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Earlier this week, Intel officially announced its new 11th Gen Core processors, including Core i9 K and KF SKUs with a new frequency boost feature called Adaptive Boost Technology. Now, Intel has explained how Adaptive Boost works to bring all cores up to 5.1GHz as long as power and cooling …

Earlier this week, Intel officially announced its “Rocket Lake-S” 11th Gen Core desktop processors. MSI is getting involved with the launch early, updating its gaming desktop systems with Intel's latest hardware.  This week, MSI announced that its Aegis, Codex, Trident and Infinite series of gaming desktop PCs will ship with …

Ever since Intel hired Raja Koduri and announced plans to create new discrete graphics cards, we've been waiting to see what Intel can do in the gaming segment. So far, we've seen the Xe graphics architecture introduced in low-power DG1 discrete graphics cards, which are primarily sold to OEMs. Later this month, however, we may get our first look at Intel's first high-performance gaming GPU. 

A new Intel Tiger Lake CPU benchmark has appeared online. This time around, we get a look at the performance up the Core i7-11800H, which appears to be faster than AMD's competing Ryzen 7 5800H, at least on Geekbench.  The first Geekbench 5 entry of the Intel Core i7-11800H was spotted …

Micron is stepping away from 3D XPoint memory technology. This week, it was revealed that the company is looking to sell its 3D XPoint memory fabrication plant, as well as ceasing all R&D funding into the technology.  Micron first began working on 3D XPoint technology six years ago in a …

We've known for a while now that memory makers are working on DDR5, with plans to launch the first modules later this year alongside Intel's Alder Lake-S platform. Now, we have a very interesting early look at performance, as a China-based memory manufacturer has revealed their DDR5-4800 testing results. As …

After many weeks of leaks and rumours, today Intel has officially announced its 11th Gen Core "Rocket Lake-S" desktop processors. The flagship is of course the Intel Core i9-11900K, capable of reaching speeds of up to 5.3GHz.

This week, it was confirmed that Intel will be taking part in GDC later this week, with a session focused on new Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake-S CPUs. While some Tiger Lake processors have already released, we expect to see new six-core and 8-core SKUs announced. Until now, Intel has …

We've been seeing benchmark leaks for Intel's upcoming Rocket Lake-S series of processors for a while now, although most of these leaks have focused on 8-core SKUs. That changed this week with the first benchmark leaks for two of Intel's 6-core 11th Gen Core processors, giving us a look at …

We know that Intel plans to release its Alder Lake processors before the end of this year and we've recently heard about Lunar Lake coming in 2023 – so what is happening in 2022? Well thanks to another leak this week, we've learned about Intel “Raptor Lake”, which is planned …

As we get closer to a major launch, there is a good chance that we'll see presentation leaks detailing upcoming tech early. This time around, two slides from Intel's Rocket Lake launch presentation have leaked, detailing the full Core i9 and Core i7 line-up in addition to some gaming performance …

It looks like Intel's upcoming Ice Lake-SP Xeon processors aren't too far away. Signs of life were spotted this week on the SiSoftware Sandra database, revealing the similarly spec'd Xeon Platinum 8352Y and 8352S. There is one key difference between the two chips, however, as the Y variant is for dual-socket configurations while the …

A new driver patch may have revealed Intel's upcoming 14th Gen Core series of processors. Linux driver patch notes for the Intel Gigabit NIC mention a new codenamed microarchitecture – Lunar Lake.  Expected to release after Meteor Lake, Intel Lunar Lake was first mentioned in an Ethernet Linux driver (via Coelacanth's Dream) …

It looks like Microsoft will have a new Surface Laptop out soon. According to sources, the Surface Laptop 4 will be coming in April, complete with both Intel and AMD configuration options.  The Surface Laptop 4 will include Ryzen 4000 mobile series CPUs, not the more expensive Ryzen 5000 mobile …

The Intel 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake” mobile CPU line-up has been leaked. From 5W to 55W TDP, Alder Lake mobile processors will allegedly feature up to 8x small cores, 8x big cores, and iGPUs with up to 96 EUs, allowing them to be used in a range of devices, including …

