Intel teased us with the prospect of a fanless Haswell chip back at Computex , but it didn’t say just how it would achieve such a feat. Now we know: it’s introducing more energy-efficient versions of the Y-series Core processors that were announced earlier this year. The new chips consume as little as 4.5W in a typical scenario, letting them run in tablets and detachable convertibles without the fans needed by their 6W peers. Don’t expect blistering performance at this reduced power level, however. While Intel isn’t divulging clock speeds just yet, the 4.5W Y-series chips have the same 11.5W thermal design power rating as their 6W siblings — they’ll still need active cooling to perform at their best. The company also isn’t providing ship dates or naming customers, although it does promise that the extra-miserly Core CPUs should be available in the “coming months.” We have an idea as to who might be interested. Filed under: Laptops , Tablets , Intel Comments Source: Intel
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Intel previews 4.5W Y-series Core chips for fanless tablets
A great artist can make beauty out of any medium, no matter how limited. 97-year-old Hal Lasko embodies this concept. Instead of painting with dozens of expensive brushes or high-end software suites, Lasko uses a tool most of us have used and abandoned years ago—Microsoft Paint from Windows 95. Read more… 
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a ” supercomputing powerhouse ” with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting through unimaginably large troves of data its surveillance programs capture. But ask the NSA as part of a freedom of information request to do a seemingly simple search of its own employees’ e-mail? The agency says it doesn’t have the technology. “There’s no central method to search an e-mail at this time with the way our records are set up, unfortunately, ” NSA Freedom of Information Act officer Cindy Blacker told me last week. The system is “a little antiquated and archaic, ” she added. Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments 
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