CPUs
Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcomm’s down-market ‘S’ tier Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family – and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America. With three tiers of Snapdragon 7 chips, the 7s can easily be lost in the noise that comes with more powerful chips. But the latest iteration of the 7s is a bit more interesting than usual, as rather than reusing an existing die, Qualcomm has seemingly minted a whole new die for this part. As a result, the company has upgraded the 7s family to use Arm’s current Armv9 CPU cores...
Intel Core i7 3820 Review: $285 Quad-Core Sandy Bridge E
If you are a normal desktop user or even a power user with plans to run at over 4GHz, the vanilla LGA-1155 Sandy Bridge platform is good enough. You...
84 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/29/2011
Intel's Atom N2600, N2800 & D2700: Cedar Trail, The Heart of the 2012 Netbook
Netbooks aren't dead, but they're not quite the hip topic of discussion they were a few years ago. The focus on cost conscious computing hasn't changed since the introduction...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/28/2011
Sandy Bridge E & X79 PCIe 3.0: It Works
At the launch of Intel's LGA-2011 based Sandy Bridge E CPU we finally had a platform capable of supporting PCI Express 3.0, but we lacked GPUs to test it...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/22/2011
Intel Shows Off Competitive Medfield x86 Android Power & Performance
You may have seen some Medfield related news today - I thought I'd chime in with some of my thoughts on the topic. As a recap, in 2008 Intel...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/21/2011
AMD Intros New Unlocked K-Series Llano APUs: A8-3870K & A8-3670K
When we first reviewed Llano we thought it was a fairly competent desktop part if you needed a solution that didn't rely on discrete graphics. My biggest issue with...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/20/2011
Microsoft Releases Hotfix to Improve Bulldozer Performance UPDATE: Pulled
The launch of Bulldozer in October wasn't exactly a success for AMD. In our review, Anand ended up recommending the Intel i5-2500K over AMD FX-8150. One of the reasons...
76 by Kristian Vättö on 12/16/2011
The New Intel Mobile Division
Intel's haphazard ultra mobile strategy is finally getting some much needed consolidation. We got the first hints of this at IDF where Intel announced a restructuring that would combine...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/14/2011
In Search of the Elusive 35W Ivy Bridge Quad-Core
Prior to this year's IDF, Intel told its partners that Ivy Bridge would be available in a quad-core mobile variant with a 35W TDP. This was particularly exciting news...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/13/2011
Hard Drive Shortage Hits Intel: Q4'11 Earning Estimates Revised Down By $1B
It has been expected for some time now that the fallout from Thailand’s well publicized flooding and resulting hard drive shortage would have wider ramifications than just impacting the...
26 by Ryan Smith on 12/12/2011
Intel Discontinuing Some Clarkdale, Lynnfield, and Sandy Bridge Desktop CPUs
Intel has announced via several Product Change Notifications that it will be discontinuing a total of 19 Clarkdale, Lynnfield, and Sandy Bridge desktop CPUs across sockets 1366, 1156, and...
13 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/9/2011
AMD Releases New Llano Mobile CPUs
AMD is refreshing its mobile CPU lineup with seven new A4, A6, and A8 Llano processors for socket FS1. With one exception, these dual- and quad-core processors give a...
12 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/8/2011
Ivy Bridge Mobile Lineup Overview
It sure didn't take long. Last week, Intel's roadmaps about desktop Ivy Bridge processors were leaked and we posted our Ivy Bridge Desktop Lineup Overview on Saturday. The initial...
39 by Kristian Vättö on 12/7/2011
Why Ivy Bridge Is Still Quad-Core
A couple days ago, we published our Ivy Bridge Desktop Lineup Overview in which we mentioned that Ivy Bridge will remain a quad-core solution. There are dozens of forum...
82 by Kristian Vättö on 12/5/2011
Ivy Bridge Desktop Lineup Overview
It's that time of the year. Once again, Intel's roadmaps have been leaked and we get to see what Intel has in store for us in 2012. I find...
99 by Kristian Vättö on 12/3/2011
AMD Revises Bulldozer Transistor Count: 1.2B, not 2B
This is a bit unusual. I got an email from AMD PR this week asking me to correct the Bulldozer transistor count in our Sandy Bridge E review...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/2/2011
Bulldozer for Servers: Testing AMD's "Interlagos" Opteron 6200 Series
Last month, AMD launched their Bulldozer architecture on desktops, and the result was rather underwhelming; however, there are plenty of indications that Bulldozer simply wasn't architected to excel at...
113 by Johan De Gelas on 11/15/2011
AMD Introduces New Socket FM1 Athlon, Price Changes
In addition to its new Opteron chips, AMD yesterday announced a few small changes to its processor line-up, including adjusted prices for several of its Llano-based APUs (and one...
35 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/15/2011
Applied Micro's X-Gene: The First ARMv8 SoC
We covered the X-Gene announcement a couple of weeks ago when the news was first made public. I was in London at the time meeting with Nokia so I...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/14/2011
AMD Releases Opteron 4200 "Valencia" and 6200 "Interlagos" Series
AMD launched Bulldozer about a month ago, but the initial CPUs were only for desktops. As a follow up, AMD has today released the server variants of Bulldozer. There...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 11/14/2011
Intel Core i7 3960X (Sandy Bridge E) Review: Keeping the High End Alive
If you look carefully enough, you may notice that things are changing. It first became apparent shortly after the release of Nehalem. Intel bifurcated the performance desktop space by...
188 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/14/2011
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