What is the Sky Lake-EP platform called again?
The one that is two after Brickland or something like that
Some you might know the current 2S Sandy Bridge-EP platform called Romley and its Ivy Bridge based successor is named Brickland.
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Intel talks up three new Xeon families at IDF
By talk we mean nothing other than names, did you expect real info?
IDF didn’t neglect the bigger CPUs for Atoms, there were no less than three families of big Xeons teased too.
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Gigabyte shows off three long rumored technologies
CES 2013: In the wild for the trifecta
Given the lack of new CPUs and chipsets lately, you would be forgiven if you expected Gigabyte to not have anything new at CES.
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Intel to update Ivy GPU drivers for QuadHD
Something amiss in the fine print though
Intel is about to make a splash with new graphics drivers, and there is one interesting twist to the story.
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AMD’s Trinity Faces Off With Intel’s Ivy Bridge
The mainstream battle royal...
Today we’re aiming to find out if the CPU’s side of Trinity can keep pace with Intel’s Ivy Bridge.
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SeaMicro adds two CPU cards and storage arrays
IDF 2012: SM15000 gets Piledriver, Ivy Bridge, and 5PB of disks
The best tech shown at IDF so far was the new SeaMicro box from AMD, say hi to the SM15000.
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Intel’s HD 4000; Four Months Later
Minor, but positive changes...
As we found in our testing back in late April, Intel certainly delivered on the raw performance front. But the drivers for the HD 4000 were still lacking.
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Computex 2012: Trinity board shown
Intel boards too.
The first Trinity board of Computex was shown off by Gigabyte, but that wasn’t it.
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Is AMD’s Trinity much better than it appears?
People just don't understand performance per watt
Analysis: AMD’s new A10/Trinity chip is not that impressive from a checklist point of view, but under the surface, it has a killer feature.
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How Does Intel’s HD 4000 Compare on the IQ Scale?
Image quality that is...
One of the biggest question marks we’ve had on our minds is the impact of the HD 4000′s (the GPU side of Ivy Bridge) notably inferior Anisotropic filtering quality.
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Does disabling Hyper-Threading increase performance?
Some trade-offs get better with time...
Since Intel introduced its Hyper-Threading technology with its Pentium 4 microprocessors back in early 2002 reviewers have occasionally noticed that under certain condition Hyper-Threading can actually hurt performance instead of helping it.
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The Battle of the Bridges
How much performance does a 'Tick' get you these days?
It’s that time of year again and Intel’s introducing its new Ivy Bridge based offerings.
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Intel launches Ivy Bridge amid crushing marketing buzzwords
Good hardware, awful messaging, possible remote exploits
Intel is launching their Ivy Bridge CPU family today with a lot of fanfare, and in many ways the chip deserves every bit.
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Comparing the Ends of the Spectrum
The old HD 2000 versus the new HD 4000...
Intel sent us two chips for review in the lead up to its Ivy Bridge launch.
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Par for the Course: Part 2
A Look at Intel's HD 4000 Graphics Continued
In this half of the review we will be continuing our testing of the graphical capabilities of Intel’s HD 4000.
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