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One of the perks of modern mobile CPUs is that, being designed for laptops and their very limited cooling capacity, they can be placed in a NUC-sized (or smaller) miniature desktop PC with little difficulty. Better still, with desktops providing room for proper heatsinks (i.e. fins), even passively cooled mini-PCs using laptop-grade silicon are more than viable. The only real drawback to these mini-PCs has largely been the niche nature of the market – leading to high prices and limited choices for higher-performing systems – which is why Topgro has been turning heads as of late with the release of their aggressively priced Intel 12th Gen Core-based K3 Mini PC. Topgro is not a household name, but it sells a collection of compact desktop PCs...
Intel's Aurora Supercomputer Now Expected to Exceed 2 ExaFLOPS Performance
As part of Intel’s 2021 Innovation event, the company offered a brief update on the Aurora supercomputer, which Intel is building for Argonne National Laboratory. The first of the...
14 by Ryan Smith on 10/27/2021Intel 12th Gen Core Alder Lake for Desktops: Top SKUs Only, Coming November 4th
Over the past few months, Intel has been drip-feeding information about its next-generation processor family. Alder Lake, commercially known as Intel’s 12th Generation Core architecture, is officially being announced...
395 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/27/2021Intel Reports Q3 2021 Earnings: Client Down, Data Center and IoT Up
Kicking off another earnings season, Intel is once again leading the pack of semiconductor companies in reporting their earnings for the most recent quarter. As the company gets ready...
32 by Ryan Smith on 10/21/2021Intel Reaffirms: Our Discrete GPUs Will Be On Shelves in Q1 2022
Today is when Intel does its third-quarter 2021 financial disclosures, and there’s one little tidbit in the earnings presentation about its upcoming new discrete GPU offerings. The earnings are...
75 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/21/2021The EVGA Z590 Dark Motherboard Review: For Extreme Enthusiasts
Getting the most out of Intel's Core i9-11900K primarily relies on two main factors: premium cooling for the chip itself, and a solid motherboard acting as the foundation. And...
28 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/15/2021An Interview with Intel Lab’s Mike Davies: The Next Generation of Neuromorphic Research
As part of the launch of the new Loihi 2 chip, built on a pre-production version of Intel’s 4 process node, the Intel Labs team behind its Neuromorphic efforts...
17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/30/2021Huawei MateBook X Pro (2021) Review: A Sleek and Vibrant Notebook
As a laptop vendor, Huawei is entering its fourth year. Relying on x86 silicon and a GPU here and there, one thing Huawei does well is the quality of...
84 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/28/2021Plugable TBT4-HUB3C Thunderbolt 4 Hub Capsule Review
Plugable is introducing its Thunderbolt 4 product lineup today, with the TBT4-HUB3C Thunderbolt 4 Hub leading the pack. Joining it are two Thunderbolt 4 cables - the 2m. long...
21 by Ganesh T S on 9/23/2021The OnLogic Helix HX500 Review: A Rugged Fanless 35W mini-PC
The emergence of edge computing as a paradigm has expanded the market for industrial PCs over the last few years. Traditionally an 'industrial PC' was built with a focus...
32 by Ganesh T S on 9/17/2021The ASRock Z590 OC Formula Review: An Iconic Brand Revival
Whether overclocking the CPU is your cup of morning tea/coffee/something stronger or not, there are specific motherboards built by professional overclockers and engineers designed to squeeze out as much...
24 by Gavin Bonshor on 9/10/2021The MSI GE76 Raider Review: Tiger Lake Plus Ampere Equals Framerate
Let us pretend we are desktop people, thinking about building a new system. What would we look for? If we are after a gaming system, clearly we need a...
33 by Brett Howse on 9/8/2021Multi-chip Intel Core i9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cooling
Back in March, Intel unveiled its 11th generation of desktop processors codenamed Rocket Lake. In its lineup, the flagship desktop chip is the Core i9-11900K, with eight cores, sixteen...
55 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/30/2021ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-1165G7 Mini-PC Review: An Ultra-Compact Tiger Lake Desktop
Intel introduced the Willow Cove micro-architecture with their Tiger Lake processors in the latter part of 2020. These were designed to span a wide range of performance levels and...
33 by Ganesh T S on 8/26/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: Graphics (Intel, AMD, Google, Xilinx)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/24/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: DPU + IPUs (Arm, NVIDIA, Intel)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: CPUs (Alder Lake, Zen3, IBM Z, Sapphire Rapids)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
39 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021Intel Foundry Services Drafted By US Department of Defense For Next-Gen Fab Needs
Over the last couple of years, a great deal of concern has developed around the future of semiconductor manufacturing, both with respect to total capacity and where the next...
19 by Ryan Smith on 8/23/2021Intel Architecture Day 2021: Intel Unveils XeSS Image Upscaling Technology
Alongside a sneak peek at their forthcoming Xe-HPG architecture, the other big reveal today from Intel’s consumer graphics group comes from the software side of the business. Along with...
45 by Ryan Smith on 8/19/2021Intel Architecture Day 2021: Alder Lake, Golden Cove, and Gracemont Detailed
This week Intel held its annual Architecture Day event for select press and partners. As with previous iterations, the company disclosed details about its next generation architectures set to...
223 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 8/19/2021Intel Architecture Day 2021: A Sneak Peek At The Xe-HPG GPU Architecture
For Intel’s 2021 Architecture Day presentations, the yin to the CPU company’s traditional yang is GPUs. Intel has spent the last few years preparing to enter the market for...
72 by Ryan Smith on 8/19/2021