The Intel 335 Series Solid State Drive made an unexpected appearance in Japan.  Under SKU code SSDSC2CT240A4K5 this SSD is now on sale in Japan. This particular model has a 240 GB capacity, and obviously comes with a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface. The controller empowering the product is the SandForce SF-2281 controller combined with 20 nm MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory.

Details about "Avoton", Intel's upcoming Atom processor for the company's upcoming "Edisonville" micro-server platform have surfaced on the web. Avoton is a 22nm processor with two to eight cores, backed by 1MB to 4MB of L2 cache memory. Power consumption will be under 20W. The cores will be designed to support out-of-order processing, correcting a longstanding limitation of Atom processors. 

Intel will debut a 10-core Xeon E5-2600 V2 Ivy Bridge-EP Processor as a leaked slide reveals, that's next to 12-core processors BTW. The processor would be released in the third quarter of next year (July-September, 2013). By itself not groundbreaking news, however the specs we can derive from it are interesting none the less. Intel will make them on a 22nm Tri-gate fabrication process (Sandy Bridge-EP is on 32nm), this would save more power from the chip while keeping power consumption at a minimum.

A German tech site published specifications and details about Intel's upcoming Haswell motherboard lineup. The website shows the first H87 based motherboards from Intel will arrive in week 13 of 2013, which is late March, with Z87 and Q87-based models to follow in the weeks thereafter. Details about the enthusiast boards can be found in the slides after the break.