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A while back, Intel announced plans to get into the foundry business, creating chips for other companies to rival the foundry businesses of TSMC and Samsung, amongst others. Now, we know who the first two Intel Foundry customers will be – Qualcomm and Amazon.  Last night, following Intel's new process …

Today Intel has revealed its roadmap of process and packaging improvements, which will power the next several generations of Intel CPUs leading up to 2025 and beyond. This includes Intel's first new transistor architecture in more than a decade.

Intel recently released its Q2 2021 earnings report and as usual, there are some forward looking statements from executives. Unfortunately, according to Intel, we may be heading for more chip shortages throughout Q3 2021, this time due to a lack of ABF substrates. In Intel's Q2 2021 earnings report, published …

A known leaker has just shared some benchmark results for the Intel ‘Alder Lake' Core i9-12900K, and if these results are accurate, it will be quite the beast. The qualification sample of the processor was running at stock settings, using a water cooler to handle the heat. According to RaichuOne, …

While Windows Insiders are already running the Windows 11 preview build, the rest of us are waiting on a ‘late 2021' release window for Microsoft's upgraded operating system. As it turns out, ‘late 2021' could really mean October, according to Intel.  In Intel's support document for the DCH GPU driver …

A recently leaked Intel roadmap suggests Alder Lake desktop and mobile vPro SKUs will be available for commercial clients in the first quarter of 2022. Moreover, a table detailing Windows 10 support on the Intel vPro series shows Alder Lake should be supported by the OS until 2023. According to …

As the launch of Intel's Alder Lake desktop processors approaches, more detailed leaks have started to surface. The latest of these details the K-series SKUs, including the clock speeds of each core cluster, the amount of L3 cache as well as the PL1 and PL2 values...

Today Razer is launching the new Razer Blade 17 gaming laptops, packing Intel 11th Gen Core H-series processors and up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics. For the first time in a Blade 17, buyers will also be able to opt for an Intel Core i9-11900H CPU.  With the inclusion …

According to a roadmap we shared a few days ago, we are still more than a year away from the release of consumer Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs. However, considering there are already benchmarks of dual-socket systems equipped with Sapphire Rapids CPUs, the server-grade processors might be coming sooner rather than …

Intel hasn't launched new HEDT processors since late 2019, and according to a recently leaked roadmap, anyone waiting for them might still have to wait a year. By looking at the roadmap, it seems Intel is developing a new workstation HEDT platform based on Sapphire Rapids for Q2 2022.

Qualcomm's new president, Cristiano Amon, has revealed the chip maker’s plans to release a laptop CPU in 2022 in order to compete with Apple’s new chips, such as the M1 processor. This new laptop chip will take advantage of Nuvia's core architecture, which Qualcomm acquired a while back.  In an …

In the last few days, new information regarding the upcoming Intel LGA socket 17xx came to light alongside the first photos of the socket itself. The socket is currently listed for sale on a Chinese retailer, and according to the photos on the listing, the socket's cover shows it's also …

Intel has been teasing its Xe-HPG GPU architecture for a long time and now, it looks like the official launch could be happening soon as DG2 sample cards are now heading to board partners.  Raja Koduri has been teasing the upcoming Intel gaming GPUs for quite a while, but now …

New details on Intel's upcoming DG2 graphics cards have surfaced on the Geekbench database. Two upcoming Xe-HPG versions were found, one with 256 EUs paired with an Intel Alder Lake CPU and a 96 EU GPU with another Alder Lake 14-core processor.  It's not clearly stated that these are the …

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The DDR5-era is closer than ever. It has been noticed that the next beta release of HWiNFO will receive support for Intel XMP 3.0, the memory profile tool for DDR5 that allows users to overclock the memory modules more conveniently. The first DDR5 modules have already released, but there's no …

We've known that Intel is planning a number of ‘DG2' GPU SKUs, but recently, a brand new one popped up, featuring 448 Execution Units, a notch below the flagship model, which will have 512 Execution Units. This newly discovered SKU will reportedly offer similar performance to the RTX 3070 and …

A couple of weeks ago, Intel surprisingly launched new Tiger Lake Core series desktop processors. Now, it looks like someone has managed to get their hands on a Core i9-11900KB and thanks to the 3DMark benchmark database, we can get a better look at what level of performance to expect …

An extensive report on Intel's upcoming Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors has just come out, and it shares a lot of details about the upcoming architectures. Besides talking about these two architectures, there is also come more information on Meteor Lake and what's next for Intel.  According to the …

While Apple is planning to bring new versions of macOS to Intel-based Macs for years to come, Apple is already putting some limitations in place. At WWDC this week, Apple announced macOS Monterey and while this update comes with a slew of new features, some of them will only be …

We have a clue on how Intel will use the 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake processors. A recent report claims the Intel ‘Beast Canyon' NUC 11 Extreme will feature the Core i9-11900KB CPU, suggesting that the rest of the line-up could also be used on other Intel NUCs. We have …

The first Geekbench 5 benchmarks results of the Intel Core i7-1195G7 CPU have surfaced. For now, there are three entries in the database, and according to their single-core scores, performance is on the same level as the Rocket Lake-S desktop processors. The three Geekbench 5 entries seem to come from …

NZXT has been slowly expanding its N7 motherboard line-up this year. In March, we saw the launch of the company's N7 B550 motherboard and now, the NZXT N7 Z590 is launching for high-end Intel-based systems.  The NZXT N7 Z590 retains the same sleek design as the company's other motherboards, simplifying …

Raja Koduri is back at it again, teasing the upcoming flagship Intel Xe-HPG graphics card. This week, the SVP of Intel Architecture, Graphics, and Software at Intel came to Twitter to share a photo of the Xe-HPG GPU with 512 EUs and stated that Intel is already looking into AMD …

Intel kicked off Virtual Computex 2021 with a keynote address lasting 40 minutes. We heard from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, we saw product demos and we were told about new products that are due to land in the near future. Despite that the response from KitGuru's audience has been brutal, mainly because it simply wasn't very good...

Intel has officially introduced two new processors to the 11th Gen Core mobile line-up: the Core i5-1155G7 and the Core i7-1195G7. Both processors are similar to other SKUs, offering slightly higher clock speeds while maintaining the core configuration. Like the other i5 and i7 processors of the 11th Gen Core …

As mini ITX systems have become more popular in the last few years, it looks like Intel is trying to capitalise on the trend. The first render of the Intel ‘Beast Canyon' NUC 11 Extreme has been shared, showing an mITX case with enough space to pack big graphics cards. …

The latest report on Intel Xe-HPG graphics cards includes a lot of new details about the upcoming GPU family. The PCB Intel is using for its flagship DG2 desktop graphics card has also leaked, giving us our best look yet at what to expect from Intel in the graphics card …

In a completely unexpected move, Intel added four new processors based on the Tiger Lake architecture to its product database. What is even more surprising is that all of them are for desktop, marking the launch of the first 10nm processors for desktop from Intel. The new processors were initially …

A new report has revealed the PL values of the upcoming Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M mobile processor architecture. While Alder Lake-M comes with rather conservative values maxing at 30W, Alder Lake-P goes well beyond that, reaching up to 115W. Intel's hybrid processor architecture should be more efficient as it's …