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Snapdragon 830 Rumored to Feature Octa Core Kyro II Processor

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LeEco's 'super TVs' to set trend with processors, graphics

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LeEco's 'super TVs' to set trend with processors, graphics

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LeEco's Super TVs set to redefine TV watching experience in India

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Microsoft Surface Pro 5 delay reasons: Device to sport Kaby Lake CPU and Redstone 2

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MSI Aegis Ti wraps up SLIed GTX 1080s in an aggressive shell

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Samsung Galaxy A8 2016 with Android 6.0, octa-core CPU spotted on GFXBench

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Intel Kaby Lake release date: Intel starts shipping out new-gen processors

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ASRock Releases H110M-STX Mini-STX Motherboard

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How AMD May Redefine The CPU And GPU Markets In Its Favor

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NEC Display Introduces OPS Single Board Computer with Intel Celeron Dual Core Processor

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Apple MacBook Pro 2016 release date: MacBook Air price cut hints sooner launch

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Infinix Hot S Review | Touch Controls

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 830 Processor to Come with Custom Kryo CPU Cores

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LYF Water 8 with 3 GB RAM, octa-core CPU launched at Rs 10999

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Xiaomi Redmi Pro Officially Released With Dual-Camera Setup and Deca-Core CPU, It Will Sport ...

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EEMBC gains active participation in China

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Intel Corporation May Be Launching New Kaby Lake CPUs for Enthusiasts Soon

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Ten Year Anniversary of Core 2 Duo and Conroe: Moore's Law is Dead, Long Live Moore's Law

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Xiaomi Unveils Mi Notebook Air, from $525

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Today Xiaomi has introduced its first pair of notebooks and unvieled the Mi Notebook Air family. As the name suggests, these are aimed head first into Apple's Air line of notebooks, albeit at a very different price point. The laptops feature 12.5” and 13.3” full HD displays and are based on Intel’s Core M as well as Core i5 microprocessors. The price of the ultra-thin all-metal notebooks starts from 3499 CNY ($525, although Xiaomi usually quotes prices including China tax, so $446 perhaps), which could make them very competitive in various markets. As with most Xiaomi products, they will be available in China first.

Xiaomi, which is known primarily for its smartphones business and superstar VP, Hugo Barra, positions its laptops as integrated parts of its Mi Ecosystem (which includes smartphones, an Android TV STB, tablets, power banks, headphones, a wrist band and even an air purifier). Their design resembles that of other devices from Xiaomi and uses all-metal silver and gold enclosures. Both notebooks are made by Tian Mi, a partner of Xiaomi, and will run Microsoft Windows 10 Home.

Xiaomi's Mi Notebook Air Family
		Mi Notebook Air 12.5"	Mi Notebook Air 13.3"
CPU	SKU	Intel Core m3-6Y30	Intel Core i5-6200U
		7W cTDP Up
	Base	1.1 GHz	2.3 GHz
	Turbo	2.2 GHz	2.8 GHz
iGPU	SKU	Intel HD Graphics 515 (GT2) 24 EUs, Gen 9	Intel HD Graphics 520 (GT2) 24 EUs, Gen 9
	Base	300 MHz
	Turbo	850 MHz	1050 MHz
dGPU		-	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
DRAM		4 GB LPDDR3-1866	8 GB DDR4-2133
SSD		128 GB SATA (500 MB/s)	256 GB PCIe 3.0 x4 (1500 MB/s)
Display		12.5" Full HD display	13.3" Full HD display
Ports		1 x USB 3.1 (Gen 1) Type-C 1 x USB 3.0 Type-A HDMI 3.5mm TRRS jack	1 x USB 3.1 (Gen 1) Type-C 2 x USB 3.0 Type-A HDMI 3.5mm TRRS jack
Network		2x2:2 802.11ac with BT 4.1
Battery		37 Wh	40 Wh
Dimensions		H: 12.9 mm W: 292 mm D: 202 mm	H: 14.8 mm W: 309.6 mm D: 210.9 mm
Weight		2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)	2.82 lbs (1.28 kg)
Colors		Gold, Silver
Price		3499 CNY $525	4999 CNY $750

The entry-level laptop from Xiaomi is the Mi Notebook Air 12.5”, which is powered by the dual-core Intel Core m3-6Y30, featuring the Skylake microarchitecture as well as the ninth-generation of Intel's integrated graphics (Gen 9, HD Graphics 515 with 24 EUs). The CPU is rated at a 1.1/2.2 GHz core frequency (base/turbo), 4 MB of last level cache, and a 7W thermal design power (normally this CPU is rated at 4.5W, but the 1.1 GHz in the spec sheet implies that it is running in its 7W cTDP Up mode - this isn't a surprise given the size of the device. The laptop comes with 4 GB of LPDDR3-1866 RAM, 128 GB SATA SSD, 802.11ac 2x2 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 1 MP webcam, two microphones, custom AKG speakers and so on. It's not stated if the design uses dual channel memory at this point, and it would be interesting to find out. The system sports one USB Type-C port for charging and display output, one USB 3.0 Type-A port as well as one HDMI connector.

