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AMD’s Trinity Offers 46% Better Battery Life Than Ivy Bridge

Every battery test done on Trinity compared AMD’s reference test systems with retail shipping Ivy Bridge notebooks from different manufacturers. To stick to the correct principles of benchmarking, when comparing two devices inside a system, the main system should be exactly the same. Only the performance dif...

21 May 2012
18:11 GMT

SONY Releases First VAIO UltraBook

SONY has just announced the new SONY VAIO T Ultrabook series, on its official website. The new systems are using an aluminum chassis and, surprisingly, are not powered by Intel’s Ivy Bridge, but by plain old Sandy Bridge. The processor used is the same as the one used by HP in their new  Envy 4 Series Sle...

2 May 2012
04:22 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

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

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

Here Are the First Z77-Based Desktop PC Systems

It looks like some Japanese built to order (BTO) desktop PC makers really can't wait for the Ivy Bridge processor platform, having hurried to be the first to release computers equipped with the latest motherboards. To get right to the point, some Japanese PC makers have launched systems powered by the Z77 high...

9 April 2012
13:31 GMT

Giada Presents the Smallest Sandy Bridge Mainboard in the World

The small piece of hardware supports Intel’s Core i5 and i3 series CPUs along with the new Celeron 867. It is based on the Intel HM65 Express chipset and has only one SO-DIMM DDR3 memory slot that supports up to 4 GB or RAM. For expansion we have two Mini-PCIe connectors; one being Mini-PCIe and one is mSATA....

27 March 2012
11:29 GMT

Intel Readies 3.1GHz Dual-Core Pentium G870 CPU for Q2 Launch

By the end of the second quarter of this year, Intel is expected to launch a new Pentium processor based on the company’s Sandy Bridge architecture, which will improve upon the specs of its predecessor. The new Intel CPU, called the Pentium G870, was uncovered by Fudzilla, which also provided us with an almost...

9 March 2012
16:01 GMT

Intel's Xeon E5-2600 Can Encrypt and Decrypt Data in Real Time

The performance gain of 80% and the integration of the I/O straight into the new Xeon E5-2600 CPUs enabled something that was previously impossible. Intel took advantage of the latency reductions and the overall performance boost to implement the Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instruction (Intel AES-NI). ...

7 March 2012
08:41 GMT

NEC Launches Some Intel Xeon E5-2600-Based Servers Too

NEC has officially introduced its latest servers, powered by the Xeon E5-2600 line of processor that Intel unveiled less than 24 hours ago. The new systems bear the name of Express5800 E5 Generation Series and boast the ProgrammableFlow technology. NEC's ProgrammableFlow Networking Software reduces the compl...

7 March 2012
05:36 GMT

Intel's Xeon E5-2600 Have the I/O Integrated into the CPU

Now that we've looked at the performance per watt gains of Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 server CPUs, we are exploring the integrated I/O. Normally, the input/output operations are managed by a different chip, but Intel chose to build the I/O directly into the main processor. This feature is called Intel Integ...

7 March 2012
03:20 GMT

Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E Introduced in Japan

Japan got lucky somehow, having become the place where Intel's Core i7-3820 central processing unit is now ready to step out of boxes, more or less. At long last, the Intel Core i7-3820 CPU from the Sandy Bridge-E series has been released in the Country of Sunrise. As part of the top-tier chip collection, it ...

13 February 2012
04:03 GMT

Intel Graphics-Less Sandy Bridge CPUs Confirmed by Gigabyte

At the end of last year we found out that in the first quarter of 2012 Intel planned to release a trio of Sandy Bridge processors that would come with their built-in GPUs disabled. Now, almost a month after this initial report, Gigabyte has confirmed the existence of these chips. The motherboard maker has just added...

26 January 2012
19:01 GMT

Gigabyte Offers an Intel-Based Mini-ITX Board

People may not have heard yet, but the VIA-powered M7V90PI is not the only mini-ITX motherboard that Gigabyte has prepared. While that one is ready to handle the embedded market well enough, the company also designed one for barebone PCs. Dubbed MSH61DK, it supports Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs, due to featuring the I...

23 January 2012
09:27 GMT

Intel Reaffirms Its Plans to Retire 5 Sandy Bridge CPUs in 2012

Intel has reaffirmed its plans to retire a series of Sandy Bridge processors introduced at the beginning of 2011, presumably to make room in its lineup for the company’s upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs scheduled to arrive in Q2 of 2012.The chip maker has announced its decision through a Product Change Notification (PC...

