Nvidia Kal-El+ Is Just a 28nm Die Shrink of the Original Kal-El - Report

The Kal-El+ name popped up here and there for a couple of times in these past few months, but until recently nobody outside of Nvidia knew what this SoC is all about. The mystery however seems to be unraveled now thanks to the VR-Zone website, which recently published a report regarding the state of Nvidia’s Project Denver architecture where it also reveals that Kal-El+ is nothing more than a die shrink of the current Kal-El, aka Tegra 3. Sadly, we don’t know if the move to 28nm will also be accompanied by an increase in operating clocks, but this is highly possible if you ask me. When this 28nm SoC will arrive is anybody’s guess at this time, but I think that mid-2012 is the only timeframe that actually makes any sense as by the end of...

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Intel Launches Celeron G460 and 807UE Sandy Bridge CPUs

A few days ago, we reported that Intel plans to update its processor lineup with a series of new low-cost Celeron chips, namely the G460 and 807UE, which were just made official by the Santa Clara-based company. The CPUs were spotted by the CPU-World publication and both of these pack at least one unique feature that makes them stand out from the rest of Intel’s Celeron parts. In the case of the G460 this special feature is the chip’ support for the Hyper-Threading technology, thus becoming the first Celeron CPU to include this option, while the 807UE comes with an ultra-low power design that enables it to fit into a 10W TDP. As far as the rest of the specs are concerned, the Celeron 807UE packs a single processing core clocked at 1GHz which...

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Intel Core i7-3960X and i7-3930K CPUs to Reach C2 Stepping in January 2012

Intel is preparing a new revision of its current desktop Sandy Bridge-E processors launched in mid-November that will arrive in January of 2012 and will fix the VT-d errata present in the C1 stepping of these CPUs. As our review of the Core i7-3960X has shown, when used for running highly multi-threaded apps the performance that Sandy Bridge-E is capable of is downright impressive, but despite all this power Intel wasn’t able to resolve all the issues present in Sandy Bridge-E in time for its launch. The most important of these for workstation and server users is the lack of VT-d hardware virtualization. This can be a real show stopper where hardware acceleration of a virtual machine is a must, so Intel has now prepared the C2 revision of...

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Intel Prepares Core i5-2550K Unlocked Processor

After the release of the Core i7-2700K, Intel is now working on another multiplier-unlocked Sandy Bridge part, this time from the Core i5 series, namely the i5-2550K, which is expected to arrive at about the same time as AMD’s next wave of FX-Series processors. This launch strategy would help Intel to better its position in its fight against AMD’s Bulldozer CPUs which all feature an unlocked design. The new chip was uncovered by CPU-World in Intel’s Material Declaration Data Sheets database that was updated at the end of last week in order to include this new part, identified as the BX80623I52550K. No specifications for the Core i5-2550K were provided together with the chip’s listing. However, this CPU is expected to resemble a great deal...

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Intel’s Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K CPU Benchmarked

Everybody nowadays seems to have access to engineering samples of Intel Ivy Bridge processors and one of these users was kind enough to post online a series of benchmarks describing the performance of the upcoming Core i7-3770K in various benchmarks. The tests run on the quad-core Intel processor included 3DMark 06, Fritz Chess, and Cinebench 11.5, both in their single and multi-threaded versions, if available. You can check out the results in the gallery bellow this post and compare it with your own processor as all the benchmarks run are available for free on the Web. For those of you who aren’t up to speed with Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge chips, you should know that the Core i7-3770K tested by bigpao007 has a 3.5GHz base speed, 3.9Ghz...

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Nokia Lumia 900 Specs ‘Confirmed’, Still Under Development

Nokia has yet to make an official announcement on when its next Windows Phone will become available for purchase, but it seems that lucky users have already managed to play a bit with the device.  We’re referring here to the Lumia 900 smartphone that made it to the headlines a few times before, and which has fallen into the hands of a guy over at GeekTechBlog. No photos with it were made available, but we’re assured that the smartphone is real, and that it looks and feels great, although still under development at the moment. Specs such as the 4.3-inch WVGA Clear Black screen or the 1.4GHz application processor and 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back were “confirmed” as well, along with the next version of Windows Phone. The phone...

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