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Intel Shares PL1, PL2, and Tau Values Ever since before Intel launched its Comet Lake CPUs, there were questions about what kind of power draw these chips would maintain. Intel shared some of the values at launch, but we haven’t seen a full set of PL1, PL2, and Tau values …

A Brief History of Intel CPUs, Part 2: Pentium II Through Comet Lake In Part 1 of this guide, we discussed the various Intel CPUs from the beginning of the company through to the Pentium Pro. Before we dive into the other CPUs in Intel’s overall history, in celebrating the …

Intel May Not Launch a New HEDT CPU This Year Normally, Intel refreshes both its desktop and its HEDT product lines on a yearly cadence, with HEDT tending to launch after the desktop refresh. Since Skylake-X debuted in 2017 the two platforms have used the same architecture, with desktop chips …

Intel Doesn’t Want to Talk About Benchmarks Anymore At Computex last week, Intel CEO Bob Swan spoke about the overall state of the computer and technology industry and the impact that the pandemic has had on computing. He also called on the industry to move away from benchmarking and towards …

— and the Mobile Market Update (6/1/2020): We’ve republished the story below as a discussion of how Intel’s mobile efforts consumed so much of the company’s attention, yet ultimately came to naught. In the years since this story was published in 2016, Intel attempted to build a competitive 5G modem …

How Intel Lost the Mobile Market, Part 2: The Rise and Neglect of Atom Update (6/1/2020): The article below may have been written in 2016, but it still stands up as a postmortem of what went wrong with Intel’s mobile efforts — with one very important omission. Back in 2016, …

Samsung makes and sells a phenomenal number of phones, computers, and other electronics. However, many devices that don’t bear the Samsung brand still have parts manufactured by Samsung in them. According to analysts, this fact is set to push Samsung past Intel to make it the world’s largest chip maker. …

For the last six years, Intel has followed the same naming conventions for its server chips. The Xeon E3, E5, and E7 families mirror the Core i3, i5, and i7 families, in that each successive tier of products adds features and capabilities. Intel’s E3v5 family, for example, are single-socket chips …

After years of teasing and a major enterprise launch, Intel’s Optane memory is finally available for PCs and enthusiast systems. While it’s limited to Kaby Lake processors and 200-series motherboards, this launch of a fundamentally new type of memory should offer significant performance improvements in at least some workloads. Early …

Over the past six weeks, AMD’s Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 CPUs have been making Intel’s life a bit difficult. Chipzilla’s standard desktop lineup has been rattled by AMD’s new chips, which offer higher core counts and better performance in many workloads for significantly less money. Intel, of course, was …