Intel

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Intel showing off its new “Meteor Lake” Core Ultra mobile CPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) arriving on laptops, and changes to the desktop.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the new ‘Downfall’ vulnerability affecting older Intel CPUs, Microsoft’s modernized File Explorer on Windows 11, and the company’s potential trick for selling more new PCs.

Intel introduced yesterday its 13th gen vPro CPUs for business PCs. Intel’s vPro platform offers advanced security and management features for organizations, and the company’s 13th gen Core CPUs bring an improved hybrid architecture with a combination of Performance and Efficient cores.  “With our new 13th Gen Intel Core processors, the Intel vPro platform remains…

The Intel vPro platform was first announced by the chip maker back in 2007, and it designates a collection of advanced CPU technologies for business PCs. As of today, it provides various features to increase security and manageability to support IT departments in organizations of all sizes. In this article, I’ll explain how the Intel vPro…

Intel releases 27 10th generation CPUs for desktop and mobile with Hardware Shield to improve remote worker security.

Intel has announced its 12th Gen Intel Core lineup of mobile processors at the CES 2022 event. The latest chips are built on Intel’s existing 12th Gen Alder Lake architecture, which has been available for desktop PCs since last year. The 12th-generation processors come with a new Intel Thread Director technology for better efficiency and…

Intel releases microcode for CPUs affected by a new kind of MDS attack and says that previous microcode updates reduce the attack surface but don’t provide complete protection.

Microsoft is planning a hardware event for later this year where the company may announce new devices based on chips by companies other than Intel.

In this Ask the Admin, I look at Spectre Variant 4 and whether it will affect performance as its distributed over the coming weeks.