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Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake-S Desktop CPU sample shows promising single-threaded performance

Last month, Intel officially revealed its upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, based on the Cypress Cove core architecture. Rocket Lake (RKL) is a planned microarchitecture designed by Intel as a direct successor to the Comet Lake-S series of desktop CPUs and high-performance mobile devices. Continue reading Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake-S Desktop CPU sample shows promising single-threaded performance

INTEL CPUs plagued by a new PLATYPUS side-channel attack Vulnerability, company releases microcode update

INTEL CPUs are once again in the limelight when it comes to security vulnerabilities. Recently international security researchers, including a team of experts from the University of Birmingham, discovered a new security vulnerability in Intel processors that makes it possible to access sensitive data using power side-channel attacks. Continue reading INTEL CPUs plagued by a new PLATYPUS side-channel attack Vulnerability, company releases microcode update

Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPU Benchmarked, up to 18% higher Single-Core performance than Core i9-10900K

Just few days ago, Intel officially revealed its upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, based on the Cypress Cove core architecture. Rocket Lake (RKL) is a planned microarchitecture designed by Intel as a direct successor to the Comet Lake-S series of desktop CPUs and high-performance mobile devices. Continue reading Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPU Benchmarked, up to 18% higher Single-Core performance than Core i9-10900K

Intel details its new Iris Xe MAX Discrete Graphics card, shares some gaming benchmarks

Intel recently announced its homegrown Iris Xe MAX dedicated GPU, and along with it a brand new platform technology dubbed as Intel Deep Link. Iris Xe MAX discrete graphics processor is going to be featured on thin-and-light notebooks powered by 11th gen core Tiger Lake/TGL processors. Continue reading Intel details its new Iris Xe MAX Discrete Graphics card, shares some gaming benchmarks

Intel officially reveals upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, based on “Cypress Cove” cores

Rocket Lake (RKL) is a planned microarchitecture designed by Intel as a direct successor to the Comet Lake-S series of desktop CPUs and high-performance mobile devices. Intel has been using the same iteration of the 14nm FinFET process node with the Skylake Architecture for many years. Continue reading Intel officially reveals upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, based on “Cypress Cove” cores

Intel’s Alder Lake-S Hybrid x86 desktop CPUs are currently being sampled, with Sapphire Rapids CPU coming in 2021

Intel recently gave an update to analysts and investors on two crucial CPU projects of the company, namely the client desktop PC Alder Lake CPU lineup, and Sapphire Rapids chips for the HPC/server market. Continue reading Intel’s Alder Lake-S Hybrid x86 desktop CPUs are currently being sampled, with Sapphire Rapids CPU coming in 2021

Intel tapes out its first discrete Gaming GPU, the Xe-HPG ‘DG2’ graphics processor

According to Intel’s most recent quarterly earnings, coming via SeekingAlpha, the company has announced that it has successfully started shipping its first discrete GPU DG1 in volume, and also revealed that the DG2 GPU, based on XE HPG architecture, has already been taped out and powered on in the labs. Continue reading Intel tapes out its first discrete Gaming GPU, the Xe-HPG ‘DG2’ graphics processor

Intel’s latest gen Celeron/Pentium CPUs now offer support for AVX2 and AVX-512 instruction sets

It appears that Intel’s entry-level processors now offer almost the same feature set as the high-end Core series. The new Tiger Lake-based Celeron and Pentium Gold Laptop processors feature support for the AVX2 as well as AVX512-VNNI instruction sets. Continue reading Intel’s latest gen Celeron/Pentium CPUs now offer support for AVX2 and AVX-512 instruction sets