Intel has finally announced its 11th Gen Rocket Lake processor lineup. Today the blue team also revealed the official specs and pricing for Rocket Lake ahead of the March 30th embargo date for full reviews and retail sales. Continue reading Intel officially announces its 11th gen ‘Rocket Lake-S’ desktop CPUs, shares first-party gaming benchmarks [UPDATE] →

It appears that some memory manufacturers are using Intel’s upcoming 12th gen “Alder Lake-S” desktop CPU platform to test the full potential of next-gen DDR5 memory. Chinese memory manufacturer Longsys has released some benchmark test results of its DDR5 memory modules which were evaluated on an Intel Alder Lake desktop platform, coming via MyDrivers. Continue reading First DDR5 Memory kit tested on Intel Alder Lake Desktop CPU platform, shows impressive performance gains over DDR4 →

Last month Intel’s senior Vice President, Raja Koduri, posted a teaser of the company’s first gaming discrete graphics cards on Twitter, the Xe HPG. Intel’s Xe HPG DG2 (High-Performance) gaming graphics card was tested in the new 3DMark Mesh Shader feature test. Continue reading Rumor: Is Raja Koduri benchmarking the upcoming Intel “Xe HPG” DG2 gaming GPU in Lab? [UPDATE] →

It appears that Videocardz has just received one internal roadmap of INTEL, which highlights a new CPU architecture codenamed as RAPTOR LAKE, which would be succeeding the upcoming 12th gen Alder Lake-S desktop CPU lineup. Continue reading INTEL’s future “Raptor Lake” desktop CPU architecture lineup spotted in a leaked roadmap →

At the recent CES 2021 event, Intel officially announced its 11th gen Rocket Lake-S core series of processors during the press briefing, notably the Core i9-11900K flagship SKU. Official announcement slides were leaked as well, which showed an almost 19% IPC boost with this new CPU. Continue reading Here are the first gaming benchmarks for Intel’s Core i7-11700K “Rocket Lake” CPU →

Intel has officially confirmed that its 11th gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPUs will be launching on the 30th of March, 2021. In response to Hardwareluxx, an Intel spokesperson confirmed the Rocket Lake CPU’s launch schedule. Continue reading Intel may be implementing a similar memory OC feature to AMD’s Infinity Fabric Clock for its Rocket Lake CPUs →

It appears that Intel has to pay $2.2 billion in damages after a patent trial loss to VLSI, as reported by SeekingAlpha. A federal jury in Waco, Texas ruled that Intel violated two patents of Fortress Investment Group’s VLSI Technology and must pay $2.18B in damages, for violating two of its patents. Continue reading Intel to pay $2.18 billion in damages to VLSI for violating two of its patents →

It appears that unofficial pre-order pricing for Intel’s entire 11th Gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPU family has been spotted online. Preliminary pre-order prices have been listed by one US retailer Milwaukeepc for the entire Rocket Lake-S CPU lineup, as spotted by Harukaze5719. Continue reading Intel’s “Rocket Lake-S” desktop CPU lineup listed for pre-order by a US retailer, flagship Core i9-11900K for $600 [UPDATE] →

It appears that Intel has officially discontinued its Performance Tuning Protection Plan (PTPP), an optional support plan which provided specific benefits in addition to Intel’s standard processor warranty. Intel will no longer offer new PTPP plans effective March 1, 2021. Continue reading Intel discontinues the Performance Tuning Protection Plan, PTPP, for all eligible K-series CPUs →