Eight-core Intel Sandy Bridge E chips listed on, pulled from eBay

May 8th, 2011 § View Comments § permalink

What’s this? A listing for an unreleased Intel chip on eBay? This purported eight-core, hyper-threaded Sandy Bridge E-series processor is apparently a third party tester unit, hence the cloak and dagger “Intel Confidential” stamped in the middle of the thing. The “E” as previously stated, stands for “Enthusiast,” especially fitting in the case of a [...]

Intel Discovers Bug in 6-Series Chipset

February 4th, 2011 § View Comments § permalink

ntel Discovers Bug in 6-Series Chipset

Intel has been testing its 6-series chipset for months now. The chipset passed all of its internal qualification tests as well as all of the OEM qualification tests. These are the same tests that all Intel chipsets must go through, testing things like functionality, reliability and behavior at various conditions (high temps, load temps, high [...]

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