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...
The Intel SSD 545s (512GB) Review: 64-Layer 3D TLC NAND Hits Retail
64-layer 3D NAND has arrived with Intel as the first to market. The new Intel SSD 545s is a mainstream consumer SATA SSD that greatly improves on last year's...
74 by Billy Tallis on 6/27/2017Lenovo Unveils ThinkStation P320 Tiny SFF Workstation
Lenovo has unveiled a new ThinkStation model, the P320 Tiny, based on a Kaby Lake / Q270 platform with NVIDIA's Quadro P600 GPU. The unique aspect is the dimensions...
26 by Ganesh T S on 6/20/2017The Intel Skylake-X Review: Core i9 7900X, i7 7820X and i7 7800X Tested
Building a PC is an experience worth having. Finding out what works with what and putting it all together is an experience, and the first time always gives a...
264 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2017PathForward: US Dept. of Energy Awards $258M in Research Contracts To Develop Exascale Supercomputer Technology
Even though the major US national laboratories are just now starting to take delivery of the supercomputers they ordered a few years back, due to the long and complex...
22 by Ryan Smith on 6/15/2017Intel Announces X299, Skylake-X, and Kaby Lake-X Release Schedule: Pre-Orders June 19th, Availability June 26th
At Computex a couple of weeks ago, Intel announced its new Basin Falls platform, consisting of the X299 chipset with motherboards based on it, a pair of Kaby Lake-X...
68 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2017Intel Announces SSD DC P4501 Low-Power NVMe SSD With 3D NAND
A month ago, Intel unveiled a new generation of enterprise SSDs based on their 3D TLC NAND and powered by a new generation of Intel NVMe SSD controllers. Intel's...
17 by Billy Tallis on 6/5/2017Intel's Credit-Card Sized Compute Card Detailed, Shipping in August
Intel unveiled its credit card-sized Compute Card at CES earlier this year, and now at Computex, the company has brought us up to speed on the available SKUs and...
37 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2017Mighty Mini-ITX: ASRock X299E-ITX/ac with 4 Channel DDR4 and 3xM.2 Support
ASRock has announced one of the industry’s first Mini-ITX motherboards for Intel’s latest Core X processors in the LGA2066 packaging. The new X299E-ITX/ac is small, but it takes full...
26 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2017GIGABYTE Launches Aorus X299 Motherboards: X299-Gaming 3, Gaming 7 and Gaming 9
In the wake of Intel's announcement of their upcoming Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors, GIGABYTE has unveiled their lineup of X299 LGA2066 motherboards. Given the fact that this is...
6 by Patrick MacMillan on 5/31/2017HTC & Intel Partner on WiGig Wireless for Vive VR Headset
HTC's doing a little Spring cleaning, and it's starting with all the wires protruding from its headsets. The company announced today at Computex 2017 that it has partnered with...
9 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2017ASUS Unveils Seven X299 Motherboards: Prime, TUF and ROG
Now that details about Intel's upcoming Skylake-X LGA2066 processors have been officially announced, we can finally reveal some of the new motherboards that ASUS has designed for this new...
11 by Patrick MacMillan on 5/30/2017Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers for $1999
There are days in this profession in which I am surprised. The longer I stay in the technology industry, they become further and further apart. There are several reasons...
203 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2017Intel Announces Kaby Lake-X Processors: High-End Desktop Getting the Latest Microarchitecture
Anyone following the high-end desktop space lately will have realized that we’ve recently been tripping up over information on upcoming platforms. Intel’s successor to Broadwell-E has been expected for...
54 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 5/30/2017Intel Announces Basin Falls: The New High-End Desktop Platform and X299 Chipset
Discussion about the High-End Desktop Space this year has been unparalleled. When an age-old competitor re-entered the field, it provided new life into a somewhat dormant platform: how to...
38 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2017Intel Computex 2017 Press Conference Live Blog
We are live from Intel's press conference at Computex. Intel is covering everything from massive generation of data to new PC form-factors like Compute Cards.
12 by AnandTech Live Blog Staff on 5/30/2017Dell Launches 'VR Ready' XPS 27 AIO: 4K, Core i7-7700, Radeon RX 570, 10 Speakers
Dell has launched a new version of their XPS 27 all-in-one gaming PC. The VR Ready flavor of the XPS 27 has the same 4K display and the same...
29 by Anton Shilov on 5/27/2017TechInsights Publishes Preliminary Analysis of 3D XPoint Memory
Now that the Intel Optane Memory M.2 SSDs are readily available on the open market, anyone with an electron microscope and the skills to use it can begin to...
22 by Billy Tallis on 5/27/2017Huawei Launching Two New Clamshell Laptops: The MateBook X and the MateBook D
On the back of the launch of the MateBook last year, Huawei is launching a new generation using the latest hardware and diversifying the brand. As an upgrade...
23 by Ian Cutress on 5/23/2017Intel’s Itanium Takes One Last Breath: Itanium 9700 Series CPUs Released
One of Intel’s ventures into the historic mainframe space was Itanium: a 64-bit capable processor designed in conjunction with Hewlett Packard. The main reason for Itanium was to run...
50 by Ian Cutress on 5/11/2017ECS Quietly Adds PB01CF Ultra Compact PC to Lineup: a 5 Oz Apollo Lake Desktop
ECS has quietly added a new small x86 desktop computer into its lineup. The ECS PB01CF ultra-compact PC is powered by Intel’s Apollo Lake platform and uses an enclosure...
39 by Anton Shilov on 5/5/2017