BlackBerry Launch Special Edition Key2 in Red

Following the successful launch of the Cosmic Red edition of the Key2 LE last year, and the many column inches by technology journalists praising the color combination as striking...

0 by Ian Cutress on 2/24/2019

MWC 2019: Huawei Connecting Future Press Event, a Live Blog (1pm UTC)

Huawei has once again rented out the Italian Pavilion here in Barcelona for its annual Mobile World Congress press event. We're expecting to see CEO Richard Yu on stage...

9 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 2/24/2019

MWC 2019: Xiaomi Mi 9 Global Launch Press Event Live Blog (9:30am UTC)

Xiaomi recently launched the Mi 9 in China, and today at MWC the company will launch it globally. We're here ready to report on the launch, as well as...

11 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 2/24/2019

Some Cascade Lake Xeon Scalable Processor Specifications Exposed in SI Documents

The next generation of Intel’s server processor line is the Cascade Lake Xeon Scalable family. Intel has been promoting it as the next generation over several events through 2018...

7 by Ian Cutress on 2/23/2019

First Glimpse of Huawei Mate X: A Foldable 5G Phone

Constructing a stage and a booth at a trade show takes a few days. It just so happens that the media end up arriving in the city for the...

13 by Ian Cutress on 2/22/2019

Xilinx Announce New RFSoCs for 5G, Covering Sub-6 GHz and mmWave

More often than not, embedded wireless equipment, the infrastructure that powers it, and the systems that test the deployed hardware don’t just use off-the-shelf parts. As with 4G and...

6 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2019

Hands on with the Samsung S10+, S10, and S10e: Which Witch is Which?

Standing as the world’s largest smartphone retailer, Samsung’s flagship family leads the way into how the company sees the next generation of user experience and interaction. Each release has...

72 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2019

The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2019 Live Blog (Starts at 2pm ET/19:00 UTC)

I'm here at the London venue for Samsung's global Galaxy Unpacked event. Samsung's annual gathering for flagship smartphone news, we'll be seeing the eagerly awaited (and widely leaked) Samsung...

9 by Ian Cutress on 2/20/2019

Newegg Lists ASUS ROG Dominus Extreme Motherboard, More Xeon CPUs Supported

One of the interesting elements to Intel’s unlocked 28-core Xeon W-3175 processor launch was that the motherboard options to support this processor were minimal. At present only ASUS and...

9 by Ian Cutress on 2/16/2019

Playing Chicken: Kentucky Fried Intel Core i9-9900KFC Processor Listed

If every letter has a special meaning for a feature in a product, and a product portfolio offers a mix and match of those features, then eventually a combination...

32 by Ian Cutress on 2/15/2019

The AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPU Review

Despite AMDs resurgence to kick it with the high end of mainstream processors, the biggest volume sales occur more in the mid-range where the parts are often competitively priced...

66 by Ian Cutress on 2/11/2019

Cisco Documents Shed Light on Cascade Lake, Cooper Lake, and Ice Lake for Servers

In a publicly available document, found by an eagle-eyed user on Twitter, Cisco has revealed some details about the future Whitley Platform and Barlow Pass: the set of technologies...

21 by Ian Cutress on 2/5/2019

Intel 28-Core Xeon W-3175X Spotted at Retail in Japan: $3880

One of the comments we got from Intel about the new unlocked 28-core Xeon W-3175X processor was that it would only be available through boutique system integrators or OEMs...

20 by Ian Cutress on 2/2/2019

The Intel Xeon W-3175X Review: 28 Unlocked Cores, $2999

Intel has always ensured that its high-end server platforms, one where multiple CPUs can act as a single system, have the highest core count processors. These servers go into...

136 by Ian Cutress on 1/30/2019

CES 2019 Question and Answer Session with AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su

One of the major highlights of CES was the reveal of AMD’s next generation Matisse processor. With the cores built on TSMC’s 7nm process, the demonstration of the eight...

60 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 1/29/2019

Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake and Core i3-8121U Deep Dive Review

Anyone interested in leading edge semiconductors knows that Intel is late with its newest manufacturing process. The '10nm' node was first announced in 2014, to be released in 2016...

129 by Ian Cutress on 1/25/2019

AMD Pushing the AMD+AMD Strategy with Executive Promotions

Today AMD is announcing some realignment of its executive team along with some promotions. The idea behind the changes boils down to AMD wanting to focus its efforts on...

85 by Ian Cutress on 1/25/2019

Double Height DDR4: 32GB Modules from G.Skill and ZADAK Reviewed

Two memory module companies, G.Skill and ZADAK, have developed a new memory format with double capacity DDR4 memory. These new modules put the equivalent of two standard modules onto...

52 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 1/23/2019

The True Shortest AM4 Motherboard: Thin-ITX Comes to AMD

There seems to be a bit of a rush on small motherboards lately for AMD systems. We saw the mini-STX platform that ASRock announced back at CES, which is...

21 by Ian Cutress on 1/22/2019

ZOTAC’s Streaming Mini-PC, the MI553B, with Integrated AVerMedia Capture Card

With the advent of streaming video games online being a core market for computer hardware manufacturers, a new initiative was announced at TwitchCon 2018 to develop smaller form factor...

7 by Ian Cutress on 1/22/2019

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