So, after all the guesses, it seems to be true: Intel will continue its rapid integrated 3-D graphics improvement into Haswell generation , with more GT3 options across both desktop and mobile - including UltraBook - markets. Further cause for Nvidia to worry on the entry level discrete segment...
ARM has announced the Cortex-M0+ CPU, which it is claiming is the world's most energy-efficient processor.
Intel's Core i7-3770K (ES) vs i7-2600K vs i7-3960X, nuff said!
We have also included a brief USB 3.0 controller shootout inside, involving the new Z77 (Panther Point) Native USB implementation and other popular solutions.
A newly leaked slide on Intel's Ivy Bridge launch schedule has hit the web which puts any previous uncertainty to rest in terms of when exactly the first wave of chips will hit retail.
"What if I have about US$5000 to spend - Could I have a true 8-core/16-thread CPU in a small form factor setup without compromising on storage, thermals or online gaming prowess?"
Well, we show that we can!
Finally, the wait seems to have been worthwhile - Intel is today launching its new generation Socket 2011 dual CPU Xeon E5-2600 platform based on the Sandy Bridge architecture. Here we talk to Intel's regional honchos about some of the opportunities and challenges Intel faces.
Its been almost two years, an eternity in our IT circles, since the release of the Gulftown/Westmere-EP Xeon 5600 series. After several delays, the Socket 2011 based Xeon E5 2600 series (formerly codenamed Romley) is officially launched today, with Intel porting over the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture to its 2P Xeon offerings. Featuring IPC improvements and two additional cores on higher end SKUs, Chipzilla reaffirms itself as a runaway leader in the x86 Server/Workstation market. Read on for our review!
We've already report just about everything there is to report on Intel's soon to launch Ivy Bridge processors, but with close to two months before the launch, Intel has gone and put up publically accessible information that details all of its upcoming processors models. This is about as official as it'll ever get ahead of a launch and someone at Intel is most likely going to be having a really bad day for it.
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We've already seen details of Intel's upcoming Core i7-3667U and Core i5-3427U ULV Ivy Bridge processors back in December, but now details of an additional three ULV models have reached us. On top of that, we have details on the programmable TDP of all five ULV models and Intel has clearly allowed for a lot of flexibility for its partners.
Along with AMD's juggling of its FX-Series that took place yesterday in the form of two new models (the FX-6200 and FX-4170) as well as some price cuts to a couple existing FX chips, we've since learned that the company hasn't stopped there in terms of the price slashing with significant cuts made across its Phenom II range of processors as well.
AMD's FX lineup of desktop processors has been dusted off a bit thanks to a couple of new additions to the series in the form of the FX-6200 and FX-4170 along with some price cutting on two existing chips; namely the FX-8120 and the FX-6100.
In some ways Qualcomm appears to be behind some of its competitors, especially with the delay of its first quad core processors, but its new MSM8960 SoC has proven that more cores aren't always the way forward, despite the market hype. Now the company has announced a "pro" version of the MSM8960, simply called the MSM8960 Pro.
The ARM SoC market space for the mobile market is getting crowded, but it doesn't seem to stop Broadcom getting into the game with several new models optimized for Android 4.0. The company has announced the BCM28155, BCM28145 and BCM21654G at the MWC, all based on ARM's Cortex-A9 core.
Besides announcing a couple of partners beyond Lenovo and Motorola that are willing to take on themselves to build smartphones using Intel's Z2460 Atom SoC, Intel also gave us a quick glimpse into the future as to what the company has planned for this market space for next year. With a handful of partners, Intel might just manage to carve itself a niche in the smartphone market after all.
Intel's excuse that it's a manufacturing issue that has delayed its launch of Ivy Bridge is highly exaggerated, but we'll leave you – our dear readers – to figure out the real reason so that no-one gets in trouble for us posting it here. Details of the new launch schedule have now made an appearance online and it confirms what we already knew, but couldn't post about.
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