Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich resigned last Thursday, following reports of a “consensual relationship” with a female employee, violating Intel’s non-fraternization policy. Current CFO Robert Swan has been named as interim CEO with immediate effect. Krzanich leaves at a trying time for Intel. Over the past year, it has seen
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In lieu of the company's Golden Jubilee next month, Intel pushes out a spate of releases to commemorate the company's 50 years of computing heritage. At Computex 2018 in Taipei, Intel announced new processors, SSD, and a ground-breaking 5.0GHz processor Its lineup of 8th Gen Intel Core processors is now
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AMD’s 2nd Gen Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X are the freshest in AMD’s line-up. The 2700X and 2600X follow the introduction of the Ryzen with Radeon Vega Graphics chips that were released earlier this year. The 2nd Gen Ryzen chips, codenamed Pinnacle Ridge, boasts more performance, more features,
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AMD just released their fresh line of APUs with integrated Radeon Vega graphics. The all-new Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G will replace the older Ryzen 5 1200 and Ryzen 3 1200. These new midrange processors are marketed towards price-sensitive users who want performance on a budget. Key specs
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Sony has revealed their new lineup of products at CES 2018, currently ongoing in Las Vegas from 9 January. The new lineup of products includes new additions to their 4K OLED televisions series, brand new wireless noise-canceling stereo headsets and even new additions to the Xperia Smartphone series. Various product
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[caption id="attachment_131681" align="aligncenter" width="640"] AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su introduces the new Radeon Vega Mobile GPU[/caption] There was a positive buzz amongst the execs of AMD at their pre-CES 2018 AMD Tech Day. The chipmaker has just come off a very successful 2017 where their new Ryzen processors and
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Concerned about the recent revelations about security exploits in device processors? Here's a breakdown of what's happened and how they will affect you. Two security flaws were recently announced on 3rd January 2017 that affects almost every device - from your desktop PC to your smartphone, tablet, laptop and
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Back in March the CPU world was turned on its head with the release of Ryzen: The CPU family that brought AMD back to relevance in the PC market. AMD brought four, six and eight core processors to all new price points, effectively ending Intel's years of monopoly power with
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Intel has just announced the availability of their new 8th Generation Core Processors for consumer ultra-thin and 2-in-1 notebooks, designed for the next wave of the PC experience with better multitasking, faster response and more powerful 4K multimedia features. [embed]http://https://youtu.be/JrOb84MetfQ[/embed] The new 8th Generation Core i7/i5 Processors are now 40%
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AMD has finally announced availability of its HEDT Ryzen Threadripper processors as well as the new Radeon RX Vega family of high-end consumer graphics cards. Both product families will be released in major markets around the world later this month. [gallery ids="128800,128801,128802,128803,128804,128805,128806"] Targeted at enthusiasts, the Ryzen Threadripper family comprises
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Samsung's foundry scored a major win this year for its 10nm node, teaming up with Qualcomm to fabricate the Snapdragon 835. However, it looks like Qualcomm may go with TSMC for its eventual node switch to 7nm, following Samsung's delays in kicking off trial runs of the 7nm process. The situation is
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It's only been a year since Intel unveiled its first 10-core CPU, the i7 6950X. It came with an eye watering $1700 USD price and filled a prosumer niche for users who needed more cores, but didn't want to invest in Intel's Xeon enterprise ecosystem. Fast forward a year and
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Its been just over a month since AMD launched the first of their all new Ryzen CPUs. They really shook up the market, offering fantastic performance at a very competitive price relative to their Intel counterparts. The first wave contained the high end Ryzen 7 series, the eight core monsters
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[caption id="attachment_125213" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Image Courtesy: ElChapuzasInformatico[/caption] Even though AMD hasn’t officially launched the Ryzen 5 1600 yet, the first detailed review of the processor has already appeared online, courtesy of ElChapuzasInformatico. The test setup used by the Spanish website included a MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium motherboard, G.Skill TidentZ
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More than three months after it debuted consumer desktop processors based on the ‘Kaby Lake’ architecture, Intel today announced its first Xeon processor family based on the new architecture. The new E3-1200 V6 family of processors, just like the 7th Gen Intel Core processors, come with support Intel’s next-gen Optane
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Yesterday, AMD announced its highly-anticipated Ryzen family of desktop processors, offering phenomenal performance at unbelievable prices. The stars of the show were the top end Ryzen 7 processors with 8 physical cores and 16 virtual threads. However, AMD’s Ryzen family includes quite a few less powerful but still very impressive
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Intel’s Atom line has never been known for performance. Targeted primarily at mobile devices, the Atom chips were geared more towards efficiency than anything else. That has now changed however, as Intel has announced the latest Atom C3000 processor family, which have up to 16 physical cores and come with
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After showing up in online stores in Europe, the upcoming AMD Ryzen processors have now been spotted at US retailer Fry’s electronics. The flagship Ryzen 7 1800X CPU has been listed at $489 by the retailer, while the 1700X is listed at $389. Both the SKUs are expected to ship
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Earlier this month, we told you about the first Ryzen 7 1700X benchmarks, which showed truly mind-blowing results. More numbers have now been leaked online, courtesy of Futuremark’s benchmark database. In addition to the Ryzen 7 1700X, we now have the Ryzen 5 1600X and Ryzen 5 1300 benchmark results
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Ahead of the official launch next month, the first benchmark results for the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X CPU has been leaked on the web, courtesy of a member over at AnandTech forums. The Ryzen 7 1700X CPU used in the following tests features a 3.4 GHz base clock, so it
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