Intel
Intel's Meteor Lake series of processors was launched in September 2023 with a focus on mobile platforms. Multiple mini-PC vendors have utilized these processors to market offerings in the SFF / UCFF desktop market. ACEMAGIC is an Asian manufacturer with products in multiple categories including micro-PCs, UCFF (ultra-compact form-factor) and SFF (small form-factor) PCs, and notebooks. They were one of the first to market with Meteor Lake-based desktop systems. The ACEMAGIC F2A 125H is the entry-level version of the F2A line, equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor. It is a bit larger than the traditional NUCs, slotting it in the SFF category. However, that allows for the processor to be operated at 65W (compared to the 28 - 40W adopted in the...
EKWB Launches EK Fluid Gaming A240R Kit: Full-Cover Vega GPU Cooling & Supremacy AX CPU Block
EKWB is launching a new liquid cooling kit designed to support AMD Radeon RX Vega based video cards, which the company is dubbing the EK Fluid Gaming A240R kit...
5 by Joe Shields on 12/7/2017Shots Fired as Qualcomm Bets on Always Connected Devices with Long Battery Life: Intel Responds
At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology Summit today, the majority of the keynote was aimed squarely at how a new product segment of ‘Always Connected PCs’ with all-day battery life...
47 by Ian Cutress on 12/5/2017Intel’s Diane Bryant Retires, Joins Google Cloud as COO
After 32 years with Intel, Diane Bryant, who served as the head of Intel's Data Center Group from 2012 to mid-2017, decided to retire from the company. Ms. Bryant...
19 by Anton Shilov on 12/4/2017The ASRock X299E-ITX/ac Motherboard Review: An 18-core No-Compromise Mini-ITX
Our next X299 motherboard review shrinks down from the large ATX and E-ATX sized motherboards to the sole Mini-ITX offering for the X299 platform. The ASRock X299E-ITX/ac is a...
24 by Joe Shields on 12/4/2017MSI Infinite X Desktop US Launch: Core i7-8700K, GTX 1070 & More
MSI has started to sell its latest Infinite X desktops in the US. The new systems are based on Intel’s six-core Core i7 (Coffee Lake) processors, as well as...
7 by Anton Shilov on 11/30/2017Intel to Update Xeon D in Early 2018, with Skylake-SP Cores
One of the interesting sub-announcements to come out of Intel’s EPYC benchmark numbers was a slide on the ‘momentum’ of Intel’s new Xeon Scalable Platform using Skylake-SP cores. Alongside...
8 by Ian Cutress on 11/29/2017Intel Xeon E3-1200 v7 Will Become Xeon Entry (Xeon E), Possible Intel with Radeon Graphics Launch
The last 12 months have seen an upheaval of Intel’s enterprise processor naming scheme, with a distinct mix of positive and negative responses. In previous years, Intel followed a...
8 by Ian Cutress on 11/28/2017Dissecting Intel's EPYC Benchmarks: Performance Through the Lens of Competitive Analysis
Although the AMD EPYC is definitely a worthy contender in the server space, AMD's technical marketing of the new CPU has been surprisingly absent, as the company not published...
105 by Johan De Gelas & Ian Cutress on 11/28/2017Intel 8th Generation and 9th Generation Processor Lists Leaked: Coffee Lake Refresh?
Officially, Intel does not comment on unreleased products, which often has the knock-on effect that processors aren’t actually known about until the day they appear on shelves. In order...
87 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2017Intel to Remove Legacy BIOS Support from UEFI by 2020
The PC Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) will turn 39 in three years, and as it turns out, this is when it is going to die on 64-bit Intel platforms...
23 by Anton Shilov on 11/22/2017Intel Announces XMM 8060 5G & XMM 7660 Category 19 LTE Modems, Both Due in 2019
Intel last week announced that its first commercial 5G modem, the XMM 8060, is now under development and will ship in a couple of years. As part of the...
41 by Anton Shilov on 11/20/2017Intel to Use Additional Assembly & Test Factory to Improve Supply of Coffee Lake CPUs
In a mildly interesting bit of news for a Friday, Intel has notified its customers that it will use an additional assembly and test facility in a bid to...
32 by Anton Shilov on 11/17/2017PNY Ships PREVAILPRO Mobile Workstations: NVIDIA Quadro with Max-Q, Core i7, Starting at $2,499
PNY recently started to ship its previously announced mobile workstations. The new PREVAILPRO machines are among the first portable workstations to use NVIDIA’s Max-Q design for Quadro GPUs to...
8 by Anton Shilov on 11/15/2017Intel To Launch 3D XPoint DIMMs in 2H 2018
Presenting at the UBS Global Technology Conference today, Navin Shenoy, Intel Executive Vice President and General Manager of their Data Center Group, shared an update on Intel's roadmap for...
61 by Billy Tallis on 11/14/2017ECS Adds LIVA Q to Lineup: a 5 Oz Apollo Lake Nettop with HDMI 2.0 for Consumers
ECS has expanded its family of ultra-compact LIVA-branded PCs for consumers with a new model called the LIVA Q, which is smaller than some mice. The new system is...
8 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2017The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 42: Intel with Radeon Graphics
Every so often, the technology industry goes crazy. To get three events along those lines in the same week just blows the mind. On this podcast, Ian and Ryan...
11 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2017Intel Releases Graphics Drivers for Windows 15.60: HDR10 and Windows Mixed Reality
In light of the recent feature-filled Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, this week Intel has released their Graphics Driver 15.60, bringing HDR10 and Windows Mixed Reality support to a...
17 by Nate Oh on 11/10/2017Colorful Announces a Bay Trail Mining Motherboard with 8+1 PCIe Slots
This week Colorful has introduced a uniquely designed motherboard, created specifically for the professional miner. One of the first things most will notice is this doesn’t look like most...
31 by Joe Shields on 11/10/2017Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X 750GB Hands-On Review
Intel's rollout of Optane products, based on 3D XPoint memory, continues. Today is the release of the 750GB Optane SSD DC P4800X, a larger capacity version of the model...
58 by Billy Tallis on 11/9/2017ASRock Releases X299 Taichi XE and X299 Gaming i9 XE: Big Boy Heatsinks
This week ASRock has released “XE” editions of two of its popular X299 motherboards: the X299 Taichi XE and the flagship X299 Professional Gaming i9 XE. Buy ASRock X299...
8 by Joe Shields on 11/9/2017