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Intel Kicks off 10nm Trial Production
With just a year to go until we’re set to receive Cannon Lake, Intel has finally started the preparations for their next generation chips. Right now, Intel is still utilizing the 14nm process for Kaby Lake this year which will be the third generation of chips on the process. Next…
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Intel Withheld Haswell Shipments in order to Push Skylake Sales
While PC sales have been slower over the past few years, it looks like Intel had been planning for such an occurrence. According to market data, Intel withheld processor shipments for the first half of the year in order to prepare the channel for the Skylake chips that launched in…
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Intel Regrets Skipping Broadwell for Desktop PCs
Intel has admitted that skipping desktop PC iterations of its Broadwell processors last year was a mistake following a massive dip in sales for the company over the last twelve months. Kirk Skaugen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Client Computing Group at Intel, confessed during this year’s…
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Intel Skylake Series Prices Revealed
With the Intel Skylake-S series of processors is set to officially unveiled on 5th August, prices for each model have been leaked, and a cursory glance at the list below suggests a performance boost over the Intel Haswell Refresh for less money. An average of about 7% less: Could we…
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Intel Confirms Death of Tick Tock – Kaby Lake to Replace Cannon Lake
In an ominous sign for the future, Intel has officially confirmed the delay of their 10nm process, used for Cannon Lake, till the second half of 2017. In its stead, the 14nm Kaby Lake will take its place for 2016. This confirms the earlier reports that Intel was facing difficulties in 10nm…
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Media Outlet Slams Intel’s Devil’s Canyon, Did It Disappoint?
Intel’s Devil’s Canyon CPU is a product that we have already reviewed. In the run up to its release there was so much talk about bringing back the “good old days” of 5GHz overclocking on air, and all that shabang. However, as our review revealed that simply wasn’t the case. Now media outlet Digital Trends has…
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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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Cube Raptor Gaming PC Review
Introduction It is no secret that there are a lot of people who are interested in gaming PCs but do not have the time or the experience to build their own. It is also no secret that PCs made by gimmicky system builders like Alienware are over-priced and are not…
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Intel Haswell Refresh Core i3 And Pentium Processors Set To Arrive July 20th
According to rumours coming out of China Intel’s Haswell Refresh Pentium and Core i3 processors will arrive on July 20th 2014. We have already seen the Haswell Refresh Core i5 and Core i7 models, such as the new Devil’s Canyon Core i7 4790K, but we’ve yet to see the lower-end…
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Rumour: Intel Devil’s Canyon Will Be Z87 Compatible
Devil’s Canyon is the apparent codename for Intel’s newest unlocked K series CPUs that will probably be released on or around Computex 2014 in June according to widely circulated rumours. Devil’s Canyon is expected to include a Core i7 4790K and a Core i5 4690K both of which are supposedly…
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ASRock Reveals Their “Worlds Fastest” Ultra M.2 Socket
Z97 motherboards and Haswell Refresh CPU’s may not have been a huge wave of innovation for the PC component market, but they did bring with the a couple of interesting features that can have a big impact on the world of storage. The first one being the ASRock Ultra M.2…
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ASUS Z97-A (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging After a lot of messy NDA politics between Intel and the main motherboard vendors the launch day of Intel’s Z97 Express chipset is finally upon us. In respect of our relationship with Intel we have been holding off with publishing our reviews until now and today…
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ASUS Z97 Motherboard Launch Coverage
Introduction The official Intel Z97 chipset launch day is finally here but it’s hardly been a surprising arrival. There have been leaks left, right and centre so most of today’s revelations probably won’t come as a surprise to most of our readers. However, this article (as the title suggests) is…
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MSI Reveal Next-Generation Intel Gaming Series Motherboards
With Intel’s new enthusiast Z97 motherboard platform not that far away, motherboard vendors are gearing up to show off their new product ranges. MSI have revealed to us their “next generation” motherboards ,which we believe are Z97, though MSI did not confirm or comment on this because of NDA reasons.…
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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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