Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E Introduced in Japan

Japan got lucky somehow, having become the place where Intel's Core i7-3820 central processing unit is now ready to step out of boxes, more or less. At long last, the Intel Core i7-3820 CPU from the Sandy Bridge-E series has been released in the Country of Sunrise. As part of the top-tier chip collection, it features high-end performance parameters that will put many other CPUs to shame. Still, this is not the most powerful of SB-E chips, as it has some of its cores disabled. That said, the quad-core newcomer is sure to make short work of most anything thrown at it, be it a game, an editing program or just casual and random tasks. The base clock speed is of 3.6 GHz, quite impressive on its own, even though Turbo Boost can take it higher. Unfortunately,...

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Gigabyte S1081 Intel Cedar Trail Slate Specs Revealed

When it first presented the S1081 slate at this year’s CES fair, Gigabyte kept many of the specs of this tablet under lock and key, but recently all of these have been revealed when the marker added the device to its website. Just like the rest of the Cedar Tail based slates to arrive so far, the S1081 is targeting business users, so the company has opted for running a full version of Windows 7 with a series of enterprise-class customizations. At its heart will stand the new 1.86 GHz Atom N2800 processor, which includes two computing cores with Hyper-Threading support as well as Intel integrated graphics.  Intel’s Cedar Trail processors are the company’s first Atom CPUs built using the 32nm fabrication process, and feature a unified...

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Nvidia Kepler GK104 Will Be Available in Two Versions, Says Report

Nvidia’s upcoming GK104 graphics core based on the company’s next-gen Kepler architecture is expected to arrive in two different versions, according to a report that has reached the Web recently. According to SemiAccurate’s findings, the two graphics cores will be called GK104-400 and GK104-335. Both of these will actually be based on the same GPU, but the former comes as a fully working GK104, while the latter is partially fused off version of the same chip. The main difference between the two lies in the number of graphics processing clusters they will include, since the -400 is said to be a “8 group” device compared to the -335 which is described as a “7 group” GPU. According to the source, Nvidia took this decision because it wanted...

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New Samsung Galaxy S III Concept Emerges

During the first half of the ongoing year, Samsung is expected to bring to the market the successor of its highly popular Galaxy S II smartphone. The company has yet to confirm an official release date for it, along with specs and the like, but that does not stop enthusiasts from imagining what the mobile phone will be all about. We already hand the chance to have a look at one Galaxy S III concept phone, and a new one is now available for your viewing pleasure.  The new device - which emerged over at Android Advices - comes from Long Nong Huang and is meant to pack inside the latest advancements in the mobile industry.  The Samsung Galaxy S III concept phone packs an NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset, a quad-core application processor that...

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