Intel’s Ivy Bridge cores have been on the market for nearly a year already but this fact alone does not discourage the US chip giant from launching Sandy Bridge processors. The latest Sandy Bridge CPU was born this past weekend when Intel quietly added the Core i3-2348M model to its product list. As expected the Core i3-2348M, being a Sandy Bridge chip, comes built on the already...
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Intel to announce Series 530 SSDs in Q2 2013
4 January 2013 | SSD
A new Intel SSD line has found its way to the Internet way ahead of launch thanks to the efforts of sources close to the company. According to the leaked information the tech company will release the Series 530 SSD line in Q2 2013. It will be represented by two models with capacities of 80 GB and 180 GB and will make use of 20 nm NAND flash memory and the LSI SandForc...
Gelid launches universal CPU cooler
3 January 2013 | PC
CPU cooler maker Gelid Solutions has launched a new flagship CPU cooling solution for both AMD and Intel processors – the so-called Black Edition. Strangely enough the new CPU cooler is not entirely black – instead just the two cooling fans and fins are colored that way. The Black Edition is however one serious piece of cooling hardware – it comes with seven heatpipes and...
Intel likely working on first 8-core chip
2 January 2013 | PC
Sources close to the US chip giant Intel have leaked information that the company is currently working on its first native 8-core chip that will belong to the Sandy Bridge-E family and will be known as Core i7-3980X. The upcoming CPU monster will make use of the well-known LGA2011 socket and will have support for Hyper-Threading, which means the eight cores will be able to work on up to...
Intel to release updated version of 335 Series SSDs
2 January 2013 | SSD
Intel released its 335 Series SSDs a few months ago but the US tech giant is ready for an update. The new updated 335 Series SSD line will include a picture of a CPU core drawn on top of the SSD chassis and two new SSDs with capacities of 80 GB and 180 GB. The updated line will be based on 20 nm MLC NAND flash memory and the SandForce SF-2281 controller and they all support SATA 3....
Intel delays Haswell processors
28 December 2012 | PC
Surprisingly enough for Intel fans and investors the US chip giant Intel has delayed the market appearance of the fourth generation Core processors also known as Haswell. Previously expected in early April 2013 Haswell chips will now be released nearly two months later – sometime between late May and early June 2013. The reasons for the delay are still unknown but may be rela...
Details on mobile Haswell chips emerge
21 December 2012 | Notebooks
About a week ago Hitechreview reported the first details on the upcoming Intel Haswell desktop chip generation. The information, first leaked by the Chinese version of the VR-Zone tech web site now has a companion – a short list of the first mobile Haswell chips. According to this still preliminary information, the mobile versions of Haswell will be three, as of now, and will...
Intel to add new mobile Ivy Bridge chips in Q1 2013
20 December 2012 | PC
The Intel Ivy Bridge architecture debuted back in April of this year and since then has decisively occupied the CPU market everywhere. Still it appears there are some market niches left for the 22 nm Intel chips - mainly in the budget market segment. This is the reason why Intel will introduce four new mobile Celeron processors based on the Ivy Bridge architecture. According ...
Intel Atom Briarwood processors detailed
17 December 2012 | PC
Just a week after the launch of the Intel Atom S1200 series the US chip giant has launched three new Atom processors - but this time they belong to the Briarwood family. Designed to power storage systems the Intel Atom S1269, Atom S1279 and Atom S1289 chips come a bit earlier – they were expected in Q1 2013. All newcomers feature two cores, support for PCI-E 2.0...
Rumor claims Intel will acquire NVIDIA
14 December 2012 | PC
The hottest rumor on the Internet right now claims that chip maker Intel will soon try to acquire NVIDIA in perhaps the biggest IT corporate takeover ever. There’s no official information at the moment whatsoever but the rumor continues to stir the Internet claiming NVIDIA’s CEO – Jen-Hsun Huang – will become head of Intel when the deal gets sealed. There may be some truth ...
Intel launches Atom S1200 CPU for servers
12 December 2012 | PC
Intel has officially launched the first Atom CPUs to power servers out there. The newcomers will belong to the Atom S1200 family and are currently known as Centerton – based around Intel’s existing 32 nm Saltwell architecture. Currently there are three Atom S1200 processors – the S1220, the S1240 and the S1260. Quite logically they share a number of features – all Intel Atom S1...
