Intel is researching computer technology that mimics the human brain so that it learns about the user over time, marking a major milestone in artificial intelligence and next-generation computing.
A little known fact is that Intel is competing in the cable modem market and the company is showing off its latest DOCSIS 3.0 gateway at the Cable Show. The bad news is that it doesn't appear that we'll see any commercial implementations until next year, which at least isn't too far away.
Acer has just unveiled a new business focused 14-inch laptop in the UK under its TravelMate lineup, suited up with a third-gen Ivy Bridge processor.
We have to say that Intel's first Thunderbolt equipped motherboard is something of an anti-climax, as the DZ77RE-75K is nigh on identical to the DZ77GA-70K, although we spotted at least one change beyond the Thunderbolt port. On top of that, it's also quite an expensive motherboard, more so than MSI's Z77A-GD80.
Intel has as yet to offer a full explanation as to why it changed the way its interfacing the IHS with the CPU die on its Ivy Bridge processors and previous reports weren't clear on how much of an effect Intel's move to using thermal grease had on the actual cooling performance. Thankfully Japanese website Impress PC Watch has come to the rescues and done some testing by itself and the publication has clearly proven that Intel's thermal interface material isn't up to scratch.
Intel has as yet to launch all of its mobile Ivy Bridge chipsets, as we're still waiting for a couple of business-end chipsets, but VR-Zone can now exclusively reveal Intel's next generation mobile chipsets for the Haswell CPUs. Interestingly, Intel has cut back from no less than seven chipset for Ivy Bridge to a more acceptable five chipsets for Haswell, or the same amount of options as it offered for Sandy Bridge.
Come next month, Intel will expand its range of mobile Ivy Bridge CPUs will some more dual core models as well as some new ULV models and although this in itself is no big secret, pricing of the upcoming models have now turned up. This gives us a good idea as to how Intel is positioning the various SKU's and it also makes for an easy comparison to the current models.
We address one of the most pertinent question that is on the minds of new Ivy Bridge platform shoppers - is the hyperthreading capable / 2MB more L3 cache i7-3770K (US$313) worth the almost 50% price premium over the i5-3570K (US$212), especially when both chips are overclocked at 4.8GHz?
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Back at IDF Beijing 2012, Intel unveiled its enterprise data centre/cloud computing oriented 910 series "Ramsdale MLC" PCI Express Solid-State Drive, available in 400GB ($1,929) and 800GB ($3,859) capacities. We do a quick preview of the new 25nm HET MLC based card before putting it through some heavy duty real world tests over the next few weeks for a formal review.
If you remember, when Intel initially revealed the X79 chipset it was said to feature additional SAS ports which over time were meant to be additional SATA ports, but in the end the chipset arrived with no extra storage interfaces at all. Even though Intel was expected to remedy this with a later chipset revision, this doesn't appear to be the case anymore, but Intel has decided to issue a revised version of its DX79SI motherboard with additional connectivity in a couple of areas.
A report from Focus Taiwan confirms that much cheaper Ultrabooks are around the corner. The Ultrabook market has remained very pricey no thanks to expensive all-aluminum chassis' people could often care less about.
Details of a full-fat mobile Ivy Bridge Core i3 processor have turned up and it looks like we were right about the fact that these chips will be arriving much later this year than their higher-end siblings. The chip in question is the Core i3-3110M and it's expected sometime in Q3 this year, which right now is pretty far away for anyone looking at getting a budget Ivy Bridge notebook.
It would appear that Intel is finally getting ready to unveil its LGA-1356 Xeon processors later this quarter and initially we'll see the Xeon E5-2400 series, a platform that will support up to two sockets. Oddly enough, Intel is said to be planning a couple of Pentium models that are compatible with the LGA-1356 socket, something that doesn't make sense at first.
In a logical manoeuvre on its pricing regime, Intel has just shaven pricing down, albeit only slightly, on two of its beloved previous-generation Sandy Bridge Core i7 CPUs - namely the Core i7-2600K and Core i7-2700K.
Yes, it is Larrabee reborn - this time the focus is strictly on supercomputing and general technical computing acceleration. What's the focus?
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