Intel
Today, Intel announced that it is looking to progress its AI PC Acceleration program further by offering various new toolkits and devkits designed for software and hardware AI developers under a new AI PC Developer Program sub-initiative. Originally launched on October 23, the AI PC Acceleration program was created to connect hardware vendors with software developers, using Intel's vast resources and experience to develop a broader ecosystem as the world pivots to one driven by AI development. Intel aims to maximize the potential of AI applications and software and broaden the whole AI-focused PC ecosystem by aiming for AI within 100 million Intel-driven AI PCs by 2025. The AI PC Developer Program aims to simplify the adoption of new AI technologies and frameworks on a...
Rendering and HPC Benchmark Session Using Our Best Servers
Each time we publish a new server platform review, several of our readers inquire about HPC and rendering benchmarks. We're always willing to accommodate reasonable requests, so we're going...
52 by Johan De Gelas on 9/30/2011Intel Engineer Ports QuickSync Video Decoding to FFDShow
An Intel engineer by the name of Eric Gur started an AVSForum thread indicating he had begun work on enabling Quick Sync support in FFDShow's video decoder. Quick Sync...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/28/2011Introducing the Tizen Project
When Intel first announced its intentions to enter the smartphone space it needed an OS that demanded the additional silicon Intel was willing to invest in this market. With...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/28/2011Intel Releases Atom D2500 and D2700 Processors
Back in April, we reported the specifications of Intel's upcoming Cedar Trail platform. On Sunday, Intel quietly updated their CPU price list with two new SKUs: Atom D2500 and...
20 by Kristian Vättö on 9/27/2011Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposed
Five years ago Intel announced its ambitious tick-tock release cadence. We were doubtful that Intel could pull off such an aggressive schedule but with the exception of missing a...
98 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/17/2011There Will Be Two 32nm Atom SoCs in 2012: Medfield and One Other
Intel did a good job of showing off what it promises to deliver with Medfield at IDF: a reasonably looking smartphone and tablet built around the platform. As a...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/17/2011IDF 2011 Recap and Announcing Pipeline
A little over a month ago we quietly introduced a new section to AnandTech called Pipeline. You'll find it in the right hand column of the site where we...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/16/2011Rattner Shows off Near Threshold Voltage Intel Architecture CPU
Most modern day Intel CPUs run at or above 1V depending on clock speed. For years we had seen decreasing core voltages as Intel transitioned to lower power manufacturing...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2011Intel and Micron Develop Hybrid Memory Cube, Stacked DRAM is Coming
During the final keynote of IDF, Intel's Justin Rattner demonstrated a new stacked DRAM technology called the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC). The need is clear: if CPU performance is...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2011Counting Transistors: Why 1.16B and 995M Are Both Correct
Yesterday we published Ivy Bridge's transistor count as 1.48 billion. It turns out that was wrong as Intel's Mooly Eden accidentally read the B in billion as an 8...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2011A look at Windows 8 Tablets running on TI, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD and Intel silicon
This afternoon (and yesterday) we had a chance to meet with a number of SoC vendors who have partnered with Microsoft for Windows 8. Each of them has their...
94 by Brian Klug on 9/14/2011Intel Discloses Cherryville & Hawley Creek SSDs: Intel's Fastest SSD in Q4
In addition to the SSD 710 series, Intel also disclosed two more SSDs codenamed: Cherryville and Hawley Creek. Cherryville is Intel's next 6Gbps SATA drive, replacing the SSD 510...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011Intel Officially Announces SSD 710 Series for the Enterprise
Intel just announced its latest SSD: the enterprise focused Intel SSD 710 series. The specs don't deviate very far from what we published a couple of months ago. The...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011First Look at Gigabyte's UEFI Setup on X79
As we mentioned in our X79 coverage yesterday, none of the motherboard manufacturers were allowed to show BIOS/UEFI screenshots out of fear of accidentally disclosing clock speeds. Gigabyte's X79...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011LG's Shuriken Self Refreshing Panel Aims to Improve Notebook Battery Life by Up to an Hour
We've been hearing about self refreshing panels for years now and today Intel demonstrated one such panel using LG's Shuriken panel. The premise is simple: there's a small amount...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011Ultrabooks on Video: Rapid Start & Smart Connect
Ultrabooks are a three year play for the industry and it's clear that software & features are going to be a major part of the evolution. Intel showed off...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011First Shot of Haswell, Working Demo at IDF
What you're looking at above is the first shot of Haswell, Intel's 2013 Core microarchitecture that replaces Ivy Bridge. Haswell is designed for a 10 - 20W range of...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011Ivy Bridge: 1.4B Transistors
Intel's Mooly Eden just disclosed Ivy Bridge's transistor count to a captive audience at IDF this morning: 1.4 billion transistors. That's presumably for the quad-core version compared to 1.16B...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011X79 Motherboards from Gigabyte & MSI at IDF 2011
IDF isn't a traditional trade show in the sense that the majority of the show isn't built around a wide open show floor with tons of booths and product...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011And Now: Ivy Bridge GPU Architectures Detailed
We just finished going over the GPU portion of Ivy Bridge in Intel's IVB tech session. If you're interested, the slides are below.
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011