Last month, Intel unleashed its highly anticipated Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. We had been hearing about Ivy Bridge for what seemed like an eternity leading up to the launch, and although not based ...

Apple's refreshed MacBook Air is considerably more powerful than its predecessor, initial benchmarks reveal, with the Core i5 version of the latest models offering a significant performance boost over ...

Our creative director Aurich Lawson is building a PC to power a custom arcade cabinet, and he was having trouble picking a processor. Not because he didn’t know what he needed, but because he was ...

Intel Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 CPUs have been around for a few years now, but some buyers still get stumped whenever they attempt to build their own systems and are forced to choose among the ...

Apple this week refreshed its MacBook Air lineup with a scissor switch Magic Keyboard and faster 10th-generation Intel Core processor options, including a 1.1GHz dual-core Core i3, 1.1GHz quad-core ...

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Apple unleashed a pile of new Mac hardware on its users Tuesday: new 13″ Retina MacBook Pros and Mac Minis using Intel’s newest Ivy Bridge processors are available for shipping now, while ...

From preview to review, join us as we check out the Intel Core i5 7600K processor. Once again developed on the 14nm node the Core i5 series processors are intended to be the more budget friendly ...

Multicore CPUs first appeared on the desktop and laptop PC platforms around 2005. Though Intel currently has the lion's share of different x86/x86-64 multicore processor models, AMD beat Intel to ...

Intel’s two new Core i7 CPUs (860 and 870) are mid-range counterparts to its top-of-the-line Core i7 900-series chips, and initial tests (using Intel’s new DP55KG motherboard) indicate their ...

It’s processor Christmas! Today Intel released the two leading desktop processors of its new 14nm Skylake architecture, the i7-6500K (clocked at 4.0 GHz) and the i5-6600K (clocked at 3.5 GHz). Both ...