BitDefender experts have found another CPU security gap, dubbed as SWAPGS. The problem is likely to be limited to Intel CPUs of Ivy Bridge generation or later, although some researchers suggest that AMD products may also be susceptible to the exploit.
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Bart Swiatek
August 8, 2019
Today, Intel officially announced the specs of eleven new CPUs for notebooks. The new tenth generation chips will be manufactured in the 10 nm process and equipped with Intel Iris Plus (Gen11) graphics chips.
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Conrad Hazi
August 1, 2019
Bob Swan, President of Intel, announced that in 2021 the company's first 7nm litography processors are expected to be available. We also learned more details about the reasons behind the problems with the development of the 10nm technological process.
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Bart Swiatek
July 19, 2019
Although not even ten days have passed since the launch of the new Ryzen 3000 series processors, the sales of AMD products have already managed to go through the roof and overtake the demand for Intel products in several important Asian markets.
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Conrad Hazi
July 16, 2019
A list of all tenth generation Intel Core CPUs has been published on a certain Chinese tech forum. The most powerful model is the Core i9-10900KF, which looks like a very strong competitor to the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X.
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Conrad Hazi
July 10, 2019
The first results of AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X CPUs have appeared and on the 3DMark benchmark website. Both chipsets are scheduled to go on sale on July 7. The weaker model of the two matches the performance of Intel Core i9-9900K and the stronger that of the Threadripper 2950X, which has 4 cores more.
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Conrad Hazi
July 4, 2019
Intel has another reason to fear competition from AMD. Ryzen 5 3600 beat Intel's flagship i9-9900KF in a single thread performance benchmark. This is all the more surprising because Intel chipsets usually dominate this test, and Ryzen 5 3600 is a middle class CPU.
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Arkadiusz Dziermanski
July 1, 2019
An internal memo from Intel leaked to the Internet, concernning how the company perceives the competition from AMD and what actions it plans to take in the nearest future. It caused a lot of commotion on the Internet and an avalanche of negative comments from Intel's employees.
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Conrad Hazi
June 27, 2019
All indications are that Intel is gearing up to lower the prices of all its eighth and ninth generation processors. This is to be a response to the latest Ryzen 3000 series from AMD, which will appear on the market on July 7 this year.
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Agnes Adamus
June 21, 2019
Wccftech reports, citing a post on a Chinese hardware forum, that in single-thread performance tests, Intel processor based on 3.7 GHz Sunny Cove architecture achieves a slightly better result than the Ryzen 7 3800X, whose core operates at 4.7 GHz.
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Bart Swiatek
June 17, 2019
Intel's Jon Carvill decided to challenge the competitive AMD corporation - he believes that the Ryzen 3000 series CPU will not be able to receive the crown of the „best gaming processor”.
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Bart Swiatek
June 10, 2019
New architecture and improved performance are the features of the 10th generation Intel Core Ice Lake processors. Will the great promises of the company be fulfilled? We'll find out soon enough.
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Sin
May 29, 2019
Well-known mobile processor manufacturer Qualcomm has announced that its new laptop CPU is performing better than Intel's Core i5-8250U in benchmarks. The chip will be introduced to the market in 2020 on computers manufactured by Lenovo.
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Bart Swiatek
May 28, 2019
Intel surprised everyone and introduced the new powerful Core i9-9900KS processor at the beginning of this year's Computex. In addition, the company boasted the performance of their 10 nm Ice Lake processors.
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Conrad Hazi
May 27, 2019
Phoronix editors tested the performance of processors after installing updates to fix security vulnerabilities detected so far, including the recently released MDS exploits. The results are not satisfactory.
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Bart Swiatek
May 22, 2019
Goldman Sachs' analysts presented a list of American companies that will be affected by the ban on trade with the Chinese company Huawei. The list includes many entities associated with our industry, such as AMD, Intel, Microsoft or Nvidia.
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Bart Swiatek
May 21, 2019
During the meeting with investors, Intel shared the plans on the development of its processor line and other products. They show that the first CPU produced in 10 nm will be launched later this year, and in 2021 the company will start manufacturing CPUs in the 7 nm process.
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May 9, 2019
Intel Xe graphics cards will have hardware support for the ray tracing technology. The company also informed that the first systems of this type will be designed for workstations.
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Bart Swiatek
May 6, 2019
During a conference, Intel CEO Robert Swan admitted that the problems with the supply of Intel's CPUs will continue until the third quarter of this year.
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Bart Swiatek
April 29, 2019
Infographics presenting Intel's plans for the upcoming generations of CPUs have appeared on the web. They show that desktop CPUs produced in a 10-nanometer technological process can appear no earlier than 2022.
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April 25, 2019