AMD has outed its latest FX processors, and its broken the 5GHz barrier in the process, with the new AMD FX-9590 8-core. Revealed at E3 this week alongside its 4.7GHz FX-9370 sibling, the chips use eight of AMD’s Piledriver cores – already seen in the Trinity and Opteron 6300 Series – and come unlocked for
AMD has taken the wraps off of its 2013 A-Series “Elite” APUs for desktop, hoping to show Intel that 4th-gen Haswell won’t get all the chip attention this year. Building on AMD’s integrated CPU/GPU architecture, the new Elite platform consists of a cluster of new quadcore chips, ranging from the relatively power-frugal A8-6500 through to
Dell has thrown Intel’s new Haswell Core processors at its XPS, Latitude, and OptiPlex ranges, bringing numerous models up to date with the 4th-gen chips. The difference should be most noticeable in Dell’s notebook lines, with the company claiming that the XPS 12 is now around 60-percent faster, running Haswell, than it was before, as well as lasting longer on a single change.
In fact, Dell says that the XPS 12 should now run for more than two hours longer than when powered by 3rd-gen Core chips, with the notebook rated for 8 hours and 43 minutes in total. That’s comparing the Core i5-4200U powered machine against the Core i5-3427U chip, though Dell is quick to point out that real-world use will likely vary.
The little XPS isn’t the only machine in its series to get updated, of course. At the other end, Dell has slotted Haswell into the XPS 27 all-in-one, as well as the XPS 8700 desktop PC.
Over in the business ranges, Dell’s Latitude line-up has been refreshed with Haswell, and there’s a new model – the Latitude E6540 – which has FIPS 140-2 certified TPM and Dell’s own Data Protection for file-level encryption and integrated malware protection. Finally, the Dell OptiPlex 9020 gets vPro-compliant 4th-gen Core, making it the most powerful commercial desktop the company has offered so far, it’s claimed.
Beyond the CPU refresh, Dell’s showing at Computex this year has been subdued. The company brought along its new XPS 11 ultrabook for a sneak preview, a 360-degree folding notebook which can be twisted round to make a slate, much in the same way that Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga 11 operates.
Dell refreshes XPS, Latitude and OptiPlex with jolt of Intel Haswell is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Intel has predicted a $399 sticker price for the 2-in-1 tablet/laptop hybrids expected to challenge ARM-based machines from this summer, a newly competitive price tag given the chip maker’s previous struggles in the mobility segment. Building on Intel’s 4th-gen Core “Haswell” announcement, the new 2-in-1 details are part of the company’s attempt to match what have traditionally been the strengths of ARM chips from NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and others: low power consumption, strong multimedia performance, and fanless designs.
So, the 4th-gen Core processors can scale as low as 6W, Intel says, which means tablets can be thinner, cooler, and even fanless. Intel brought one unnamed reference design on-stage at Computex 2013 today, though exactly when we might see them hit shelves is obviously up to manufacturers themselves.
The first 2-in-1 ultrabooks will arrive over the summer, Intel says, dockable slates that can be fitted into a keyboard attachment for periods of text entry, or pulled out to use with a finger on the couch. Intel isn’t being shy with its runtime predictions, either; according to the company, the sort of 4th-gen Core SoCs we’ll see in those hybrids will be good for over 9hrs of active-use battery life, or 10-13 days of standby.
Helping with that is an array of new, ultra-low power modes, which pare back the SoC’s consumption in a far more draconian way than before. The first such chips will be accompanied by Intel’s Bay Trail-T, the latest iteration of Atom.
Of course, the ultraportable end of the scale is only part of Haswell’s premise. The 4th-gen Core series also ramps up through traditional notebooks and desktops, to high-end workstation processors that, Intel claims, will offer up to 15-percent more performance than their predecessors.
Intel cranks ARM competition with 2-in-1 Ultrabook hybrids is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Intel has shown off its new chips for tablets, smartphones, and LTE-enabled devices, with Silvermont, Bay Trail-T, and Merrifield all revealed at Computex 2013 today. Merrifield, due to show up in Intel-powered smartphones from early 2014, is the company’s next-gen smartphone platform, a 22nm Atom SoC that was, for today’s show, wrapped up in a new touchscreen reference design.
