55pm
At CES 2016 we saw TP-Link introduce the worlds first 802.11ad WiGig router, the Talon AD7200, and then we also learned that Acer introduced the worlds first laptop with 802.11ad wireless, the TravelMate P648. Talon Continue reading “Intel and Qualcomm Team Up For 802.11ad WiFi – 4.6 Gbps WiGig”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 2, 2016 at 8:47pm
CPU-Z Version 1.75 has been released and it supports the upcoming Intel Broadwell-E processor series for the Intel X99 platform! If you’ve been patiently waiting for the Intel Core i7-6950X with 10 physical cores and Continue reading “CPU-Z 1.75 Released With Intel Broadwell-E CPU Support”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 26, 2016 at 4:32pm
We missed this over the weekend, but last Friday Microsoft Executive Vice President, Windows and Devices Group, Terry Myerson, wrote a blog post that says Microsoft will no longer be supporting ‘old’ processors for users Continue reading “Microsoft Ending New CPU Support in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 18, 2016 at 4:43pm
Intel Reports Full-Year Revenue of $55.4 Billion, Net Income of $11.4 Billion Reports Record Quarterly Revenue of $14.9 Billion News Highlights: Record full-year revenue in the Data Center, Internet of Things (IoT) and Non-Volatile Memory Continue reading “Intel Reports Revenue of $55.4 Billion in 2015”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 14, 2016 at 9:52pm
The mathematicians and community over at mersenneforum.org found a bug in the new 6th Generation Intel Core ‘Skylake’ architecture that freezes any system that has a Skylake processor in it when running the GIMPS Prime95 Continue reading “Intel Skylake Processor Bug Causing PCs To Freeze In Complex Workloads”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 11, 2016 at 1:47pm
Intel’s NUC, or Next Unit of Computing, mini PC has gone through and handful of refreshes over the year and they keep getting more power and features. That trend continues this year with the addition Continue reading “Intel Readies Quad-Core Core i7 Swift Canyon NUC That Is Gamer Friendly”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 8, 2016 at 2:56am
ASUS Showcases Gaming Innovations at CES 2016 New gaming line-up introduced to provide the ultimate gaming experience KEY POINTS Latest ASUS gaming innovations on display in the ASUS Media Lounge at the 2016 International CES Continue reading “ASUS Showcases Gaming Innovations at CES 2016”. …more
By Ken Brown •
Jan. 7, 2016 at 2:14am
In a pre-CES announcement featured on their official blog, Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire German manufacturer and designer of drones and their accompanying technology, Ascending Technologies. Intel previously partnered with Ascending Technologies Continue reading “Intel acquires German drone manufacturer and design startup Ascending Technologies”. …more
By Sean Sinha •
Jan. 5, 2016 at 1:41am
As announcements continue to roll out from CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Maingear caught our eye with an extreme gaming machine that they are debuting. Normally, gaming machines are not anything special or unusual at Continue reading “Maingear Creates Buzz with 18-Core All-In-One Gaming PC at CES 2016 “. …more
By Ken Brown •
Jan. 4, 2016 at 5:43pm
Intel NUC NUC5PGYH – The First NUC That Comes With Windows! The Intel Next Unit of Computing (NUC) mini PC debuted in 2012 as a barebone kit that consisted of just a mainboard with a Continue reading “Intel NUC NUC5PGYH Review – Complete Mini PC w/ Windows 10”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 31, 2015 at 5:21pm
CPU World is reporting that Intel has released an eight additional Broadwell- and Skylake-based processors to their processor pricing sheet that came out on December 27th, 2015. Two of the eight are new desktop processors: Continue reading “Intel Announces Two New Desktop Skylake Processors Without Integrated GPUs”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 28, 2015 at 2:30pm
Firmware Update Enables Bootable RAID in HyperX Predator Drives When the Intel Z170 chipset was released, one of the features we were looking forward to was the option to enable a bootable RAID utilizing M.2 Continue reading “HyperX Predator PCIe M.2 SSD Bootable RAID 0 Performance”. …more
By Steven Kean •
Dec. 21, 2015 at 3:21pm