MWC 2017: AGM Preparing IP68 Rated Snapdragon 835 Smartphone with 8GB DRAM
AGM may not be a household name for the vast majority of people living in Europe and the U.S., but this is a well-known maker of rugged phones that...
29 by Anton Shilov on 3/13/2017
MWC 2017: Netgear Nighthawk M1 Coming to Europe in Mid-2017, But
Earlier this year Netgear introduced its Nighthawk M1 router, powered by Qualcomm’s X16 LTE modem and is the first Gigabit LTE router on the market. Right now, the device...
9 by Anton Shilov on 3/13/2017
GDC 2017 Roundup: VR for All - Pico Neo CV, Tobii, & HTC
Now that I’ve wrapped up the major GDC product launches, I want to spend a bit of time talking about the rest of GDC. The annual show has always been...
5 by Ryan Smith on 3/13/2017
MWC 2017: Oppo Demonstrates 5X Optical Zoom for Smartphones
This year at MWC, Oppo showed off a smartphone prototype that used a new implementation of dual cameras to offer a 5X optical zoom. The company did not reveal...
23 by Anton Shilov on 3/13/2017
MWC 2017: Panasonic Demonstrates Store Window as a Transparent Screen
At Mobile World Congress this year, Panasonic demonstrated a glass that can be turned into a display in an instant. The solution relies on a thin film between the...
7 by Anton Shilov on 3/13/2017
Intel to Acquire Mobileye for $15 Billion
In an interesting announcement today, Intel and Mobileye have entered into an agreement whereby Intel will commence a tender offer for all issued and outstanding ordinary shared of Mobileye...
17 by Ian Cutress on 3/13/2017
Infineon Shows Off Future of eSIM Cards: <1.65 mm2 Made Using 40 nm
Update 3/20: Infineon has contacted us and said that the eSIM IC is made using a 40 nm process technology. At MWC this year, Infineon showcased a lineup of its...
28 by Anton Shilov on 3/11/2017
SD Association Announces UHS-III (up to 624 MB/s), A2 Class, LV Signaling
The SD Association has made three important announcements in the course of the past couple of weeks. First is the introduction of its UHS-III bus that increases the potential...
17 by Anton Shilov on 3/11/2017
Sony Demonstrates Concept Xperia Ear Headphones and Xperia Touch Android Projector at MWC
As we move through our MWC meeting writeup backlog this week, one of the interesting developments we saw was from Sony. Apart from new smartphones, Sony showed two interesting...
10 by Anton Shilov on 3/11/2017
Microsoft Details Project Olympus Open Compute Standard
Today, at the 2017 Open Compute Project U.S. Summit, Microsoft unveiled some significant announcements around their hyperscale cloud hardware design, which they first announced in November as Project Olympus...
65 by Brett Howse on 3/8/2017
Imagination Announces PowerVR Furian GPU Architecture: The Next Generation of PowerVR
Taking place today is Imagination Technologies’ annual tech summit in Santa Clara, California. The company’s annual summit is always a venue for major Imagination news, and this year that’s...
19 by Ryan Smith on 3/8/2017
Everspin Announces New MRAM Products And Partnerships
Magnetoresistive RAM manufacturer Everspin has announced their first MRAM-based storage products and issued two other press releases about recent accomplishments. Until now, Everspin's business model has been to sell...
22 by Billy Tallis on 3/8/2017
NVIDIA Announces Jetson TX2: Parker Comes To NVIDIA’s Embedded System Kit
For a few years now, NVIDIA has been offering their line of Jetson embedded system kits. Originally launched using Tegra K1 in 2014, the first Jetson was designed to...
59 by Ryan Smith on 3/7/2017
AMD Prepares 32-Core Naples CPUs for 1P and 2P Servers: Coming in Q2
For users keeping track of AMD’s rollout of its new Zen microarchitecture, stage one was the launch of Ryzen, its new desktop-oriented product line last week. Stage three is...
91 by Ian Cutress on 3/7/2017
How To Get Ryzen Working on Windows 7 x64
Officially, AMD does not support Ryzen CPUs on Windows 7. Given that Microsoft has essentially ended support for the OS, this is the type of response we expect from...
104 by Ian Cutress on 3/7/2017
Playing With Power: A Look At Nintendo Switch Power Consumption
Last week was of course the launch of Nintendo’s eagerly anticipated Switch console. The company’s latest handheld console, the Switch is a bit of an odd duck in pretty...
61 by Ryan Smith on 3/6/2017
Meizu Unveils Super mCharge: Fast Charging At 55W
Meizu unveiled a new fast-charging technology—called Super mCharge—at MWC 2017 that’s capable of fully charging a 3000 mAh battery in just 20 minutes. Rapid charging has grown from novelty...
40 by Matt Humrick on 3/2/2017
ZTE Announces The Blade V8 Mini And Blade V8 Lite
After announcing the Blade V8 Pro at CES 2017, ZTE added two more phones to the Blade V8 family: the Blade V8 Mini and Blade V8 Lite. Both phones...
6 by Matt Humrick on 3/2/2017
NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: Available Week of March 5th for $699
In what has now become a bona fide tradition for NVIDIA, at their GDC event this evening the company announced their next flagship video card, the GeForce GTX 1080...
139 by Ryan Smith on 2/28/2017
GeForce GTX 1080 Price Cut to $499; NVIDIA Partners To Begin Selling 10-Series Cards With Faster Memory
Along with this evening’s new of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, NVIDIA has a couple other product announcements of sorts. First off, starting tomorrow, the GeForce GTX 1080 is...
29 by Ryan Smith on 2/28/2017
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