This week, a federal jury in Texas has found Intel guilty of patent infringement. The jury found that Intel infringed on two patents held by a company known as VLSI and has ordered that over $2 billion should be paid in damages.  The patent infringement lawsuit has been going on …

We check out this mini-ITX from ASRock.. and explain why it's one to miss

MSI is about to release a BIOS update enabling support for PCIe 4.0 on all Z490 motherboards when paired with 11th Gen Core desktop processors. Thanks to the PCIe 4.0 support, users will be able to benefit from the extra performance offered by PCIe 4.0 compatible devices, including NVMe M.2 SSDs and …

Following on from reports of early Intel 11th Gen Core CPU sales in Europe, Intel has issued a statement, confirming that Rocket Lake-S processors will indeed be releasing in March. To be more exact, the launch date is set for the 30th of March.  For those of you who are …

It is always nice to get some gaming freebies with PC hardware purchases. We typically see games bundled with graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia, but occasionally, Intel will bundle games with CPUs too. Until the end of July, Intel CPUs will be shipping with free games, including Hitman 3 …

Intel has released its new generation of mainstream NVMe M.2 SSDs - the Intel SSD 670p, featuring 144-layer 3D QLC NAND and available in capacities up to 2TB. 

Intel is preparing to launch its Tiger Lake-H45 processors very soon, in fact, the launch appears to be imminent. This week, retail listings for Tiger Lake-H45 powered laptops began appearing at retail, including details on clock speeds.  Leaker @momomo_us found listings of Lenovo Legion 5 and Legion 7 laptops featuring the upcoming Intel …

A new leak detailing some specifications of the Intel Xe-HPG (DG2) graphics card line-up has surfaced. As per the leak, the Intel Xe-HPG series will feature 6 models, starting with a 96 EU GPU with 4GB of GDDR6 memory, up to a 512 EU GPU with 16GB of GDDR6 memory. This …

Nvidia has added support for Resizable BAR on RTX 30 series laptop GPUs and RTX 3060 desktop graphics cards. Support for the remaining Nvidia RTX 30 series cards will come in late March. Owners of RTX 30 series laptops and RTX 3060 desktop graphics cards will have to install the latest Game …

Intel Rocket Lake-S processors will reportedly be available for pre-order starting on the 16th of March, with the first units set to ship to customers two weeks later. Additionally, Intel’s chief performance strategist stated that the Rocket Lake-S flagship processor will offer 11% faster storage performance than the Ryzen 9 5950X. According …

Google and Intel are teaming up to co-develop new architectures and solutions for CSPs to accelerate the implementation of 5G networks across the globe. Google and Intel will help partners to plan, test and deploy the technology and infrastructure needed to deliver a cloud-native 5G network for consumer and enterprise-grade products. …

The latest Rocket Lake-S benchmark leak has arrived. This time around, a new Geekbench 5 entry was found for the Intel Core i5-11400, which appears to have a whopping 35 percent single-core performance improvement over its 10th Gen equivalent.  As shared by @BenchLeaks, the Geekbench 5 database entry for the …

Until now, the only Rocket Lake-S processors spotted on benchmark databases have been Core i7 and i9 processors, but that has changed this week with the first Core i5 entry appearing on Geekbench 5. The new entry details the Intel Core i5-11600K, giving us some early performance numbers to compare against the competition. 

We are still quite far away from the launch of Intel Alder Lake CPUs, but early leaks keep coming. The latest leak comes from an alleged Intel presentation slide, detailing that Alder Lake CPU cores will feature a "20% single-threaded uplift" in performance compared to some previous architectures. Alder Lake also apparently boasts double the multi-thread performance of Tiger Lake-U. 

The line-up of Tiger Lake-H45 processors has apparently leaked, revealing three 8-core CPUs in addition to a 6-core processor.  During CES 2021, Intel officially announced the Tiger Lake-H35 series with up to 4x cores and 8x threads. Aimed at slim and mid-range gaming laptops, these SKUs have a 35W TDP and reach …