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Seven years ago, the European Commission hit Intel with a massive €1.06 billion fine, after ruling that the company had been trying to stifle AMD's own chip business. Since the fine came through, Intel has been working its way through an appeals process and after its most recent attempt in …

At Computex earlier this month, Intel officially lifted the curtain on its new family of processors- the Core-X series, alongside the new X299 chipset. Now with retail availability not too far off, we are starting to see the first X299 motherboards and Core-X CPUs go up for pre-order. Let's start …

It looks like Intel's upcoming Core i7 7740X could be quite the overclocker according to reports this week. Intel's Kaby Lake-X Core i7 is heading our way fairly soon and while it may not be the most exciting chip in the lineup, a leaked reviewer's guide points towards 5.0GHz overclocks …

At Computex this year, both AMD and Intel laid all of their cards out on the table with the announcements of Threadripper and Skylake-X. Last night, Intel announced that its 4 to 10 core CPUs would begin shipping from June 19th onwards, with 12 to 18 core SKUs expected to …

Intel has announced a few times already that it is planning on releasing its first generation 10nm processors before the end of 2017 but it seems that the company has also been making solid progress on 10nm Gen 2. Today, Intel announced that its ninth generation Cannon Lake CPUs were …

Over the last few months, we have been hearing more and more details surround Microsoft's work with Qualcomm to bring Windows 10 to ARM CPUs. This all came to a head this month when it was announced that PCs running Windows 10 and the Snapdragon 835 SoC would be released …

Leo and Luke were both over at Computex and they had time one evening in the hotel to discuss their views of the upcoming Intel Skylake X and Kaby Lake X. Is the future so bright we need sunglasses?

We've had a lot of Intel news over the last 24 hours and while we have managed to tackle the bigger announcements, there was one small but interesting detail that snuck by during the Intel conference at Computex. In the midst of the big reveal for X299 and Skylake-X, Intel …

Over the last few weeks, we have been hearing whispers about Intel's upcoming X299 Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X lineup. In fact, just last night we heard that an 18 core/36 thread CPU was on the cards. Now, Intel has made it all official, announcing its new Core X-series processor family …

Update 2: Intel's new Core-X CPU family has been made official. Intel made the announcement at Computex this morning, going into detail on the X299 platform and the benefits these new CPUs bring. You can read our report on that, HERE.  Update: A few weeks back, we first caught wind …

We test the latest Razer Blade Stealth - and we also hook up the Core with GTX1070 discrete.

Reports of Intel's switch to the red team appear to have been greatly exaggerated...

Earlier this year, the US Federal Trade Commission and Apple both filed lawsuits against Qualcomm, citing anti-competitive business practises. Now, it seems that Samsung and Intel are also piling on, backing the FTC's suit against the company, claiming that they too have been harmed by Qualcomm's business practises. It might …

An innovative M.2 heatsink and Dual M.2 ports crammed into the mini-ITX form factor.

Over the last couple of years, PC Gaming has been more prevalent at E3, thanks to the PC Gaming Show. Over the last two years, AMD has been the main sponsor of this event, using it as an opportunity to show off new graphics cards but this year, the show …

Has Gigabyte ticked all the boxes for mini-ITX gamers?

Reports are circulating that Kaby Lake Core i7-7700K CPUs are hitting temperature spikes of 90ºC (194ºF) for no apparent reason, even on non-overclocked builds. If micro-stuttering complaints weren't already widely known, according to a reader on The Register who goes by the name Bastard-Wizard, the flagship Intel chips will, for no reason …

Samsung has been battling it out against Apple for the number one spot in the smartphone market for years and now, it looks like the company will begin taking on another major US company. It turns out that Samsung's semiconductor business is now successful enough to rival Intel, meaning Samsung …

In a classic case of “better late than never” Intel has informed customers it has finally eradicated its INTEL-SA-00075 bug and provided a set of tools to diagnose, mitigate and/or resolve the issue. From Nehalem to Kaby Lake, every Intel CPU built since the introduction of the Core microarchitecture has …

If you want to get your hands on some prime Intel server rib, then you can head along to eBay and check this matched pair of what the seller is claiming to be Skylake-EP processors, or as they describe it, an “Intel Xeon E5-2600 v5” CPU. The heatspreader is engraved …

During the NAB 2017 event, Intel has announced a spruced-up Visual Computer Accelerator, the second of its kind, to take video-crunching to the cloud. With HD and UHD Video workloads in mind, the Visual Compute Accelerator 2  (VCA 2) has been designed with the purpose of creating smooth real-time UHD …

It seems like one of Europe's best-sponsored eSports teams, ASUS ROG Army, has snapped up another major deal under the form of German sporting goods brand, Adidas. The company has announced it has signed a sponsorship with the Spaniards to supply them with custom-designed uniforms, bearing team and sponsor insignia, …

Intel has released a Product Change Notification (PCN) document informing would-be customers of its new Xeon CPU models. Apart from announcing new server CPUs, the PCN also heralds a new tier system for the segment. The long list includes a listing of 45 Xeon processors, including 11 Xeon Phi MIC-architecture …

Following on from last month's announcements, this week Intel's first 3D XPoint products officially became available. For the budget-oriented market, there is Optane Memory, a small M.2 cache drive intended to boost mechanical HDD performance, meanwhile for data-centres, Intel has the Optane DC P4800X, a super speedy PCIe SSD built …

In the past, Gigabyte has had to rely on traditional air cooling for its Brix series of tiny office PCs. Fortunately over the last couple of years, heat management has gotten easier as CPU TDPs have gotten increasingly lower. Now, Gigabyte has been able to ditch air cooling entirely with …

It looks like another source has come to light, claiming that Intel will now unveil its ‘Basin Falls' platform at Computex this year. This new platform will encompass Skylake-X, Kaby Lake-X and X299. As previously thought, this source claims that Intel is bringing the launch forward by a few months …

Some features on the upcoming Intel 300-series chipsets have surfaced on Chinese forum Benchlife. The Intel 300-series chipsets are being developed for Intel's Cannonlake (10nm) and Coffeelake (14nm), the latter of which should pop up in the second half of 2017 in the form of hexacore desktop processors. There doesn't …

It was a great run, but Intel Corporation has announced it has pulled the plug on the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). This has left many in the industry with a huge gaping hole in their mid-August agendas, as the staple Intel-branded event now disappears into posterity. The Fall edition, regularly held …

As much as AMD's Ryzen has seen the CPU underdog being thrust back into the race, how much of an impact has it really had on Intel's thus-far dominant Core i7 and Core i7 processors? Using Camelcamelcamel.com‘s Amazon pricetracking tool, we've measured the changes in the US and UK, and …

If you are planning on making the jump to either Ryzen or Kaby Lake soon, then you may want to shop around for motherboard deals as Gigabyte announced today that it would be offering up to €60 in Steam Wallet codes for buyers of certain boards. This promotion is running …