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Intel’s i7-3770K CPU Overclocked to 7 GHz with MSI’s Z77 Motherboard

MSI has just announced on its official website that the MSI Z77A-GD65 motherboard based on the Intel Z77 chipset has been successfully overclocked at 7 GHz using an Intel Core i7-3770K CPU. The motherboard is build using very high quality components and was certified to conform to the MIL-STD-810G standard via third-...

30 April 2012
10:05 GMT

Huge Ivy Bridge Discounts: $50-$70 Off CPUs

That Intel is finally selling its third-generation Core CPUs may not be as great a piece of news as some might think. After all, we've known for a while about the start of shipments being set on April 29, 2012. There are some things that consumers might want to line up to learn about though, like, say, special...

30 April 2012
05:14 GMT

Global Semiconductor Market Grew 3.7% in 2011

International Data Corporation (IDC) has made public its latest Worldwide Semiconductor Applications Forecaster (SAF) today. The company’s market analysis shows that the entire semiconductor market grew a modest 3.7 percent in the last year. This 3.7% may seem small and it really is a modest growth, but consid...

30 April 2012
04:20 GMT

Behold Velocity Micro's Ivy Bridge Machines

There are three systems in Velocity Micro's lineup that have received an update to the list of possible central processing units. Like Digital Storm, Velocity Micro wasted no time in putting Intel's latest central processing units to good use. Prospective customers can examine, among other things, the R...

30 April 2012
03:59 GMT

Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs Selling, i7-2600K and i7-2700K Cheaper

Intel may have launched its third-generation Core series of central processing units on April 23, but it is only over the past day and a half that the products finally reached stores. The newest desktop and laptop CPUs are based on the 22nm manufacturing process technology and are all quad-core models. Six of them ...

30 April 2012
02:37 GMT

Acer Not So Enthused About Ultrabooks Anymore, Intel Reacts

Intel has been droning on and on about ultrabooks, but while those laptops are very well known, it is only due to the constant, aggressive advertising, not their popularity. In fact, the super-thin laptops are still too expensive, although, true enough, the Santa Clara, California-based IT player has promised to fi...

28 April 2012
05:18 GMT

Intel Loses Market Share to AMD

Market analysis company Mercury Research has reportedly made public their study of the last quarter and concluded that AMD gained CPU market share from Intel. AMD's market grew to 19.1 percent from 18.2 percent, according to Mercury Research, and Intel's share of the market dropped to 80.2 percent during th...

26 April 2012
17:19 GMT

TSMC to Provide 14 nm finFET Design Kits by the End of 2012

TSMC has recently announced at its 2012 Technology Symposium conference that it would provide finFET design kits for the 14nm node by this year’s end. The foundry seems to be keen on pursuing the finFET concept and it encourages customers to build and design new architectures with finFETs in mind. It’s ...

26 April 2012
12:41 GMT

HP Envy 4 Series Sleekbook and Ultrabook Already Selling in China

Reportedly, HP has already listed the new Envy 4 series that currently has six different models on its online shop. The 1005tx and 1019tx are relatively entry-level models, while the 1004tx and 1021tx are part of the mid-range. The high-end is represented by the 1006tx and 1021tx Ultrabooks. The slower models are pow...

26 April 2012
09:00 GMT

Ivy Bridge Is Hotter Than It Should Be Due to Intentional Design Choice

Most people may not know that central processing units have integrated heatspreaders, but the number of prospective buyers who do may rise now that Ivy Bridge is out. People who got a hold of Ivy Bridge engineering samples, as well as reviewers, mostly agree on at least one fact about the Ivy Bridge: it is too hot....

26 April 2012
03:08 GMT

Intel Lynx Point Chipset Models Detailed

Even though Intel has barely just brought out the Ivy Bridge CPUs line, and not all of them at that, people are already snooping around, trying to find info on the platform that will come next. For next year (2013), Intel plans to bring out the series of LGA-1150 central processing units codenamed Haswell. They w...

26 April 2012
02:35 GMT

How Intel Cut Costs on Ivy Bridge

Intel is reportedly using ordinary thermal interface material (TIM) in the most unusual place, namely the underside of the integrated heat spreader, also called the IHS. Most users probably don’t know, but there are “crazy” people called enthusiasts that are in the habit of snapping of the CPU&rsqu...

