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Intel is unveiling its 8th Generation Intel Core i9 processor for laptop computers, and it is targeting it at mobile gamers, virtual reality fans, and content creators. The new chip offers “enthusiast level” performance, and it is the fastest laptop processor that Intel has ever built. The chips are aimed at fueling the growth of […]
Enlarge / An original Ryzen die; this one doesn’t have a GPU so it should work with any firmware. Well; this one won’t, it’s been etched to expose the die so that it could be photographed. (credit: Fritzchens Fritz) So you want to build a PC using AMD’s new Ryzen processors with Vega graphics. You […]
ARM isn’t content to offer processor designs that are kinda-sorta ready for AI. The company has unveiled Project Trillium, a combination of hardware and software ingredients designed explicitly to speed up AI-related technologies like machine learning and neural networks. The highlights, as usual, are the chips: ARM ML promises to be far more efficient for […]
Enlarge / Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga 3rd generation (credit: Lenovo) I was a huge fan of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga when I reviewed it last year. For me, it was the perfect combination of technology, form factor, and good looks. This January, the machine is receiving a modest, third-generation refresh that threatens to make […]
Following up on yesterday’s confirmation that security exploits can compromise computers with Intel processors, Intel today announced a timetable for updates to render recent computers “immune” to the exploits, now referred to as Spectre and Meltdown. It also provided some guidance on mitigation of the performance hits machines may take following the update. On the […]
Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, Lenovo unveiled updates to its laptop lineups: its ThinkPad X, ThinkPad T, and ThinkPad L series. The Chinese company promised thinner and lighter designs, 8th-generation Intel Core processors, broader facial recognition support for Windows Hello, and USB Type-C power adapters. Other devices shown off included […]
Faced with reports that a “major” security flaw has been discovered in millions of Intel processors sold over the past decade, Intel today responded to the claims, framing the issue as an exploit impacting “many different vendors’ processors,” and requiring an “industry-wide approach to resolve this issue promptly and constructively.” Due to the nature of the exploit, […]
Intel is unveiling the first batch of its eighth generation Core processors, which are targeted at laptop users who like to do video editing or run virtual reality apps. The chips should also be plenty good for new kinds of gaming laptops. Santa Clara, California-based Intel said the chips have 40 percent better performance than […]
Enlarge / A Kaby Lake refresh die. (credit: Intel) The first “8th generation” Intel Core processors roll out today: a quartet of 15W U-series mobile processors. Prior generation U-series parts have had two cores, four threads; these new chips double that to four cores and eight threads. They also bump up the maximum clock speed […]
Intel’s 7th-generation Core processors still feel relatively young, but the company is already poised to talk about their successors. The chip designer has announced that it will premiere its 8th-generation Core CPUs on August 21st, complete with a livestream on Intel’s Facebook page. The company is unsurprisingly shy on technical details, but it promises previews […]
