Intel shows 4-display concept notebook

For the really productive users it is often a bit of a limitation to work on a notebook as you only have one display. We have seen how extreme workstations can solve this, but Intel has now tested a new concept where it has completed the main display with three small that can be used for navigation or just regular use. At IDF they showed a notebook concept where you could pull documents from the small screens up to the main screen and play video sequences on the smaller screen independently of the main screen.Whether Intel has any actual plans for this concept is uncertain, but we wouldn't count on any retail versions within the next two years....

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Intel Core i7-860 overclocked to 5.39GHz

ntel's new Lynnfield CPU may be a stripped down version of Bloomfield and Intel's Core i7-9xx CPUs. There is still plenty of performance with the new platform though. When the first rumors of Nehalem mid-range platform appeared they questioned the overclocking potential, which we denied over and over back then, and now we have it on paper, clearer than ever. We showed in our review that you can overclock Intel's Lynnfield processors pretty easily and now Coolaler has taken things up a notch.Together with MSI P55-GD80, Coolaler overclocked Intel's fastest Lynnfield CPU from 2.80GHz to 5.39GHz with a bus speed of 245MHz and 22x multiplier. The...

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Intel Launches New Motherboards to Fuel Growth of Nettops and Small Form Factor Computing

INTEL SOLUTIONS SUMMIT, Gold Coast, April 29, 2009 – At Intel’s largest annual channel customer event today, the company launched two new motherboards designed to fuel the growth of nettops and small form factor computing. The Intel® Desktop Board D945GSEJT with the Intel® Atom™ Processor is designed for building into stylish and affordable nettops that push the traditional imagination of what an all-in-one or an enhanced thin client should be. Another new small form factor motherboard, the Intel® Desktop Board DG41MJ supporting low power (65W) Intel® Core™2 Quad processors and Intel® Core™2 Duo processors, offers users a space saving desktop...

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ntel Launches New Motherboards to Fuel Growth of Nettops and Small Form Factor Computing

!-- NEWS CAT PIC --> Intel is in close to total dominance of the netbook and nettop markets. Even if both processor, Atom, and chipset found in most small systems are built by Intel, it still wants more. Intel has now announced two motherboards for nettops and SFFs. Intel's D945GSEJT mini-ITX motherboard is intended for nettops and comes with an integrated Atom N270 processor. Intel's DG41MJ model use the same formfactor, but supports Core 2 Duo/Quad processors within the 65W envelo...

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Intel launches new chip logos, rating system

Intel has revamped its processor badging and rating system. Consumers are the main target, though business systems will get new badging too. The new badges include a die (the chip minus the packaging) accent in the upper right hand corner, a prominent main brand (e.g., "Core"), and the modifier (e.g., "i7"). Intel has also instituted a star system that rates chips from five stars (best performance in class) to one star (lowest performance). "So when a consumer goes into a Best Buy store they can distinguish between Centrino, Core, Celeron, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad," said Intel spokesman Bill Calder. That may be a little easier said than done,...

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Intel launches new single, dual, and quad-core processors

Intel is commemorating Labor Day this year with a trio of new processors aimed at different market segments. In the mainstream quad-core market, we have the new 45nm Core 2 Quad 8200, at 2.33GHz, 4MB L2 cache, and a 1333MHz FSB. Intel lists the chip at $224 in 1K quantities; Newegg has it up for sale for $229.99. The new chip's lower price tag, however, comes at the cost of several features that are otherwise standard on Core 2 Quad processors. Older Kentsfield (65nm) and most Yorkfield (45nm) processors support Intel's Virtualization Technology, but the new Q8200 does not. Just for the record, the chip is still capable of running virtualization programs, but it lacks the hardware support for that capability that Intel has baked into its processors. According to Tech Report, LaGrande...

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The P55's new system architecture

Below is a diagram of a standard Core 2 Duo system, and it represents the general layout of an Intel system up until Nehalem or an AMD system up until the Opteron. A typical pre-Nehalem Intel system. In the diagram above, the core logic chipset consists of two primary chips: Memory controller hub (MCH): The memory controller hub, also called a "northbridge," links the CPU and GPU with main memory. I/O controller hub (ICH): The I/O controller hub, also called the "southbridge," links the MCH to peripherals and mass storage. The ICH typically hosts the USB and other expansion ports, mass storage interfaces, network interfaces,...

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Intel launches all-new PC architecture with Core i5/i7 CPUs

Intel brought its mainstream desktop CPU lineup into the Nehalem era today with the launch of the Core i7 860 and 870, and the Core i5 750. Also launched today is the P55 chipset, which implements a new system architecture that represents a significant break with Intel's past. In this short article, we'll take a brief look at each, in turn. In previous articles we've covered Nehalem's microarchitectural improvements to the Core 2 Duo lineage, so we won't recap that here. What is worth repeating, though, is that Nehalem is Intel's first x86 design to feature an on-die memory controller. This significantly changes the system topology, but in...

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