Touted by Apple to be the "fastest MacBook ever", first-ever 8-core MacBook Pro has finally arrived. This comes with 8th- and 9th-generation Intel Core processor updates to the MacBook Pro lineup. The updated MacBook Pro is touted to be the world's best pro notebook. Image: Apple With these updated processors,
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Just in lieu of Google's high-profile compliance with US policy requiring interdiction of Huawei, fellow American tech companies have fallen in line with rulings regarding Huawei's status on the "Entity List". These have included major chipmakers Intel, Qualcomm and Broadcom, along with memory chip makers Micron Technology and Western Digital.
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Under pressure from a resurgent AMD, and with Qualcomm intent on entering the PC processor market, Intel has announced its next generation processor architecture. Called Sunny Cove, it will replace Intel’s current Skylake architecture and its derivatives starting from the second half of next year. Sunny Cove: An Improved Architecture
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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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2018 had begun on a sour note with the Spectre and Meltdown bugs in January. Barely half a year has passed, and Google, Intel and Microsoft have acknowledged the existence of another CPU flaw that could potentially affect all modern CPUs. New variants of the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown,
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Accounting for 5% of Intel's annual revenue, chips by Intel that had been used on Apple's myriad of products since 2005. This move, codenamed Kalamata, aims to develop a proprietary Apple processing unit to be used across its fleet of devices, which could include its iPads, Macs, and iPhones. Intel
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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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Qualcomm's fight with Apple over licensing agreements has led to the telecommunications giant posting lower than forecast profits in Q3 Fiscal 2017 results, and just last week a group representing tech companies including Samsung, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft — aligned itself with Apple, filing a statement to the International Trade Commission saying that banning iPhones
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Steam's monthly hardware survey gives us a good look at the products that are used globally. The latest Hardware & Software Survey, conducted at the end of June, shows NVIDIA taking up 63.61% of the graphics card category, with ASMD coming in second with 20.5% and Intel's integrated graphics coming in at third
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Xiaomi made its name by selling affordable mobiles that offer great value for money. But with growth slowing down in China and other markets, the manufacturer has decided to expand into a host of new categories, including home automation, smart lighting, air purifiers, home appliances, and even scooters. Another area
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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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Gigabyte has introduced a new premium motherboard based on the Intel Z270 Express chipset, dubbed Z270X-Designare. As is quite clear from its name, the motherboard offers a unique design that will definitely appeal to enthusiasts or anyone out there looking to buy a new high-end motherboard that not only delivers
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After months of teasers and leaks, AMD finally unveiled the Ryzen 7 series yesterday. The desktop CPUs are built on the Zen microarchitecture, and are aimed at an enthusiast audience. The shift to a 14nm manufacturing node has allowed AMD to vastly increase the overall bandwidth and improve the number of
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Intel has launched a new microsite dedicated to its 3D XPoint-based Optane memory technology. In addition to highlighting some of the key advantages of the technology, the microsite also reveals the key requirements for using it on a PC. An Intel Optane memory ready system will need to have the
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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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Intel is slated to unveil its eighth-generation Cannonlake hardware sometime later this year, and in an investor meeting held earlier this month, the vendor has announced that Cannonlake will be 15% faster than the current-gen Kaby Lake. Intel didn't share any performance figures, instead basing its statements on a SysMark benchmark.
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Intel has introduced its newest flagship Xeon processor aimed at the enterprise segment, the Xeon E7-8894 v4. As the newest flagship processor for servers, the E7-8894 v4 is the fastest Xeon processor that Intel has produced yet. The Broadwell-EX chip packs a total of 24 physical cores and 48 threads
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According to a new leak coming from Benchlife, Intel has delayed the release of its 7000-series Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X HEDT lineup to August. Both Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X will reportedly be announced at Gamescom 2017 in Cologne, Germany. The leak also claims that Intel has modified the cache size
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Intel rolled out the sixth-generation Skylake CPUs last year, and now we're seeing the Kaby Lake processors make their debut. For the first time, we're seeing Intel move away from its tick-tock cadence and instead rely on a node for a third generation. As such, Kaby Lake is still built
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