Updated: Intel's Honeycomb Reference Tablet: 8.9mm Thick, Medfield Inside
Paul Otellini showed this tablet off earlier today but we got a little more detail on it just moments ago. Intel has put together a 32nm Atom (Medfield) based...
13 by on 9/13/2011Intel's Unified Design: Core & Atom Now Under One Roof
Intel has had a bit of a reorg. The photo above depicts how Intel used to work. Core and Atom architecture development happened via independent design teams. Core was...
8 by on 9/13/2011Intel Oculus: Preparing Intel for Competition in Smartphones & Tablets
Intel has been quietly working on its plans for smartphones and tablets. This is a significant departure from the waves it was making just a couple of years ago...
4 by on 9/13/2011Sandy Bridge E: Live at IDF
Intel's upcoming 6-core, quad-channel high end Sandy Bridge E platform is due out in Q4 of this year. Intel has demos of the platform around IDF, many of which...
11 by on 9/13/2011Tons of Thunderbolt Peripherals at IDF
We've been asking for more Thunderbolt devices and it looks like we're seeing the first examples of that today at IDF. Check out the gallery below for a bunch...
10 by on 9/13/2011Meet the Ultrabooks: OEM and ODMs Show Off Designs at IDF
IDF is well underway and we've just gone through the Ultrabook section of the convention center. Everyone from Foxconn to Lenovo had Sandy Bridge based Ultrabook designs at the...
22 by on 9/13/2011Google: All Future Versions of Android Will be Optimized for Intel x86
Paul Otellini just showed off a Medfield based Android phone (running the "latest" version of Android) and immediately announced a development partnership with Google. Andy Rubin from Google just...
16 by on 9/13/2011Haswell Design Complete
Intel just announced, unsurprisingly, Haswell's design is complete and already in the testing phase. Update: We just confirmed that although Haswell is complete, the solar powered demo below wasn't...
1 by on 9/13/2011Haswell Will Enable 10 Days of Connected Standby Battery Life
Intel just announced that Haswell (due out in 2013) was designed to reduce connected standby power by 30% compared to Sandy Bridge. The Haswell platform as a whole will...
4 by on 9/13/2011Ivy Bridge Will Bring a 35W Quad-Core i7
Earlier this year Intel revealed its mobile Sandy Bridge lineup, including a slew of 45W quad-core Core i7 SKUs. Next year Ivy Bridge will expand the range to include...
17 by on 9/13/2011Meet the 2012 Thunderbolt Controllers: Cactus Ridge
Image Courtesy iFixit Thunderbolt has seen limited use this year - the standard has only been implemented by Apple and Sony, the rest of the PC market will have to...
16 by on 9/13/2011AMD Sets World Overclocking Record with 8.429GHz Bulldozer Processor
Before every major architecture launch from AMD or NVIDIA, the companies typically hold an editor's or tech day. These events usually last about a day (sometimes two) and involve...
43 by on 9/13/2011The Updated Tegra Roadmap: Kal-El+ in 2012, Wayne in Late 2012/Early 2013
Last week we confirmed NVIDIA would be introducing a Tegra SoC with integrated Icera baseband called Grey, but we got the timeframe down. Above you'll see the updated Tegra...
7 by on 9/12/2011Ivy Bridge Configurable TDP Detailed
At Computex Intel announced that Ivy Bridge would be its first processor to support a configurable TDP. Today all CPUs are rated at a single maximum TDP. Mainstream notebook...
26 by on 9/12/2011Samsung's Galaxy S 2: The Smoothest Scrolling Android Device Around
One aspect of differentiation between Android smartphones has always been how smoothly they scroll both in the OS and in the browser. Later versions of Android have addressed the...
13 by on 9/12/2011Ivy Bridge GPU Performance: Up to 60% Faster than SNB & Better QuickSync
This week Intel will begin sharing some of the first details of its Ivy Bridge processor (2012 Core i-series CPU) at the annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco...
35 by on 9/12/2011ARM's Mali-400 MP4 is the Fastest Smartphone GPU...for Now
Earlier this morning we published our long awaited review of the Samsung Galaxy S 2. In it we dedicated a few pages to investigating Samsung's own Exynos 4210 SoC...
30 by on 9/11/2011Samsung Galaxy S 2 (International) Review - The Best, Redefined
The road to our Galaxy S2 review has been a long one. The first time we saw the device was at Mobile World Congress, where it was initially announced...
133 by on 9/11/2011Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 6TB Review
While we await more Thunderbolt storage devices, Western Digital grabbed headlines not too long ago for the announcement of its 6TB My Book Studio Edition II Mac-ready external drive...
34 by on 9/10/2011Seagate's GoFlex Desk 4TB External HDD Review
I'm off to IDF this week while Ryan and Brian cover Microsoft's BUILD conference, so expect lots of CPU and Windows 8 news in the coming days. Just before...
34 by on 9/10/2011