Intel Gaming offers @AMDRyzen an 8086K CPU
Published in PC Hardware


Twitter wars

Intel found its sense of humor and offered to send @AMDRyzen twitter account, a brand-new Core i7 8086K.

AMD takes another stab at Intel
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 18 June 2018 21:37

AMD takes another stab at Intel


Offers to exchange sweepstake Core i7-8086K for Threadripper 1950X

AMD is having a blast in taking stabs at Intel these days and in its latest one, it goes for the recently announces Intel sweepstake, offering to exchange the prized Core i7-8086K limited edition CPU for a brand new Threadripper 1950X CPU.

Dell and HP advertise Intel Optane as "memory"
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Could cause confusion among customers

It appears that both Dell and HP have been caught advertising Intel's Optane SSD as "memory", or rather precisely, together with RAM, despite the fact that Optane SSDs clearly belong with storage as an addition to the HDD.

Intel warns of lazy FP state restoration
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Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:14

Intel warns of lazy FP state restoration


Living off the state

Chipzilla has warned of another side-channel attack against its Core family processors.

Intel's 8-core Coffee Lake refresh may come this autumn
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Possible 22-core HEDT as well

According to a  report, Intel could launch its rumored 8th gen Coffee Lake refresh 8-core CPUs in September.

Qualcomm still going to make datacentre chips
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Kills rumours

Qualcomm has no plans to abandon its efforts to create processors for data centres, despite rumours that it is giving up on the idea.

Intel discrete graphics to arrive in 2020
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SVP Raja Koduri confirms

Intel’s chief architect, senior vice president of the newly formed Core and Visual Computing Group, ex. Radeon Technology guru Raja Koduri has confirmed on Twitter that its discrete graphics will come in 2020.

Core i7-8086K gets delidded and overclocked to 7,243MHz
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By Roman "Der8auer" Hartung

We already had a hunch that Intel's 40th anniversary Core i7-8086K could be an impressive overclocker and Roman "Der8auer" Hartung has already delidded it and overclocked it to an impressive 7,243MHz under LN2.

Intel: X86 not sexy, oily data is
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Friday, 08 June 2018 12:26

Intel: X86 not sexy, oily data is


Submerge yourself in a deep data lake

The CEO of chip giant Intel has looked into his crystal ball, read some tea leaves and shuffled his Tarot cards and predicted that Big Data will have the same impact on human existence as oil.

Intel pulls a surprise with 28-core CPU at Computex
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Coming in the Q4 2018

Intel has pulled quite a rabbit out of its hat at the Computex 2018 press conference by unveiling and showing a running 28-core consumer CPU which should be available by the end of the year.