All Entries Tagged With: "Intel"
Valley View – Atom Plans For 2013
Leaked slides detailing Intel’s Atom roadmap suggest the company is developing its next-gen Atom processors – code named Valley View – to be built on a 22nm architecture and sporting Ivy Bridge class integrated GPUs. The follow-up to the recently-released Cedar Trail family of netbook CPUs is expected to launch in early 2013 – probably [...]
Gigabyte P2542G Notebook – Preview
Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte unveiled the P2542G gaming laptop at CeBIT in Hannover a couple of weeks back. The Gigabyte P2542G packs in an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 CPU, a 2GB NVidia Geforce GTX660M dedicated graphics card and a full HD 1920 x 1080p screen. P2542G also offers a Blu-ray drive and a THX-certified dual-woofer audio [...]
Toshiba Updates Satellite Notebooks
Last week Toshiba announced a whole bunch of new products, amongst them a new Qosmio X870 and upgrades for both the Satellite C and Satellite P budget series. A very capable glasses-free 3D model was also announced. Now the japanese tech giant has announced updates to the Satellite L Series, known as the Satellite L800 [...]
Intel’s new Integrated HD4000 GPU Benchmarked
Preliminary benchmark results have been released comparing Intel’s next-generation HD4000 integrated graphics to the current HD3000 solution. The benchmarks suggest the new Ivy Bridge IGP (integrated graphics processor), developed on a 22nm architecture, performs 50% faster than the old 32nm Sandy Bridge version. Apparently Chinese site expreview.com got its hands on an unlocked Ivy Bridge [...]
Intel Atom Processor Roadmap
Intel has detailed its roadmap for the smartphone sector at MWC, and also released details of a trio of Atom chips to feature in handsets later this year. First up is the Atom Z2460, codenamed Medfield, a hyper-threaded single-core CPU clocked at 2GHz with integrated GPU capable of HD 1080p video encoding at 30fps. If [...]
Intel Integrates WiFi Into Processor
Intel has managed to combine a WiFi transceiver with a dualcore Atom CPU, bringing the possibility of thinner mobile devices, longer battery life, and computers you can never take offline. Intel intends to unveil the new chip, codenamed Rosepoint, later this week. But in a week when we learnt that even Google can’t always be [...]
Intel Optimises Caching SSDs For Ivy Bridge
Intel has announced it will tailor-make new caching SSDs to work more efficiently with its Ivy Bridge generation of mobile processors, due out in Q2 2012. Recent reports of delays to the launch of Ivy Bridge CPUs appears to have been exaggerated; only the dual-core versions will be delayed,with the eagerly-awaited quad-core versions expected to [...]
Ivy Bridge Shipments Delayed
Intel has notified OEMs that volume shipments of the next generation Ivy Bridge processor will be delayed until June. It seems the delay is a result of Intel and notebook vendors suffering from a backlog of existing Sandy Bridge stockpiles, due mainly to the weak global economy. The die shrink to 22nm of the 32nm [...]
Intel Announces Record Profits
Santa-Clara-based chip-maker Intel has released figures for 2011, reporting record revenues of $54 billion, up from $43.6bn in 2010. That’s a pretty commendable 24% increase in profits. Net income climbed 13% to $12.9bn , some of which will hopefully go into research to bring you and me ever faster components. Intel’s results for Q4 were [...]
ARM CEO Criticizes New Intel Medfield CPUs
Mobile chip heavyweight ARM has criticized Intel new Medfield architecture Atom Z2460 as only ‘roughly good enough for mobile phones’, even though it is will soon appear in Motorola and Lenovo smartphones. However ARM sees Intel as ‘a serious competitor’ according to CEO Warren East, speaking at CES earlier this week at CES 2012. Mr. [...]