Intel was coy on specific details about the phone, and indeed about Merrifield, though did let slip a couple of elements the new Atom chip will bring. Unsurprisingly there’s talk of both more performance and more battery life; however, there’s also apparently an “integrated sensor hub” that will be used for “personalized services.”
Intel hasn’t said exactly what those services might be – nor, indeed, what types of sensors will be included – but it does remind us of Motorola’s comments last week about the incoming Moto X, and how the company was looking to contextual understanding for its new range of phones. Merrifield will also include “capabilities for data, device, and privacy protection,” Intel says.
As for tablets, first up will be Bay Trail-T, the 22nm quadcore Atom SoC that’s expected to crop up in slates for the holiday season. Bay Trail-T is good for more than twice the processor power of current Atom for tablet chips, Intel claims, as well as a boost in processor performance; 8hrs or more of battery life is supposedly possible, based on a 10.1-inch Full HD slate with a 30Wh power pack. “Weeks of standby” and support for Android and Windows 8.1 are also promised.
However, down the line there’s Silvermont, Intel’s 22nm “low power, high performance” architecture for phones and slates. Still no word on when, exactly, that will be ready for prime-time, however.
Finally, Intel has at last rolled together its own 4G LTE modem, a multimode system to pair with next-gen 22nm quadcore Bay Trail-T Atom SoCs for tablets. Intel is promising global LTE roaming – no small feat, given the array of different networks in operation around the world – from the XMM 7160, despite the chip also apparently being one of the world’s smallest.
Intel details Merrifield new phone chip; Homegrown LTE for Bay Trail tablets is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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After winning yesterday’s Corsair Overclocking competition at Computex, the same folks were brought over to ASUS’ ROG event earlier today, where they overclocked an Intel Haswell Core i7-4770K from its typical 3.5GHz to a staggering 6.88GHz — just a tad less than yesterday’s 6.98GHz — on an ASUS Maximus VI Extreme motherboard. As a bonus, the DRAM frequency was also pushed to 4.1GHz, which is believed to be the fastest yet on Haswell. As usual, the overclockers poured liquid nitrogen onto the chip every now and then to keep it cool, thus giving us the above photo opportunity.
Chalk up a win or two for Intel, with Computex 2013 Day Zero opening to a number of products with Atom chips where usually we’d expect to see ARM silicon. As expected, Intel’s processors found their way into at least one tablet from Samsung, the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1-inch, but the Atom push also got the CPU into a number of ASUS models too. Question is, has Intel managed to squeeze into the Android tablet market too late?
ASUS’ Transformer Book Trio – which is designed to run both Windows 8 and Android on a hybrid slate that can be docked in ultrabook and desktop hubs – paired an Intel mobile chip with a gruntier Core i7, while the MeMo Pad FHD 10 also spurned ARM for Atom.
Chatter of Clover Trail+ spreading had been bubbling for some weeks, but broke in earnest last Friday when multiple sources claimed Samsung was the big-name push behind broadening its chip suppliers. Intel has long been attempt to coerce manufacturers to consider its processors – even going to far as to take the lead on porting Android to x86 – but uncompetitive power consumption, among other things, kept it pretty much out of the game.
That’s all changing with the new Atom architecture, it seems. “In order to meet the demand from our vendor/carrier partners and provide a consistent high-quality experience for customers,” Samsung told us today, “Samsung has sourced components, including chipsets, from trusted partners.” The company confirmed that one such “trusted partner” and component was the processor at the heart of the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1-inch.
“Neither Samsung nor ASUS has leapt to Atom wholeheartedly”
Still, it’s worth noting that neither Samsung nor ASUS has leapt to Cover Trail+ wholeheartedly. The Intel-powered machines share press release space with ARM-based tablets; Samsung’s spec sheet, in fact, doesn’t even mention the underlying architecture or chip supplier, only the speed and the number of cores.
It’s a sign, quite possibly, that the tablet processor market is catching up to where the PC processor market reached a few years back. Most modern chips are “good enough” and so the branding advantage of calling out whether your slate runs on Qualcomm silicon, or NVIDIA silicon, or Intel silicon, simply isn’t so pressing as it perhaps once was.
Meanwhile, the days of premium Android tablets are seemingly behind us, for the most part at least. Apple’s iPad mini and Google’s Nexus 7 forced even more drastic cost-cutting so that Acer, ASUS, MSI, Samsung, and others could continue to compete; the MeMo Pad HD 7 (which runs an ARM chip, not an Intel one) for instance comes in at just $129 brand new. It’s questionable whether the slate segment is the same high-appeal category for Intel now that its margins have been eroded away.
