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Intel Quietly Adds the B365 Chipset to their 300-Series Lineup
Budget 22nm Chipset from Intel Rumours of an upcoming Intel B365 chipset arriving at Computex 2019 surfaced last week. However, it appears that it is actually launching much earlier than expected. In fact, Intel has already quietly announced its presence and put a web page up for the new chipset.…
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Intel Back to the Past with Chipset Return to 22nm
Intel Pushes H310 Production to Old 22nm Process A noticeable trend over the past couple months is that Intel CPUs are edging up in price. The main cause for the brewing shortage is the delay in the new 10nm. With 10nm largely a bust, 14nm has had to take up…
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AMD Tapes Out First FinFET Chips – Expect Arrival Q2/Q3 2016
While much of the focus from yesterday’s financial call was the poor state of finances, another small tidbit about future plans was mentioned. CEO Lisa Su revealed that AMD has taped out their first FinFET chips back in June this year. While the exact process node has not been revealed, we…
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Intel Released The Xeon E7 v3 Processor Family
We’ve seen and heard a lot about Intel’s mobile and desktop processors lately, but we shouldn’t forget that Intel also creates some of the best server processors in the world. They have just released the latest version of these monsters that come with up to 18 cores and 36 threads,…
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Intel Core i7 5960X “Haswell-E” Processor Review
Introduction & What’s New? The Intel Core i7 5960X, codename Haswell-E, is probably 2014’s worst kept secret. As I am writing this review the full specifications, pricing and pictures of just about every X99 board in existence have already been made public and the NDA is still a few…
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Intel Core i7 4790K “Devil’s Canyon” Processor Review
Introduction & What’s New? Intel released its Devil’s Canyon CPUs at the start of this month in time for this year’s Computex event. Sadly we were delayed in getting our sample of the Core i7 4790K, which means our review has come out a little late, but nevertheless we have…
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Intel Bay Trail Successor “Braswell” Coming January 2015
Intel announced its successor to the current Bay Trail platform a few months ago – Cherry Trail. Under the new platform the 22nm Silvermont architecture used in the Bay Trail platform gets replaced with the new 14nm Braswell architecture. Like Bay Trail Cherry Trail is low power, cost effective and…
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Intel’s Broadwell Delayed Until Q4 2014/ Q1 2015 – Y, U and H Series Affected
Intel’s 14nm Broadwell generation of CPUs had previously been on track to launch in Q3 of 2014 but it appears that this may now not happen as VR-Zone reports Intel are experiencing delays. The delays are selective and some parts remain unaffected. Let’s start with the good news which is that the…
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Intel Launch Bay Trail Low Power SoCs
Intel has officially unveiled its Bay Trail family of mobile SoCs based on the Silvermont CPU micro-architecture. The Atom Z3000 series of Bay Trail-T processors are Intel’s first 22nm processors designed specifically for tablets and mobile handsets. Intel will also reveal Pentium (Bay Trail-M) and Celeron (Bay Trail-D) processors as…
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MSI Announces X79 BIOS Updates For Ivy Bridge-E
MSI has just announced that all its X79 motherboards are now ready for Intel’s Ivy Bridge-E processors. Intel’s Ivy Bridge-E retains the same socket and chipset as Sandy Bridge-E so users can just drop the new CPU in an updated motherboard and everything should work just fine. Users will have…
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Intel Core i7 4960X Extreme Edition Processor Review
Introduction Ever since Intel released Ivy Bridge to the LGA 1155 platform, LGA 2011 owners were wondering when they would see High End Desktop (HEDT) processors based on the 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture. Up until today the LGA 2011 platform lagged two generations behind the mainstream LGA 115X platforms…
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Intel 8 Series Not Compatible With Broadwell, Bi-Directional Backward Compatibility Issues
According to a VR-Zone report Haswell and Broadwell could use significantly different electrical arrangements on the CPU pin contacts . What this basically means is that there will be bi-directional backward compatibility issues with Haswell processors. Haswell CPUs may not work in Intel 9 Series motherboards (Z97/H91/B95…etc) and Broadwell CPUs…
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Ivy Bridge-E A Native 6 Core, Not Cut Down 8 Core Like Sandy Bridge-E
According to some information from VR-Zone Intel’s Ivy Bridge-E platform will be quite different to Sandy Bridge-E. The Ivy Bridge-E CPUs will be native 6 core dies as opposed to cut down 8 core dies like the Sandy Bridge-E CPUs were. While this may seem like a minor or insignificant…
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Core i7 Ivy Bridge-E Pricing Is Revealed, Slightly Cheaper Than Expected
If you are interested in getting a Ivy Bridge-E CPU when they come out later this year, expected September, then you may be pleased to know pricing details have surfaced from VR-Zone. The first “entry” model, the Core i7 4820K, comes with a price tag of $310 USD which makes…
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Intel Core i7 4771 Gets Tested
Intel is planning on releasing a brand new Haswell CPU called the Core i7 4771. This will be a locked multiplier Core i7 Haswell processor with identical clock speeds and design to the Core i7 4770K. That means a 3.5GHz base clock and 3.9GHz turbo clock across four cores and…
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