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Haswell Hasarrived

Intel has launched its new generation of Core i5/i7 processors, codenamed Haswell. If you are familiar with Intel’s tick-tock strategy, this is a ‘tock’: a microarchitecture update on existing process technology. In this case the 22 nm process which is … Continue reading

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AMD introduces Trinity: When is an improvement not an improvement?

The first reviews of AMD’s new Trinity line of APUs are coming in. The successor of AMD’s Llano replaces the Stars-based CPU logic with a Piledriver-based CPU. Piledriver, as you may know, is an update of the Bulldozer architecture. Bulldozer was not … Continue reading

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Ivy Bridge: Intel goes 22 nm and DirectX 11

Today we can see a preview of Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge at Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5626/ivy-bridge-preview-core-i7-3770k Once again, Intel has pulled off the seemingly impossible: they increased the IPC of the Core i7 series. They have also made the turbo more aggressive … Continue reading

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