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Windows 10 October 2018 Update finally fixed

So says Microsoft, anyway.

14-11-18 // 10:43a.m.

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Nvidia announces Quadro RTX 4000 Turing card

Cheaper, but not cheap.

14-11-18 // 10:27a.m.

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AMD downplays 29 percent Zen 2 IPC boost reports

Gains found in only one very specific workload.

14-11-18 // 10:13a.m.

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Researchers claim spintronics breakthrough

Faster, but not quite ready for commercialisation.

13-11-18 // 11:41a.m.

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Intel teases dGPU graphics for 2020 launch

16-8-18 // 11:36a.m.

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Intel releases discrete GPU prototype details

Targeting low-power markets.

20-2-18 // 11:32a.m.

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Intel hires Raja Koduri, plans discrete graphics products

Will compete with AMD, Nvidia.

9-11-17 // 10:37a.m.

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Microsoft acquires Irish middleware giant Havok

Takes it from Intel for an undisclosed sum.

5-10-15 // 10:45a.m.

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Intel unveils Xeon Phi MIC hardware

Intel has announced plans to launch the Larrabee-based MIC hardware as the Xeon Phi.

19-6-12 // 10:30a.m.

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Intel unveils 50-core maths co-processor card

Intel takes on GPGPU computing with its new MIC processors.

21-6-11 // 11:34a.m.

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Hardware 13 - A Case of the Uglies

28-7-10 // 1:33p.m.

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Intel confirms: no discrete graphics plans

Intel has confirmed that it has "no plans" to enter the discrete graphics market.

26-5-10 // 10:18a.m.

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Hardware 9 - iPad, eReaders, and who has the brighter future, Intel or AMD?

29-1-10 // 4:57p.m.

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The Biggest Failures of 2009

We know what the best bits of 2009 are, so what were the lowest points of the year? We take a look back over the last twelve months and examine what the biggest failures were, from Intel's cancellation of Larrabee to Microsoft's Games for Windows Live relaunch.

28-12-09 // 11:12a.m.

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Intel Larrabee Cancelled

The consumer graphics Larrabee part Intel was planning for 2010 has been cancelled. Surprised? No, us neither.

7-12-09 // 10:14a.m.

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Review IDF Day 1 - Sean Maloney demos Larrabee

Sean Maloney took to the stage for the first of the two afternoon keynotes on IDF Day One. He showed the first demo of a working Larrabee chip and, frankly, the outcome wasn't as we'd hoped...

23-9-09 // 4:54p.m.

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Larrabee die shot tips up

A photo of what appears to be Larrabee's die has tipped up in a presentation at the opening of Intel's Visual Computing Institute at Saarland University, Germany.

14-5-09 // 12:27p.m.

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Larrabee die size is massive

After being pictured with a wafer at IDF in China, bit-tech calculates how big Pat Gelsinger's new Larrabee core will be.

13-4-09 // 2:01p.m.

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Larrabee more efficient than GPUs at rasterisation

In a talk at GDC, games programmer Mike Abrash claims that Larrabee can be more efficient at rasterisation tasks than traditional GPUs.

30-3-09 // 2:42p.m.

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New graphics firm promises real-time ray tracing

Caustic Graphics claims that its new ray tracing accelerators could speed up ray tracing by up to 200x.

12-3-09 // 1:56p.m.

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Huang talks Larrabee, x86 compatibility

NVISION 2008: Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang shared his feelings on exactly what x86 compatibility means to him.

26-8-08 // 2:15a.m.

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Review IDF Fall 2008 Content Index

We're in San Francisco, USA at the 2008 Intel Developer Forum and are covering the event in detail to bring you all the latest and most important news. If you don't want to wade through all the headlines though then here's a handy breakdown of all the IDF coverage, updated regularly!

20-8-08 // 9:37a.m.

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Microsoft announces DirectX 11 at GameFest

Microsoft has unveiled DirectX 11, its next-generation graphics pipeline, at the annual XNA GameFest developer conference in Seattle.

23-7-08 // 11:13a.m.

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Episode 19 - Larrabee, DirectX 11 and violent games

17-7-08 // 2:40p.m.

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Review Nvidia's David Kirk on CUDA, CPUs and GPUs

It's almost three years since we last interviewed David Kirk, Nvidia's Chief Scientist. And with everything going on in the industry right now, it was a great time to catch up with him to find out where he sees the industry going and how Nvidia will be part of that.

30-4-08 // 1:00p.m.

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Larrabee will feature rasterisation units

Tom Forsyth, a software engineer working on Intel's Larrabee project, has said that rasterisation is not dead. Larrabee's primary focus for graphics is rasterisation.

24-4-08 // 1:52p.m.

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Intel in talks with potential Larrabee partners

Intel is already on the prowl for board partners for its upcoming Larrabee-based 'visual computing' products.

9-4-08 // 11:30a.m.

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Review IDF Spring 2008 Content Index

Here's a handy index of our comprehensive coverage of the Spring 2008 Intel Developer Forum from Shanghai, China.

2-4-08 // 1:58p.m.

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Gelsinger kicks off IDF Shanghai with Larrabee

IDF SPRING 08: Pat Gelsinger kicked off IDF this morning with talk about how he believes Larrabee will change the visual computing industry.

2-4-08 // 3:42a.m.

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Intel has answers to CUDA

IDF SPRING 08: Intel's researchers talked about a new parallel programming model called Ct - it's designed to make threading exceptionally easy.

2-4-08 // 2:05a.m.

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Atom is the word of the week in Shanghai

IDF SPRING 08: We're out in Shanghai, where Intel will spend a lot of this week's Developer Forum talking about its Atom processors.

31-3-08 // 8:50a.m.

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Review Intel talks about Nehalem, Larrabee & 32nm

Earlier in the week, we chatted to Intel ahead of next month's Intel Developer Forum to discuss some of its future products... Nehalem and Larrabee to be specific. It looks like 2009 and onwards will see all the major players fight on multiple fronts.

19-3-08 // 3:55p.m.

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Larrabee is Intel’s entry into discrete graphics

IDF FALL 07: Otellini talks briefly about Larrabee's capabilities during his keynote.

19-9-07 // 12:26a.m.

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