With the launch of the Haswell line of processors back in 2013, a significant portion of them represented Intel’s more ‘budget-friendly’ line of CPUs. These ...
December 8, 2019 at 12:36 pm by Mike Sanders
Intel Continues to Rollout Fixed Spectre Microcode Last November, Intel learned about the new Spectre and Meltdown bugs. Since then, the company has been scrambling to issue ...
March 1, 2018 at 8:00 am by Samuel Wan
Several days ago, Intel disclosed issues surrounding the update for fixing the recent Meltdown and Spectre flaws are actually causing problems on some systems. This update ...
January 22, 2018 at 10:16 pm by Ron Perillo
Intel processors are the most hard hit with the the recent Meltdown and Spectre flaw revelations. Now it appears that the security firmware update designed to address the flaw ...
January 13, 2018 at 8:57 pm by Ron Perillo
After nearly 4 years on the market, it looks like Intel has had enough of Haswell. First launched in 2013, the Haswell architecture was the first major tock over the highly ...
January 31, 2017 at 6:00 pm by Samuel Wan
In a few months time, AMD will finally be releasing their new Zen CPUs. Based off of a whole new architecture, the new design has been touted to offer over 40% IPC over their ...
November 13, 2016 at 11:00 am by Samuel Wan
Every now and then, a major bug pops up in PC hardware. Sometimes, these bugs aren’t too serious but they can have a large impact like AMD’s Phenom TLB bug. This ...
October 20, 2016 at 8:58 am by Samuel Wan
Today der8auer unveiled his newest device for overclocking, the Delid Die Guard. The device makes removing the lids of CPUs so easy that even my mother could do it. The ...
November 11, 2015 at 6:25 pm by Ryan Leiserowitz
While PC sales have been slower over the past few years, it looks like Intel had been planning for such an occurrence. According to market data, Intel withheld processor ...
September 25, 2015 at 9:04 am by Samuel Wan
Despite launching the i7 6700K and i5 6600K based off the Skylake μArch earlier this month, Intel has kept the wraps on the μArch till IDF [Intel Developer Forum] 2015 ...
August 19, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
While AMD has released some details about Zen at their Financial Analyst Day earlier this year, details have still been a bit scant. What we already know is that Zen will have ...
August 14, 2015 at 10:30 am by Samuel Wan
More Skylake details have leaked out ahead of its August launch and this time around, we’re being treated to what appears to be official Intel slides. Once again, it ...
July 24, 2015 at 9:24 am by Samuel Wan
The latest report on Intel’s roadmap shows an interesting turn of events. Intel is supposedly scrapping Cannon Lake, the 10nm chip series meant for 2017, in favour of ...
July 13, 2015 at 9:41 am by Samuel Wan
Another batch of Skylake benchmarks have leaked out a little under a month before the expected launch. This time we have the Intel i7-6700K on an ECS Z170-Claymore paired with ...
July 11, 2015 at 10:44 am by Samuel Wan
Computex 2015 – Thecus makes some amazing NAS units and we’ve also stopped by their booth at Computex to check out what news they might have in the bags. On ...
June 3, 2015 at 7:24 am by Bohs Hansen
