Intel
Intel's Meteor Lake series of processors was launched in September 2023 with a focus on mobile platforms. Multiple mini-PC vendors have utilized these processors to market offerings in the SFF / UCFF desktop market. ACEMAGIC is an Asian manufacturer with products in multiple categories including micro-PCs, UCFF (ultra-compact form-factor) and SFF (small form-factor) PCs, and notebooks. They were one of the first to market with Meteor Lake-based desktop systems. The ACEMAGIC F2A 125H is the entry-level version of the F2A line, equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor. It is a bit larger than the traditional NUCs, slotting it in the SFF category. However, that allows for the processor to be operated at 65W (compared to the 28 - 40W adopted in the...
Intel Launches Optane Memory M.2 Cache SSDs For Consumer Market
Last week, Intel officially launched their first Optane product, the SSD DC P4800X enterprise drive. This week, 3D XPoint memory comes to the client and consumer market in the...
127 by Billy Tallis on 3/27/2017
Intel Introduces Optane SSD DC P4800X With 3D XPoint Memory
A year and a half after first publicly unveiling their new 3D XPoint non-volatile memory technology, Intel is launching the first product incorporating the new memory. The Intel Optane...
77 by Billy Tallis on 3/19/2017
Tag Heuer Connected Modular 45: Atom Z3400, Android Wear 2.0, Starts at $1650
Tag Heuer last week announced its new generation smartwatch, co-developed with Google and Intel. The new Connected Modular 45 timepiece uses an Intel SoC, runs Google’s Android Wear 2.0...
36 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2017
GIGABYTE GB-BKi7HA-7500 Kaby Lake BRIX Review
The emergence of power-efficient high-performance processors has created a bright spot in the desktop PC market. The ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) heralded by the Intel NUCs has experienced rapid...
32 by Ganesh T S on 3/16/2017
Spreadtrum SC9861G-IA: An Intel Atom Octocore Smartphone SoC on 14nm with LTE
Last year Intel decided to cease development of its smartphone SoCs and focus instead on microprocessors for other devices, as well as LTE, 5G modems, as well as various...
47 by Anton Shilov on 3/15/2017
Intel to Acquire Mobileye for $15 Billion
In an interesting announcement today, Intel and Mobileye have entered into an agreement whereby Intel will commence a tender offer for all issued and outstanding ordinary shared of Mobileye...
17 by Ian Cutress on 3/13/2017
The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 41: Let's Talk Server, with Patrick Kennedy
While in San Francisco for AMD’s Ryzen Tech Day, I had a chance to catch up with a good friend by the name of Patrick Kennedy, who runs the...
8 by Ian Cutress on 2/28/2017
Logic Supply ML100G-50 Fanless Skylake vPro Industrial NUC Review
Passively cooled computing systems carry many advantages. Most of these turn out to be very important for industrial and embedded applications. The low power nature of the NUCs make...
37 by Ganesh T S on 2/27/2017
Samsung Launch the Galaxy Book 10.6-inch and 12-inch: Windows Tablets with Kaby Lake
The announcements this year from Samsung are notably muted without the launch of a new Galaxy smartphone, but despite this being a mobile-focused conference in Barcelona this week, there...
39 by Ian Cutress on 2/26/2017
Intel Announces Xeon D-1500 Network Series SoCs with QuickAssist, Four 10 GbE Ports
Intel’s Xeon D SoCs and supporting platforms for storage, web hosting and networking applications seem to be getting traction with actual hardware manufacturers as well as end users. This...
12 by Anton Shilov on 2/26/2017
Intel Launches Atom C3000 SoCs: Up to 16 Cores for NAS, Servers, Vehicles
Intel this week formally launched its Atom C3000-series processors (formerly codenamed Denverton). The new chips are designed for inexpensive storage servers, NAS applications, as well as autonomous vehicles. The...
26 by Anton Shilov on 2/23/2017
Intel Announces Cyclone 10 FPGAs for IoT Devices
Intel this week has announced its new portfolio of FPGAs designed for small form-factor and/or low-power Internet-of-Things devices, specifically in the fields of automotive, industrial, audio/visual and vision applications...
26 by Anton Shilov on 2/18/2017
Razer Blade Gets Core i7-7700HQ, Adds 4K Touchscreen, 1 TB SSD Options
Razer this week introduced an upgraded version of its latest Blade laptop that is now powered by Intel’s quad-core Kaby Lake processor along with DDR4-2400 memory and has 4K...
47 by Anton Shilov on 2/14/2017
Intel Announces the Xeon E7-8894 v4 CPU: 24 Cores at 2.4 GHz for $8898
In the past week, Intel has launched a new halo CPU - its highest-performing multi-core CPU for multi-socket mission-critical servers, the Xeon E7-8894 v4. The new processor is based...
83 by Anton Shilov on 2/13/2017
Intel Confirms 8th Gen Core on 14nm, Data Center First to New Nodes
A quick news piece on information coming out of Intel’s annual Investor Day in California. As confirmed to Ashraf Eassa by Intel at the event, Intel’s 8th Generation Core...
124 by Ian Cutress on 2/9/2017
Intel to Equip Fab 42 for 7 nm
Intel this week announced plans to bring its Fab 42 online to produce semiconductors using a 7 nm fabrication process. It will take three to four years, and the...
24 by Anton Shilov on 2/9/2017
Semi-Critical Intel Atom C2000 SoC Flaw Discovered, Hardware Fix Required
Last week, Paul Alcorn over at Tom’s Hardware picked up on an interesting statement made by Intel in their Q4 2016 earnings call. The company, whose Data Center...
38 by Ryan Smith on 2/8/2017
ASRock Beebox-S 7200U Kaby Lake UCFF PC Review
The Kaby Lake-U (KBL-U) series with 15W TDP CPUs was introduced along with the 4.5W Kaby Lake-Y ones in Q3 2016. The first set of products with Kaby Lake-U...
33 by Ganesh T S on 2/7/2017
The Intel Core i3-7350K (60W) Review: Almost a Core i7-2600K
For some intrepid enthusiasts, this is the chip from Intel we’ve been waiting for. I foolishly predicted that Intel would never create an overclockable Core i3, because it had...
186 by Ian Cutress on 2/3/2017
The OcUK 8Pack OrionX: X99 + Z270 in a Custom Overclocked $30,000 Desktop PC
Overclockers UK has started to offer its top-of-the-range 8Pack OrionX computer that weds two completely different systems in one box: a multi-core overclocked Intel Core i7-6950X-based high-end desktop and...
42 by Anton Shilov on 1/30/2017
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