NAB 2013: Intel doubles speed of Thunderbolt to allow 4K editing
Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between workstations and video editing hardware at 20Gbps.
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Intel will make Thunderbolt faster, but won't say when
Intel says it is working to make the Thunderbolt faster, but has declined to say when improvements will be finished.
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Interview: Digital Arts Creativity in Motion competition winner Jason Pooley
Jason Pooley takes us through how he created the winning artwork in Photoshop.
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Intel Core i7 chip for laptops and desktops cracks 3GHz barrier
Intel has started shipping 21 new processors for laptops and desktops, including a new Core i7 chip with a base clock speed of 3GHz, a new high for the company's mobile processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture.
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Intel provides a glimpse into future of interaction with laptops
Intel provided a glimpse into the future of ultrabooks saying the next big thing for the emerging class of thin and light laptops is natural interaction through sight, sound and touch.
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Intel launches Ivy Bridge processors for desktops, laptops & ultrabooks
Intel will next week launch the third generation of its Intel Core processor family. Ivy Bridge promises better graphics, media performance and energy efficiency.
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Intel drives up SSD storage capacity to 800GB
Intel on Thursday announced new solid-state drives with storage of up to 800GB, which is a new high in capacity for the company's SSD products.
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Intel to release first Xeon chips with 3D transistors, but they're not for you (yet)
Intel is set to release its first Ivy Bridge Xeon server chips with 3D transistors this quarter, in a move that analysts said would intensify the cloud hardware battle with rival AMD.
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Intel to make Thunderbolt faster using PCI Express 3.0
Intel has said that the Thunderbolt data connection technology found on Apple's MacBook Pro and iMac lines – and possibly PCs in the future – will be getting faster as it adds support for PCI Express 3.0.
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Intel Xeon E5 chips: first workstations tested
Workstations with Intel's latest E5 chips are just becoming available in the UK - we put two of them through their paces
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Intel confirms Ivy Bridge processor delay
Chip giant Intel has confirmed that its next-generation microprocessors, code-named Ivy Bridge, will arrive around two months later than initially planned.
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Intel ponders solar-powered chips
Intel's experimental solar-powered processor may have started off as a fun project, but the chip maker is now looking to extend the technology to hardware such as graphics processors, memory and floating point units.
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Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB 3.0
Intel will tell you its new high-speed interconnect technology, Thunderbolt, is not in competition with Universal Serial Bus (USB), the ubiquitous standard for connecting computers with other devices.
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Analysis: Speedy Thunderbolt devices slowly coming to market
Talk to tech industry insiders about the new Thunderbolt data ports in the latest generation of Apple computers, and one concept repeatedly pops up: Speed. The technology enables data transfer at speeds and volume that few consumers have ever seen before.
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Apple Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables
Thunderbolt ports on Apple's current Macintosh computers will be compatible with upcoming fibre optic cables, which should be ready by next year, an Intel spokesman said.
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The geek's guide to Thunderbolt
When I started in computing, we had two main peripheral interface choices: RS-232 serial and Centronics parallel ports. Neither was fast. RS-232, which was the more generally useful of the pair, topped out in early days at 20kbps. That was then. This is now.
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Intel next-gen 'Ivy Bridge' platform promises laptop battery and graphics boost
Chip and system-level improvements that Intel is making with the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture will result in laptops out next year with longer battery life and better graphics, the company said.
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First Look: Apple Thunderbolt Display
Review units of Apple's Thunderbolt Display are in the wild. Here's our first impressions.
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Intel's Thunderbolt with fibre optics years away
Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect technology, which shuffles data between PCs and devices like displays and external storage, could be years away from getting optical technology, an Intel executive said this week.
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Microsoft throws support behind USB 3.0 with Windows 8
Microsoft is incorporating a software stack in its upcoming Windows 8 OS to natively support devices based on the USB 3.0 interconnect, which is in a battle for adoption with Intel's Thunderbolt.