16 January 2012
16:11 GMT

Tranquil PC MMC-12 HTPC Packs Sandy Bridge CPU Inside 1.5-Inch (38mm) Tall Case

Tranquil PC, a company specialized in developing computers tweaked for silent running, has just announced a forthcoming design for a new media center system dubbed the MMC-12 that will pack Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors inside its 1.5-inch case.The system is constructed from metal and finished in a satin-text...

28 December 2011
06:11 GMT

Intel Drops Sandy Bridge CPU Prices to Make Room for Ivy Bridge

Intel’s Ivy Bridge launch may not take place until the second quarter of 2012, but the chip maker has already started to prepare for these new chips by lowering the prices of some Sandy Bridge CPUs.For now only a few mobile processors are affected by this price drop, mostly models from the Core i3 and i5 lines,...

22 December 2011
20:21 GMT

35W Quad-Core Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs for OEMs Detailed

Intel may not have wanted this new info on its previously hidden central processing units out in the open, but it made its way to the Internet anyway. As reported here, in addition to all the big and small chips leaked so far, Intel is working on some other quad-core Ivy Bridge units. These ones are aimed at OEMs...

13 December 2011
02:47 GMT

Intel Prepares Core i5-2550K Unlocked Processor

After the release of the Core i7-2700K, Intel is now working on another multiplier-unlocked Sandy Bridge part, this time from the Core i5 series, namely the i5-2550K, which is expected to arrive at about the same time as AMD’s next wave of FX-Series processors.This launch strategy would help Intel to better its...

12 December 2011
17:01 GMT

Intel Plans to Retire Several Sandy Bridge LGA 1155 CPUs in 2012

Intel has just announced its plans to retire five Sandy Bridge LGA 1155 CPUs released earlier this year from its product lineup, including three Pentium processors and two second generation Core models built using the 32nm fabrication node.The chip maker announced its decision through a Product Change Notification (P...

7 December 2011
18:51 GMT

Intel Confirms Specs of Upcoming Celeron G460 CPU

Intel has recently published a roadmap detailing some of its upcoming Sandy Bridge-based Celeron processors and among these, there is also listed the G460 chips which is to become Intel’s first Celeron processor to arrive with Hyper-Threading enabled.The chip was actually uncovered on November 18, but its specs...

7 December 2011
05:56 GMT

Intel: Integrated GPUs Can Compete, But User’s Perception Needs to Change

Intel has made great strides in improving the graphics performance of its chips since the introduction of its Sandy Bridge architecture at the start of this year, but the company believes that they have to change how computer users perceive these solutions in order for them to become truly popular."I would say that t...

6 December 2011
19:31 GMT

Intel’s Unreleased Pentium B970 Spotted in HP's Pavilion dv6 Notebook

By the end of this year, Intel is expected to launch a new series of mobile processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture and one of these upcoming chips, the Pentium B970, was just spotted inside an HP document.This doc details the technical specifications of the company’s Pavilion dv6 notebook which it se...

5 December 2011
06:10 GMT

Intel Celeron 807UE CPU with 10W TDP to Arrive in Q4 2011

In the fourth quarter of 2011, Intel will update its Celeron processor lineup with yet another chip based on the Sandy Bridge architecture, the 807UE, which thanks to its 10W TDP will become Intel’s most power frugal CPU to be built using the SNB core.As CPU-World has revealed, the new Intel chip was designed i...

29 November 2011
04:08 GMT

Intel to Continue Shipping LGA 775 CPUs in 2012

Even though Intel has retired most of its processors using the LGA 755 socket in order to make room in its lineup for newer Sandy Bridge CPUs, the chip maker will still continue to ship such parts throughout the next year.According to Fudzilla, Intel’s LGA 775 lineup will include at least a dozen processors tha...

24 November 2011
09:32 GMT

Intel's Unreleased Core i3-2370M CPU Gets Detailed

Intel seems devoted to offer its clients as many Sandy Bridge CPUs as possible from which to choose from as recently it was uncovered that the Santa Clara-based chip maker is working on a new notebook Core i3 chip, dubbed the Core i3-2370M.This upcoming processor was spotted by the CPU-World publication in HP 's...

