Apple about to abandon Intel
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 10 June 2020 12:43

Apple about to abandon Intel


Will make its own chips instead

Fruity cargo-cult Apple is nearly ready to dump Intel and use its own chips in its Macs.

Another security bug found in Intel chips
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 10 June 2020 12:08

Another security bug found in Intel chips


CrossTalk attack

Dutch boffins have found another flaw in Intel processors which enables attacker-controlled code executing on one CPU core to leak sensitive data from other software running on a different core.

Swan advises to stop looking at benchmarks
Published in PC Hardware


Intel is the best you just have to take our word for it

We were looking through the transcripts of last week’s Computex and noticed that Intel CEO Bob Swan made a surprising comment about benchmarking.

Russian CPU is still behind AMD and Intel
Published in News
Thursday, 04 June 2020 12:01

Russian CPU is still behind AMD and Intel


Turns out the Russian's aren't coming yet

Rostec, which is a Russian giant conglomerate has a chip project called Elbrus, an indigenous CPU family that has its roots in the 1970s and according to Tech Radar , a new model has surfaced: the Elbrus 8CB.

Intel culls eighth generation Coffee Lake
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 04 June 2020 11:29

Intel culls eighth generation Coffee Lake


Coffee Lake-based Xeons are still with us

Chipzilla has issued a product change notice (PCN) confirming the discontinuation of its 8th-generation Core desktop processor family up to the flagship Intel Core i7-9700K, along with Pentium Gold and Celeron processors based on the 14nm Coffee Lake silicon.

Gamers starting to abandon Intel for AMD
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 03 June 2020 11:59

Gamers starting to abandon Intel for AMD


Give me Steam

Number crunchers working for the Steam gaming platform have noticed that punters are slowly giving up the Intel chip based machines for something more AMDish.

AMD and Nvidia have little to fear from Intel's DG1
Published in Graphics


No great shakes after all

Intel's crack at a discrete GPU Xe DG1 graphics card has been spotted in a 3DMark benchmark and scored 5,538 in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test (paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor) and hit a graphics score of 5,960.

Intel notes PC back from the dead
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Wednesday, 27 May 2020 11:19

Intel notes PC back from the dead


2020 will be the year of Windows on the desktop

Intel's global vice president of client computing sales, Steve Long, is telling the world that he is optimistic about the future of the PC market.

Torvalds dumps Intel for AMD
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Monday, 25 May 2020 11:38

Torvalds dumps Intel for AMD


First time in 15 years

IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds took time out from his latest version of the Linux kernel to announce he had abandoned Intel after 15 years.

Intel Tiger Lake CPUs can run AAA games
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No discrete GPU required

The integrated graphics in the upcoming Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake-U processors could offer twice the performance of Ice Lake making AAA games possible without a dicrete GPU.