The Mi Notebook Air 12.5” features a display panel with 1920x1080 resolution, 170° wide viewing angle, 300 nit brightness as well as 600:1 contrast ratio. Despite the low memory, the main advantage of the Mi Notebook Air 12.5” over its bigger brother is its 11.5 hours rated battery life and low weight of 1.07 . From many points of view, the 12.5” laptop from Xiaomi attempts to combine the key advantages of Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Air (at least, from hardware perspective). It comes with Intel Core M, a common resolution screen, long battery life as well as thin-and-light form factor (like the MacBook). However, the system costs starting from 3999 yuan ($525), which means that it is more affordable than Apple’s MacBook Air.

The next up is the more powerful Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3”, which is based on the dual-core Intel Core i5-6200U (2.3/2.8 GHz, 3MB LLC, 15 W TDP, Intel HD Graphics 520, etc.) and is equipped with NVIDIA’s GeForce 940 MX discrete GPU featuring a 1 GB GDDR5 memory buffer. Xiaomi says that by equipping its 13.3” laptop with a standalone graphics processor it enables higher performance in games when compared with iGPU. The notebook sports 8 GB of DDR4-2133 memory, a 256 GB NVMe SSD with PCIe 3.0 x4 interface (with up to 1500 MB/s read speed), dual band 802.11ac 2x2 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a 1 MP webcam, two microphones, custom AKG speakers and so on. The laptop uses USB-C for charging and display output, two USB-A 3.0 ports and one HDMI connector.

The larger laptop from Xiaomi features a better display panel than the smaller model. Despite the similar resolution, viewing angles and brightness, the 13.3” notebook has a rated 800:1 contrast ratio as well as 72% NTSC color gamut (vs 50% on the 12.5” model). However, the bigger and improved screen comes at a price: the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3” is 14.8 mm thick and it weighs 1.28 kilograms. The laptop is equipped with a 40 Wh battery (compared to 37 Wh on the smaller model), which gives it up to 9.5 hours of rated battery life. The faster CPU, discrete GPU, faster RAM, speedier SSD and better display effect the pricing of Xiaomi’s 13.3” notebook: the model costs 4999 yuan, or $750 (or $640, if that original CNY price includes China tax).

Xiaomi will only sell its initial family of laptops in China at this time, similar to its smartphone strategy. 

Gallery: Xiaomi Unveils Mi Notebook Air: Affordable 12.5” and 13.3” Laptops

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Today marks a full 10 years since the first Core 2 processors, and hence Intel’s 64-bit Core microarchitecture, were made officially available. These included a number of popular dual-core processor parts, including the seemingly ubiquitous E6400 and the Core 2 Extreme X6800. These were built on Intel’s 65nm process, and marked a turning point in the desktop processor ecosystem. To quote Anand in our launch review: ‘you’re looking at the most impressive piece of silicon the world has ever seen’. Today’s anniversary is somewhat bittersweet, as this week saw the official launch of the ‘final’ biannual International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors report which predicts the stalling of smaller silicon manufacturing nodes and the progression of new design paradigms to tackle the next 10-15 years of semiconductor innovation.

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Project Tango Demoed with Qualcomm at SIGGRAPH 2016

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Project Tango at this point is probably not new to anyone reading this as we’ve discussed it before, but in the past few years Google has been hard at work making positional tracking and localization into a consumer-ready application. While there was an early tablet available with an Nvidia Tegra SoC inside, there were a number of issues on both hardware and software. As the Tegra SoC was not really designed for workloads that Project Tango puts on a mobile device, much of the work was done on the GPU and CPU, with offloading to dedicated coprocessors like ST-M’s Cortex M3 MCUs for sensor hub and timestamp functionality, computer vision accelerators like a VPU from Movidius, and other chips that ultimately increased BOM and board area requirements.

At SIGGRAPH today Google recapped some of this progress that we’ve seen at Google I/O as far as algorithms go and really polishing the sensor fusion, feature tracking, modeling, texturing, and motion tracking aspects of Tango. Anyone that has tried to do some research into how well smartphones can act as inertial navigation devices will probably know that it’s basically impossible to avoid massive integration error that makes the device require constant location updates from an outside source to avoid drifting.

With Tango, the strategy taken to avoid this problem works at multiple levels. At a high level, sensor fusion is used to combine both camera data and inertial data to cancel out noise from both systems. If you traverse the camera tree, the combination of feature tracking on the cameras as well as depth sensing on the depth sensing camera helps with visualizing the environment for both mapping and augmented reality applications. The combination of a traditional camera and a fisheye camera also allows for a sort of distortion correction and additional sanity checks for depth by using parallax, although if you’ve ever tried dual lens solutions on a phone you can probably guess that this distance figure isn’t accurate enough to rely completely on. These are hard engineering problems, so it hasn’t been until recently that we’ve actually seen programs that can do all of these things reliably. Google disclosed that without using local anchor points in memory that the system drifts at a rate of about 1 meter every 100 meters traversed, so if you never return to previously mapped areas the device will eventually have a non-trivial amount of error. However, if you return to previously mapped areas the algorithms used in Tango will be able to reset its location tracking and eliminate accumulated error.

