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...
Microsoft Lifts the Lid on Some Intel Skylake-EP Details via the Open Compute Project
As part of the European Digital Infrastructure Summit in London this week, Microsoft's Azure team will be lifting the lid on Project Olympus, the next generation hyperscale cloud hardware...
15 by Ian Cutress on 11/1/2016Desktop Kaby Lake-S i7/i5 Lineup and 200-Series Chipsets Leaked
Intel has already started to sell low-power dual-core Core i5/i7 Kaby Lake microprocessors for notebooks, but desktop parts with four cores and high frequencies are due in early 2017...
72 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 10/31/2016GIGABYTE BRIX Gaming UHD GB-BNi7HG4-950 mini-PC Review
The PC market has been subject to challenges over the last several years. However, gaming systems and small form-factor (SFF) PCs have weathered the storm particularly well. Many vendors...
53 by Ganesh T S on 10/28/2016The Clevo P870DM2 / Mythlogic Phobos 8716 Laptop Review: DTR With GTX 1080
Sometimes there is no substitute for performance. Most of the laptop market is focusing on thin and light designs, with companies attempting to outdo each other by shaving a...
61 by Brett Howse on 10/27/2016Microsoft Announces the Surface Studio: 28-inch AIO with Touch, Pen, 4500x3000, Skylake, GTX 980M
As part of the now annual Microsoft Surface event, Panos Panay announced the next member of the Surface family, the Surface Studio. The Studio is ultimately a prosumer all-in-one...
82 by Ian Cutress on 10/26/2016Intel Announces Atom E3900 Series - Goldmont for the Internet of Things & More
Kicking off a busy day for the Internet of Things market, Intel this morning is announcing the Atom E3900 series. Based upon the company’s latest generation Goldmont Atom CPU...
19 by Ryan Smith on 10/25/2016Intel Announces Q3 FY 2016 Earnings: Record Quarterly Revenue
Earlier this week, Intel announced their earnings for the third quarter of their 2016 fiscal year, and the company achieved new records across their business lines, resulting in a...
16 by Brett Howse on 10/20/2016Acer Begins Selling 9.98-mm Swift 7 Kaby Lake Laptop in the U.S.: Starts at $1100
This week Acer has started to sell its first Swift 7 notebook in the U.S. The black and gold Swift 7 laptop is based on Intel’s Kaby Lake-Y-series CPU...
43 by Anton Shilov on 10/19/2016The GIGABYTE X170-Extreme ECC Motherboard Review: For When Skylake Xeons need SLI and Thunderbolt 3
When we reviewed the GIGABYTE MW31-SP0, I stated at the time that due to the design of many of the Xeon focused motherboards, only two or three were actually...
31 by Ian Cutress on 10/17/2016HP Introduces HP ENVY 13 Laptops with Kaby Lake, USB-C, New Battery, $849
HP has introduced its new ENVY 13 premium laptops based on Intel’s Core i-series Kaby Lake processors. The notebooks resemble their predecessors featuring Skylake CPUs, but naturally offer all...
36 by Anton Shilov on 10/13/2016GIGABYTE Updates BRIX SFF PCs with Intel’s Kaby Lake CPUs
GIGABYTE has updated its BRIX family of small form-factor PCs with Intel’s latest Core processors featuring the optimized Kaby Lake microarchitecture. The new systems are promoted to offer better...
28 by Anton Shilov on 10/12/2016GIGABYTE GB-BSi7HAL-6500 Dual LAN Skylake BRIX Review
Ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) PCs have become quite popular after Intel introduced the NUCs. They have become powerful enough to be the primary computing platform for many households. However...
25 by Ganesh T S on 9/21/2016Dell Updates XPS 13 with Intel’s Kaby Lake, Killer Wi-Fi, Now Also in Rose Gold
Dell on Thursday upgraded its XPS 13 ultra-thin laptop with Intel’s recently introduced Kaby Lake-U processors. The new notebooks keep the chassis and display panel options, but sport faster...
67 by Anton Shilov on 9/15/2016Lenovo’s Yoga Book Convertible Scraps Physical Keyboard in Favor of Touch-Sensitive Surface
At IFA trade show in Berlin, Lenovo announced its latest addition to the Yoga product line, the Yoga Book convertible laptop that replaces physical keyboard with a large touchpad...
33 by Anton Shilov on 9/1/2016Intel Quietly Launches Apollo Lake SoC: Goldmont CPU, 6 SKUs, 6 & 10 Watts
Earlier this week was the formal unveiling of Kaby Lake, Intel’s 7th generation Core CPU architecture. And while Kaby Lake was the focus of Intel’s efforts for obvious reasons...
71 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2016Acer Predator 21 X: Notebook with Curved Display, Kaby Lake and GeForce GTX 1080 SLI
As part of the IFA event this week in Berlin, Acer is announcing its Predator 21 X, the industry’s first desktop replacement notebook with a curved display. The laptop...
29 by Anton Shilov on 8/31/2016Intel Announces 7th Gen Kaby Lake: 14nm PLUS, Six Notebook SKUs, Desktop coming in January
When Intel first announced the shift from the dual-stage ‘Tick-Tock’ methodology that had driven their core CPU design teams for over a decade into the three-way ‘Process, Architecture, Optimization&rsquo...
131 by Ganesh T S & Ian Cutress on 8/30/2016The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 37: IDF 2016, Alloy, Joule, Broxton, and AMD Zen
Today’s podcast covers the show known as the Intel Developer Forum, or IDF for short. IDF is an annual event focusing on new Intel technologies and product visions, showcasing...
13 by Ian Cutress on 8/30/2016Memory Frequency Scaling on Intel's Skull Canyon NUC - An Investigation
Overclocking has generally been the domain of enthusiasts with desktop rigs. However, increasing the CPU frequency beyond the official specification is not the only way to extract more performance...
31 by Ganesh T S on 8/29/2016Intel’s 140GB Optane 3D XPoint PCIe SSD Spotted at IDF
As part of this year’s Intel’s Developer Forum, we had half expected some more insights into the new series of 3D XPoint products that would be hitting the market...
66 by Ian Cutress on 8/26/2016