22 November 2011
10:18 GMT

Intel Core i5-2435M and i7-2675QM CPUs Get Detailed

Since the original introduction of Sandy Bridge in January of this year, Intel has expanded its product portfolio to include quite a large number of CPUs based on this architecture and the chip giant is now preparing two new such models, the Core i5-2435M and i7-2675QM.The two processors were spotted by the CPU-World...

8 November 2011
09:18 GMT

Intel Unreleased Celeron B815 to Ship in the Dell Vostro 1550

In the first quarter of 2012, Intel is expected to launch a series of new Celeron processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture and one of these chips, the Celeron B815, was already spotted in the Dell Vostro 1550 notebook.The yet unreleased Celeron processor features two computing cores running at a frequency of...

7 November 2011
08:14 GMT

Intel Plans New Sandy Bridge Celeron CPUs for Q1 2012

In the first quarter of the next year Intel plans to release a series of four new mobile Celeron processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture that will offer some minor improvements in clock speeds and/or slightly faster graphics.The fastest of the chips Intel plans to introduce is the Celeron B815 which will co...

3 November 2011
05:19 GMT

Intel Prepares Two New Z68 LGA 1155 Motherboards

Intel will soon update its motherboard lineup to feature two new solutions for LGA 1155 Sandy Bridge processors that are based on the company's Z68 chipset and are destined to take the place of the some previous P67 models.Intel's latest creations are dubbed the DZ68PL and DZ68AF, and VR-Zone managed to get...

2 November 2011
05:46 GMT

Intel's Unreleased Core i5-2450M Spotted in Dell Notebooks

Ever since the introduction of the processors in January of this year, Intel has constantly updated its Sandy Bridge CPU range with new models with slightly improved clock speeds and features, and this trend will continue with the upcoming Core i5-2450M.The new processor has already emerged in the specifications of a...

31 October 2011
06:33 GMT

Intel Lowers Prices of Three Sandy Bridge CPUs

Intel has today published an updated price list for its Sandy Bridge processors and, apart from the introduction of the new Core i7-2700K, this also announced lower prices for three of the company's current CPUs.The chips in question are the Pentium G630, Pentium G850, and Core i3-2120 models, all with two proce...

24 October 2011
16:01 GMT

Refreshed MacBook Pro Lineup Leaked

The rumored MacBook Pro refresh is just around the corner, with a proven reliable source now revealing the configurations slated for release as early as this week.Via 9to5mac comes word that Apple is indeed upgrading its Pro line of notebooks. Don’t expect any major overhaul, though.According to the source leak...

24 October 2011
04:08 GMT

Intel Officially Launches Core i7-2700K CPU

Intel kept no secret of the fact that it plans to update its processor portfolio with a new flagship Sandy Bridge part, the Core i7-2700K, and this CPU has now been added to the company's official price list as it began shipping to Intel's partners.Compared to the current top of the line Core i7-2600K, the...

24 October 2011
02:40 GMT

Intel Haswell CPUs Could Pack Multiple GPU Cores

In 2013 Intel will introduce a new processor architecture known under the code-name of Haswell and a recent report has come to suggest that chips built using this new technology could include more than one graphics cores. According to an unnamed source cited by VR-Zone, Intel believes that such an approach would enab...

15 October 2011
11:11 GMT

Intel Prepares New Sandy Bridge ULV Celeron Processors

In the first quarter of next year, Intel will expand its product portfolio with two new Celeron processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture that are targeting ultra-low power and ultra-thin computers as they feature an ULV design.Intel has designed the first one of these chips, the Celeron 867, so that it would...

11 October 2011
07:44 GMT

AVADirect Clevo P180HM Monster Notebook Packs Two GTX 560M GPUs in SLI

AVADirect has just announced the introduction of a new notebook built around a 18.4-inch display and featuring no less than two Nvidia GTX 560M graphics cards in SLI, the Clevo P180HM, which targets hardcore gamers and users in search of a high-powered graphics workstation.The new notebook is based on the Clevo X8100...

11 October 2011
03:59 GMT

Gigabyte Delivers Micro-ATX H61M-USB3 Motherboard for LGA 1155 CPUs

Micro-ATX motherboards based on the Intel H61 chipset are a great buy for users not wanting to spend an arm and a leg for a Sandy Bridge system, and Gigabyte has just introduced a new LGA 1155 solution that should deliver on that promise, the H61M-USB3-B3.Since this is an entry level offering, the motherboard doesn&#...

