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Intel Potentially Shelving Iris Pro iGPUs
Since the release of Haswell, Intel has not only had the regular HD integrated graphics, but also the Iris and Iris Pro variants of their iGPUs. By utilizing more graphics units and a special eDRAM cache, Intel has allowed their Iris and Iris Pro CPUs challenge the performance of budget dPGUs from…
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Don’t Expect Socketed Intel Skylake with eDRAM
When Intel frist revealed that the eDRAM cache introduced with Iris Pro could be accessed by the CPU, many users were elated. CPU performance had long been relatively stagnant and extra faster cache would help improve performance. With up to 50GB/s in each direction, the relatively massive 128MB eDRAM L4…
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Intel Skylake i7-6700K De-Lid Shows Thermal Paste, Small Die and No VRM
What appears to be a de-lidded i7-6700K has popped up on the net. A user of coolaler has found a blurry picture of what is said to be an Intel Skylake i7-6700K. Under the recognizable metal heat spreader, a relatively small die can be found covered in thermal paste. Somewhat expected, it…
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Intel Launches Broadwell Desktop At Last
Delayed so long that rumors were spreading that there would never be a desktop launch, Intel has at last launched Broadwell for the desktop. The meant to follow the Haswell Tock, Broadwell was aimed at improving efficiency, quite minor tweaks and a move to the 14nm process. The complexity of 14nm…
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