Intel has got the thumbs up for their next chip plant in Co Kildare in Ireland. The new building which is said to cost Intel around €2.9($4) billion dollars will create up to 4,300 jobs with 3,500 being construction over a 2-year build and 800 being full time employees once finished. Intel are getting ready […]
Intel set to shutdown Motherboard business within three years
Intel has announced plans to discontinue their motherboard division over the next three years. This move while silently unexpected won’t affect Intel’s business as a whole. Their upcoming Haswell architecture will still see motherboard development and support, however afterwards all operations will be suspended. Any employees in that division will be transitioned in the next three years into other divisions. Intel […]
Intel posts Q2 revenue reports, reaches $13.5 billion with $2.8 billion in profit
Intel have had a great Q2 and have posted their results which sees a nice $13.5 billion in revenue which is up from the $12.9 billion of last quarter. This is also a nice 5% increase over last year of the same period. The $13.5 billion in revenue sees a nice $2.8 billion is net […]
Foxconn nano fanless PCs get a price tag and release date.
Foxconn have released the details of their upcoming fanless nano PC. The tiny computer will see release sometime in September this year. There will be two models available, we have the At-5600 and the AT-5250. The former will using AMDs upcoming AMD Brazos E450 processor and a Radeon HD 6320. The 5250 model will use an […]
Microsoft announces Windows 8 Surface tablet
Microsoft have just announced their own Windows 8 tablet which is be dubbed Surface, much like their already tablet tables. This is going to be the tablet to mark to entry of Windows 8 in to the touch realm and sure Windows has been on touch friendly before, but never touch driven. Microsoft are releasing […]
Review: Intel DZ77GA-70K and Intel Core i7-3770k
It’s time for another review and thanks to Intel we have the lovely Intel DZ77GA-70K motherboard and Intel i7-3770k processor to play around with and check out it’s performance. So let’s not mess around here and dive right into the specs of each piece of hardware. Intel DZ77GA-70K Motherboard Memory Four 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory […]
Intel R&D roadmap shows a 14nm in development in 2013
The Intel roadmap is famous for giving us an insight into what the future holds in terms of which sized nanometer will be used. We can see the future is bright with 14nm and then moving on towards 10nm and then 7nm and of course 5nm. now while this is suspect to the fact that Intel are […]
Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially launched
Intel have officially launched there new Ivy Bridge line of processors and with them comes the 22nm goodness that is the Ivy Bridge architecture. The difference between Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge is the 20 percent increase in performance while also having a 20 percent decrease in power usage. The new chips are built using […]
Ivy Bridge Chipset info detailed, brings native USB 3.0
The upcoming set of CPU’s from Intel will be launching soon and with them a new chipset. The latest info shows of the newest chipset which is dubbed z77 will bring with it some new features. The one feature that was always known was that of backward compatibility with Sandy Bridge processors. The latest features with the Z77 chipset bring native USB 3.0, […]
Review: Socket 2011 Intel Core i7 3960x, Intel x79 Chipset
Intel have released their newest titan, that is the i7 socket 2011 3960x. While the processor has been out for some months now. It’s time to review it and see exactly what performance the newest tick offers over normal sandy-bridge processors. The problem being that there doesn’t seem to be much of a difference over […]