Sony Teases Next-Gen PlayStation: Custom AMD Chip with Zen 2 CPU & Navi GPU, SSD Too
After years of speculation about what could be and what Sony may be up to, the company is finally starting to ramp up the long launch cycle for their...
187 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2019The Zotac ZBOX CI660 nano Fanless mini-PC Review: A Promising HTPC Platform
Zotac is a major player in the SFF PC space, and the emergence of the ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) NUCs has broadened the available market for ther mini-PCs. The company...
23 by Ganesh T S on 4/16/2019The GIGABYTE Z390 Aorus Pro WIFI Motherboard Review: A Sturdy $200 Surprise
On Intel's desktop Z390 chipset, there are around 7 different ATX sized motherboards to choose from in the $180-200 price bracket. This not only puts pressure on manufacturers to...
33 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/12/2019The GIGABYTE Aorus RGB M.2 SSD Review: Nothing Is Too Small For RGB LEDs
GIGABYTE entered the SSD market last year somewhat timidly with entry-level SATA drives, and they've been working their way up the market since. Their new Aorus RGB SSDs are...
23 by Billy Tallis on 4/10/2019The AI Race Expands: Qualcomm Reveals “Cloud AI 100” Family of Datacenter AI Inference Accelerators for 2020
This morning at their first AI Day, the 800lb gorilla of the mobile world, Qualcomm announced that they are getting into the AI accelerator market, and in an aggressive...
26 by Ryan Smith on 4/9/2019AMD Launches 2nd Gen Ryzen Pro & Athlon Pro APUs
AMD on Monday introduced four new processors aimed at commercial laptops. The new AMD Ryzen Pro 3000-series and AMD Athlon Pro 300-series processors pack up to four x86 cores...
40 by Anton Shilov on 4/9/2019The SilverStone Nightjar NJ450-SXL 450W SFX PSU Review: Passive Excellence
In today's review we are taking a look at a a rather unique SFX PSU, the passively cooled SilverStone Nightjar NJ450. Despite the lack of active cooling, both the...
25 by E. Fylladitakis on 4/4/2019Intel's Bean Canyon (NUC8i7BEH) Coffee Lake NUC Review - Ticking the Right Boxes
Intel's NUCs have managed to develop a strong market for ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) machines since they were introduced in the early 2010s. Each CPU generation has seen Intel put...
81 by Ganesh T S on 4/3/2019Intel’s Enterprise Extravaganza 2019: Launching Cascade Lake, Optane DCPMM, Agilex FPGAs, 100G Ethernet, and Xeon D-1600
Today is the big day in 2019 for Intel’s Enterprise product announcements, combining some products that should be available from today and a few others set to be available...
38 by Ian Cutress on 4/2/2019The Intel Second Generation Xeon Scalable: Cascade Lake, Now with Up To 56-Cores and Optane!
The cadence of Intel’s enterprise processor portfolio is designed to support customers that use the hardware with a guarantee of socket and platform support for at least three years...
66 by Ian Cutress on 4/2/2019Intel Launches the Xeon D-1600 Family: Upgrades to Xeon D-1500
Even if you’ve been keeping track of Intel’s Xeon family lines, the Xeon D family could probably give you cause for confusion. The same ‘generation’ of products spans a...
7 by Ian Cutress on 4/2/2019Intel Columbiaville: 800 Series Ethernet at 100G, with ADQ and DDP
Among the many data center announcements today from Intel, one that might fly under the radar is that the company is launching a new family of controllers for 100...
20 by Ian Cutress on 4/2/2019Intel Agilex: 10nm FPGAs with PCIe 5.0, DDR5, and CXL
Ever since Intel purchased Altera for an enormous amount of money a few years ago (ed: $16.7B), the FPGA portfolio that has been coming out has largely been a...
12 by Ian Cutress on 4/2/2019The Samsung Galaxy S10+ Snapdragon & Exynos Review: Almost Perfect, Yet So Flawed
We’ve been in 2019 for a while. Although we've covered one or two smartphones in the last couple of months of the calendar year, the true “2019 flagship” phone...
229 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/29/2019The Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 Review: Surface Essentials
Microsoft’s Surface lineup was created to bring a spark of innovation into the PC industry at a time where much of the competition was slow to change, and slow...
59 by Brett Howse on 3/28/2019Huawei Launches the P30 and P30 Pro: P is for Photography
The latest update in Huawei’s P series smartphones are the new P30 and P30 Pro handsets, launched today in Paris. These new devices hope to push the reason why...
57 by Ian Cutress on 3/26/2019Huawei P30 Series Launch in Paris: A Live Blog (Starts 2pm CET, 9am ET)
Huawei has been keen to promote the launch of its new P30 series of smartphones this week. We're here in Paris, ready to watch Huawei CBG CEO, Richard Yu...
16 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/26/2019The GIGABYTE Z390 Aorus Master Motherboard Review: Solid, But Not Special
The mainstream motherboard market is still predominantly focused on gamers and gaming features. From the useful to the inane, saying a device is 'gaming' is clearly bringing in the...
36 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/21/2019Google Announces Stadia: A Game Streaming Service
Today at GDC, Google announced its new video game streaming service. The new service will be called Stadia. This builds on the information earlier this year that AMD was...
147 by Ian Cutress on 3/19/2019The NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference 2019 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 2pm PT/21:00 UTC)
Kicking off a very busy week for tech events in California, my first stop for the week is NVIDIA's annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. As always, CEO Jensen...
36 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2019