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Intel Core i7 9700K Results Shows Up on Geekbench Database
Benchmark Leaked Out Intel‘s upcoming Core i7 9700K processor is not out yet, but it appears that its performance results are now public. Thanks to the Geekbench database and an anonymous user who submitted their benchmark results to the platform. The submission is recent too, just posted yesterday September 2,…
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Intel Releases Updated Spectre Patch for Skylake Only
Intel Fixes Spectre Patch for Skylake Early this year, the Spectre and Meltdown bugs blew up the CPU world. After discovering the flaw in November, Intel has been working hard for a fix. Unfortunately for Intel the first fixes they pushed out caused more problems than they solved. In fact, the…
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Biostar Introduces H110MDE mATX Motherboard
Intel’s 8th Gen CPUs and Z370 chipset may be out, but Biostar is offering a more affordable alternative for builders. Their new H110MDE supports the 6th and 7th generation Intel Core processors on a micro-ATX form factor. As the name suggests, it uses the H110 chipset which is the entry…
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Intel HyperThreading Bug Reportedly Fixed in April
Late last month, reports surfaced about a new bug for Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake processors. Due to a critical bug in the processor microcode, enabling HyperThreading could lead to data corruption and system instability. While the initial reports were quite dire, the situation is actually a lot better than…
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Microsoft Blocks Ryzen and Kaby Lake From Windows 7 & 8.1 Updates
Last month, some troubling news came out from Microsoft. According to a change in their terms of service, Redmond would no longer honour their Windows Update commitments. Moving forward, new processors would no longer get updates of any kind with new processors. This policy was trialled with Skylake but was…
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Massive 32 Core 64 Thread Intel CPU Spotted in Geekbench
Over the past several generations of Xeon processors, Intel has slowly added to their maximum core count, usually not by too much. With the latest generation of Xeon Purley Skylake processors, the company is kicking it up a notch with the number of cores available. In a recent Geekbench 4…
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Thecus Launches New 4-Bay Rackmount N4910U PRO NAS Series
Thecus just announced their latest NAS and this time it is a rack mounted 4-bay NAS. The new N4910 PRO NAS series are versatile and compact 1U rackmount units that have been designed to deliver growing small and medium businesses (SMB) uncompromising resilience and high multi-thread performance in their storage.…
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Intel CPUs Get Official Vulkan Support
Intel has released the first graphics driver for its CPUs with official support for the Vulkan API. While the company had previously supplied beta drivers which supported Vulkan, they were notoriously unstable. Intel’s official Vulkan support, though, is limited to sixth-generation Skylake chips with Windows 7, 8.1, and 10, or…
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Intel Confirms 8th Gen Processors on 14nm 15% Faster than Kaby Lake
Just as they are finishing the launch of their 7th generation processors, Intel is already gearing up for their next instalment. During their annual Investor Day in California, the company revealed some tidbits about their upcoming 8th generation processors. In a surprising twist, Intel has decided to stick with the…
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AMD Zen Features Smaller Core Size Than Intel’s Skylake
One of the measures for the cost of a CPU is the size of its die. With a smaller die size, it’s possible to stuff more onto a single silicon wafer and reduce the cost of each chip. During a presentation at International Solid State Circuits Conference, AMD has claimed that…
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Intel Details Lake Crest Deep Neural Network AI Accelerators
One of the big movements going on in the tech sector is the rise of the AI. From self-driving cars to smart assistants, AI is nearing reality. To power the more complicated AI’s, both AMD and Nvidia has made custom deep learning accelerators. Not one to be left out of…
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Intel Skylake Flaw Allows Full System Control Over USB
Intel has had quite a bit of success with their Skylake processors, and with good reason. They perform great. However, security researchers have found a new bug in some of these processors that can allow anyone to get full system control via the USB 3.0 ports. That’s a big and…
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Intel Reportedly Working on Brand New x86 Microarchitecture
Since the failure of the Netburst Architecture with Pentium 4, Intel has played it safe with their new designs. To regain their competitiveness, Intel returned to their P6 architecture and reiterated it to create the Core series which continues to this day in some form. According to new reports that are…
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Intel 32 Core Xeon E5-2699 V5 Skylake-EP Flagship Leaked
After seeing the first leaks pop up a while ago, more information is slowly being released about Intel’s upcoming high-performance computing lineup. Skylake-EP will replace Broadwell-EP with top of the line chips for the enterprise and HPC markets. This time around, we are being treated to our first glimpse of…
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Apple Revamps MacBook Pro With Touch Bar
After being placed on the backburner for the past couple of years, Apple has come back with a new MacBook refresh. Unlike some previous updates that were more like minor tweaks, the new laptops are the biggest upgrade yet since the Retina displays were added in 2012. These changes bring…
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