The days of choosing between PC performance and tablet convenience may soon be over. With a notebook running Intel’s fourth-generation Core processor, code-named Haswell, consumers may be able to get ...

Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already releasing teasers that talk about their performance.

Early tests, online discussions and even some OEMs seem to show a potential bump in the road for Intel’s latest-generation processor architecture – a bump you can see on a temperature graph. The new ...

Richland is very much a mid-gen incremental upgrade based on clock speed and memory changes that deliver some improvement over Trinity, but which fail to fix AMD's generally lackluster performance in ...

Presumably in response to a glut of AMD-related news, Intel has preempted its formal Haswell unveil to announce that its chips will draw "50% less power" than Ivy Bridge on "active" workloads, such as ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Although Intel is set to release its next-generation Haswell-based processors in June, existing Ivy Bridge-based processors are still expected to account for 80% of desktop CPU shipments at the end of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. The third-generation "Ivy Bridge" Core processors that Intel ...

Intel's Haswell is a bit of a puzzle. On the one hand, this is the fastest single-threaded chip in the world -- but on the other, it's hard to get excited about a chip that's only a few percent faster ...

New chips should excite you. Instead, the news reports you read whenever some new microprocessor is released are the dullest things in the world. They are obtuse and inscrutable, a mish-mash of ...

Intel has been releasing information about Haswell, its next-generation CPU architecture, for months now. Our coverage has already been fairly extensive—we’ve already got a nice overview of Haswell’s ...