Late last week Intel published a blog post where the company outlined their plans for the new class of mobile computing known as the ultrabook. The post begins by arguing the computing industry is at something of a crossroads, or in the nomenclature of CEO Andy Grove, a “strategic inflection point”. Intel wants to embrace [...]

In the shadow of Sandy Bridge and AMD’s Llano, Intel has decided to update their Celeron line of CPUs with the low voltage Celerom M 857. Aimed at mobile PCs, the Celeron M 857 has two cores clocked at 1.2GHz, a TDP of 17w, as well as 2Mb of L3 cache. The Celeron 857 M [...]

Multiple sources are reporting that Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E desktop and workstation platform has been delayed until the first quarter of 2012. Intel’s replacement for the LGA-1366 Core platform was due by the fourth quarter of this year, and motherboards based on the new 32nm LGA 2011 socket format were shown off at this year’s Computex. [...]

Details have emerged about the performance of Intel’s new SSD series codenamed Lyndonville (710) and Ramsdale (720). The 710 drives will be able to achieve read/write speeds of 270MB/s and 210MB/s respectively, with Intel rating their 4K random read and write performance at 36K/2.4K IOPS. The 710 series, entering production in July, will feature 2.5-inch [...]

Concerned by an expanding tablet market that has eroded the conventional laptop market, Intel unveiled a new category of notebook today, dubbed the “Ultrabook”, at Computex which combines the portability of tablets with the performance of a conventional notebook. According to the specifications established by Intel Ultrabooks will be notebooks that are less than 2cm [...]

 Intel has thrown a bone towards customers who bought their 320-series SSDs by retroactively increasing warranty length from 3 to 5 years. From Intel: Confident in the enhanced reliability features of it’s recently introduced third-generation solid-state drive (SSD), Intel announced it has extended its limited warranty for the Intel® SSD 320 Series from three years [...]

With Intel’s Z68 platform finally here, there is a long list of new features like Intel’s Smart Response Technology and Lucid’s Virtu that need to be put under the microscope.  In this article we do just that in order to gauge whether the this new chipset is really worth more to the end user than [...]

Intel has officially launched their highly anticipated Z68 chipset. It has all of the overclocking powers of P67 while adding in features like GPU switching through Lucid’s Virtu software and Intel’s own Smart Response Technology which allows SSD caching for dramatic load time improvements.   In this review we take a look at ASUS’ P8Z68-V [...]

After nearly two years of teasing us with tantalizing bits of information, Intel has finally launched their Light Peak technology which is now called Thunderbolt.  In this article, we will go through the story behind this promising new I/O standard and discuss the possibilities it brings to the table for a storage hungry market.

Many have heard rumors of Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge architecture and the motherboards which are sure to accompany any upcoming products.  Naturally, motherboard manufacturers are well on their way towards releasing supporting designs and in this article we take a quick look at some of ASUS’ offerings.