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<p><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; ">New hybrid AMD Trinity processors for desktop systems haven&rsquo;t been officially launched yet. However, we prepared a detailed review of their graphics component.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/amd-trinity-graphics.html" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></p>

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After years of waiting, AMD finally unveiled its Llano APU platform fifteen months ago. The APU promise was a new world where CPUs and GPUs would live in harmony on a single, monolithic die. Delivering the best of two very different computing architectures would hopefully pave the way for a completely new class of applications. That future is still distant, but today we're at least at the point where you can pretty much take for granted that if you buy a modern CPU it's going to ship with a GPU attached to it.

Four months ago AMD took the wraps off of its new Trinity APU: a 32nm SoC with up to four Piledriver cores and a Cayman based GPU. Given AMD's new mobile-first focus, Trinity launched as a notebook platform. The desktop PC market is far from dead, just deprioritized. Today we have the first half of the Trinity desktop launch. Widespread APU availability won't be until next month, but AMD gave us the green light to begin sharing some details including GPU performance starting today.

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We continue talking about different desktop CPUs on third generation Core microarchitecture. Today we will discuss dual-core products: Core i3-3420, Core i3-3225 and Core i3-3220.

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We have tested the entire third generation Core i5 processor line-up based on Ivy bridge microarchitecture including Core i5-3570K, Core i5-3570, Core i5-3550 and Core i5-3450 models. How much better are these newcomers than the good old Sandy Bridge CPUs ?

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In 2013, 4th generation Intel Core processor family based on "Haswell" microarchitecture will bring faster, thinner, lighter, cooler, more secure systems with built-in graphics to mainstream.

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Intel's first 22nm CPU, codenamed Ivy Bridge, is off to an odd start. Intel unveiled many of the quad-core desktop and mobile parts last month, but only sampled a single chip to reviewers. Dual-core mobile parts are announced today, as are their ultra-low-voltage counterparts for use in Ultrabooks. One dual-core desktop part gets announced today as well, but the bulk of the dual-core lineup won't surface until later this year. Furthermore, it only revealed the die size and transistor count of a single configuration: a quad-core with GT2 graphics. Compare this to the Sandy Bridge launch a year prior where Intel sampled four different CPUs and gave us a detailed breakdown of die size and transistor counts for quad core, dual core and GT1/GT2 configurations. Why the change? Various sects within Intel management have different feelings on how much or how little information should be shared. It's also true that at the highest levels there's a bit of paranoia about the threat ARM poses to Intel in the long run. Combine the two and you can see how some folks at Intel might feel it's better to behave a bit more guarded. I don't agree, but this is the hand we've been dealt.

Intel also introduced a new part into the Ivy Bridge lineup while we weren't looking: the Core i5 3470. At the Ivy Bridge launch we were told about a Core i5 3450, a quad-core CPU clocked at 3.1GHz with Intel's HD 2500 graphics. This is our first experience with a more affordable Ivy Bridge CPU and with Intel's HD 2500.

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Intel Atom processors are now produced using 32 nm manufacturing process. They have also been enhanced with a new graphics core that supports Full HD video playback. Will all these improvements make the new Cedar Trail platform a worthy alternative to AMD Brazos ?

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<p><span style="font-size: small; ">&nbsp; AMD&rsquo;s microprocessor history goes way back, predating even the now venerable x86 architecture. Their first foray into x86 territory came as a subcontractor to Intel, and from there AMD cut the ties and began making x86 compatible chips of their own design, starting in 1991 with the Am386. AMD went on to make the Am486 and Am5x86 before ditching the &ldquo;86&rdquo; part of the name with the launch of the K5. That&rsquo;s where most of us started paying closer attention, and the K6/K6-2/K6-III and K7 were quite popular in their day. The real deal however came with the K8/Hammer family of processors&mdash;chips that not only competed with Intel offerings (Pentium 4 mostly) but actually outperformed them in the vast majority of benchmarks, and did so while using less power. It was a double whammy of performance and efficiency, and for several years AMD chips were the enthusiast&rsquo;s CPU of choice.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; "> Unfortunately for AMD, they&rsquo;ve never quite managed to reclaim the glory of the Athlon 64/Opteron launch. It took Intel a few years&mdash;and a scrapped Tejas architecture&mdash;but when they finally got things straightened out they struck back with a vengeance. Intel&rsquo;s Conroe (Core 2) architecture turned the tables on AMD with the same double whammy of increased performance and reduced power, and since the launch in mid-2006, Intel has managed to hold onto the CPU performance crown. In fact, earlier this year AMD almost seemed to throw in the towel as far a high-performance CPUs are concerned, with their future strategy focusing on mainstream and value-oriented APUs. We&rsquo;ve already seen some of that with their first APUs, Brazos and Llano, and today AMD brings out their third APU architecture: Trinity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; ">If you&rsquo;re hoping to see a repeat of the Hammer launch back in 2003 with Trinity today, you&rsquo;re going to be disappointed. AMD has made no claims or even hints that Trinity is going to go toe-to-toe with Ivy Bridge or Sandy Bridge-E in processor benchmarks. Instead, the marketing material and reviewer&rsquo;s guides are more about telling a story of good performance, balance, and flexibility with a price point that won&rsquo;t have you looking for a loan. Sometimes the best way to take down a massive empire isn&rsquo;t by lining up your heavy guns and trading blows until one side capitulates&mdash;in such battles, the larger/wealthier corporation almost always wins. Instead, it&rsquo;s the plucky little ships that can outmaneuver the big guns that can sometimes come out ahead. Will Trinity be AMD&rsquo;s X-wing to Intel&rsquo;s Ivy Bridge death star ?</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/5831/amd-trinity-review-a10-4600m-a-new-hope" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></p>

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A year and a half after the launch of the LGA 1155 platform Intel is updating its key component – the CPU. The new manufacturing process, improved microarchitecture and refreshed lineup – is it the coming of a new star?

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<p><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; ">Today is the day that Ivy Bridge gets official. Its name truly embodies its purpose. While&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: small; ">Sandy Bridge</span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; ">&nbsp;was a bridge to a new architecture, Ivy connects a different set of things. It's a bridge to 22nm, warming the seat before Haswell arrives. It's a bridge to a new world of notebooks that are significantly thinner and more power efficient than what we have today. It's a means to the next chapter in the evolution of the PC.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/5771/the-intel-ivy-bridge-core-i7-3770k-review" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></p>

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