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05:41PM EST — Low voltage backlight, Apical-style CABC for sunlight visibility
05:39PM EST — 500 charging cycles supported, won’t catch fire apparently
05:39PM EST — 3340 mAh battery, 680 Wh/L power density
05:37PM EST — Standard EmotionUI features like split screen, screen recording, and scroll capture
05:37PM EST — Up to 4 devices can connect to the Honor 6X
05:36PM EST — So the Honor 6X acts as a WiFi repeater to try and extend coverage
05:36PM EST — «Wi-Fi Bridge»
05:35PM EST — This is carried over from Mate9, seems to be an EmUI feature
05:35PM EST — Night mode to reduce color temperature and reduce brightness of the display
05:34PM EST — Advertising CABC and what seems to be saturation boost in video
05:33PM EST — 5.5″ FHD display
05:33PM EST — Claiming that their app launch performance is better than the competition
05:32PM EST — This is shared with Mate 9
05:31PM EST — «Smart file system»
05:31PM EST — Claim 65% performance increase over 5X
05:31PM EST — Kirin 655 16nm octa-core
05:31PM EST — MicroSD, dual SIM
05:31PM EST — 32/64GB eMMC 5.1
05:30PM EST — 3/4GB RAM
05:29PM EST — Honor 6X will be able to use a «Honor Tripod Selfie Stick».
05:26PM EST — Camera has f/2.2 aperture it looks like
05:25PM EST — 12MP sensor is 1.25 micron pixel size
05:24PM EST — They’re showing a demo photo with some obvious defects in how it’s being blurred…
05:22PM EST — Dual lens is 12MP, 2MP, 6P lenses, PDAF
05:20PM EST — Three colors gold, silver, gray
05:20PM EST — Front glass is 2.5D curved glass as is popular in smartphone design right now
05:19PM EST — «Bezier curve-inspired design»
05:18PM EST — Dual camera, fingerprint reader, looks to be aluminum unibody sandblasted finish, microUSB 2 still
05:17PM EST — Honor 6X «Double or Nothing»
05:15PM EST — Best selling phone during Black Friday for Amazon Germany, 15k sold in US, etc
05:14PM EST — 1.5M Honor 8 sold in 50 days
05:14PM EST — 11M Honor 5X sold globally
05:13PM EST — Note
05:12PM EST — During Chinese Black Friday, 320M in sales, 40% increase from last year
05:11PM EST — «We are glad iPhone 7 Plus has dual camera»
05:10PM EST — Dual camera, smart key, octa-core with LTE cat 6
05:10PM EST — Discussing the various new things Honor have introduced
05:08PM EST — Announcing Honor 6X
05:07PM EST — «We studied the global young people»
05:06PM EST — Claims Honor is the leading smartphone e-brand
05:05PM EST — Claims brand satisfaction is higher than Apple and Samsung
05:05PM EST — «Our customers become Honor promoter»
05:04PM EST — «Honor ‘net promoter score’ on par with Apple in China»
05:03PM EST — «100M fans and users worldwide»
05:03PM EST — Last year they launched the Honor 5X here in the US
05:03PM EST — George Zhao takes the stage
05:02PM EST — The Honor brand stands for those who are brave enough and bold enough to be themselves — MC on stage
05:02PM EST — We don’t really have video so I’ll just settle by saying that there’s a lot of epileptic video and bass
05:00PM EST — Looks like the Honor 6X is getting announced here.
04:59PM EST — Funky guitar solo as we lead up to the start — very millennial.
04:50PM EST — Venue is basically full
04:49PM EST — Event is set to start at 2pm
04:48PM EST — We have a group interview with George Zhao, CEO of Honor, later today. Submit your questions…
04:47PM EST — Ian on pictures, Josh on text
04:47PM EST — Double is referring to cameras
04:46PM EST — We’re here at Honor’s CES event, Double or Nothing

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A lot of cool technologies are coming to Intel’s latest NUCs, which are powerful mini-desktops that now boast the company’s latest Kaby Lake chips.
A NUC packs all components tightly in a small PC that is light enough to be held in one hand. These mini-PCs are easily customizable and considered desktop replacements.
Some of the new NUCs have Thunderbolt 3 ports, Intel Iris Plus graphics for 4K video, and are ready for Intel’s superfast Optane storage.
Intel has announced three new «tall» NUCs with 7th Generation Core i3, i5 and i7 chips, and two «short» NUCs with Core i3 and i5 chips. The «tall NUCs» are slightly larger and more powerful than the short NUCs.
The primary use of the Kaby Lake NUCs is for home entertainment, video editing, mainstream gaming and as a smart home hub, an Intel spokesman said.
The NUCs with Core i3 will be available shortly after CES, while others with Core i5 and i7 will ship later in the first quarter.
The new NUCs are being announced alongside new Kaby Lake chips, which are being used in dozens of new laptops. The Kaby Lake chips are between 5 to 15 percent faster than Intel’s older chips code-named Skylake.
The tall Core i7 unit is new, while the others are succeeding older NUCs with Skylake chips. Intel hasn’t announced a successor to its popular NUC called Skull Canyon, which has a Skylake chip.
The mini-desktops with Core i3 will serve as entry-level units, but Core i5 and i7 units are powerful and loaded with Thunderbolt 3 and Intel Iris Plus graphics.
All the tall NUCs — the NUC7i3BNH with Core i3, NUC7i5BNH with Core i5 and the NUC7i7BNH with Core i7 — will also be ready for Optane. Optane is a new class of memory and storage that could replace conventional SSDs and DRAM in PCs. The short NUCs — NUC7i3BNK with Core i3 and NUC7i5BNK with Core i5 — will not support Optane.
Optane will initially be available in the form of low-capacity flash storage that will help speed up applications. Optane, which is based on 3D Xpoint technology, will later be available in the form of high-capacity SSDs and memory DIMMs. Intel has shown Optane SSDs being 10 times faster than conventional SSDs, and denser than DRAM. Laptops like the ThinkPad T570 are already being announced with support for Optane.
All the mini-PCs will support HDMI 2.0 for 4K video. Details on other ports in the NUCs weren’t available, but will be shared by Intel on its website.
But one can expect the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The Thunderbolt 3 port will carry out the functions of a standard USB-C port. Thunderbolt 3 will make it possible to attach portable storage, external graphics cards and monitors to NUCs with communication speeds of up to 40Gbps (bits per second).
The NUCs will support DDR4 memory.
The prices of the new NUCs aren’t expected to be very different than those of its predecessors, the Intel spokesman said. With that in mind, the tall Core i3 NUCs could be priced at around US$300 and the Core i5 units at $400. The tall Core i7 unit could be priced at around $500.

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Lenovo is charging out of the gate at the Consumer Electronics Show with new portable machine. On one corner, we have machines representing its stalwart Thinkpad business-oriented brand. On the opposite end, there’s the company’s new Legion gaming marque. All of the machines pack Intel’s latest seventh-generation Kaby Lake CPUs. The Thinkpad X1 Carbon is a traditional slim laptop, the Thinkpad X1 Yoga is a cross between a laptop and a tablet, and the Legion Y520 is a gaming laptop with gamer-oriented aesthetics and discrete graphics cards. Let’s take a look at each one of these.
The Thinkpad X1 Carbon is available in a wide range of specifications, with top-of-the-line models packing an Intel seventh-generation Core i7-7600U, 16GB of 1866 MT/s LPDDR3 memory, and 1TB of NVMe storage. Lenovo says the X1 Carbon’s battery should last up to 15.5 hours, but we expect that range-topping configurations will not last quite so long on a single charge. Road warriors won’t need to sacrifice external connectivity for the sake of portability. Although the X1 Carbon has a 0.62″ (16 mm) profile and weights just 2.5 lbs (1.14 kg), the little laptop packs two Thuderbolt 3 ports, two USB 3.0 Type-A connectors, HDMI and Gigabit Ethernet ports, and microSIM and microSD slots. Buyers get a choice between 1920×1080 and 2560×1440 IPS panels. Wireless connectivity choices include a Qualcomm LTE modem, an Intel Wireless-AC Wi-Fi adapter, Bluetooth 4.2, and NFC.
Lenovo’s Thinkpad X1 Yoga isn’t quite as svelte as the X1 Carbon, but it makes up for it with flexibility. The Yoga can do the same 180° turn from a closed pose as previous models, but now packs Intel seventh-generation Core CPUs and a pair of Thunderbolt 3 ports. The included pressure-sensitive pen can write and tap on any of three different 14″ displays, the most notable of which is a 2560×1440 OLED panel. Graphics horsepower comes by way of Intel IGPs, but buyers can at least choose a higher-spec Iris Plus Graphics 640 option. Like the X1 Carbon, storage options run the gamut from snoozy 128GB SATA to 1TB NVMe devices. Lenovo says the X1 Yoga’s battery can last as long as 16 hours.
The Legion Y520 gaming laptop bears the black-and-red colors present on Lenovo’s previous gaming offerings. The Y520 sports a 15.6″ screen, though Lenovo didn’t specify its resolution or panel type. Storage options include 512GB NVMe or 2TB hard drives, or combinations of both. The most interesting tidbit is the choice of Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, GTX 1050 Ti, or AMD’s Radeon RX-560M graphics cards. This is the first we have heard of this particular AMD graphics card model. The Y520 is just over an inch (25.8 mm) thick and weighs in at a comparatively-hefty 5.5 lbs (2.5 kg).
Lenovo didn’t provide pricing or availability information for any of these mobile machines, but we expect more details sometime after CES is over.

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The i7-7700K, launched today, is Intel’s fastest ever consumer grade processor. Using Intel’s third set of processors at 14nm, using the new 14+ variant, we get processors with a better frequency / voltage curve that translates into more performance, better efficiency, and the potential to push the silicon further and harder. Here is our review.
The i7-7700K is part of Intel’s 7th Generation of Core CPUs, which often goes by its internal code name ‘Kaby Lake’. The Kaby Lake family, as of today’s launch, stretches from 91W on the mainstream desktop down to 4.5W for notebook processors, all using the same underlying technology in different core and integrated graphics configurations. The i7-7700K is the top part of this processor family, featuring four cores with hyperthreading, a 4.2 GHz base frequency, a 4.5 GHz turbo frequency, a couple of new tricks and all for $303 list (so about $330 retail).
As a processor with the letter K in it, in Intel’s lingo this means the i7-7700K is an unlocked processor. Users with enough nous to understand the relationship between frequency, voltage, temperature and stability can take this processor above (or below) its standard operating frequency to get more performance without spending more money. The upshot of pushing the processor in this way is usually a higher power consumption, something that PC enthusiasts usually have to spare, and in the wrong hands a broken CPU through overclocking is worth the same as sand. There are two other K processors in the Kaby Lake family, the i5-7600K and the i3-7350K, which both have separate reviews as part of our launch coverage.
Intel calls the desktop like of processors the S series, and Kaby Lake-S (or KBL-S) ranges from a dual core low power 35W i3-7100T to the high-end 91W i7-7700K. The idea here is to offer many different parts at different price points to cater for customer needs, such as performance, power, cost and feature set. With every launch Intel tries to entice users to upgrade from their older system (citing hundreds of millions of daily PCs being 3+ years old), and so having new features is key to having better performance too.
With the high-end i7-7700K, being the top processor, the main draw is typically performance and overclockability. This review aims to take us through both of these, and the reasons why.
Intel Core i7-7700K (Kaby Lake) and Core i7-6700K (Skylake)
Comparing it to the previous generation high-end i7-6700K Skylake processor, we get the same configuration of cache hierarchy. The main difference between the two will be support for DDR4-2400 on the Kaby Lake rather than DDR4-2133, updated integrated graphics, a new generation of Speed Shift, AVX Offset support, and support for Intel’s ‘Optane Memory’.
Typically with each new generation of Intel CPUs brings about a fundamental increase in performance through the rate of instructions per cycle/clock (IPC) that the processor can go through. That being said, Intel has stated (and we’ve confirmed through testing) that Skylake and Kaby Lake are identical for IPC. As a result, the i7-7700K attempts to take the performance crown through frequency alone. The i7-6700K runs as 4.0 GHz base and 4.2 GHz turbo, while the i7-7700K runs at 4.2 GHz base and 4.5 GHz turbo. We quantify what this means in this review.
For the i7-6700K family, Skylake, Intel introduced Speed Shift (v1). This was a feature that, at a high level, gave control of the voltage/frequency curve from the operating system to the processor. Using a series of internal metrics, such as instruction analysis and frequency, the CPU would automatically adjust the voltage and frequency of the processor as required. This afforded two major benefits: one, with the CPU in control it has access to many more points on the curve compared to the OS which is limited to specific P-states on the processor.
The second benefit is the speed of transition. A processor that can ramp up to a high frequency quickly and then drop down as needed can get through instructions quicker but also save power. Imagine driving a car, and having to wait 60 seconds to change a gear – it’s that sort of analogy.
What Speed Shift v2 does in the i7-7700K and the Kaby Lake family, compared to v1 in Skylake, is manage those transitions to higher frequency faster. Before Speed Shift, transitions from idle to peak turbo were on the order of 100 milliseconds, and Speed Shift v1 took that to 30 milliseconds (with a good base established within 15). Speed Shift v2 means that peak performance from idle now happens in 10-15 milliseconds total. This means that interactions with the OS, such as touch, or actions that rely on low latency, can occur within a couple of frames on a 60 Hz display.
