AMD and Nvidia have little to fear from Intel's DG1
Published in Graphics


No great shakes after all

Intel's crack at a discrete GPU Xe DG1 graphics card has been spotted in a 3DMark benchmark and scored 5,538 in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test (paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor) and hit a graphics score of 5,960.

Tiger Lake may start at 3GHz
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 08 April 2020 09:41

Tiger Lake may start at 3GHz


New X3 graphics beats Ryzen 7 4800U

Intel launched its 10th generation Core architecture on May 27, 2019, at Computex last year, and it is most likely aiming to launch a Tiger Lake successor in a similar time frame. Ice Lake U will get replaced by Tiger Lake U, and the first leaks suggest a base clock of 3GHz.

Intel new NUCs to come with 28W Tiger Lake CPUs
Published in PC Hardware


Featuring Intel's Xe graphics

Intel's new Next Unit of Computing (NUC) will be based on Tiger Lake processors, and according to the latest details, it will be available in two versions, standard and gaming-oriented, both using 28W Tiger Lake-U CPUs with Intel Xe graphics.

Intel shows its DG1 discrete Xe GPU at CES 2020
Published in Graphics


Still just a dev card but it runs games

While Intel brought a lot of things to show at the CES 2020 show, the biggest surprise was the developer DG1 discrete Xe GPU, which was both showed running a game as a part of the Intel keynote as well as behind close doors to members of the press.

Intel taped out, booted discrete GPU
Published in Graphics
Monday, 28 October 2019 23:25

Intel taped out, booted discrete GPU


Codename DG1 is alive CEO confirms

Intel’s CEO Bob Swan has provided the financial community an update on its good Q3 2019 financial performance and mentioned a few recent milestones. In this quarter, Q3 19, Intel achieved power on exit for the first discrete GPU.

Intel’s XE GPUs will get ray tracing
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 08 May 2019 13:02

Intel’s XE GPUs will get ray tracing


Professionals will be able to trace any rays they see

Intel's Xe discreet graphics cards are set to get ray tracing according to Intel's senior principal engineer and senior director of advanced rendering and visualisation.

Intel's new graphics solution is codenamed Xe
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:04

Intel's new graphics solution is codenamed Xe


From Teraflops to Petaflops

Intel organized an architecture day on the late Robert Noyce’s estate, a founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, a $22 million estate where Intel used to have its board meetings. At this symbolic landmark, Intel’s Raja Koduri, Jim Keller, Murthy as well as dozen other engineers gave the press an overview in 10nm, future GPUs, FPGAs and server products.