Sources in the Swindon area are telling us that Intel's had enough of the ‘P' chipset for Sandy Bridge and will be canning it around January – just in time for the launch of Ivy Bridge. The launch of the new ‘Z' chipset was a bit of a surprise. With …
Read More »Intel’s Developer Relations team reveals all to KitGuru
Creating a cool piece of hardware is really just one of many steps needed to create a great user experience. Almost everything made out of silicon has microcode, drivers and program code loaded onto it from every angle – to try and make it as good as it can be. …
Read More »Intel soar past Samsung – 44% higher sales
According to IC Insights, Intel have extended their lead over nearest rival Samsung by a whopping 44 percent. The report shows the strength of Intel sales right now, with Samsung literally miles behind. Another chipmaker in the report, Nvidia, recorded sales down by six percent with Panasonic also shows a …
Read More »Intel extend warranty for 320 SSD to five years
Intel announced that their SSD 320 range of solid state drives are getting a warranty increase from three to five years. SSD's have a good reputation for being reliable and while it makes sense considering a lack of moving parts, Intel are ensuring that customers feel more comfortable with their …
Read More »Microsoft counter Intel ARM Windows 8 statements: ‘inaccurate’
Earlier this week Kitguru reported on story of the upcoming Windows 8 platform. Intel executives said that Microsoft would be releasing different versions of Windows 8, with specific versions for the ARM series of processors. Microsoft have said that this is ‘factually inaccurate'. At an analyst meeting this week, Intel …
Read More »Intel say that Windows on ARM won’t support ‘legacy applications’
Microsoft will be porting Windows 8 to support the ARM Architecture but the general manager of Intel's software and services group has said that she isn't going to be losing sleep over a competitive market losing battle in the future. Renée James spoke at the Intel's Investor Meeting 2011 in Santa …
Read More »Rumor: Apple to ditch Intel on MacBooks – going ARM based
There are rumors circulating that Apple may drop Intel chips and move the design of future MacBooks onto similar silicon that powers Apple's iPhone and iPad. This is obviously heightened by reports that Windows 8 will support both ARM and Intel platforms. While in theory this seems like a logical …
Read More »ARM say ‘no surprise’ on news of upcoming Intel chip design
British chip maker ARM have spoken to the Telegraph in the UK after hearing about Intel's new chip announcement. Shares in the Cambridge based ARM, a company who design chips for Apple and other smartphone manufacturers dropped badly midweek as investors were waiting on an announcement from Intel. Intel said …
Read More »Intel may announce tri gate transistors today
Intel will be holding a press conference today which is causing a lot of ‘behind the scenes' discussion. Sources, including Wall Street are confident that Intel are almost ready to announce the launch of their tri-gate transistors. If this is true then it will be potentially the biggest tech news …
Read More »Intel prepares for marketing U-turn on DirectX 11
By its very nature, Intel's tick-tock strategy means that important architectural changes are only introduced once the production process is operating near 100% efficiency, so what's going on with Ivy Bridge? KitGuru prepares to get well and truly pixelated. . From what we have heard, every sales meeting that Intel …
Read More »Intel porting Android 3.0 for tablets this year
Paul Otellini, Intel CEO, says his company is working hard to port Google's tablet specific Android 3.0, known as ‘Honeycomb' to the x86 architecture. He told investors and reporters “We've received the Android code – the Honeycomb version of Android source code – from Google, and we're actively doing the …
Read More »3.9Bn transistors on a single chip? It’s not AMD or Intel!
When in comes to delivering pure processing power, transistor density is right up there with clock speed as the key ingredient. We're used to AMD and Intel revealing ever more transistors packed onto a piece of silicon, but today's record annoucement comes from a different source altogether. KitGuru pulls out …
Read More »Intel hands Q3 to AMD Llano – strategic error?
After having the market to itself for over 3 years, AMD finally woke up and realised that there was a market for a Fusion-class processor that combined decent CPU-ing with decent GPU-ing. News into KitGuru suggests that Intel might be embarking on a strange strategy for 2011. Here's what we …
Read More »Developer Kits for Intel’s Thunderbolt available soon
Intel have said that developer kits for Thunderbolt will be available this quarter, meaning we could see a raft of new devices entering retail, based on this interconnect technology. Thunderbolt was first announced on February 24th and is currently only offered by industry leader Apple in their new Macbook Pro …
Read More »Intel showcase future netbooks
Yesterday KitGuru reported on Intel's Oak Trail solution and Intel have also rolled out their next generation ‘Cedar Trail' Atom processor, due in Netbooks within the next couple of months. At a developer conference in China they have showcased new netbooks based on the next generation Atom processor. Cedar Trail …
Read More »Intel launch Oak Trail tablet chip targeting Apple
Intel have released a new Oak Trail tablet chip which they hope will be used in tablets targeting the market leader, Apple. Intel launched the new ATOM chip, codenamed Oak Trail which is designed specifically for tablet computers. They have also said that 35 tablet and hybrid computers will be …
Read More »Intel to launch Pelican Lake shrink on 7nm in 2016
While the whole world plus dog is still looking at the ripples made by the Sandy Bridge recall, Intel is jogging on at a tremendous rate of knots. KitGuru dons a bee-keeper suit and enters the FAB-u-lous world of CPU technology. In January, everyone's jaw dropped as Intel asked the …
Read More »Sandy Bridge price to stay high without competition
Sources close to Intel have been in contact with KitGuru to say that there is no possibility of the price of Sandy Bridge i5 and i7 products becoming more competitively priced until AMD launches Bulldozer. Damning stuff. KitGuru investigates. We all know that competition is a good thing. We're also …
Read More »Intel launch 10 core Xeon E7 series
Intel have announced their new Xeon E7 series with up to ten physical processing cores per chip. They are targeting AMD's Magny-Cours with hopes of moving some high density data center customers to their platform. The Xeon's are not aimed at the consumer audience, they are aimed at the mission …
Read More »Sad lack of Sandy Bridge in the high street
KitGuru spent Saturday afternoon shopping in centres packed with folks stocking up on Mother's Day gifts. While the world looked out for that ‘special something that would make the moment', KitGuru was looking around the electronics shelves and noticed something rather surprising. Here's a quick story and a pic – …
Read More »Intel 510 Series 120GB SSD Review
While Intel will always be known for their range of consumer and business oriented processor designs, their Solid State Drives proved to be extremely popular among the enthusiast audience, selling well across the range of sizes. The X25-M in particular is still a huge seller for the company, especially with …
Read More »Bulldozer specs cause Intel to pull in roadmap
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 …
Read More »Sandy Bridge B3 shortage causes channel strain
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 …
Read More »Intel buy SySDSoft – targeting wireless market
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 …
Read More »Cryo PC smashes world speed record
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 …
Read More »Gigabyte G1 Assassin and Intel Core i7 990X Extreme Edition Review – 5ghz
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 …
Read More »Kingston 1600mhz notebook memory for ‘Huron River’
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 …
Read More »B3 chipset lands in CeBIT 2011
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 …
Read More »SeaMicro’s new low power server has 512 Atom cores
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 …
Read More »Intel plan ‘Fab 42’ – 14nm process, costing $5 billion
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 …
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