Get set for an 8 cored addition to the Haswell family

Intel 4th Generation Haswell processors, the same 22 nm microarchitecture as Ivy Bridge, little bit of a processing boost, more energy efficient, to a degree of almost 50% increased battery life for laptops. All this, and a little bit of nitty gritty which rarely matters to the average, or even above average consumer. Well that is that, and that was what we already knew quite long ago, so no comments on that. But what’s new is that Intel has gone out of the way (or maybe in the way) to launch a new addition to the 2 variants of the Haswell family, in terms of number of cores that is. Yes, the much awaited, especially after we saw it in the Galaxy S4… the 8 CORES are going to be here soon!!!

 I have been grumbling every now and then to the screen of my PC when I visit Intel’s website of the fact that Intel has no consumer desktop level Octa cored processors, which actually is available from AMD. My energies must have been felt by the Intel devs, (let me take some undue credit please) and at last , according to this leak , we will get the Octa core version in the Haswell family, which surely is going to give more than a simple boost to the 4th gen processor’s raw power.

Talking about the thing itself, it has been made using the 2nd gen Hi-k process, has 8 cores, and 16 threads , featuring Intel’s Turbo Boost 2 technology as well as DDR4 support. So we are seeing some quite advanced stuff here. Also is the fact that the Octa core processors are going to have a 20 MB L3 cache memory, as opposed to the 8 MB cache in the 6 cored processors, which in simple terms will result in much more enhanced CPU performance, due to the bigger size of the cache, allowing the CPU to gain access to more data in the cache quickly. 

This is one more addition to my “want to test” list , and no info is there as to how much better it will be from the 6 cored ones, but for sure it is going to be better , and will really be a handy thing for hardcore gamers, content creators as well as overclockers.

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Source : techradar

With Intel Haswell, laptops to get a major battery life boost

This is what Intel itself claims, according to whom, the 4th generation Haswell processors are going to be a great upgrade over the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture in terms of being as much as 20 times more energy efficient, without compromising on the performance side. That would be a much sought relief to consumers as well as laptop and macbook manufacturers, who have been facing the battery life issue for quite some time, temporarily though.
The Haswell processors , with the nanoseconds ticking, are going to be launched next month at the Computex show in Taipei.
With this launch will start a race among the laptop manufacturers to offer the latest of intel 'inside' , and from current speculations, Apple could be winning this race this time, with its Macbook range looking towards being among the first to get the 4th gen Haswell upgrade. according to reports, which are going to see the light of the day at WWDC (Apple Worldwide Developers Conference) on June 10

Source : Techradar, ComputerWorld

Intel 4th gen Core processors launch date announced–quite some nanoseconds that is

Source : Intel Twitter Official

Well Intel has announced the time left for the launch of the 4th generation member of the uber successful Core series of processors, named Haswell , and as you can see in the pic, that is the value in terms of nanoseconds. For your convenience, I calculated it down, and it ends up being 38 days from now. Frankly, its really hard to keep excitement down for me, because you can safely expect your personal computer and lappy to break some power limiters with the 4th gen monster inside.

If you remember from earlier, Intel  4th gen processors are to get a voice and gesture control option in them . The Haswell has the same 22 nm microarchitecture as the 3rd gen Ivy Bridge, but it has better energy efficiency, more power (double the CPU and GPU as Ivy Bridge), and many expected security advancements. It will be upto a quad core version only, inspite of many wanting octa core PC’s after Exynos 5 Octa core in Samsung Galaxy S4, but that will be the case for the Intel 5th generation Broadwell , which will be made in 14nm microarchitecture. Though I am wishing for things to reach to 16 cores by then. Intel 4th gen Haswell has , by the way, new cache design, and more excitingly, possible support for the 20GB/s Thunderbolt !!!

Overall, the reason I postponed buying a laptop has at last arrived, and maybe we will see some great devices with ‘Intel inside’. Stay tuned for the latest updates on this new family of processors, as well as devices powered by them.

Twice as fast as the previous best, Intel upgrades Thunderbolt tech

 

Thunderbolt, was the reigning champion since it was launched by Intel in competition with the USB 3.0 , which was then offering transfer rates of 5 GB/s, while thunderbolt offered a 10 GB/s transfer rate, which it took USB guys quite some time to reach to, though now are to see Thunderbolt’s back again, as Intel has upgraded it to race way ahead of the new USB 3.0 , offering a mind blowing 20 GB/s transfer rate. Moreover, it also supports 4K monitors, as well as 4K video transfer, when it becomes publicly available of course. And as we know, Apple, which is a major supporter of Thunderbolt, is surely forecasted to get this technology in its future devices, including the AIO iMac’s , and the Macbooks, along with speculation that we may at last see 4K resolution screens in these devices as well…… That would be kicking some competition hungry hormones in Samsung and Asus’s backyard as well I guess. And of course, that would mean that USB 4.0 is something that USB Promoter group needs to work on quick, if they havn’t been already.  
What’s really nice about this new Thunderbolt is that it will be compatible with pervious cables and all, so that would save some clutter. Intel says that it will be up with the production in 2014 , quite a long way to go, so that gives some breathing space for USB guys there. Also, Intel says that by 2015 , Thunderbolt will be supporting 50 GB/s data transfer rates. Anyway, good for consumers, with the advent of high resolution videos, large sized games and files, transfer rates surely need to be upgraded, along with storage space, to keep up with the pace of the products.

Intel 'inside' (literally) your body -microchip detects 50 diseases accurately

Processor and microchip giant Intel is taking its motto 'Intel inside' quite seriously, to the effect that it is currently researching and developing a microchip that is placed inside the body, and detects accurately more than 50 diseases. In collaboration with Stanford University School of Medicine, Intel's Biosystem's group, headed by Dr. Madhu Verma, is developing a microchip, the types used in computers, which analyzes various disease related proteins and peptide chains present in the blood, to diagnose diseases.

The chip is embedded inside the arm, and in contact with blood, it analyzes the peptides , with its surface itself covered with around 9000 peptides, and the data is then fed into a computer, along with gauging the related possible symptoms. These peptides were embedded on the silicon chip the same way as normal chips are done with, using photo-lithography technique.

Before joining hands with Intel, Stanford researchers were trying glass to stick peptides on and do the detection process, after which Intel came in. Earlier skeptical on its success, it soon turned out much better than the earlier one, with silicon having advantage over glass being relatively non sticky towards other peptides, as well as providing way to embed peptides more closely, and thus save more space. Use of microchips always gives a chance of improvement in the detection system.“If we couple these Intel arrays with an electronic detection method, for example, we could have real-time sensing over a period of minutes,” said Dr.P.J. Ultz, Associate Professor at Stanford.

In the research program, it was tested on the disease Lupus , which is a highly variant auto immune disorder. Leaving the technicality aside, with the help of the chip using various amino acid sequence combinations, they found out the sequence that antibodies look for, as well as the modifications to find out specific binding sites.
This will make way for better targeted drugs, by manipulating and seeing results accurately at the amino acid where required. Researchers are now looking to use this to design better influenza vaccines with better immune response.

Research is being done so as to embedded an Integrated Circuit inside the chip, so as to make it function as a mini computer itself, and conclude while present inside. Also it is being tried to make it connect to a smartphone or any other computing device wirelessly. Although clinical trials will take another 2 years to complete, but its success could pave way to better and early diagnosis, even in the field, ensuring better chance of treatment for patients.

Source : Stanford Medical University