A few weeks back, we took a look at the Core i7-3960X, Intel’s first desktop processor to feature the company’s Sandy Bridge-E microarchitecture. If you're unfamiliar with the chip, Sandy Bridge-E is ...

The Sandy Bridge-E launch lineup consists of three processors. King of the hill is the Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition, a fully unlocked chip featuring 6 cores with Hyper-Threading for 12 thread support ...

Intel's Turbo Boost Technology allows the processor core to opportunistically and automatically increase its rated operating frequency if it detects it's running below power, temperature, and current ...

As soon as we hear that Extreme Edition label at the end of an Intel processor we know two things; one it's the flagship processor for the company; second it's going to cost a bucketload of money.

One the eve of the 2011 CES show, Intel has officially unveiled the details about its new line of desktop and laptop CPUs. Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New ...

Intel rang in 2011 with its second-generation Core processors, promising vastly superior performance, better graphics capabilities, and improved energy efficiency. How much of a difference can a new ...

Intel is doing nothing to downplay expectations for Sandy Bridge, its next-generation microarchitecture, here at Computex. Over the past few months the company has been providing glimpses of the ...

Intel Ivy Bridge content hasn't just been leaking for weeks, but we've been seeing results come for the past few months including content coming from us. Last month we looked at both the Intel Core i5 ...

Intel's October 2017 update to the Core i5 (see on Amazon(Opens in a new window)) and Core i7 (see on Amazon(Opens in a new window)) were the first major shift in core counts since Sandy Bridge in ...

There are some differences between the Sandy Bridge-E 3960X and the new Ivy Bridge 4960X that go beyond the 22nm die shrink. When Intel built the SNB-E, it took an eight-core Xeon and fused off two of ...

It’s no secret that Intel is readying processors based in its Haswell microarchitecture. The new chips are due to be released in the not too distant future and feature a number of noteworthy ...