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Intel’s first 8th-gen Core i3 chip for notebooks is here (and it’s just a modest spec bump)

Intel launched its first 8th-gen Core processors for laptops in 2017. While they were based on similar architecture to the company’s 7th-gen chips, the new 15 watt Core i5-8250U and Core i7-8550U had one major improvement: they were quad-core processors rather than dual-core. That helped Intel deliver new chips that offered up to 40 percent […]

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Dell launches 2018 XPS 13 laptop (this time it’s even thinner)

Dell helped kick off the thin-bezel laptop trend in 2015 when the company launched a Dell XPS 13 laptop with a 13.3 inch display stuffed into a laptop the size of a typical 11.6 inch model. Since then, Dell has updated the XPS 13 several times by upgrading the processor and other internal components. But […]

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Intel: 8th gen Core processors are 30 percent faster (in some cases)

Intel is talking up its new high-performance (and high-price) X-Series chips at Computex. But while those chips should offer some serious compute power, they’re still based on the same architecture as existing Intel 6th-gen Core “Skylake” processors and 7th-gen Core “Kaby Lake” chips. But the company is starting to talk  a bit more about the […]