Intel
Intel's Meteor Lake series of processors was launched in September 2023 with a focus on mobile platforms. Multiple mini-PC vendors have utilized these processors to market offerings in the SFF / UCFF desktop market. ACEMAGIC is an Asian manufacturer with products in multiple categories including micro-PCs, UCFF (ultra-compact form-factor) and SFF (small form-factor) PCs, and notebooks. They were one of the first to market with Meteor Lake-based desktop systems. The ACEMAGIC F2A 125H is the entry-level version of the F2A line, equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor. It is a bit larger than the traditional NUCs, slotting it in the SFF category. However, that allows for the processor to be operated at 65W (compared to the 28 - 40W adopted in the...
Holiday Guides 2014: CPUs
For the majority of applications, the CPU can be the most expensive and most important and most researched component of a desktop machine. In a handful of scenarios (perhaps...
26 by Ian Cutress on 12/1/2014
Asustor AS7008T 8-bay Intel Haswell SMB NAS Review
Asustor is one of the recent entrants in the NAS market. Over the last couple of years, they have tried to play in the same space as QNAP and...
29 by Ganesh T S on 11/30/2014
Intel's 3D NAND to Ship in H2'15: 256Gbit Die & 32 Layers
Last Thursday in its annual Investor Meeting Intel revealed the first details of its 3D NAND technology and announced that it will begin the shipments of 3D NAND in...
58 by Kristian Vättö on 11/25/2014
Intel Haswell-EP Xeon 14 Core Review: E5-2695 V3 and E5-2697 V3
Moving up the Xeon product stack, the larger and more complicated the die, the lower the yield. Intel sells its 14-18 core Xeons from a top end design that...
44 by Ian Cutress on 11/20/2014
Intel's Xeon Phi: After Knights Landing Comes Knights Hill
As SC’14 rolls on this week, taking part in the show’s events is Intel, who was at the show to deliver an update on the Xeon Phi lineup. As...
15 by Ryan Smith on 11/18/2014
Nokia Announces N1 Tablet: 7.9” & Powered By Android
Since selling their mobile device division to Microsoft, much contemplation has been had over the future of Nokia. As it slowly turns out, their future is not all that...
54 by Ryan Smith on 11/18/2014
Synology DS1815+ 8-bay Intel Rangeley SMB NAS Review
Synology started the roll-out of their SMB-targeted NAS units based on Intel's latest Atom platform (Rangeley) in September 2014. We have already looked at the 4-bay DS415+ in detail...
65 by Ganesh T S on 11/18/2014
Intel Plans Merger Of Mobile And PC Divisions
According to a report this evening from the Wall Street Journal, in an email sent to employees by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, Intel has announced plans to merge their...
34 by Brett Howse on 11/18/2014
Intel Launches M.2 and Larger Capacity 2.5" SSD DC S3500 Models
Two years ago Intel released the DC S3500 and S3700 SSDs that marked as the company's first truly in-house SATA 6Gbps SSDs. Today Intel is adding M.2 form factor...
10 by Kristian Vättö on 11/11/2014
MSI GT72 Dominator Pro Review: GTX 980M Reigns Supreme
When it comes to high-end gaming notebooks, there are only a few real competitors: Alienware, ASUS, Clevo (under various brand names), and MSI are the main options, with a...
57 by Jarred Walton on 11/11/2014
Intel Haswell-EP Xeon 12 Core Review: E5-2650L V3 and E5-2690 V3
As part of our Haswell-EP coverage, the next two processors on our test beds are both 12 core variants. The E5-2650L V3 is a surprising monster, giving 12 Haswell...
52 by Ian Cutress on 11/6/2014
Audience Announces S1.0 for Windows x86
While smartphones have always had a strong need for quality voice processing, on the PC side such concerns have generally fallen to the wayside as voice was generally ignored...
8 by Joshua Ho on 11/5/2014
Lenovo ThinkStation P300 Workstation Review: Haswell plus Quadro
Individual under-the-desk workstations are an integral part of modern society. Normally a work PC is either thought-limited or throughput-limited, but depending on the type of business and financials of...
57 by Ian Cutress on 11/4/2014
Synology Launches 8-bay Rangeley-based DS1815+
In the last week of September, Synology launched their Intel Rangeley-based DS415+. In our review, we found it resolved most of the issues encountered in the previous Atom-based SMB...
11 by Ganesh T S on 11/4/2014
Acer Announces UHD V Nitro Black Edition Laptop
Back in late September, Acer announced a new line of laptops, the V Nitro Black Edition of their popular V series. The V series in many ways is the...
20 by Jarred Walton on 11/3/2014
More Intel Core M Coming Q4
Since Computex, there has been a lot of talk around Intel’s Broadwell-Y / Core-M CPU line. In August Intel treated us to a breakdown of the 14nm process and...
42 by Ian Cutress on 11/3/2014
ASUS Announces Z97 Pro Gamer: Semi-ROG for Pentium-AE Gaming
The flagship ASUS gaming motherboards are designed to offer the best ASUS’ R&D have to offer and are often the lynchpin in a number of enthusiast builds. These...
17 by Ian Cutress on 10/31/2014
Synology DS415+ Review: DSM on Intel Rangeley
Synology recently launched the DS415+, their first Intel Rangeley-based NAS. This 4-bay NAS, targeted towards SMBs and SOHOs, finally brings about hardware accelerated encryption capabilities to DSM in the...
42 by Ganesh T S on 10/30/2014
The Battle of Bay Trail-D: GIGABYTE J1900N-D3V and ASUS J1900I-C Reviewed
All the recent talk of Haswell-E and high-end refreshes has obscured the more casual computing market. The Bay Trail platform uses Intel’s Atom based Silvermont cores and competes directly...
60 by Ian Cutress on 10/17/2014
Intel Q3 FY 2014 Quarterly Earnings Analysis
Today Intel released their financial results for the third quarter of their 2014 fiscal year, which ended September 27, 2014. Q3 was a record quarter for Intel, with the...
37 by Brett Howse on 10/14/2014
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