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We're here in sunny San Jose California for the return of an event that's been a long-time coming: NVIDIA's in-person GTC. The Spring 2024 event, NVIDIA's marquee event for the year, promises to be a big one for NVIDIA, as the company is due to deliver updates on its all-important datacenter accelerator products – the successor to the GH100 GPU and its Hopper architecture – along with NVIDIA's other professional/enterprise hardware, networking gear, and, of course, a slew of software stack updates. In the 5 years since NVIDIA was last able to hold a Spring GTC in person, a great deal has changed for the company. They're now the third biggest company in the world, thanks to explosive sales growth (and even further growth expectations...
Huawei Server Efforts: Hi1620 and Arm’s Big Server Core, Ares
For at least four years now, Arm has been pushing its efforts to be a big part of the modern day server, the modern day data center, and in...
12 by Ian Cutress on 11/20/2018
Managing 8 Rome CPUs in 1U: Cray’s Shasta Direct Liquid Cooling
The Supercomputing show was a hive of activity, with lots of whispers surrounding the next generation of x86 CPUs, such as AMD’s Rome platform and Intel’s Cascade Lake platform...
26 by Ian Cutress on 11/19/2018
Scaling Inference with NVIDIA’s T4: A Supermicro Solution with 320 PCIe Lanes
When visiting the Supercomputing conference this year, there were plenty of big GPU systems on display for machine learning. A large number were geared towards the heavy duty cards...
12 by Ian Cutress on 11/19/2018
Knights Mill Spotted at Supercomputing
All the way back at Hot Chips 2017, we saw Intel launch its upgraded Xeon Phi processors, Knights Mill. These were updated versions of Knights Landing, using the same...
10 by Ian Cutress on 11/19/2018
Sharp Aquos D10 Smartphone: Mid-Range with ‘Wide Color Gamut’ Display
In the back of my mind I guess I had always assumed Sharp made some sort of smart device, but I was still taken aback at their booth at...
11 by Ian Cutress on 9/18/2018
ZTE is Back: The Axon 9 Pro at IFA 2018
ZTE's troubles as of late have been well documented. Following a substantial fine and a complete removal of the senior staff from SVP and above, the company is now...
13 by Ian Cutress on 9/18/2018
BlackBerry Key2 LE: A Competitive Android Offering
As a person who works on my phone during my commutes to write news and stories, I have always batted around the idea of picking up a BlackBerry with...
36 by Ian Cutress on 9/17/2018
CUBOT's New 6000 mAh Smartphones: Who Calls a Smartphone King Kong?
Readers may remember that back in 2015, I wrote a review about a $150 smartphone I picked up from Amazon called the Cubot H1. This unit was a cheap...
29 by Ian Cutress on 9/17/2018
Nubia’s Red Magic: An RGB Gaming Phone
‘Ian, when are we going to see smartphones with RGB?’ is a question I am never asked. The PC space has figuratively jumped in a barrel and fallen over...
20 by Ian Cutress on 9/14/2018
Hyper Juice: 99Wh Battery Pack with 100W Charging for ~$400
Even though IFA has passed, one interesting element I still want to highlight is this little gadget that caught my eye. A company called Hyper Juice, which specialises in...
22 by Ian Cutress on 9/13/2018
Samsung’s One Invisible Connection: 75 Gbps and 230W in a Ultra Thin Cable
This perhaps isn’t news, but there was something super amazing that I saw on the show floor at IFA this year that I wanted to write about. Despite writing...
30 by Ian Cutress on 9/13/2018
Acer Shows Off Triton 900: 17-Inch Convertible Gaming Laptop
Acer last week demonstrated its upcoming ultra-high-end convertible gaming laptop. The Predator Triton 900 notebook is the first high-end mobile PC that uses a convertible form-factor; previously Acer only...
24 by Anton Shilov on 9/7/2018
Philips Preps 499P9H Curved 49-Inch 5K Display with USB-C Docking & Webcam
Last week at IFA, Philips demonstrated its upcoming ultra-wide curved 49-inch monitor. The new 499P9H display features a 5K resolution with a 32:9 apect ratio, and will be aimed...
13 by Anton Shilov on 9/7/2018
Huawei Launches the Mate 20 Lite: 6.3-inch Kirin 710 with 3D QMoji
Alongside announcing the latest high-end Kirin 980 SoC, Huawei is also introducing the Mate 20 Lite to the UK market. This is a lower-end version of flagship Mate line...
6 by Ian Cutress on 9/4/2018
Sharp Announces 2nd Gen 8K UHD TVs at IFA
Sharp this week introduced its second-generation 8K ultra-high def TVs at IFA in Berlin. The new televisions use the company’s new panels as well as the latest processors that...
49 by Anton Shilov on 8/31/2018
ASUS Details ZenBook Pro UX480 with ScreenPad, Whiskey Lake, & dGPU
ASUS at IFA formally introduced its 14-inch ZenBook Pro UX480 laptop featuring the company’s ScreenPad, a touchpad with a built-in display. The notebook was demonstrated back in early June...
12 by Anton Shilov on 8/31/2018
Huawei To Launch the Mate 20 with Kirin 980 on October 16th
Just a small note to detail one of Huawei’s announcements today: alongside the Kirin 980 announcement, Richard Yu, Huawei’s CEO, stated that their next generation flagship device, the Mate...
6 by Ian Cutress on 8/31/2018
IFA 2018: Huawei Kirin 980 Keynote Live Blog
Our big keynote of the IFA 2018 show is from Huawei, with CEO Richard Yu set to take the stage and detail the newest Kirin 980 chipset for us...
1 by Ian Cutress on 8/31/2018
Huawei To Announce Kirin 980 Today at IFA
In the smartphone wars, the chip inside powering the devices is becoming ever more important. Raw performance plus accelerators are pushing the boundaries of what we used to think...
11 by Ian Cutress on 8/31/2018
HTC U12 Life Launched: 6-inch Mid-Range with Two-Tone
In a raft of smartphone announcements at IFA 2018, next on the list is from HTC with the U12 Life. The U12 Life is the more mid-range version of...
8 by Ian Cutress on 8/30/2018
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