Nvidia steps into Intel’s and Microsoft’s shoes
Beginning of a new error
Today will be a big day at CES but instead of the traditional keynote speaker from Intel or Microsoft, the event is going to be kicked off by the understated CEO of Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
Intel NUC gets new processors
But its connections are more useful
Chipzilla’s "Next Unit of Computing" (NUC) hardware has been one of the few bright spots of the PC industry, and now it seems that Intel wants to give them a refresh.
Zotac bringing GTX 1080 Mini to CES 2017 show
External Graphics Dock as well
Zotac will be bringing some rather interesting new products to the Consumer Electronics Show 2017, which starts on January 5th, 2017, in Las Vegas. In addition to the Mini PCs equipped with the latest Intel Kaby Lake CPU and Thunderbolt 3 connectivity, Zotac will also show a short SFF-ready GTX 1080 Mini as well as its own external graphics dock.
Intel's Core i7-7700K overclocked past 7GHz
Better overclocking than Skylake
While it might not be interesting for an average consumer, Intel's upcoming 7th generation Core Kaby Lake CPU series might be quite popular with overclockers as it is much better overclocker than Skylake and manages to hit a stable 7GHz overclock.
AMD users dividing themselves
GPU and CPU loyalty no longer guaranteed
PCPartPicker has been looking at the trends for users and they are noticing that AMD CPU buyers are not always buying AMD GPUs.
Retail Kaby Lake CPU boxes pictured
Nearly identical to Skylake ones
Picture of retail boxes for Intel's upcoming 7th generation Core Kaby Lake CPUs have found its way online showing that Intel won't change much, at least when it comes to packaging.
Dell to update its XPS 15 notebook with fresh hardware
Intel Kaby Lake CPUs and Nvidia GTX 1050 GPU
Dell has accidentally revealed its upcoming XPS 15 notebook update that will be getting a fresh hardware boost with Intel's Kaby Lake CPUs, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 GPU, fingerprint scanner, Windows Hello and Killer Wi-Fi networking.
2017 will be the year of ARM Windows
Mother of Snapdragons might bite Intel
Next year will see the arrival of ARM based Windows machines and while the beasts have not been that popular in the past, it is expected that this time it will be different.
AMD eight core SKU beats up Chipzilla
In two CPU benchmarks
AMD was keen to show some performance figures of its upcoming eight core Ryzen SKU at the New Horizon event and has compared it to Intel's US $1049.99 priced Core i7-6900K eight core Broadwell-E CPU.
2017 could be when barbarians overwhelm Intel
Empire doomed
It has been said for a while now that Intel’s glorious empire, on which the sun never sets, could be overthrown by barbarians, but so far the chip maker has managed to thrive.