Tag Archives: Intel

It will be quite a while before anyone is benchmarking AMD's new Bulldozer against Ivy Bridge from Intel, but industry watchers who originally thought the match-up would not start until October, might be in for a surprise. KitGuru puts a glass to the wall and tries to discern the relevant …

Even though the flow of B3 chipsets is well and truly under way, the channel is creaking terribly under the strain of trying to service customers. Nope, not end-users and enthusiasts. The customers who are suffering are the channel customers. The system builders. KitGuru dusts off the magnifying glass to …

Intel have bought SySDSoft to help expand their wireless business, this egyptian based group build IP systems and RF/Analogue circuits for mobile platforms. The 100 engineers in SYSDSoft will be joining the Intel team to push forward new high speed technologies into the mainstream market. The SySDSoft deal will help …

While everyone and their dog can attack the Futuremark records, breaking the SPEC performance record takes some doing. KitGuru has been following the adventures of this Vale of Aylesbury company for a while now, and this announcement is quite special. During a recent, exclusive interview, Cryo founder Alan Johnson told …

Enthusiast customers are spoilt for choice when buying a new motherboard. Asus, MSI and Gigabyte are all going head to head to create the most eye catching, feature packed, overclocking friendly boards to suit those with deeper than average pockets. One such product which caught our eye recently was the …

Kingston have released new HyperX 4GB and 8GB 1600mhz SO-DIMM kits. This new dual channel CL9 memory is the fastest on the market specifically designed to support notebooks and mobile platforms using the new 2nd generation Intel Core Mobile Processor family, codenamed ‘Huron River'. “Our latest HyperX SO-DIMMs are the …

Growing up in the cold war meant that B1 and B2 conjured up images of supersonic bombers capable of delivering both nuclear and conventional payloads, great distances. At CeBIT 2011, the characters ‘B' and ‘3' combined to make something altogether more attractive. KitGuru puts down the mustard and investigates. No …

SeaMicro today announced a new low power server which contains 256 of Intel's Atom N570 dual core processors. The new SM10000-64 has 512 Atom processing cores which operate at 1.66ghz, which when combined deliver 850GHZ of processing power. Intel's low power Atom processors are generally used in netbooks and low …

Intel have announced their plans to build a new semiconductor fabrication facility in Arizona. Their goals are to achieve a 14nm process which will cost around $5 billion. This new facility is called ‘Fab 42' (Thunderbirds are go?), and will be built from the ground up to produce Intel's next …

While the Sandy Bridge/Cougar Point affair is still very much in the public domain, Intel is pushing ahead with its launch schedule unhindered. We're presently hearing that the launch for the new chips will be on a Sunday. Strange timing. KitGuru gives the specs a once over. Searching Google for …

The original ‘just in time' philosophy might have been Japanese, but it seems that Intel's engineers are passing around the parable as well. So, how close are they?  KitGuru attaches safety lines and prepares to investigate the bridge. Working like flayed demons, Intel chipset engineers across the globe have been …

According to ARM CEO Warren East, Intel still have a long way to go before dominating the mobile market as their processor designs still demand too much power. He told Reuters “Unless they can make their processors smaller they will struggle.” He then said that he was happy with the …

Yesterday KitGuru reported on Core i7 960 and 970 price drops. They are also releasing a new Extreme Edition processor, called the Core i7 990x. This chip is being sold at the $999 mark, and replaces the 980x as the flagship processor from the chip giant. This chip is a …

If you haven't yet jumped into a new Sandybridge system upgrade then today's news might help cheer you up. Over the weekend Intel have reduced the cost of some of their LGA1366 processor range. The quad core i7 960 and hexa core i7 970. Last week the i7 960 cost …

Intel have  issued a Product Change Notification today which suggests that the fixed B3 revision will start to ship from the 14th of February. This news will be a welcome relief for Intel's OEM partners who have had to take drastic action to deal with the faulty motherboard shipments. Demand …

As we all know by now, Intel announced that it was pulling all Cougar Point chipsets that support the new Sandybridge desktop and laptop processor family due to a design flaw in the chip controlling the Serial ATA II data inputs. All H67 and P67 boards have two sets of …

But how safe is it? Intel doesn't really do ‘Total Recalls' like this. It's scary stuff. The company that effectively made the global market for microprocessors is such a galactically huge corporation, with advanced R&D the like of which has never been seen before, that no one ever really expected …

MSI are next in line with an official statement regarding the high profile Intel Sandybridge chipset issues. MSI has been informed by Intel about the design issues in the Intel 6 series chipsets. According to Intel the performance of some of the Intel SATA ports on Intel 6 series products …

Samsung Electronics issued a statement today, saying that any of their customers who bought an Intel system with the flawed chipset will be entitled to a full refund. Kitguru covered the news yesterday that Intel have found a design problem in the new chipset that is expected to cost it …

Following yesterday's announcement from Intel that there is a problem with the chipset necessary to support the 2nd generation Core processors, codenamed Sandy Bridge, a lot of eyes have turned to AMD. KitGuru's been asking the important questions. Yesterday, we were all struggling to remember the last time that Intel …

Intel has announced today that there is a flaw in the 6 series chipsets which accompany the new Sandybridge processor family. With the cost of this issue likely to top $700m very quickly, KitGuru has been investigating. At the very least, there will need to be a massive re-engineering effort, …

Keeping its options open, Intel now cosies up to several operating systems at the same time. Around the 3rd week in April 2011, it will push out a tablet/mobile OS with Nokia. Hardware will surely be close behind. KitGuru investigates. Turn the clock back 10 or so years, and you …

While some chip manufacturers nail everything to the mast of DX11, it seems that industry daddy Intel has a completely different view on the graphics technology. Given Microsoft enabled the world with DX11 way back in October 2009, why does Intel have such a different view and are they right …

Intel, the processor giant has posted their best earnings ever in 2010 with a net profit of $11.7 billion for the year on revenue of $43.6 billion, a 167 percent increase from the profit posted in 2009. “2010 was the best year in Intel's history,” Intel's chief executive Paul Otellini …

nVidia and Intel have announced a six year cross licensing deal worth $1.5BN which resolves a long term patent dispute between the two companies. This could mean a potential integration of Nvidia GPUs with Intel's processors. The agreement announced earlier this week means that Intel will pay Nvidia $1.5 billion …

Following on from KitGuru's exclusive revelation that there will be a change in leadership at AMD for 2011, a whole heap of new questions now have to be asked. The most important one of which must be, “Who will captain the good ship AMD into the competitive waters of the …

Microsoft are due to announce a version of the ever popular Windows Operating System that will run on ARM processors. KitGuru heard rumblings last week about this, but BloomBerg this morning have confirmed they heard the same thing. This version of Windows will be tailored specifically for battery powered devices, …

Intel's David Allen has confirmed that they are going to include the ability to remotely disable Sandy Bridge systems from a remote administration console. This will be a great asset to corporations and Intel will include this anti theft technology in the vPro equipped chips. Allen spoke to IT Business …

The European Union are showing an interest in the recent takeover of McAfee by Intel. Since Intel were fined $1.45 billion for anti trust behaviour they have been on the radar of the EU. The Wall Street Journal published a news story stating that a questionnaire is being circulated by …

Intel have announced their intentions to move fabrication plants to 450mm wafer sizes, starting with the Oregon plant. Intel's Mark Bohr – director of processor architecture, spoke to Electronista and confirmed that the company are looking to move from the current 300mm wafer size to a more cost effective 450mm …