25 April 2012
18:41 GMT

Intel Signs Deal with Cray, Marks AMD’s Departure from Cray’s Supercomputers

Intel Corporation announced today that it has signed a deal with Cray Inc. to acquire assets and expertise related to Cray’s famous high-performance computing (HPC) interconnect program. Cray is probably the world’s most famous and most original supercomputer designer and manufacturer. They’ve buil...

25 April 2012
03:35 GMT

Intel’s Ivy Bridge HD4000 Overclocked by 40%

Intel could have offered us a much better iGPU in the Ivy Bridge. The die size was small enough to allow something like this and the architecture is so simple now that doubling the functional units would have resulted in literally double the performance. Intel is famous for not caring about the client's needs a...

24 April 2012
08:21 GMT

Curtiss-Wright Builds Single-Board Ivy Bridge PC

It looks like Intel's Ivy Bridge central processing units are not wasting any time showing up in new computers, even the type that aren't all that often spoken of. One of the third-generation CPUs, which we have covered here, has become the driving force behind the VPX3-1257 single-board computer (SBC). ...

24 April 2012
08:16 GMT

Intel's Official Ivy Bridge CPU Announcement Finally Live

Intel ended up taking its sweet time making its official announcement, but at least now we know for sure that the third-generation Core series central processing units are live. Then again, that isn't a totally accurate way of putting it, since sales haven't started. That will only happen on April 29. N...

24 April 2012
02:40 GMT

Acer Gets Into the Micro Server Market

Acer’s new AC100 micro server is a compact system powered by an Intel Xeon E3-1200, Intel Core i3 or Pentium series processor. Acer has just announced the detail on its official website, but the system cannot be yet found on the company’s online store. Acer’s new small server comes preloaded with u...

23 April 2012
11:41 GMT

3D Transistors Meet 22nm in Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs

Even though sales aren't going to begin until April 29, Intel has officially spoken of its first central processing units based on the 22nm manufacturing process. Thirteen third-generation chips have been revealed, most of which are aimed at desktops, although the high-end laptop parts are there as well. Reg...

23 April 2012
10:42 GMT

Nvidia's Kepler-Based GT600M Series: a New Milestone in Mobile Graphics [Photos]

Late last week we were invited to a meeting with Nvidia’s Igor Stanek and Dave Koblizek. Igor Stanek is senior product PR manager for EMEAI region and the main brain of all Tegra and GeForce M product PR campaigns in EMEAI. Dave Koblizek is NVIDIA PR manager for Central and Eastern Europe. Igor Stanek is a ver...

23 April 2012
08:36 GMT

Low-End Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs Inbound

Even though today is supposed to be the day when Ivy Bridge CPUs finally appear, Intel has been found to be working on an update to the Sandy Bridge collection as well. That's right, there are some new Sandy Bridge central processing units on the way from the Santa Clara, California-based company. Sure, the h...

23 April 2012
08:17 GMT

As Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge Arrive, Shortages Burst Our Bubble

Intel is supposed to make its official introduction of the Ivy Bridge CPUs today, and we'll write the relevant info about them when the time comes, but for now, we are hearing something fairly worrisome. It looks like NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (but mostly NVIDIA) aren't the only companies with ins...

23 April 2012
06:02 GMT

Intel Core i3 Ivy Bridge CPUs Priced and Listed

Three of the upcoming Core i3 Ivy Bridge central processing units from Intel have made an appearance at several online retailers, or so reports say.The folks at VR-Zone claim to have stumbled upon listings of the Core i3-3220, Core i3-3225 and the Core i3-3240 CPUs.That isn't to say that we now know how much mon...

21 April 2012
05:23 GMT

Intel Offers Assistance to Chinese PC Makers, Ultrabooks Benefit

If ultrabooks do become the second coming of netbooks, it will be mainly because Intel stubbornly spurred them on, as well as the companies in a position to make them. That Intel is working together with PC makers for the development and mass production of ultrabooks is hardly news. Still, what the Santa Clara, Ca...

20 April 2012
04:00 GMT

Intel Sees Potential in Foundry Business, Still Reserved Though

We've seen how Intel has started manufacturing processors for other companies besides itself, and now we get to see just what its leadership thinks of the practice. Apparently, Intel is accepting contracts from other companies because it has leftover foundry capacity to use for such things. That means that t...

19 April 2012
16:41 GMT

Intel Prepares to Scrap a Bunch of CPUs

Product change notifications have been coming in from Intel, which means that some CPUs are going to cease being manufactured soon. As of April 16, 2013, the Santa Clara, California-based CPU maker will stop shipping the Celeron P4600 (2.0 GHz), the Core i3-370M (2.4 GHz), Core i3-390M (2.6 GHz), Pentium P6100 (2.0 ...

