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...
Intel Foundry Services Readies Intel 16 Process: Low Power FinFET For Everyday Chips
Intel Foundry Services (IFS) this week soft-launched their new Intel 16 process technology, a 16nm-class node that will be used for the production of low-power chips for everyday workloads...
3 by Anton Shilov on 7/14/2023ASRock Announces Taichi Lite Motherboards: Same Specs, Less RGB
Last month at Computex, ASRock unveiled two new Taichi-inspired motherboards based on a 'lite' approach to aesthetics and design, which they called Taichi Lite. Today, ASRock has officially announced...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/13/2023Intel Set to Exit NUC PC Business - Pushes Partners to Develop More SFF PCs
Intel has disclosed today that it will halt further development of its small form factor Next Unit of Compute (NUC) PCs. The tech giant expects its partners to take...
39 by Anton Shilov on 7/11/2023ASRock Goes Low-Profile with New Arc A380 Graphics Card
As Intel's slate of video card board partners has expanded over the last year, so has the variety in the ecosystem, as the newly minted partners set out to...
18 by Anton Shilov on 7/5/2023The Aurora Supercomputer Is Installed: 2 ExaFLOPS, Tens of Thousands of CPUs and GPUs
Argonne National Laboratory and Intel said on Thursday that they had installed all 10,624 blades for the Aurora supercomputer, a machine announced back in 2015 with a particularly bumpy...
39 by Anton Shilov on 6/22/2023Intel Discontinues Arc A770 Limited Edition Graphics Card
In a rather unexpected move, Intel this week discontinued its Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card, which was its flagship discrete graphics offering for desktops. Intel's partners will continue...
11 by Anton Shilov on 6/22/2023Intel Sells a 20% Stake in Maker of Multi E-Beam Mask Writing Tools
Intel on Wednesday announced that it had agreed to sell a 20% stake in IMS Nanofabrication, a company the develops and builds multi e-beam photomask writing tools, for $860...
1 by Anton Shilov on 6/22/2023Intel to Spend Tens of Billions on New Fabs in Germany and Israel
Intel is spending tens of billions of dollars on new fabs in Arizona and Oregon, but the company's ambitions certainly do not end in the U.S. This month the...
28 by Anton Shilov on 6/21/2023Intel To Launch New Core Processor Branding for Meteor Lake: Drop the i, Add Ultra Tier
As first reported on back in late April, Intel is embarking on a journey to redefine its client processor branding, the biggest such shift in the previous 15 years...
45 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/15/2023Intel Prevails in Ongoing Legal Fight Against VLSI With Appeal Board Victory
In the ongoing legal battle between Intel and VLSI that started years ago and with billions at stake, Intel seems to be prevailing. The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal...
8 by Anton Shilov on 6/15/2023Intel Expands ProViz Offerings with Arc Pro A60, Arc Pro A60M Graphics Cards
Intel this week introduced its highest performing products aimed at professional visualization market: the Arc Pro A60 12 GB graphics card for desktops as well as the Arc Pro...
8 by Anton Shilov on 6/7/2023Intel Details PowerVia Chipmaking Tech: Backside Power Performing Well, On Schedule For 2024
At next week’s annual VLSI Symposium, Intel will be presenting a pair of highly-anticipated papers about their progress with their upcoming PowerVia chip fabrication technology – the company’s in-development...
31 by Ryan Smith on 6/5/2023ASRock Unveils Z790 and B650E Taichi Lite Motherboards: Taichi Goes Lite
At Computex 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan, ASRock unveiled two motherboards based on its popular and long-running Taichi series, but with a slight twist. Designed to offer an alternative to...
6 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/2/2023Biostar Joins Intel Arc Camp, Preps Arc Video Cards
Without much fanfare, Biostar has introduced its first graphics card based on Intel Arc graphics processors. The add-in-board is aimed at entry-level gaming PCs, and is admittedly not very...
2 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2023ASRock Showcases Two New Intel Z790 Motherboards With Wi-Fi 7 at Computex 2023
With the Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be) train set to roll into the mainstream later this year, ASRock looks to be getting ahead of the curve with two new Z790...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/1/2023Intel Discloses New Details On Meteor Lake VPU Block, Lays Out Vision For Client AI
While the first systems based on Intel’s forthcoming Meteor Lake (14th Gen Core) systems are still at least a few months out – and thus just a bit too...
17 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2023Intel HPC Updates For ISC 2023: Aurora Nearly Done, More Falcon Shores, and the Future of XPUs
With the annual ISC High Performance supercomputing conference kicking off this week, Intel is one of several vendors making announcements timed with the show. As the crown jewels of...
15 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2023Topgro's $499 Fanless PC Packs Core i7-1255U 'Alder Lake' CPU
One of the perks of modern mobile CPUs is that, being designed for laptops and their very limited cooling capacity, they can be placed in a NUC-sized (or smaller...
10 by Anton Shilov on 5/5/2023Supermicro Lists Intel Data Center GPU Max 'Ponte Vecchio' Based Machines
Supermicro this week began to list the industry's first commercial servers based on Intel's Data Center GPU Max 'Ponte Vecchio' compute GPUs. The machines use Ponte Vecchio in add-in-board...
1 by Anton Shilov on 5/4/2023Intel PR Confirms Chip Branding Changes in the Works: Core i Series to Give Way to Ultra?
In an unusual move, Intel's director of global communications, Bernard Fernandes, took to Twitter this morning to confirm that the chip giant is preparing some chip branding change for...
35 by Ryan Smith on 5/1/2023