7 October 2011
05:46 GMT

Intel Quietly Intros Two New Sandy Bridge Mobile CPUs

Intel keeps on expanding its lineup of Sandy Bridge processors with new models on a regular basis, and the latest such chips to arrive are the Core i3-2350M and i3-2367M mobile CPUs, targeting mainstream and ultra-low power notebooks.The two chips were quietly added by Intel to its ARK database where they were spotte...

7 October 2011
03:30 GMT

Intel Launches Four New Mobile Sandy Bridge CPUs

Intel recently expanded its mobile Sandy Bridge processor portfolio with four new CPUs from the Pentium and Core product lineups which were designed to cover devices ranging from ultra-portable to high-performance notebooks.All the processors are slightly faster versions of existing models and can be already ordered ...

5 October 2011
07:55 GMT

Intel Core i7-2700K CPU and Specs Confirmed

We have previously covered Intel's upcoming Core i7-2700K processor, but now a new series of leaked slides has arrived to confirm the existence of this chip as well as the specifications of this multiplier-unlocked chip.Compared to the current top of the line Core i7-2600K, the new Intel processor will have a ba...

4 October 2011
06:21 GMT

Intel Gains CPU Revenue Share in Q2 of 2011

Thanks to the recovery of the PC market and to the strong shipments of Sandy Bridge processors, Intel managed to expand its CPU revenue in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest data provided IHS iSuppli Computer Systems research.Compared to the same quarter of the previous year, Intel accounted for...

30 September 2011
07:32 GMT

Intel Core i7-2700K Exceeds 2600K in More Ways than One

Though people probably won't be pleased with the news, reports now say that a certain, upcoming Core i7 CPU, dubbed 2700K, will be more expensive than the 2600K. Upcoming central processing units from either Intel or Advanced Micro Devices always manage to start speculation sprees among the common folk. T...

22 September 2011
08:12 GMT

Eurocom Notebooks Get Intel's Fastest Mobile Processor, the Core i7-2960XM

Eurocom recently announced that its high-performance 15.6-inch Racer, as well as a few other of the company's notebook models, powered by Intel Sandy Bridge processors and AMD or Nvidia discrete can now be configured to feature the Core i7-2960XM Processor Extreme Edition.This is Intel's most powerful mobil...

22 September 2011
03:05 GMT

Latest Shuttle XPC Barebone Supports Sandy Bridge

Shuttle has been making small form factor PCs, barebone or otherwise, for a long time now, so it wasn't overly strange when the SH61R4 XPC made it out of its labs. Small form factor personal computers can be seen as minimalistic computer systems, and barebones take things to a sort of extreme, since they don...

17 September 2011
04:19 GMT

Intel Core i7-2700K 3.5GHz Operating Frequency Confirmed

In just a few weeks time, Intel is expected to bring the first update to it high-end Sandy Bridge processor lineup with the introduction of the Core i7-2700K CPU, which was just confirmed to have a base operating frequency of 3.5GHz. The upcoming Intel chip was recently listed by motherboard maker Biostar in the C...

16 September 2011
16:01 GMT

MacBook Pro Core i7 Refresh Expected This Month

Apple may be attempting to bridge the gap between current-generation MacBook Pros and the ones getting Intel’s next-generation Core i-Series processors slated for 2012, by means of an in-the-middle refresh with new Core i7 CPUs.People who are allegedly privy of the talks between the Santa Clara-based Chip maker...

14 September 2011
05:39 GMT

Intel Says Ivy Bridge GPU Is Up to 60% Faster than Sandy Bridge Graphics

Even though Ivy Bridge isn't supposed to arrive until the second quarter of 2012, Intel has already started to share some info with the press regarding the performance of these CPUs, as the company expects their integrated graphics to be up to 60% faster then the Sandy Bridge GPU. More information about Ivy B...

12 September 2011
16:31 GMT

Intel Quietly Launches Pentium G632 Upgradeable Processor

Earlier this week, Intel added a new series of processors built on the Sandy Bridge architecture to its ever-growing product portfolio, one of the most interesting chips to make its arrival being the upgradeable Pentium G632. Intel hasn't announced this processor officially, but the CPU-World publication managed...

9 September 2011
08:08 GMT

New LGA 1155 Motherboard from Biostar Officially Released

Intel's extensive line of central processing units now has an extra motherboard to use as a platform, one made by Biostar and designed with the ATX form factor, as befitting of mainstream-to-high-end platforms. ASUS could be said to have covered the AMD facet of the motherboard industry when it revealed the ...

6 September 2011
07:42 GMT


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