19 April 2012
10:04 GMT

Intel Doesn't Break Any Financial Records for Once

Since the first quarter of 2012 is over and done with, IT companies, like all other corporations, are publishing their financial results for the January-March period. For the past few quarters, Intel has somehow managed to score record revenues, or record profits, or record something. Now, though, the company can&...

19 April 2012
09:14 GMT

Intel Ivy Bridge Laptops on June 5, Lenovo Blows the Whistle

We've been talking about the impending arrival of Intel's Ivy Bridge central processing units and how there isn't, or wasn't, much of a way to find out when the laptops would start showing up. Sure, the first 22nm-based central processing units will be released on April 23, but it will take the ...

19 April 2012
08:37 GMT

XOLO X900 Smartphone Launched with Intel CPU Inside

The first smartphone in the world to pack an Intel Medfield application processor inside is now official and en-route to shelves. It is called XOLO X900 and was made by Lava, but runs under Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, which can be upgraded to the newer Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. ...

19 April 2012
04:31 GMT

HP Plans 5-7 Ultrabook Models, Intel Predicts 30 Million Sales

New reports have arisen in regard to the ultrabook market and what Intel, as well as its OEMs, expect from this market segment this year. What we are looking at is the newest shipment levels estimate for 2012, as well as the plans of Hewlett-Packard (HP). We'll talk about the latter first, and then expand on...

19 April 2012
03:31 GMT

Volume Shipments in Full Swing for Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs

During the recent conference call with financial analysts, Intel made it clear that Ivy Bridge processor volume shipments had begun. This means that Intel is steadily building up supply of 22nm Core i 3000-series chips, like the Core i7-3770K that reached 6.616 GHz not long ago. “We have begun high-volume s...

18 April 2012
11:06 GMT

J&W Launches Mini-ITX Atom Cedar Trail Motherboards

There will soon be some new mini-ITX motherboards for sale, straight from J&W's development center. There are two of them on the way, to be more precise, called Minix D2700-HD and Minix D2500-HD. True to their names, they bear the Intel Atom D2700 and the Atom D2500 CPUs, respectively. In addition to the chip...

18 April 2012
10:47 GMT

ASUS Ivy Bridge Motherboards Come With Thunderbolt

More and more reports showing a special header on the new Z77 and H77 models from ASUS have emerged. It’s designated as “TB_HEADER” and seems to be the method ASUS has chosen to provide Thunderbolt connectivity for its new mainboards. This header most likely transmits the motherboard's Di...

18 April 2012
10:42 GMT

First Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K Box Pictures Surface, Worse Overclocking Than Sandy Bridge

The first pictures of retail boxes of the Intel's Core i7-3770K “Ivy Bridge” processors in the LGA1155 package have reportedly been revealed. We can see that the boxes come from a Chinese distributor. The box-art illustration hasn't changed from that of the 2nd Generation Core processor family,...

18 April 2012
09:17 GMT

Apple iPad Will Fall to Under 50% Share of Tablet Market by Mid-2013

Apple's iPad continues to lead the worldwide tablet market with a clear advantage, but its opposition is adamant in its drive to change the layout of this facet of the industry. Regardless of what most would have one think, the current state of the tablet market is a bit on the sad side, so to speak. After al...

18 April 2012
06:01 GMT

Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K Reaches 6.616 GHz

As some may or may not have expected, a new overclocking feat has been achieved using the still unannounced Ivy Bridge central processing units from Intel. Intel's next-generation central processing units won't be officially out until April 23, but that doesn't mean that samples aren't circulati...

18 April 2012
04:14 GMT

Intel Gives All Ivy Bridge Laptops Anti-Theft Protection

Since laptops tend to get lost or misplaced, Intel has a certain service/feature called Anti-Theft, one that will be part of all Ivy Bridge laptops and is already found on many notebooks. VR-Zone is where the news came out that all Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks would have Anti-theft. Long story short, if you've lost...

17 April 2012
10:37 GMT

Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs Get Price Cut Ahead of Launch

For some reason or other, Intel has decided to set lower prices than originally planned for its upcoming collection of central processing units, or so it is said. The folks at VR-Zone claim to have found some information regarding the price tags of the upcoming Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs. Apparently, the Santa Clara, ...

17 April 2012
07:39 GMT

14nm “Broadwell” Intel SoC Coming in 2014-2015

We've spoken about 14nm-based chips before, but now we get to look at a “true” Intel system-on-chip device, one that will further integrate the platform-controller hub (PCH) with the CPU. According to ComputerBase.de, Intel is definitely approaching the time when it can launch a system-on-chip devi...