With the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, Tango is finally coming to fruition in a consumer-facing way. Google has integrated Tango APIs into Android for the Nougat release this fall. Of course, while software is one part of the equation, it’s going to be very difficult to justify supporting Tango capabilities if it needs all of the previously mentioned coprocessors in addition to the depth sensing camera and fisheye camera sensors.

In order to enable Tango in a way that doesn’t require cutting into battery size or general power efficiency, Qualcomm has been working with Google to make the Tango API run on the Snapdragon SoC in its entirety rather than on dedicated coprocessors. While Snapdragon SoCs generally have a global synchronous clock, Tango really pushes the use of this to its full extent by using this clock on multiple sensors to enable the previously mentioned sensor fusion. In addition to this, processing is done on the Snapdragon 652 or 820’s ISP and Hexagon DSP, as well as the integrated sensor hub with low power island. The end result is that there enabling the Tango APIs requires no processing on the GPU and relatively minimal processing on the CPU such that Tango-enabled applications can run without hitting thermal limits and allowing for more advanced applications using Tango APIs. Qualcomm claimed that less than 10% of cycles on the S652 and S820 are used on the CPU and less than 35% of cycles on the DSP are needed as well. Qualcomm noted in further discussion that the use of Hexagon Vector Extensions would further cut down on CPU usage, and that much of the current CPU usage was on the NEON vector units.

To see how all of this translates Qualcomm showed off the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro with some preloaded demo apps like a home improvement application from Lowe's which supports size measurements and live preview of appliances in the home with fairly high level of detail. The quality of the augmented reality visualization is actually shockingly good to the extent that the device can differentiate between walls and the floor so you can’t just stick random things in random places, and the placement of objects is static enough that there’s no strange floatiness that often seems to accompany augmented reality. Objects are redrawn fast enough that camera motion results in seamless and fluid motion of virtual objects, and in general I found it difficult to see any real issues in execution.

While Project Tango still seemed to have some bugs to iron out and some features or polish to add, it looks like as it is now the ecosystem has progressed to the point where Tango API features are basically ready for consumers. The environment tracking for true six degree of freedom movement surely has implications for mobile VR headsets as well, and given that only two extra cameras are needed to enable Tango API features it shouldn’t be that difficult for high-end devices to integrate such features, although due to the size of these sensors it may be more targeted towards phablets than regular smartphones.

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Snapdragon 821 CPU equipped Asus Zenfone 3 Deluxe launched in Taiwan

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HP Updates The Z240 Workstation With The Core i7-6700K

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HP Updates The Z240 Workstation With The Core i7-6700K

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HP has an interesting announcement today - they are refreshing their existing Z240 workstation, which is targeted towards small and medium-sized businesses, with a non-Xeon Core i7 based processor. It was already available with Skylake based Xeon CPUs, up to the Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5. That’s a 3.7-4.0 GHz Xeon, with 4 cores, 8 MB of cache, with an 80-Watt Thermal Design Power (TDP). That’s certainly an excellent choice for a lot of workloads that workstations are tasked with, and with support for ECC memory, reliability under load is also a key factor. But HP has been talking to their customers and found that many of them have been choosing to forgo the error checking capabilities of ECC and have been building or buying equivalent gaming-focused machines in order to get more performance for the money. Specifically, they have been building desktops with the Core i7-6700K, which is an unlocked 4.0-4.2 GHz quad-core design, with a 91-Watt TDP, and in pure frequency can offer up to 13% more performance than the fastest Skylake Xeon.

So armed with this data, HP has refreshed the Z240 line today, with the usual Skylake Xeons in tow but also an option for the Core i7-6700K. This desktop sized workstation supports up to 64 GB of DDR4-2133, with ECC available on the Xeon processors only. It’s a pretty interesting move, but can make a lot of sense if most customers would probably rather purchase a workstation from a company like HP so that they get the testing and support offerings found with workstation class machines. If some of them had to resort to building their own in order to get the best CPU performance, HP has made a wise decision to offer this.

Despite the higher TDP, HP has created fan profiles which they say will allow full turbo performance with no thermal throttling, while at the same time not exceeding their acoustic threshold which I was told was a mere 31 dB. Although they have offered closed loop liquid cooling on their workstations in the past, the Z240 achieves this thermal performance with more traditional air cooling.

(Edit from Ian: It has not been stated if HP will implement a variation of MultiCore Turbo/Acceleration at this time, but given the limited BIOS options of the major OEMs in recent decades, this has probably been overlooked. Frankly, I would be surprised if the BIOS engineers had even heard of mainstream motherboard manufacturers implementing the feature, though I will happily be proved wrong.)

