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Intel Cancels Intel Developer Forum Conference Including Upcoming IDF17
Over the past two decades, Intel held its Intel Developer Forum technical conference in San Francisco annually. It was initially held in San Jose near their Santa Clara base back in 1997 when it was still small but has moved to the larger Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco with…
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Intel Demos 3D XPoint at IDF Shenzhen
First unveiled mid last year, 3D XPoint has been hailed as the next step for memory. Created in cooperation between Intel and Micron, the new memory technology is expected to serve as both a DRAM and NAND replacement in the future. While we all knew it would be crazy fast…
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Intel Projects 100TB+ SSDs by 2019
Intel IDF 2015 is the gift that just keeps on giving. We’re still going through all the information Intel released during the event and now we have a prediction on the future of SSDs. As many of you know, Intel is quite active in the SSD market, with their enterprise…
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Intel Prepping 5×5 Mini PC with LGA Socket
Users have long been chiming for a smaller form factor smaller than the current mini-ITX. Intel does have the NUC (Next Unit of Computing) and other vendors have their solutions. Most of these are quite limited in upgradeability and tend to have few if any expansion slots, limiting functionality. In response…
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Intel Skylake μArch Analysis from IDF 2015
Despite launching the i7 6700K and i5 6600K based off the Skylake μArch earlier this month, Intel has kept the wraps on the μArch till IDF [Intel Developer Forum] 2015 today. We finally know what improvement and tweaks Intel has done to make Skylake a tad bit faster than Haswell. While Intel…
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Rumors Suggest AMD Zen Instruction Set Parity with Haswell/Broadwell
While AMD has released some details about Zen at their Financial Analyst Day earlier this year, details have still been a bit scant. What we already know is that Zen will have a 40% IPC increase compared to Excavator, bringing AMD’s IPC much closer to Intel’s in one jump. Zen…
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More Reports Point to Intel i7-6700K Arrival in Q3 2015
Earlier we brought you a report on Intel’s planned launch for unlocked Skylake at Gamescom in August. Now another source is pointing to a Q3 2015 launch as well, making it seem very likely that the chips will arrive then. According to the source, Intel will probably release i7-6700K before…
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Intel Revealed new Tiny Long-Range RealSense Camera for Smartphones
Intel’s RealSense camera has found its way on PCs, Laptops, tablets and even drones. The company’s technology uses the power of gestures and 3D scanning to improve user interactions. Smartphones have been a bit tricky to fit with Intel’s tech, but the company finally managed to do it in the…
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G.SKILL Demo Extreme DDR4 at IDF 2014
G.SKILL are one of the leading names in the industry for high performance memory products; something the company has been keen to demonstrate at this years IDF exhibition, where they are pushing the limits of two extremely high-end DDR4 kits. G.SKILL are demonstrating their flagship 3333MHz 32GB (4GB x 8) and 3200MHz 32GB…
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First Intel Core M-5Y70 Benchmarks Surfaced
Intel has generously allowed the brand new Core M-5Y70 to be benchmarked during the 14th annual Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. Intel brought the new 14 nm SoC chip along in a 12.5 inch sized tablet, that was naturally running Windows 8.1 as operating system. The new Core M-5Y70 is…
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Israeli Defense Force Recently Hacked By The Syrian Electronic Army
The official Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Twitter account was recently hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), saying there was a possible nuclear leak. It’s a clever tactic to try to embarrass the IDF, but this latest round was more of a headache and annoyance than anything else. Not surprisingly,…
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Intel Will Demo “SSD Overclocking” At IDF 2013
According to a report by X-Bit Labs it could soon be possible to overclock your SSD. Apparently Intel will reveal such a technology at their IDF 2013 event. Of course you do not “overclock” the SSD per-sé but instead you overclock its controller. An SSD controller, from most SSD vendors,…
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Rumour: Intel To Fire Entire PR Team
A report coming from TechEye.net suggests that Intel will fire its entire PR team. Their source is apparently an insider at Intel who TechEye call an impeccable source. Their new CEO Brian Krzanich is apparently taking the move to improve the company’s public image as the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) looms. TechEye’s…
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Intel Haswell To Allow For Base Clock Overclocking On Non-K Models
Ever since Sandy Bridge came to market Intel’s processors had been limited in overclocking terms, for overclockers the only way to achieve an overclock was via multiplier changes and a default base clock speed of 100MHz. In most cases the base clock would only budge 1-3MHz meaning overclocking via the…
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Hon Hai Electronics’ Sees 19% Profit Decline Due To Weak iPhone Demand
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. saw a disappointing and unexpected decline for the Apple’s iPhone in the first quarter of 2013. The reports show that there’s a 19% decline of iPhone sales in comparison with Q1 2012. Hon Hai’s 60-70% revenue is depended on iPhone and iPad’s sales. There if…
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