Gamers starting to abandon Intel for AMD
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 03 June 2020 11:59

Gamers starting to abandon Intel for AMD


Give me Steam

Number crunchers working for the Steam gaming platform have noticed that punters are slowly giving up the Intel chip based machines for something more AMDish.

AMD and Nvidia have little to fear from Intel's DG1
Published in Graphics


No great shakes after all

Intel's crack at a discrete GPU Xe DG1 graphics card has been spotted in a 3DMark benchmark and scored 5,538 in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test (paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor) and hit a graphics score of 5,960.

Intel notes PC back from the dead
Published in News
Wednesday, 27 May 2020 11:19

Intel notes PC back from the dead


2020 will be the year of Windows on the desktop

Intel's global vice president of client computing sales, Steve Long, is telling the world that he is optimistic about the future of the PC market.

Torvalds dumps Intel for AMD
Published in News
Monday, 25 May 2020 11:38

Torvalds dumps Intel for AMD


First time in 15 years

IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds took time out from his latest version of the Linux kernel to announce he had abandoned Intel after 15 years.

Intel Tiger Lake CPUs can run AAA games
Published in News


No discrete GPU required

The integrated graphics in the upcoming Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake-U processors could offer twice the performance of Ice Lake making AAA games possible without a dicrete GPU.

Reviews in for last gasp of Intel’s 14nm
Published in PC Hardware


Not bad on power but a bit overweight

Reviewers are getting their sticky paws on Chipzilla’s new Comet Lake-S and are saying nice things even if the chip is a little clunky.

Intel Announces 10th Gen Core vPros
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 14 May 2020 10:31

Intel Announces 10th Gen Core vPros


Brilliant when compared to a five year old desktop 

Chipzilla has released its new 10th Gen Intel Core vPro processors which it claims were "built to power the next generation of business computing innovation for the increasingly remote workforce".

Intel sets its AI onto brain tumours
Published in AI
Monday, 11 May 2020 10:43

Intel sets its AI onto brain tumours


AI uses federated learning

Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) are setting up a federation with 29 international healthcare and research institutions to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that identify brain tumours using a privacy-preserving technique called federated learning.

Intel 10900K overclocks to 5.4GHz
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 08 May 2020 09:53

Intel 10900K overclocks to 5.4GHz


Scores 3K in Cinebench R15

Last week intel introduced the10th generation Core S series desktop processors, and we expect to have them to be available shortly. Motherboards for the platform should be available on May 20th, and the CPU should not be that far beyond.

Comet Lake-S desktop CPU overclocks to 5.4 GHz
Published in PC Hardware


On all ten cores

Intel's recently announced Intel Core i9-10900K chip has been apparently overclocked to 5.4 GHz overclock on all of its 10 cores.