The Z240 is currently offered with a wide range of professional graphics, if required, including the NVIDIA NVS 310, 315, and 510, and Quadro up to the M4000. With yesterday’s announcement of the Pascal Quadro, and today's announcement of the new Radeon Pro WX, they are likely to offer these soon. If a user requires AMD professional graphics, HP will offer the FirePro W2100, W5100, W4300, and the W7100 with 8 GB of memory.

A simple device refresh mid-cycle is far from unexpected, but it is pretty interesting that by talking to their customers HP has found that many of them would prefer higher single threaded performance with a Core i7-6700K, rather than the Xeon ecosystem with a focus on stability and ECC. It will be interesting to see if Intel reacts to this, since the Xeon is a nice high margin product.

As a small comparison, the highest clocked Xeon E3 v5 is the E3-1280 v5 at 3.7-4.0 GHz, and has a recommended customer price of $612 on Intel Ark. The one underneath is the E3-1275 v5 at 3.6-4.0 GHz, but is a more palatable $350. This latter part compares in price to the Core i7-6700K, which is at $350 list price also, however the i7-6700K has the margin on frequency at 4.0-4.2 GHz. Comparing the two Xeons to the Core i7, HP can offer a bit more performance with the trade-off of no ECC support, and in the case of the peak Xeon, save some money as well. For those that need the top raw CPU performance available especially for single-threaded workloads, short of overclocking, this is the way to go.

Source: HP

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Processing Parallel Worlds

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ZenFone 3 Deluxe to be the first smartphone to feature Snapdragon 821 CPU

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Microsoft Surface Phone latest updates: Smartphone rumored to have Atom X3 CPU to support ...

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For now, it still remains to be seen which of the processors Microsoft will be going with, but it is safe to say that the upcoming new Surface Phone will ...

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Intel Broadwell Rollout Complete With Xeon E5 Quads

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The E5-4600 processors, which have just been updated to the “Broadwell” cores and their 14 nanometer processes, are meant to allow for more ...

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Helio X30 Details Show A Smaller Processing Node And A Powerful Customized GPU ...

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Helio X30 will be a cut above Helio X25 and Helio X20; featuring a new processor type introduced by ARM not long ago for better efficiency. However ...

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'Samsung Galaxy Tab S3' release date, specs: Next high-end 'S' device tipped to be launched in ...

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AMD Zen server chips will combine CPU,GPU power

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MacBook Pro 2016 release date, rumors: Laptop may be installed with the Kaby Lake processor

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AMD Announces Radeon Pro SSG: Polaris With M.2 SSDs On-Board

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As part of this evening’s AMD Capsaicin event (more on that later), AMD’s Chief Architect and SVP of the Radeon Technologies Group has announced a new Radeon Pro card unlike anything else. Dubbed the Radeon Pro Solid State Graphics (SSG), this card includes M.2 slots for adding NAND SSDs, with the goal of vastly increasing the amount of local storage available to the video card.

Details are a bit thin and I’ll update this later this evening, but in short the card utilizes a Polaris 10 GPU and includes 2 PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots for adding flash drives to the card. These slots are then attached to the GPU (it’s unclear if there’s a PCIe switch involved or if it’s wired directly), which the GPU can then use as an additional tier of storage. I’m told that the card can fit at least 1TB of NAND – likely limited by M.2 MLC SSD capacities – which massively increases the amount of local storage available on the card.

As AMD explains it, the purpose of going this route is to offer another solution to the workset size limitations of current professional graphics cards. Even AMD’s largest card currently tops out at 32GB, and while this is a fair amount, there are workloads that can use more. This is particular the case for workloads with massive datasets (oil & gas), or as AMD demonstrated, scrubbing through an 8K video file.

Current cards can spill over to system memory, and while the PCIe bus it’s still much slower than local memory, plus it is subject to the latency of the relatively long trip and waiting on the CPU to address requests. Local NAND storage, by comparison, offers much faster round trips, though on paper the bandwidth isn’t as good, so I’m curious to see just how it compares to the real world datasets that spill over to system memory.  Meanwhile actual memory management/usage/tiering is handled by a combination of the drivers and developer software, so developers will need to code specifically for it as things stand.

For the moment, AMD is treating the Radeon Pro SSG as a beta product, and will be selling developer kits for it directly., with full availability set for 2017. For now developers need to apply for a kit from AMD, and I’m told the first kits are available immediately. Interested developers will need to have saved up their pennies though: a dev kit will set you back $9,999.

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AMD Zen CPUs may be limited this year, full volume expected in 2017

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In an AMD earnings call late last week, AMD's CEO, Lisa Su confirmed that while Zen processors for high-end desktops will be available, it will be in ...

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Carson City Computer Corps hosting children's Summer Tech Camp Aug. 1-12

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Computer Corps also is offering in its showroom Windows 7 lap tops and desktops for $95. Specs include Core 2 CPU processor, 2 GB memory, 80+ ...

