Intel Lynnfield LGA1156 Core i5/i7 Released

It has been less than a year ago since Intel launched the Nehalem-based LGA1366 Core i7 CPUs however most of these processors were far to expensive for your average consumer. The Lynnfield LGA1156 Core i5 & i7 are the processors that are designed for the mainstream market and will be the logical successor from the…

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Intel and Micron develop smallest, cheapest NAND flash yet

Intel and Micron have just announced the development of a new Multi Level Cell NAND Flash based on a 34nm fabrication process using three-bits-per-cell. The 2 companies say this will allow them to produce 32Gb chips smaller and cheaper than those currently available on the market. These developments are quite important for the penetration of…

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Intel Core i7 and Core i5 Platforms get SLI Support

NVIDIA have finally announced that Intel Corporation, and the world’s other leading motherboard manufacturers, including ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI, have all licensed NVIDIA SLI technology for inclusion on their Intel P55 Express Chipset-based motherboards designed for the upcoming Intel Core i7 and i5 processor in the LGA1156 socket. As a result, customers who purchase…

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Intel Westmere images leaked

Intel’s six-core Xeon processor, known as Westmere, has been seen in a leak of an engineering sample. Still identified as a mainstream Core i7 chip by software, the Xeon W5590 example runs at a relatively low 2.4GHz clock speed but has 12MB of Level 3 cache shared between all cores and 256KB of Level 2…

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Intel Lynnfield Capable of 2.3Ghz DDR3

Recently Bit Tech have had the chance to play with one of Intel’s new Lynfield CPUs with a new Gigabyte P55 motherboard. During their testing they found quite a pleasant surprise – the 2GB OCZ Blade 2,000MHz CL8 DDR3 they were using would quite easily overclock to 2.3GHz. The only option the BIOS would allow…

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