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This week at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, China, the very first appearance of Intel’s new 32nm Atom processor Z2580 has been unleashed in the comically named ZTE GEEK. While the geek name might not hold the same meaning for everyone around the world, the name alone makes us here at SlashGear want to own it – it’s wild! This machine works with a massive 5-inch HD display with 1280 x 720 pixel resolution and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean under the hood.

This machine will have an undeniably strange combination of 8GB eMMC+1GBRAM. This means that while we’re working with a next-generation processor, we’ve still got just half the RAM we’d have on the rest of the hero devices out there today. With 8GB of storage inside, you’ll also be relying on this device’s microSD card slot for storage of games and whatnot.

The back-facing camera here is 8 megapixels strong, the front is a small 1 megapixel, and you’ll be kicking around a CPU frequency of 2.0Ghz – that’s nothing to joke about! This device is being released with this generation’s other ZTE devices like the Grand X IN (another Intel-based smartphone) and the ZTE V98 tablet. Have a peek at our ZTE tag portal for additional information on these devices.

Also have a peek at the timeline below to see the rest of the ZTE action we’ve covered over the past few weeks. Though most of these devices will not be reaching the USA, we’re still pumped up about the possibility of getting them in with their beastly processors ready to take on the games and high-powered apps of today regardless. Keep on cruzing, ZTE!

ZTE GEEK marks first appearance of Intel’s Z2580 SoC is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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New details have turned up about some the new Intel processor families during the Intel Developer Form in Beijing, China. Intel offered details on its Atom SoCs for the data center when it launched the processors back in December of 2012. At the time, the processors including the S1200 product family representing the world’s first 64-bit SoC for servers operating at 1.6 to 2.0 GHz.

Intel has now unveiled details on three new low-power SoCs aimed at the data center that will be coming this year. The new products are for the data center will be in the Intel Atom Processor S12x9 product family for storage. These product will share several features with the S1200 SoC family, but will be tweaked specifically to support storage devices.

The S12x9 family will feature up to 40 lanes of integrated PCI Express 2.0 or physical paths between I/O and the processor. They will support hardware RAID storage acceleration and provide NTB failover support. In the second half of 2013, the 64-bit 22 nm processor for micro servers code-named Avoton will debut featuring an integrated Ethernet controller. Also available in the second half of 2013 will be a new Atom SoC code-named Rangeley promising energy efficient mechanism for processing communications workloads aimed at the entry to mid-level routers, switches, and security appliances.

Intel is also talking up some new Xeon processors including the E3, E5, and E7 families. The E3 1200 v3 product family is based on the Haswell architecture and promises to improve performance for video analytic workloads and to support improved transcode performance. The lowest TDP processor in this family will be 13 W for 25% power savings compared to the prior generation. The E5 family will be based on the 22nm manufacturing process and available in Q3 promising improved security and more. Intel’s E7 processor family will be available in Q4 2013 supporting three times the memory capacity for up to 12 TB in eight-socket node.

The E7 will also include Intel’s Run Sure Technology to deliver greater system reliability and increased data integrity on minimizing downtime for mission-critical workloads. The chip will also feature Resilient System Technologies with standardized technology for processor, firmware, and software layers to allow the system to recover from previously fatal errors. The processor family will also support Resilient Memory Technologies to ensure data integrity and allow systems to run reliably over longer periods of time. Interestingly, the Mac Pro family uses Xeon processors and rumors have been circulating that a refresh of the Mac Pro line is inbound. That refresh makes sense with Intel having new processors on the horizon.

[via Intel]

Intel offers new details on Atom SoC and Xeon processors is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Truth be told, not much has been announced on the consumer end at IDF Beijing earlier today, but Intel did tease us with upcoming refreshes of its Xeon E7, E5 and E3 families for the enterprise space. In chronological order we have the Haswell-based E3 with TDP as low as 13W, and it’s coming in mid-2013. This is followed by the “Ivy Bridge-EP” E5 in Q3 and then the “Ivy Bridge-EX” E7 series in Q4, the latter of which boasting three times the memory capacity of its predecessor, along with Intel’s Run Sure reliability feature. More details in the press release after the break if you’re into these flavors of chips.

Also mentioned at the keynote were the now-available Atom S12x9 family for storage systems, as well as a couple of upcoming 22nm 64-bit Atom SoCs codenamed “Avoton” and “Rangeley,” both of which are sampling now and are expected to launch in the second half of this year. We’ve actually already heard of the microserver-friendly Avoton from Facebook’s Open Compute Project, whereas Rangeley for network infrastructures was also detailed around the same time; so again, hit up the press release for more details.

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It looks like Intel’s planning on bringing its Next Unit of Computing (NUC) mini-computer upmarket, if a leaked roadmap from ComputerBase.de is to be believed. The documents look highly tentative, but if they come to fruition then Intel will start offering new NUCs (code-named “Skull Canyon” and “Horse Canyon”) with Intel Core i7-3537U and Core i5-3427U processors along with its current Core i3 model during the first half of the year. New motherboards would be used that alter the slot configurations substantially: the Thunderbolt connector would be dropped in favor of USB 3.0 — three on the i7 model, one on the i5 — with DisplayPort 1.1a added to each along with HDMI 1.4a connectors. There’s no pricing yet, but we found that you’d need to nearly double the price of the original NUC to create a working computer, so bear that in mind when you’re looking at the leaked slides after the break.

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Via: FanlessTech

Source: ComputerBase.de

Thunderbolt’s makin’ like greased lighting. Intel has just introduced the newest revision of the interface and it will be capable of 20Gbps in both directions (as opposed to the previous 10). In other words, fast enough to transfer and play 4K video simultaneously. And it’s all backwards compatible with old ports and cables to boot. More »