I knew him; IDF, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy
It is not a post-PC world but it is now officially a post-IDF world as Intel announces they are too diverse to host such a PC-centric conference. It was 20 years ago…
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Podcast #413 – NVIDIA Pascal Mobile, ARM and Intel partner on 10nm, Flash Memory Summit and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #413 - 08/18/2016 Join us this week as we discuss the new mobile GeForce GTX 10-series gaming notebooks, ARM and Intel partnering on 10nm, Flash…
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Gigabyte BRIX Gaming UHD Combines 2.6L Chassis with Discrete GPU
While wandering around the exhibit area at this year’s Intel Developers Forum, I ran into our friends at Gigabyte a brand new BRIX small form factor PC. The BRIX Gaming UHD takes…
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IDF 2016: ScaleMP Merges Software-Defined Memory With Storage-Class Memory, Makes Optane Work Like RAM
ScaleMP has an exciting announcement at IDF today, but before we get into it, I need to do some explaining. Most IT specialists know how to employ virtualization to run multiple virtual…
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IDF 2016: Intel To Demo Optane XPoint, Announces Optane Testbed for Enterprise Customers
IDF 2016 is up and running, and Intel will no doubt be announcing and presenting on a few items of interest. Of note for this Storage Editor are multiple announcements pertaining to…
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Podcast #396 – MSI Gaming Notebooks, Intel Layoffs, the PlayStation Neo and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #396 - 04/21/2016 Join us this week as we discuss MSI Gaming Notebooks, Intel Layoffs, the PlayStation Neo and more! You can subscribe to us through
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IDF Shenzhen: Intel Demos 3D XPoint Optane File Copy at 2 GB/s
At IDF Shenzhen, Intel talked more about 3D XPoint (spoken cross-point). Initially launched in July of last year, 3D XPoint is essentially a form of phase change memory which...
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Intel Skylake Processor Architecture Overview – Scaling from tablets to servers
The Skylake architecture is Intel’s first to get a full release on the desktop in more than two years. While that might not seem like a long time in the…
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Podcast #318 – GTX 980 and R9 390X Rumors, Storage News from IDF, ADATA SP610 SSDs and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #318 - 09/18/2014 Join us this week as we discuss GTX 980 and R9 390X Rumors, Storage News from IDF, ADATA SP610 SSDs and more! You can…
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IDF 2014 Storage Roundup – RAM and NVMe and IOPS! Oh my!
The Intel Developer Forum was last week, and there were many things to be seen for sure. Mixed in with all of the wearable and...
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Intel Loves Exponential Trends: Shrinking Mini-PCs
A few years ago, Intel introduced the NUC line of small form factor PCs. At this year's IDF, they have announced plans to make even smaller, and cheaper, specifications...
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Podcast #317 – ASUS X99 Deluxe Review, Core M Performance, 18 Core Xeons and much more news from IDF!
PC Perspective Podcast #317 - 09/11/2014 Join us this week as we discuss our ASUS X99 Deluxe Review, Core M Performance, 18 Core Xeons and much more news from IDF! You…
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IDF 2014: Through Silicon Via – Connecting memory dies without wires
If you're a general computer user, you might have never heard the term "Through Silicon Via". If you geek out on photos of chip dies and wafers, and how chips are assembled…
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IDF 2014: Intel Shows Core M 5Y70 Performance Numbers
During a press session today with Intel, I was able to get some early performance results on Broadwell-Y in the form of the upcoming Core M 5Y70 processor.
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IDF 2014: Skylake Silicon Up and Running for 2H 2015 Release
2015 is shaping up to be an interesting year for Intel's consumer processor product lines. We are still expected to see Broadwell make some kind of debut in a socketed form in…
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IDF 2014: Western Digital announces new Ae HDD series for archival / cold storage
We talked about helium filled, shingled HDD's from HGST earlier today. Helium may give you reduced power demands, but at the added expensive of hermetically sealed enclosures over conventional HDD's. Shingling may…
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IDF 2014: HGST announces 3.2TB NVMe SSDs, shingled 10TB HDDs
It's the first day of IDF, so it's only natural that we see a bunch of non-IDF news start pouring out :). I'll kick them off with a few announcements from HGST.…
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IDF 2014: Intel and Google Announce Reference Design Program, Guaranteed 2 Week AOSP Updates
During today's keynote of the Intel Developer Forum, Google and Intel jointly announced a new program aimed to ease the burden of Android deployment and speed up the operating system update adoption…
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