Huawei Pushes G.hn Powerline Networking with the WiFi Q2 Whole-Home Wi-Fi Solution
Mesh networking / whole-home Wi-Fi systems have seen rapid growth over the last couple of years. Almost all vendors in the consumer networking space have one or more offerings...
9 by Ganesh T S on 1/17/2018ZOTAC at CES 2018: Gemini Lake 'Credit Card' Pico PCs
LAS VEGAS, NV — Last year Intel introduced its Compute Card initiative, aimed mostly at manufacturers of specialized PCs and smart devices that benefit from high integration, easy installation...
26 by Anton Shilov on 1/17/2018Kingston at CES 2018: Nucleum, a Portable 7-in-1 USB-C Dock for Notebooks
LAS VEGAS, NV — Notebook manufacturers, Apple in particular, were heavily criticized in 2016/2017 for introducing notebooks that feature only USB Type-C connectors. For end-users, such a transition meant...
11 by Anton Shilov on 1/17/2018ZOTAC at CES 2018: Workstation Mini-PCs with NVIDIA Quadro
LAS VEGAS, NV — ZOTAC’s new lineup of workstations consists of three systems based on Intel’s quad-core Core i5-7500T processor and one of three GPUs: the NVIDIA Quadro P1000...
10 by Anton Shilov on 1/17/2018The ASUS NovaGo: Two Minutes with Snapdragon 835 and Windows
LAS VEGAS, NV – Late last year, at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Event in Hawaii, we had the formal introduction of the first devices that were using the new Windows...
76 by Ian Cutress on 1/17/2018Meizu Announces M6s with Exynos 7872
Today Meizu launched the new M6s, successor to last year’s M5s. The new M6s brings significant upgrades for the entry-level smartphone as it upgrades the SoC, screen and camera. The...
25 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/17/2018ZOTAC at CES 2018: AMD Raven Ridge APU in a ZBOX MA551 Mini-PC
LAS VEGAS, NV — ZOTAC is preparing a small form-factor PC based on an AMD’s Ryzen processor with integrated Vega graphics. The ZOTAC ZBOX MA551 will be among the...
36 by Anton Shilov on 1/16/2018ASRock at CES 2018: Hands-On with the ASRock X399M Taichi
LAS VEGAS, NV – While smaller motherboards are fun to look at, and an engineering challenge, they still represent a small part of the market. The main benefit for...
6 by Ian Cutress on 1/16/2018ADATA at CES 2018: A 1U AIC Server for 5G Comms, with 36x 8TB M.3 Drives
LAS VEGAS, NV – I had no idea what an M.3 drive was until I visited ADATA at CES. Having lived through IDE, SATA, and now M.2, I had...
11 by Ian Cutress on 1/16/2018GIGABYTE at CES 2018: A First Look at X470
LAS VEGAS, NV – One of the announcements from AMD’s Tech Day prior to CES was that of a new chipset coming to the Ryzen market. The purpose of...
14 by Ian Cutress on 1/16/2018ASUS at CES 2018: How To Remove Multi-Monitor Bezels, Safely
LAS VEGAS, NV –Do you ever buy more than one monitor, and then the brain adjusts such that instead of focusing on the next headshot you end up looking...
16 by Ian Cutress on 1/16/2018Synaptics at CES 2018: In-screen Fingerprint & OLED DDIC
At CES 2018 we’ve had opportunity to visit Synaptics’ booth and check out what new technologies they had to offer. One of the big stories of CES 2018 in...
4 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/16/2018Zotac at CES 2018: ZBOX MAGNUS Upgraded with Coffee
LAS VEGAS, NV — This year at CES, ZOTAC has demonstrated its new flagship compact gaming PC with an upgrade and a rededign. The new ZBOX MAGNUS is powered...
3 by Anton Shilov on 1/16/2018ASRock at CES 2018: Ultra Quad M.2 PCIe Card
LAS VEGAS, NV – Sometimes, one M.2 PCIe drive is not enough. Some motherboards come with three M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs, but that might not be enough either...
10 by Ian Cutress on 1/16/2018ADATA at CES 2018: Jellyfish DRAM
LAS VEGAS, NV – Over the years, DRAM heatsinks have gone from non-existent, to gaudy, to death traps with jagged edges, to some form of LED hell. In the...
19 by Ian Cutress on 1/16/2018Ambarella at CES 2018: Announcing CV1 and CV22 SoCs with CVflow CNN engines
At CES 2018 in Las Vegas we had the pleasure to attend Ambarella’s booth tour demonstrating the newest products in camera SoC solutions. Ambarella to date is most widely...
9 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/15/2018Asustor Launches Marvell-based AS4000 Series NAS Units with 10GBASE-T
Asustor took the opportunity at CES 2018 to launch their AS4000 NAS series. It will have two SKUs - the 2-bay AS4002T, and the 4-bay AS4004T. While there are...
20 by Ganesh T S on 1/13/2018Cherry Introduces New Low Profile RGB Switches at CES 2018
This year, Cherry, one of the leaders in mechanical keyboard switches, and more often than not the ‘go-to’ for enthusiasts, is releasing a new low-profile switch. It is called...
13 by Joe Shields on 1/12/2018Mushkin at CES 2018: CarbonEXT 1 TB USB 3.0 SSD, Swap USB Type-A & Type-C Drive
LAS VEGAS, NV — In addition to a host of new M.2 SSDs, Mushkin introduced two new USB-based products at CES 2018: the CarbonEXT new external SSD as well...
5 by Anton Shilov on 1/12/2018ECS at CES 2018: LIVA Z2, LIVA Q2 & LIVA One SoC Gemini Lake-Based UCFF PCs
UPDATE 1/12, 2:15 PM ET: Adding MSPRs for the Z2 and Q2 entry-level configs. LAS VEGAS, NV — ECS demonstrated a few of its upcoming ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) PCs based...
6 by Anton Shilov on 1/12/2018