17 April 2012
04:19 GMT

Intel SSD 330 Series Formally Released

It looks like Intel didn't let Easter go by without a new product release, so out came the SSD 330 Series of storage devices made of MLC NAND Flash chips. Intel continues to hold that solid state drives are the best thing that can happen to anyone's personal computer, assuming the PC doesn't already ...

17 April 2012
03:11 GMT

Intel Pushing "More Than FullHD" UHD Resolutions

Intel has shared its vision of Ultra High Definition displays at the Intel Developer Forum event in Beijing, China. Ultra High Definition (UHD) displays are screens that have a pixel density of more than 220 pixels per inch (PPI).In a second move that makes the company appear like it’s a driving force for quali...

16 April 2012
06:36 GMT

Intel Seeks High-Resolution PC Displays, Arrival in 2013

We've seen how the HD resolution has supplanted 1,024 x 768 as the most popular worldwide and, now, we find out that Intel wants things to move even faster on the display market. According to Liliputing, the Santa Clara, California-based company fully expects higher resolution displays to start gaining in promi...

13 April 2012
16:41 GMT

Intel's Other Windows 8 Tablet Ideas Revealed

By the end of this year, Intel intends to have at least one tablet loaded with Windows 8 out and about, one that may or may not bear its brand. Intel is the main promoter of ultrabooks, but it doesn't actually make those things. OEMs, like Samsung, do it instead. The same sort of situation is bound to come a...

13 April 2012
14:31 GMT

Intel Medfield Benchmarked on Reference Design Tablet

Anyone hoping that Intel's next-generation mobile chip will one-up Tegra 3 will probably be disappointed. Intel has been advertising its Medfield chip as a competent competitor to ARM-based mobile platforms. Alas, while the processing prowess and power consumption might be decent enough, the graphics leave muc...

13 April 2012
06:56 GMT

Intel Wants HDDs of 5mm Thickness

Once in a while, a new product type shows up, which somehow gets enough backing that the industry segment it is part of has to change to some extent as well. Intel could be said to be running an advertising campaign for ultrabooks all on its own, even though there are plenty of PC makers who sell such things. Mea...

13 April 2012
04:18 GMT

Intel Promises 9 Hours of Battery in Windows 8 Tablets

Tablet PCs running under Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system should soon start popping up on shelves, capable of delivering the performance levels that users are already expecting from them. Based on Intel architecture, some of these devices could prove the iPad competitors what Microsoft has long promised...

13 April 2012
03:51 GMT

Intel Reveals Ultrabook with Slider at IDF 2012

Utrabooks have so far been, in essence, notebooks with thinner cases, but Intel is exploring additional form factors now, especially those employed by other portable consumer electronics. The idea of turning an ultrabook into a tablet, and vice versa, is not a new one at all, and has probably been around since ultr...

13 April 2012
03:44 GMT

Tongfa and Haier Reveal Ultrabooks at IDF 2012

Intel's IDF 2012 show in Beijing, China, is underway, which means that, in addition to triple-display demonstrations of Ivy Bridge graphics capabilities, actual products based on the chips are being put through their paces as well. IDF 2012 is an Intel event, which means that, naturally, it is going to be choc...

12 April 2012
16:41 GMT

At Least Two Intel Thunderbolt Controllers Will Be Paired with Ivy Bridge

Apparently, Intel has begun shipping the second-generation Thunderbolt controllers codenamed Cactus Ridge. That doesn't mean that Cactus Ridge is finally available to everyone who needs it though, and some PC motherboards have even had to hold off on their release because of it. Still, the controller chips are...

12 April 2012
10:29 GMT

Intel Plans to Slip Atom into Servers

American-Israeli company Intel is reportedly planning to keep its promise and introduce server CPU products based on the ill-famed Atom design. Although these CPUs were never faster than AMD’s  Fusion designs, nor ARM’s A-series, they’ll benefit from Intel’s money and market influence an...

12 April 2012
10:19 GMT

Intel Core i3 Ivy Bridge CPUs Detailed, Will Sell Starting Q3

As we draw near to the official launch of Intel's first 22nm Ivy Bridge central processing units, the web is starting to look into those CPUs that won't actually appear then. This time, VR-Zone has provided info on the Core i3 chips that will be utilized in desktop computers later in the year. And by lat...

12 April 2012
05:17 GMT


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