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With all the premature appearances at online retailers, AMD's upcoming six-core Phenom IIs are all but a secret now. ASRock thought this was as...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards

Intel's dominance with the Nehalem Core i7s has been nearly complete, yet a replacement will soon arrive in the form of Gulftown, a six-core monster...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

TR was on location this morning at Nvidia's CES press conference, where the company introduced its next-generation Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip (SoC). Tegra 2 takes after...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Personal tech

Having built up a reputation for Mini-ITX Atom motherboards, Zotac wasn't about to shy away from Intel's new Pine Trail platform. And it hasn't....

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards

Arrandale is Intel's first mainstream notebook CPU based on the Nehalem microarchitecture, and it shares the same potent silicon as the new Clarksfield desktop CPUs....

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

Intel's Nehalem microarchitecture has gone entirely mainstream with the arrival of the dual-core processors code-named Clarkdale. This release also marks two major milestones: the...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Chipsets

Intel didn't intend for its Atom CPU to revolutionize the ultraportable notebook market, but it happened anyway. Today, the next-gen "Pine Trail" Atom platform debuts...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Chipsets Mobile computing

Well, it's official: Intel will launch its first 32-nm processors for desktops and laptops on January 7, the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show....

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Nehalem has finally arrived for notebooks in the form of Clarksdale Core i7 mobile processors that are virtually identical to their Lynnfield desktop counterparts.

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

Intel has made no secret of the fact that, soon, its Nehalem architecture will reach notebooks in the form of quad-core Clarksfield processors. We...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

These new Core i5 and i7 processors promise to enable systems that are faster, cheaper, quieter, smaller, and more energy efficient than prior desktop PCs....

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

AMD and Intel have deluged us with new CPUs. The result? An enormous roundup of 26 different types of processors, including five brand-new...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

COMPUTEX — The Tegra brand may conjure up images of fancy, multimedia-friendly smart phones, but Nvidia isn't afraid of exploring other venues for its new...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing

COMPUTEX — On Tuesday, we got to see Intel's upcoming Lynnfield processors in action. Since then, during our encounters with motherboard manufacturers, we've seen...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards Chipsets

COMPUTEX — We started our Computex marathon this morning by paying a visit to Intel's Francois Piednoel, who showed us a desktop PC and a...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Alas, poor Itanium; it may not be long for this world. At the very least, one would think so after hearing what Intel said today...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

The latest processors from AMD add support for DDR3 memory and come in more affordable triple- and quad-core flavors. We like one of them...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

Finally, AMD is countering Intel with a new mobile platform aimed at slim, low-cost...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing