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hyperx so this is it we've got broadwell all
over the freaking place all of a sudden so Intel is trumpeting a variety of
things about this so of course we've got slightly better performance per clock
but the big story is has got to be power
consumption so thanks to its extremely low power consumption and heat output
broadwell is enabling a whole new class of devices for these guys so check this
out this is actually a fully functional
broadwell so this chip on here so right here this package has a CPU and GPU
right here and then it's actually got a chipset right here that CPU goes
anywhere from 1.1 to 2.6 gigahertz it's
a dual core and the GPU even more impressively Intel's got some 3d mark
ice storm stuff going on over here they're saying actually outperforms the
recently announced tegra x1 where
they're taking what they're calling it's actually kind of funny so for the first
time they're taking a leadership position in 3d graphics in really any
kind of space i mean who saw this one coming i mean probably the people paying
very close attention to how much of the die size of recent Intel cpus is
dedicated to graphics but other than that you didn't stand much of a chance
also on this board is four gigs of RAM on the back you've got an interface that
allows an SSD up to 512 gigs and Intel
cheated a little bit here with me so they told me oh well Linus it only
weighs here we can wait for our scale to go come on over here it only weighs uh
12 grams but of course they didn't put the uh copper heatsink on it that
obviously it's gonna need so let's go ahead and 12 grams that's a massive 14
grams you liars so it's still the lightest pc that i've ever encountered
uh we're gonna see this in a variety of different devices so this one's a pretty
incredible little number just to make my point about how light it is here i'm
gonna hold it by as tiny a corner as i possibly can that is how light this
little panasonic device is i don't even know what this is this is the cfrz4
it is a full-fledged computer yes full i o you've got your usb 3 super speed all
that nonsense three of those gigabit Ethernet this is not a cut down device
in any way and it is running a board like that inside we've got the other one
here so this is the demo machine that they're using in order to make their
point about how fast graphics are so you saw
me just pull it off of the base the computer itself is not in the base of
this device at all it is actually all up here same thing 1.1 turboing all the way
up to 2.6 gigahertz this is some tomfoolery magic that they're doing
because the power consumption of these chips is going to be anywhere from four
and a half to six watts and then at the very high end 15 watts but thanks to
their 14 nanometer manufacturing process and some little tricks with being able
to push like massive amounts of current through it for microseconds at a time
enabling exactly the performance you need when you need it you're able to
achieve well the kinds of things that we're looking at right here and still
have a device that doesn't get so hot you have to drop it i was hoping to get
more of a reaction from you guys i should have gone for a longer drop before i caught it usually i get people
to freak out they've got another cool one here so this is actually more field
this is not unfortunately uh broadwell
so it's not exactly something that launched just now but the device itself
launched today this is the venue eight from dell this has a two gigahertz quad
core in it it's an Android based tablet and this is a pretty sick looking little
device it's got an 8.4 inch 2560 by 1600
OLED screen it's got two gigs of RAM 16
gigs of storage on the model that i'm holding today and what's kind of cool about it is i don't know if you guys can
see what's going on with this picture right here where it's like
there's okay the background and foreground are shifting separately anyway it's got a 3d camera on the back
which is a pretty neat little feature to have this is six millimeters thick and
as far as Android tablets go it takes a fair bit to impress me but i'm impressed
by how thin it is i'm impressed by how gorgeous it is and i'm impressed that
Intel managed to get a design win in a tablet this small and this thin because
they've been kind of beating this drum for a while and we haven't seen much
success but here it is guys that is an absolutely beautiful little device to
drive home the point because i mean oh yeah here's edison i've actually never
touched one so the lightest computer in the world bluetooth wireless CPU all
that kind of stuff on there that's pretty freaking cool so i've i've criticized Intel in the past
particularly on our podcast saying you know it feels like they've abandoned you
know the enthusiast a little bit you know they're not really giving us dual
processor systems anymore and all that crazy stuff i actually happen to be
standing in the same room as one of the
uh one of the founders of the whole skull trail concept over at Intel where
which is one of the things i love to hearken back to the last time they cared
about us they gave us dual processors on a single motherboard they let us
overclock the snot out of it those were the good old days but i don't know i
guess another perspective on all that i'm still going to keep ragging on them
until i see you know dual processors and on overclockable motherboards but i
guess another perspective on that a point that Intel's trying to make and i
kind of messed up the demo here but this is a demo that they actually showed off on
skull trail back when they launched it in 2008 they had like minus 40 degree
liquid cooling on the bloody thing in order to get this to even run hopefully
there we go there's the pictures of the machine so we've got like a touch
interface thing going on here this is the rig they had running dual processors
quad gpus let's go ahead and okay we'll zoom in more i haven't actually used
this before so i'm trying this for the first time anyway there we go that's
what they were running that was the board it was running and they ran this
demo and blew people away with it so what was that 350 000 photos or
something like that
okay about 300 billion pixels and being able to interact with it like this in
real time was like this amazing thing holy crap look at what we built and then
they kind of lift up the curtain here and show that they now have that demo
from 2008 running on their new broadwell
nook right there yes it's getting a little bit toasty no it doesn't seem
particularly happy about running the demo but it is actually doing it so uh
there you go i guess that's moore's law at work are they ignoring enthusiasts uh
you could look at it that way or are they just making enthusiast hardware
very different than it used to look in the past well that's what i'll say with
all the Intel people watching me here in the suite either way it's a very cool
demo and it's amazing to see how far we've come in six
years i mean think about that oh i missed one bring bring please so this is
another little cool this is another broadwell device so this is from ASUS
same thing totally detachable tablet totally thin absolutely unbelievable
this one doesn't have the 2.6 gigahertz turbosku in it um did you end up looking
at the CPU speed is it about 2.6 all right well there you
go i lied i misled you guys i'm very sorry i apologize it's only barely thick
enough you can see there's just enough room for the panel
the touch interface and then a three and a half millimeter jack that is it that
is all the space there is on this tablet slash convertible slash two and one
slash whatever marketing name there is for it these days so pretty amazing
stuff going on here and i'm looking forward to more reviews of
guys let me know what devices you want to see us check out and we will try to do that over the next little while also
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