The benefit of Speed Shift lies a lot in touch devices, which perhaps doesn’t affect the i7-7700K in this review, but also in web interactions. A lot of web work is stop and start, such as scrolling or javascript functions.
There is one caveat however – Speed Shift currently only works in Windows 10. It requires a driver which is automatically in the OS (v2 doesn’t need a new driver, it’s more a hardware update), but this limitation does mean that Linux and macOS do not benefit from it. I would be hard pressed to not imagine that Apple and Intel were not working on a macOS driver, but as yet we have not had confirmation that one exists.
The latest memory technology to hit prime time is Intel and Micron’s 3D XPoint. This is a non-volatile form of data storage that is bit addressable and can be used as DRAM or storage. Despite being at least a decade in the making, and being formally announced in 2014, it is still yet to show up commercially as it is still being developed. Intel plans to create 3D XPoint DRAM that is slightly slower than normal DRAM but both denser (more of it) and non-volatile (keeps the data after power loss, saves power altogether), as well as 3D XPoint Storage that is faster than standard NAND flash, and more configurable. It the scheme of things, we expect the storage based products to hit the market first.
Intel, as far as we can tell, is set to release two main classes of product: Optane DRAM to be pin-compatible with DDR4 and require Optane DRAM enabled processors, and Optane SSDs which should work with any PCIe storage interface. ‘Optane Memory’ however, is something a little different. Based on pre-briefings, Optane Memory is certainly not Optane SSD we were told, but rather a storage cache for mechanical hard-drives. We’ve had this before with NAND flash drives, using Intel’s Rapid Storage Technology, and it seems that Kaby Lake and 200-series chipsets will support a new version of RST for PCIe-based storage. But because this is caching drive, such as the 16GB Optane Memory drives in Lenovo’s upcoming notebooks, and not Optane SSD, might lead us to believe that ‘Optane Memory’ drives are not designed to be directly user addressable.
All that being said, Intel has stated that Optane Memory standalone drives should hit the market nearer Q3 for general consumer use, which is more in-line with what we might expect to see with Optane SSDs in the enterprise space.
For readers that want a more in-depth take on Kaby Lake as a platform, we have a dedicated article full of information for you. We also have other articles in our Kaby Lake bonanza for launch day.
Other articles include:
Intel Launches 7 th Generation Kaby Lake (Overview and Core Improvements)
The Intel Core i7-7700K Review: The New Out-of-the-box Performance Champion
The Intel Core i5-7600K Review: The More Amenable Mainstream Performer
Upcoming (we’re at CES and didn’t have time to finish these yet):
Calculating Generational IPC Changes from Sandy Bridge to Kaby Lake
The Intel Core i3-7350K Review: When a Core i3 Nearly Matches the Core i7-2600K
Intel Core i7-7700K, i5-7600K and i3-7350K Overclocking: Hitting 5.0 GHz on AIR
Intel Launches 200-Series Chipset Breakdown: Z270, H270, B250, Q250, C232
Intel Z270 Motherboard Preview: A Quick Look at 80+ Motherboards

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Fancy a spell of on-the-go hardcore PC gaming, but can’t afford to splash the cash on a souped up, top-of-the-line laptop? Nvidia is looking to level the playing field at CES 2017 , opening the floodgate for budget games by finally officially offering laptop support with GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti cards.
The efficient cards make use of Nvidia’s cutting edge Pascal technology, but dial back the pixel-pushing oomph a touch to give you better battery mileage and a healthier bank balance.
That’s not to say it’ll be a compromised experience however — Nvidia promises that you’ll be able to «play classic and modern games at 1080p @ 60 FPS with additional support for the latest DirectX 12 features» with laptops sporting the chipsets.
That’s 3x the performance seen on Nvidia’s last generation of comparable GPUs, while also supporting advanced features such as G-Sync (offering super smooth gameplay with supported displays) and Nvidia Ansel for pro-grade in-game screenshots.
There’s room for overclocking too, while switching on the Nvidia BatteryBoost feature will squeeze double the play time from laptops using the 1050 or 1050 Ti cards while still keeping above an enjoyable 30 FPS.
Thirty laptops with the new cards will ship during Q1 2017, with manufacturers including Alienware, MSI, ASUS and Dell. Pricing will vary, but the most affordable models will start at $699 (£570 / AU$970, complete with Intel’s Kaby Lake processing tech.

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