Kaby Lake CPU and Pascal GPU

Razer said it has updated its Blade and Blade Stealth notebooks with some new and shiny hardware, including Intel's latest Kaby Lake CPUs and Nvidia Pascal-based GPUs, all in time to show them off at the  PAX show this weekend.

Along with USB 3.1 generation 2 support and improved GPU

The dark satanic rumour mill has suggested that Skylake's successor, Kaby Lake, with its 14nm goodness might be responsible for the death of the Core m5/m7 name.

Swarming

Boffins at MIT have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a new chip design which fixes some of the problems of parallel processing.

Ready for the next Skylake refresh

Intel has just published a Product Change Notification which appears to indicate that there will be new Celeron, Pentium and Core i3 processors during the next Skylake refresh.

Integrated graphics have nearly  caught up

Chipzilla claims that casual or mainstream gamers no longer need a discrete graphics card, because integrated graphics have nearly caught up.

With an optional Razer Core external graphics box

At the CES 2016 show in rainy Las Vegas, Razer has announced its newest addition to the Blade notebook series, a 12.5-inch ultrabook packed in an aluminum chassis which gets additional GPU power from an optional external graphics box, called the Razer Core.

Bye-bye VLIW5 and VLIW4 architectures

AMD has said that that video cards based on the company’s architectures have been moved to legacy status.

Tech details online

Chipzilla has been publishing more information about its Knight's Landing Xeon Phi (co)processors.

3.5GHz quad 84W TDP, unlocked

More overclocking headroom, too