IDF 2011
Thanks VR-Zone for the image! IDF 2011 ended on last Thursday but there is still lots of data showing up because sites are processing the data they have gathered. VR-Zone is now reporting that Ivy Bridge's GPU will support resolutions of up to 4096x4096 (commonly referred as 4Kx4K). We took a deeper look at the IB GPU in our Ivy Bridge Architecture piece, but we missed this upgrade. Sandy Bridge's GPU supports only resolutions of up to 2560x1600, so this is a huge jump since 4Kx4K has over four times more pixels. It's unlikely that we will see any 4Kx4K displays though, given that 16:9 is the standard nowadays (some higher-end are 16:10 though). That suggests a resolution of 4096x2304, which actually makes more sense...
Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposed
Five years ago Intel announced its ambitious tick-tock release cadence. We were doubtful that Intel could pull off such an aggressive schedule but with the exception of missing a...
98 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/17/2011
There Will Be Two 32nm Atom SoCs in 2012: Medfield and One Other
Intel did a good job of showing off what it promises to deliver with Medfield at IDF: a reasonably looking smartphone and tablet built around the platform. As a...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/17/2011
IDF 2011 Recap and Announcing Pipeline
A little over a month ago we quietly introduced a new section to AnandTech called Pipeline. You'll find it in the right hand column of the site where we...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/16/2011
Corsair Enters the Gaming Keyboard & Mouse Market with Vengeance
In a private media event this week Corsair unveiled its latest contribution to the PC industry: gaming keyboards, mice and headsets. All of these new peripherals fall under the...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/16/2011
Rattner Shows off Near Threshold Voltage Intel Architecture CPU
Most modern day Intel CPUs run at or above 1V depending on clock speed. For years we had seen decreasing core voltages as Intel transitioned to lower power manufacturing...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2011
Intel and Micron Develop Hybrid Memory Cube, Stacked DRAM is Coming
During the final keynote of IDF, Intel's Justin Rattner demonstrated a new stacked DRAM technology called the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC). The need is clear: if CPU performance is...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2011
Counting Transistors: Why 1.16B and 995M Are Both Correct
Yesterday we published Ivy Bridge's transistor count as 1.48 billion. It turns out that was wrong as Intel's Mooly Eden accidentally read the B in billion as an 8...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2011
LaCie's Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Chassis at IDF
I met with LaCie this morning to talk about its upcoming Little Big Disk Thunderbolt storage solution. Unlike the Promise Pegasus R4/R6, the Little Big Disk only accommodates two...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2011
AMD's 28nm GPU Demoed, Release Later This Year
In another demonstration of silicon health AMD was showing working 28nm mobile GPU silicon running Dirt 3. It's too early to talk about performance or specifications, but AMD is...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011
Look Out Bulldozer, Here Comes Trinity: AMD's 2012 Demo on Video at IDF
AMD's Bulldozer CPU is on the verge of being released. Sever markets will see the CPU soon, while desktop customers will have to wait until Q4 (which is only...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011
Intel Discloses Cherryville & Hawley Creek SSDs: Intel's Fastest SSD in Q4
In addition to the SSD 710 series, Intel also disclosed two more SSDs codenamed: Cherryville and Hawley Creek. Cherryville is Intel's next 6Gbps SATA drive, replacing the SSD 510...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011
First Look at Gigabyte's UEFI Setup on X79
As we mentioned in our X79 coverage yesterday, none of the motherboard manufacturers were allowed to show BIOS/UEFI screenshots out of fear of accidentally disclosing clock speeds. Gigabyte's X79...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011
LG's Shuriken Self Refreshing Panel Aims to Improve Notebook Battery Life by Up to an Hour
We've been hearing about self refreshing panels for years now and today Intel demonstrated one such panel using LG's Shuriken panel. The premise is simple: there's a small amount...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011
Ultrabooks on Video: Rapid Start & Smart Connect
Ultrabooks are a three year play for the industry and it's clear that software & features are going to be a major part of the evolution. Intel showed off...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011
First Shot of Haswell, Working Demo at IDF
What you're looking at above is the first shot of Haswell, Intel's 2013 Core microarchitecture that replaces Ivy Bridge. Haswell is designed for a 10 - 20W range of...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011
Ivy Bridge: 1.4B Transistors
Intel's Mooly Eden just disclosed Ivy Bridge's transistor count to a captive audience at IDF this morning: 1.4 billion transistors. That's presumably for the quad-core version compared to 1.16B...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011
IDF 2011: Lucid Announces Virtu Universal MVP Featuring HyperFormance Technology (Update)
At the start of 2011 Lucid announced their Virtu software to go with Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs. With Virtu users would be able to use a discrete GPU and...
14 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2011
Kingston Shows off Business SF-2281 SSD & 64GB Sandy Bridge E
I dropped by Kingston's booth at the IDF tech showcase to check out two things this evening: Kingston's SSDNow KC100 and another Sandy Bridge E demo. The KC100 is...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
X79 Motherboards from Gigabyte & MSI at IDF 2011
IDF isn't a traditional trade show in the sense that the majority of the show isn't built around a wide open show floor with tons of booths and product...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
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