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AMD Zen Processor; CPU+GPU= Mega High Performance Chip

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AMD is still making great progress and the AMD Zen processor will surely make its debut early next year. AMD is planning to merge the CPU with a ...

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Superior Performance Commits Kyoto University to CPUs Over GPUs

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They worked with Intel to improve Theano multicore performance using a dual-socket Intel Xeon processor based system as the next generation Intel ...

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Apple MacBook Pro 2016 vs. Microsoft Surface Pro 5 – Which One Will You Buy?

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Moto E3 powered by MediaTek processor, thinner than Moto G4 Play

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Xiaomi Laptop Details Leaked Prior To Expected Announcement Event, Seem Expensive

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Intel has begun shipping its 7th generation Kaby Lake processors. The new family of CPUs is based on the same 14nm process as the predecessors ...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 Specs, Release Date: Tablet To Have Snapdragon 652 Processor And ...

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9 to 5 Google reported that the Galaxy Tab S3 will consist of upgraded processor, powered by a 1.8GHz Snapdragon 652 CPU with 3 GB RAM.

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AMD mulls GPU and CPU superchip for datacenres

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The 5-billion transistor Xbox One chip uses an eight-core AMD CPU code-named Jaguar and a Radeon graphics processor. But this is the first time ...

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Mouser - Fixed-point digital signal processor designed for low-power applications

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Texas Instruments TMS320C5545 fixed-point digital signal processor, ... The CPU supports an internal bus structure composed of one program bus, ...

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MacBook Pro 2016 Release Date, News & New MacBook Pro Available In September? But Will ...

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Although Kaby Lake processor is perfect for Retina MacBook Pro, Apple ... In a separate report from Parent Herald, Skylake is a powerful processor. ... In fact, it is 30 times faster than the old CPU while its Intel 500 graphic chips are ...

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Intel '09 X5690 3.46GHZ CPU processor

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CPU Intel Core i7-4790K Processor

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Eyal Goldshmid: Slow computer may be linked to lack of memory

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Apple's MacBook Family Will Not Be Seeing Intel Kaby Lake Processors Till 2017

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Intel has started shipping out its latest 7^th generation Kaby Lake series of processors and despite the fact that Apple's MacBook 2016 family is going to ...

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Is this the best cheap phone for Pokémon Go?

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Xiaomi Redmi Pro release date: Dual-cam setup, deca-core CPU for next Redmi iteration?

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Reportedly, the more premium version of the Redmi Pro will pack a step-up MediaTek Helio X25 MT6797T processor, with 4GB of RAM. Meanwhile ...

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Gaming Desktops With AMD Zen Processor In Limited Volume This Year, Is It The Best CPU From ...

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You Might Hear No More Delay on Macbook Pro 2016 Release Date: Kaby Lake's Arrived to Bring ...

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Xiaomi Redmi Pro confirmed to have deca core CPU

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Xiaomi Redmi Pro will come with Mediatek deca core processor, the company has revealed in its latest teaser. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun shared a teaser on ...

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Streaming Media Player NEXBOX A5 S905X Android 6.0 TV Box Will Be Available On GeekBuying ...

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Dell XPS 13 vs. Dell XPS 15: One Size Doesn't Fit All

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All configurations of the XPS 15 except for the $999 base model, which has a slow Core i3 CPU, come with Core i5 or i7 HQ quad-core processors ...

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Why smartphones heat up and overheat, and how to stop it

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The same can happen with demanding apps, but the burden will here fall on the CPU. Multitasking, extra ... This was the flagship processor of 2015, and was featured in nigh-on every flagship device. From the very start it was ...

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AMD Zen May Arrive In 2016, But Mass Availability Slated For 2017

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AMD CEO Lisa Su responded to questions about the company’s upcoming Zen microprocessors during AMD’s quarterly earnings call. Although it appears some of the Zen CPUs will ship in Q4 2016, most people won’t have access to them until 2017.

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AMD Zen May Arrive In 2016, But Mass Availability Slated For 2017

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AMD CEO Lisa Su responded to questions about the company’s upcoming Zen microprocessors during AMD’s quarterly earnings call. Although it appears some of the Zen CPUs will ship in Q4 2016, most people won’t have access to them until 2017.

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AMD May Ship Limited Volume of Zen FX Processors in Late Q4 2016, Full Volume Availability in ...

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AMD has released a new statement on their Zen FX processors during their latest earnings call. According to the statement, AMD expects first ...

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AMD mulls a CPU+GPU super-chip in a server reboot

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Gamers should love the power-packed Honor 5C

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First up is the next-gen CPU inside the 5C - the 64-bit Kirin 650. Based on a 16nm process, this new processor is smaller and runs cooler than the ...

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AMD Zen - release date, specs, price and rumours

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The new AMD Zen CPU design might just close the gap on Intel's runaway processor performance lead, offering a genuine alternative for the first time ...

