Chip magic: Exciting new developments in semiconductors
A digital revival that many thought would never come
Intel bets on self-driving cars: acquires MobilEye for $15.3 billion
All in on autonomous driving technology
Ryzen arrives this week, so Intel is cutting prices across the board
Let the CPU price wars begin (once again)!
Intel Core i3-7350K vs. Core i5-7400: More GHz or More Cores?
With a current retail price of $180, the Core i3 7350K is an expensive dual-core processor and for $20 more you can land the quad-core Core i5-7400. Given their similar prices, quite a few of you have asked which is the better buy between the two, so let's find out.
Intel's future technologies will arrive in server chips before PC CPUs
Data centers are bigger money makers for Intel
Intel's 8th-gen Core CPUs will again be 14nm
Although ultra-low-power SKUs may move to 10nm
Intel Pentium G4560: Kaby Lake's Real Gift
Set at 3.5GHz, the Pentium G4560 is poised to be the bargain CPU of 2017. It's only 200MHz slower than the much loved Core i3-6100, amazing news for budget shoppers who had their eye on something like the i3-6100 because the G4560 has been stamped with an MSRP of only $64.
Apple reportedly working on new ARM chip for its MacBooks to improve the laptops' battery life
The first steps toward independence from Intel?
Asrock Z270 Extreme4 & Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K6 Review
Kick starting 2017, Intel's Kaby Lake processors made some minor performance improvements to Skylake through what might as well be described as factory overclocking. Making the release more exciting, board partners including Asrock launched alongside some drool-inducing Z270 motherboards. Two of which we are reviewing today.
Intel releases last Haswell IGP drivers for Windows 7 and 8
Intel has released what will be their last set of integrated graphics drivers (IGP) for Haswell-class processors on Windows 7 and 8.1. This includes Haswell Core, Pentium, and Celeron CPUs launched between late 2013 and early 2015. Windows 10 support will continue. This new version adds support for 3rd-party EDID utilities, meant for advanced users only. For average users there are a number of bug fixes. Enter here for more details and download links.
A Decade Later: Does the Q6600 Still Have Game in 2017?
Released about 10 years ago, we thought it would be interesting to see how the Core 2 Quad Q6600 holds up in 2017 while playing today's games on modern GPUs. In other words, what would happen if you paired a trusty old PC with a GeForce GTX 1060 or GTX 1070.
BMW, Intel and Mobileye to begin self-driving car tests on public roads later this year
Fully autonomous 'iNext' coming 2021
Dell puts Kaby and GTX 1050s in new Alienware and Inspiron laptops
Same models, new CPUs and GPUs
Core i7-7700K & Core i5-7600K Review: Kaby Lake is boring on the desktop
Fast forward to today and we have the official introduction of Intel's 7th-generation desktop processor series. Codenamed 'Kaby Lake', the architecture is said to deliver new levels of performance courtesy of the company's latest 14nm+ process. Well, let's find out.
Kaby Lake comes to the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 line
Expect better battery life, Thunderbolt 3, and improved wireless connectivity too
Asrock Beebox-S 7200U: Kaby Lake vs. Skylake
I've been using the Asrock Beebox as my day to day HTPC for a few months and it's been doing a fantastic job, so I didn't expect it to be replaced so soon. Nonetheless, Asrock has sent an updated Beebox-S model sporting Intel's new 7th-generation processor based on the Kaby Lake-U architecture.
