AMD’s latest laptop processors offer an impressive mix of performance and power consumption. But the current-gen AMD Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” series chips are based on the chip maker’s Zen 2 CPU architecture, not the newer Zen 3 architecture that was originally expected to be available this year. So when is Zen 3 coming? In 2021, […]
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Intel’s next-gen NUC mini PCs will have 28W Coffee Lake processors
The gaming-oriented Intel Hades Canyon NUC with an Intel Kaby Lake-G processor is technically the first of Intel’s min computers to feature an 8th-gen Intel processor. But the company’s first mainstream NUC systems with 8th-gen chips are coming later this year. While most older NUC systems featured the same kind of 15 watt processors you’d typically find […]
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Leaked Intel roadmap shows chips for 2017 and 2018 (Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake)
Laptops with Intel’s new 7th-gen Core “Kaby Lake” chips are now available, and desktops with the chips should be available in early 2017. Meanwhile, the first low-power notebooks, 2-in-1 tablets, and desktops with Celeron and Pentium chips based on Intel’s Apollo Lake designs should be available soon. So what’s next? According to a leaked product […]
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Leaked Samsung roadmap shows new ARM CPUS for smartphones, smartbooks
The performance gap between ARM-based processors and x86 chips is shrinking. Intel is starting to design Atom chips for smartphones, while ARM-based processors have already hit the 1GHz mark with support for HD video playback and dual and even quad core processors on the horizon. A leaked product roadmap from Samsung shows a series of […]
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Asus Germany unveils Windows 7 roadmap for Eee PC netbooks
With Windows 7 set to launch in just a week, we’re about to see a whole lot of netbooks, notebooks, and other computers get a spec bump. And the Asus Eee PC lineup is hardly exempt. At an event in Germany, Asus officials outlined some of the company’s plans for the next generation of the […]
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Dell Mini roadmap shows upgrades, 11 inch model
When Dell first announced the Inspiron Mini 10 netbook at CES, the company promised that it would be available with options including an internal TV tuner, GPS receiver, and high resolution display. But so far the only premium feature to materialize is that higher resolution 1366 x 768 pixel display. But Sascha at Netbook News.de […]