Intel scores in tablet chips but success may come too late is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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ARM has revealed its latest processor, the ARM Cortex-A12, packing 40-percent more performance than a Cortex-A9 but with the same power consumption and in a 30-percent smaller package. The big.LITTLE compatible A12 is a 28nm chip that can be paired with ARM’s Cortex-A7 cores, driving the new, more powerful chips when processing grunt is needed, and then turning to the frugal A7′s when prolonging battery life is the priority.
ARM expects the Cortex-A12 to be used in a variety of phones and tablets, but particularly with emphasis on the mid-range. That’s predicted to in fact exceed high-end phones and tablets in numbers by 2015, ARM claims.
Those mid-tier devices won’t necessarily lack in features. The Cortex-A12 supports up to 1TB of addressable memory, along with the virtualization and AMD TrustZone technologies that will be required for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) business use.
So, the Cortex-A12 will eventually replace the A9, and come with a line of new GPU and video engine to match. The Mali-T622 GPU takes care of the graphics, with support for OpenGL ES 3.0, and with a 50-percent cut in power compared to ARM’s first-gen Mali-T600 chips.
ARM isn’t just leaving the new Mali to creating visuals, though. There’s also a greater emphasis on general computer power this time around, turning the GPU to doing parallel processing as a companion chip to the CPU. The Mali-T622 supports both the Renderscript Android, and OpenCL APIs.
Finally, there’s the new Mali-V500 video solution, which handles high-definition video. In fact, the Mali-V500 can cope with higher-than-HD: a single core can deliver 1080p/60 encode/decode, while eight cores working together can support Ultra HD at up to 120 frames per second. There’s also hardware support for DRM, as ARM attempts to court Hollywood.
The new ARM Cortex-A12 family – complete with the Mali-T622 and Mali-V500 – will begin shipping in 2014.
ARM Cortex-A12 brings big.LITTLE to the mass market in 2014 is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Intel‘s new Atom chips, codenamed “Bay Trail”, are set to launch for tablets at some point later this year, but it seems Intel wants to take the architecture from the new Bay Trail chips and implement it in their Celeron and Pentium processors for desktops and laptops, proving that Intel is putting more emphasis on their low-cost Atom chip.
Intel has always used the Celeron and Pentium as their entry-level chip for laptops and desktop computers, but the company will be turning up the heat just a little bit while still keeping the lineup at a budget price. It seems Intel is confident enough that its new tablet chip will be quick enough for desktop and laptop use.
Intel claims that Bay Trail will be up to three times faster and five times more efficient than older Atom chips, so users should definitely see a significant increase in performance. Bay Trail is actually based on Intel’s Silvermont architecture, which is being implemented into the company’s Merrifield smartphone chips, and since Intel says that Silvermont has a ton of flexibility, they’ll be able to customize Bay Trail to power a slew of new laptops and desktops at different price points.
Previously, Pentium and Celeron chips have been based on the same architecture used in Intel’s faster Core chips (with the most recent being based on Ivy Bridge), but with fewer features in order to keep the price down. It’s expected that Intel will unveil its new Core architecture called Haswell that we’ve heard a lot about so far.
Intel released its first Pentium chip in 1993, which was clocked at 66MHz, and the first Celeron chip was launched in 1998 running at 300MHz. Since then, these two chips haven’t made much of an impact lately, but Intel is still keeping them around to use in budget computers, including their new Pavilion 14 Chromebook.
SOURCE: PC World
Intel Atom architecture coming to Celeron, Pentium chips is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In recent years, Intel’s Celeron and Pentium processors have been cut-down versions of more advanced counterparts. For the chips’ next updates, Intel is taking an opposite tack — it’s bringing low-end Atom architecture into the big leagues. The company is confident enough in the speed and flexibility of the Bay Trail-based Atom platform that it’s launching desktop and laptop versions (Bay Trail-D and Bay Trail-M) under the Celeron and Pentium badges. There isn’t much more to share regarding the CPUs beyond their expected releases late in the year, although there’s a good chance that we’ll learn more at Computex next week.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Intel
Source: PCWorld
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