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Xeon E5 v4 workload and upgrade considerations for admins

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Memories Are Made Of What?

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Battle of The CPU Stock Coolers! 7x Intel vs 5x AMD, plus an EVO 212

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End users need to be aware of the performance of their current cooling solutions in order to reasonably assess the upgrade that will fit their needs. In this review we will showcase the thermal performance of some popular stock CPU coolers, including the controversial aftermarket Intel BXTS15A and the highly touted AMD Wraith, marketed as offering 125W of near-silent cooling and the equivalent of a $30 freebie. We also included one of the most popular mainstream coolers available, the Cooler Master EVO 212, as a baseline comparison against aftermarket solutions.

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AMD Zen processor release date, specs news: New AMD Zen will most likely come out in October

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One of the most highly anticipated products of AMD, the Zen processor, is the company's bet, as it attempts to return to the x86 CPU market. Apparently ...

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2016 Apple iMac latest updates: Device rumored to come with Kaby Lake CPU and AMD Polaris ...

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... to wait for the release of Intel's new Kaby Lake-based processor if the company wants its product to be a competitive one in the cut-throat PC market.

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Another Honor V8 Max Variant With Kirin 955 Chipset Spotted on TENAA Listing

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AMD Releases Q2 FY 2016 Financial Results

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This afternoon, AMD announced their second quarter earnings for the 2016 fiscal year. It’s been a while, but AMD finds itself in the black for this quarter, with higher revenues, and thanks to $150 million from a joint venture with Nantong Fujitsu Microelectronics, AMD’s net income found its way into the positive column. AMD had revenues of $1.027 billion for the quarter, which is up 23% from last quarter, and more importantly up 9% from a year ago. Gross margin for the quarter was 31%, which is still not what AMD wants or needs to maintain profitability, but it is up 6% from their Q2 2015 results which is good news for the company. AMD did record an operating loss for the quarter of $8 million, but that’s a big improvement compared to the $68 million loss last quarter and $137 million loss in Q2 2015. Net income for this quarter was $68 million, or $0.08 per share, compared to a net loss of $109 million last quarter and a $181 million loss a year ago.

AMD Q2 2016 Financial Results (GAAP)
	Q2'2016	Q1'2016	Q2'2015
Revenue	$1027M	$832M	$942M
Gross Margin	31%	32%	25%
Operating Income	-$8M	-$68M	-$137M
Net Income	$69M	-$109M	-$181M
Earnings Per Share	$0.08	-$0.14	-$0.23

AMD also released Non-GAAP results which exclude restructuring charges and some other results. On a Non-GAAP basis, AMD had the same $1.027 billion in revenue, but showed a slight operating income of $3 million, compared to a $55 million operating loss last quarter and a $87 million loss last year. Looking at net results, AMD had a net loss of $40 million, or $0.05 per share, compared to a $96 million net loss last quarter and a $131 million net loss a year ago.

AMD Q2 2016 Financial Results (Non-GAAP)
	Q2'2016	Q1'2016	Q2'2015
Revenue	$1027M	$832M	$942M
Gross Margin	31%	32%	28%
Operating Income	$3M	-$55M	-$87M
Net Income	-$40M	-$96M	-$131M
Earnings Per Share	-$0.05	-$0.12	-$0.17

AMD attributes their revenue increase primarily to higher sales of its semi-custom SoCs, and with the announcement of the Xbox One Scorpio AMD has secured another design win there. Overall the Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom segment had revenues of $592 million for the quarter, which is up 5% from a year ago, once again attributed to the increased sales of semi-custom SoCs. The segment had an operating income of $84 million for the quarter, up from $27 million in Q2 2015.

AMD Q2 2016 Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom
	Q2'2016	Q1'2016	Q2'2015
Revenue	$592M	$372M	$563M
Operating Income	$84M	$16M	$27M

AMD’s Computing and Graphics segment just had an important quarter with the launch of their first FinFet GPU design in the AMD Radeon RX 480. They’ve also been releasing several Carrizo based APUs and CPUs, as well as announcing Bristol Ridge, and all the while working on Zen. The Computing and Graphics segment had revenues of $435 million for the quarter, which is up 15% from Q2 2015. Notebook processor and GPU sales have been tagged as the reason for the revenue increase. The segment had an operating loss of $81 million, which is better than the $147 million operating loss a year ago, but still a bit way from profitability. Lowered expenses have helped them here quite a bit, but they still have some work to do. AMD’s average selling price of their notebook APUs decreased compared to Q2 2015, and GPU average selling price also declined.

AMD Q2 2016 Computing and Graphics
	Q2'2016	Q1'2016	Q2'2015
Revenue	$435M	$460M	$379M
Operating Income	-$81M	-$70M	-$147M

Looking ahead to next quarter, AMD is expecting revenues to increase 18% from this quarter, plus or minus 3%.

