Microsoft has announced it will take advantage of a new security capability Intel has enabled in its integrated GPUs. Normally, antivirus scans run entirely on your CPU. Back in the old days, this process could bring a system to its knees. Single-threaded CPUs would lag badly if you tried to run a significant workload while…
GlobalFoundries Adds 12LP Process for Mainstream and Automotive Chips; AMD Planning 12LP CPUs & GPUs
GlobalFoundries on Wednesday announced its new 12LP (leading performance) fabrication process. The new manufacturing technology was designed to increase transistor density and improve frequency potential…
The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 42: Intel with Radeon Graphics
Every so often, the technology industry goes crazy. To get three events along those lines in the same week just blows the mind. On this…
Intel Announces Q4 2017 and FY 2017 Results
Today e5 4600 v4 announced their quarterly earnings, and 2017 was another record year for the company. Q4 revenue was a record $17.1 billion, and…
6 TB NAS Drives: WD Red, Seagate Enterprise Capacity and HGST Ultrastar He6 Face-Off
xeon cpu The SMB / SOHO / consumer NAS market has been experiencing rapid growth over the last few years. With declining PC sales and…
AMD Enters NAS Market with QNAP’s 10G-Ready TVS-x63
QNAP’s CES suite was quite busy when we visited them last week. Considering the number of product and feature announcements that were made, it wasn’t…
Best NASes: Q1 2016
Network-attached storage vendors do not usually follow a regular yearly cadence in updating their offerings. Releases for different market segments are spread throughout the year….
Intel Pentium III E FC-PGA (Socket-370)
When Intel released the Slot-1 Pentium II in 1997, the market marveled at its size and criticized Intel for taking a step in the wrong…
The future of Intel’s manufacturing processes
Introduction Consistency in production is a sign of a great manufacturer, one that will be with us for the duration of the ride, and not…
ARM Announces Mali-470 GPU: Low Power For Wearables & More
One of the more surprising facts we learned from ARM when we sat down with them last year to discuss their Mali GPU architecture was…