Tag: Intel

Intel Developer Forum Highlights

The Intel Developer Forum 2014 is a trade show for Intel products and products that were created based on Intel hardware. This year’s Intel Developer Forum was held between September 9 and 11 and had exhibitors from all around the world showing off their gadgets. This year’s forum focused more on wearable devices and wireless technology, ...

Intel reveals MICA, a luxury smart bracelet

We’ve got smartwatches, smart glasses, smart rings, smart fitness bands, so a smart bracelet called MICA is nothing new to the wearable market. Unless its made by Intel and Opening Ceremony fashion house and looks absolutely gorgeous. This piece of news is targeted mostly at women, because MICA, the luxury smart bracelet Intel has just ...

Intel releases Haswell-E and X99 Chipset

This year’s third quarter brings us new technological advances. At PAX Prime on August 29, Intel has finally released its enthusiast-class processor models with memory support up to quad channel DDR4-2133 using 288-pin slots and Intel’s first eight-core desktop processor along with the X99 chipset. The CPUs The crown jewel is the i7-5960X, featuring a ...

AMD announces Intel i5 competitor in the form of the new E Series processors

The two major manufacturers are at it again apparently. Intel came out and announced its latest line of i7 processors earlier at Pax Prime and AMD followed shortly with an announcement of their own. But interestingly enough, the company presented a competitor for the i5 series and not the i7. The new AMD E Series is ...

DirectX 12 will greatly enhance tablet gaming as demonstrated by Intel

Microsoft’s newest collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) will come with a host of features that will greatly improve both PC and Xbox One gaming. But what about other devices? Well, it seems that DirectX 12 will be even more effective at improving the performance of thermally constrained devices such as tablets. Intel proved this by doing ...

Acer Chromebook is getting Nvidia’s Tegra K1 processor

The very accessible Chromebooks from Acer are now even more attractive because they are now more powerful. Acer has been gearing-up its devices with more powerful processors, adding Intel CPUs to previous models and Nvidia’s Tegra K1 to the latest Chromebook 13 models. The Tegra K1 processor was recently added to Nvidia’s Shield Tablets and, ...