Source: AMD Investor Relations

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Asus ROG GX700, World's First Liquid-Cooled Laptop Launched in India

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It is powered by 6th Gen Intel Skylake Core i7-6820HK processor that runs at 2.7GHz with Turbo up to 3.6GHz. This is coupled with a dedicated Nvidia ...

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Intel Confirms 7th Generation Kaby Lake CPUs Now Shipping

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... Brian Krzanich confirmed for investors is that Intel's upcoming 7th Generation Intel Core processors, codename Kaby Lake, was already shipping.

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Intel Begins Shipment Of Seventh Generation Core: Kaby Lake

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Intel's Coffee Lake will bring six-core CPUs to the masses

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Is Intel about to bring six-core CPUs into its mainstream processor offerings? Apparently so, although you'll have to wait till the year after next for them to arrive.

Yes, according to a leaked slide, Intel is bringing forth Coffee Lake (yet another 'lake' – and a particularly tasty sounding one) in 2018, and this will be based on a 14nm process and offer six-core beasts as well as the usual dual and quad flavors.

Previously, Intel has pushed out six-core CPUs, but only in the form of enthusiast models with wallet-damaging price tags. Obviously, mainstream offerings would be far more accessibly priced.

It's also worth noting that we were led to believe Kaby Lake processors – which have just started shipping to device manufacturers – were to be the last outing on 14nm, with Intel's new scheme of three releases (Broadwell, refinement to Skylake, final hurrah with Kaby Lake). But it seems that Coffee Lake will be the final, even further refined, take.

Cannonlake (which you may previously have heard referred to as Skymont) will be the first step down to 10nm and is still expected to kick off next year.

Skylake-X next year

ZDNet, which spotted these developments, also noted that Intel will have Skylake-X processors coming out in Q3 next year, and these will be the usual high-end exorbitantly priced offerings which come in six-core, along with eight and 10-core varieties.

One last thing worth noting with all these new chip families is that from Kaby Lake onwards, you'll need to be running Windows 10 in order to be able to use the CPUs. They won't be compatible with older versions of Windows, so if you're thinking of a processor upgrade in the future, that's certainly something to bear in mind.

In other words, if you don't pull the trigger for a free Windows 10 upgrade now – before the deadline which is set at the end of this month – you may end up paying for it later.

Meanwhile, AMD's Zen 14nm processors are expected to be unleashed in the final quarter of this year, and are expected to initially be offered in up to eight-core versions, hopefully bringing some more intense competition for Intel.

• Also check out our guide on how to overclock your CPU

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Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian

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A few months ago, IBM brought the relatively cheap S812LC server to the market, making sure the IBM POWER8 is within the budget of almost every datacenter. In this article we assess the capabilities of the "affordable" IBM POWER8 and compare with the Intel Xeon E5 v4 to offer you the very first Little Endian, level playing field benchmarks.  

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Xiaomi Redmi Pro with OLED screen, deca-core CPU could be a powerhouse phone

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The phone in question was said to be powered by MediaTek's Helio X25 processor coupled with 4GB RAM, and Android 6.0 Marshmallow-based MIUI ...

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Intel begins shipping Kaby Lake as next wave of CPUs nears

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Kaby Lake CPUs, the successor to Skylake and seventh generation of Intel's Core processors, have now begun shipping.

This fact was announced by chief executive Brian Krzanich, as Intel revealed its latest financial figures for Q2, although when he says the CPUs have started shipping, that means they're going out to hardware manufacturers, so you won't be able to pop to an online retailer and bag yourself one any time soon.

Rather, we should see PCs running the new processors a few months down the line (and naturally there will be mobile versions of the chips with a premium on power efficiency and helping your laptop battery last longer). Indeed, Microsoft's next Surface devices, including the Surface Book 2, are expected to use Kaby Lake.

Third crack at 14nm

The new chip isn't a big leap from Skylake in terms of the design, as it keeps the same 14nm process (which Broadwell also used – the previous generation to Skylake) and will fit the same socket.

However, it has been tweaked considerably to boost performance over Skylake – as you would hope, or there'd be little point in having a refresh. Exactly how much of a boost you'll get, we'll just have to see.

Note that if you're pondering a future upgrade to Kaby Lake with your current machine, you'll need to be running Windows 10, as older versions of Microsoft's desktop operating system won't support the chip. So with that in mind, now might be the time to take that free upgrade to Windows 10…

Via: PC World

• Also check out our round-up of the 10 top processors from AMD and Intel

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Zopo Mobile Introduces Speed 8; World's First Decacore Handset

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Teaser suggests deca-core CPU and dual camera setup for Xiaomi Redmi Pro

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Intel taking its six-core processors mainstream in 2018 with Coffee Lake family

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Some recently leaked slides suggest that quad-core processors could become passé as the company rolls out more CPUs with six cores -- or higher.

