Swan advises to stop looking at benchmarks
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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
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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
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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


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
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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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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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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.

Reviews in for last gasp of Intel’s 14nm
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Not bad on power but a bit overweight

Reviewers are getting their sticky paws on Chipzilla’s new Comet Lake-S and are saying nice things even if the chip is a little clunky.

Intel Announces 10th Gen Core vPros
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Brilliant when compared to a five year old desktop 

Chipzilla has released its new 10th Gen Intel Core vPro processors which it claims were "built to power the next generation of business computing innovation for the increasingly remote workforce".