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Intel Announces Q2 FY 2016 Earnings

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In addition to the interesting tidbit about Kaby Lake, Intel also found time today to announce their second quarter earnings for fiscal year 2016. Revenue was up 3% year-over-year, but net income and earnings per share took a big hit due to the restructuring announced in Q1. Revenue for the quarter was $13.5 billion, and while gross margin was down 3.6% to 58.9%, Intel did exceed their outlook on margins. Operating income for the quarter was $1.3 billion, compared to $2.9 billion a year ago, and net income was $1.3 billion as well, down from $2.7 billion last year. Earnings per share came in at $0.27 per share, down 51% from the $0.55 result a year ago.

To account for the restructuring fees and other charges, Intel has also released Non-GAAP results. Revenue was the same at $13.5 billion, and gross margin was 61.8%, which was down 1.3% from a year ago. Operating income was $3.2 billion, down 2% from last year, and net income was down 6% to $2.9 billion. Non-GAAP earnings per share came in at $0.59 per share, down 5% from the $0.62 recording in Q2 2015.

Intel Q2 2016 Financial Results (GAAP)
	Q2'2016	Q1'2016	Q2'2015
Revenue	$13.5B	$13.7B	$13.2B
Operating Income	$1.3B	$2.6B	$2.9B
Net Income	$1.3B	$2.0B	$2.7B
Gross Margin	58.9%	59.3%	62.5%
Client Computing Group Revenue	$7.5B	-3%	-3%
Data Center Group Revenue	$4.0B	+1%	+5%
Internet of Things Revenue	$572M	-12%	+2%
Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group	$554M	-1%	-20%
Intel Security Group	$537M	flat	+10%
Programmable Solutions Group	$465M	+30%	-
All Other Revenue	$40M	-20%	-36.5%

Looking forward to next quarter, Intel sees revenues at $14.9 billion, plus or minus $500 million, with margins around 60%, plus or minus a couple of percent.

Looking at the individual business lines, Intel now has a couple of additional business groupings. After the acquisition of Altera, the formed the Programmable Solutions Group, and they also have the New Technology Group to manage the products designed for wearables, cameras, and other segments. The longer tenured groups are still the Client Computing Group, Data Center Group, Internet of Things Group, Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, and Intel Security Group, as well as “All Other”.

The Client Computing Group is platforms for notebooks, desktops, tablets, phones, and wireless connectivity. This group had revenues of $7.3 billion for the quarter, down 3% year-over-year. Intel decreased sales of their notebook platforms by 5% compared to Q2 2015, but the average selling price increased 2%. Desktops decreased 7%, and average selling price increased 1%. Tablet platform volumes fell 49% to 5 million units. Overall, Client Computing Group unit volumes decreased 15% year-over-year, but average selling prices increased 13%.

The Data Center Group had revenues of $4.027 billion, which is up 5% year-over-year. Unit volumes were up 5% year-over-year, but average selling prices of this line was down 1%.

The Internet of Things group had revenues of $572 million, up 2% year-over-year, while the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group had revenues of $554 million, which is down 20% year-over-year. Intel Security Group revenue was up 10% year-over-year to $537 million, and the new Programmable Solutions Group had revenues of $465 million, up 30% from last quarter when they were acquired.

Intel’s quarter met their expectations, but the restructuring charges have taken a toll on their profitability. Perhaps the most exciting news from this announcement though is that Kaby Lake is now shipping, along side the latest 7360 LTE modem.

Source: Intel Investor Relations

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Intel Begins Shipment Of Seventh Generation Core: Kaby Lake

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Intel had their Q2 earnings today, and while we’ll get to that shortly, some news came out of the earnings call that was interesting. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich stated on their earnings call that Intel is now shipping their 7^th Generation Core processor, code named Kaby Lake.

Kaby Lake was not even a product not that long ago, but with Intel coming up against the laws of physics with process shrinks, they made the announcement a year ago that they would be adding more architectures per process shrink. The delays in moving to 22 nm and then 14 nm meant that they were missing the anticipated product launches for their OEMs, which left the OEMs with quarters where they would have no new products to sell. In an attempt to smooth out the timelines to a more reasonable cadence, while at the same time coming to grips with the complexity of moving to smaller and smaller processes, Intel announced Kaby Lake as a successor to Skylake, which would build on Skylake and offer additional architectural improvements.

This was big news at the time mostly because Intel’s previous Tick Tock strategy was so successful. To abandon it was certainly an important step for the company, but with Kaby Lake seemingly on-time for a fall launch this year, just a year after Skylake launched, points to the investment being the correct one.

When Intel says they are shipping, they of course mean they are shipping to their device manufacturer partners, so we should start seeing Kaby Lake based computers this fall.

Another interesting point brought up during the call was on yields. Intel has found itself in a situation where it’s inventory levels are higher than they would like them to be, and the answer to this was yields. Intel’s yields improved in Q1, and to quote Stacy J. Smith, Intel’s CFO and EVP, “Frankly, they got a lot better in Q2 as well” which is likely another reason why Kaby Lake is being delivered on-time.

We should learn more about Kaby Lake at Intel’s IDF which is coming up in mid-August.

Source: Intel Investor Call

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