AMD Expands G-Series Embedded SoCs with Excavator Microarchitecture
Back in October 2015, AMD’s embedded business unit announced the first SoCs from AMD using DDR4, combining AMD’s Excavator cores found in the Carrizo notebook platform but fully...
6 by Ian Cutress on 2/23/2016ARM Announces Cortex-A32 IoT and Embedded Processor
Today ARM announces the new Cortex A32 ultra-low power/high efficiency processor IP. For some readers this might come as a surprise as it's only been a few months since...
27 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/22/2016CAT Announces S60 Rugged Smartphone with integrated FLIR Thermal Camera
CAT, that company that is usually associated with heavy machinery, actually makes/sells smartphones too. It has announced a new flagship smartphone, which combines the ruggedness you might expect from...
33 by Anton Shilov on 2/22/2016Imagination Announces PowerVR Series8XE Family - Entry-Level GPUs Get Smaller
With Mobile World Congress 2016 now in full swing, we’ll see a slew of announcements this week. Among the crowd is Imagination Technologies, who is using the show as...
10 by Ryan Smith on 2/22/2016Huawei Enters The PC Market With The MateBook Convertible Tablet
Move over Microsoft. One of the world’s largest smartphone makers has decided to enter the PC marketplace with the launch of the MateBook 2-in-1 tablet. Well, maybe not, but...
15 by Brett Howse on 2/21/2016Early Exynos 8890 Impressions And Full Specifications
It's been an interesting day here in Barcelona as I've had the pleasure to get a hands-on with both LG's new flagship, the G5, as well as Samsung's new...
94 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/21/2016HTC Vive Will Be Launching In April Priced At $799
Today HTC confirmed both the release date and price for the HTC Vive VR headset. Vive has gone through a couple of delays at this point, with an April...
27 by Brandon Chester on 2/21/2016Lenovo Launches New MIIX 310 Tablet, Yoga 510 And Yoga 710 Convertibles At MWC 2016
The Yoga brand has permeated much of Lenovo’s laptop lineup, and they offer some of the best convertible device experiences out there. It should really be no surprise then...
15 by Brett Howse on 2/21/2016Lenovo Announces The VIBE K5 and K5 Plus
Along with their tablet and PC announcements today at MWC, Lenovo also announced two new smartphones under their VIBE branding. The new phones are the Lenovo VIBE K5 and...
6 by Brandon Chester on 2/21/2016Samsung Announces the Gear 360: Consumer VR Content Creation
In addition to the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, Samsung is also announcing a camera for VR content. Rather than the extreme setups that we see with some...
0 by Joshua Ho on 2/21/2016LG Announces the LG G5: 5.3-inch QHD with Snapdragon 820
Today just before the official beginning of Mobile World Congres 2016 we were happy to attend LG's G5 launch event. The G5 is the successor to last year's much...
30 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/21/2016HP Announces The Elite x3 Windows 10 Mobile Powered Smartphone
Windows Phone has had a rough go of it of late. Microsoft first purchased, and then basically shuttered, Nokia’s smartphone division. Instead they wanted to back out of the...
31 by Brett Howse on 2/21/2016Alcatel Launches The Idol 4 and Idol 4S At MWC
Today at MWC Alcatel unveiled the first phones in their new Idol 4 line. The Alcatel Idol 4 and 4S are successors to last year's Idol 3, and they...
18 by Brandon Chester on 2/20/2016GIGABYTE Unveils New 990FX and 970-Gaming Motherboards for AMD FX
In the past week, GIGABYTE has introduced two new high-end motherboards for AMD FX microprocessors. The new platforms belong to GIGABYTE’s premium Gaming G1 product lineup and include the...
16 by Anton Shilov on 2/18/2016AMD and the Associated Press Team Up for Experimental 360° Video & VR News Channel
This week AMD and Associated Press have announced a new collaborative project designed to fuel virtual reality journalism. Under the agreement, AP has created a special channel with 360°...
24 by Anton Shilov on 2/18/2016Seagate Begins to Ship 2.5-Inch, 7mm Thick 2 TB Mobile Hard Drives with SMR
Seagate has started to ship its highest-capacity hard drives for notebooks. The new HDDs use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology with very high areal density as well as slimmed-down...
29 by Anton Shilov on 2/18/2016Microsoft Patches Surface Book And Surface Pro 4 Sleep Issue
When I reviewed the Surface Book, there were a lot of bugs with the software. Some of them have been pretty minor, and Microsoft has been updating the firmware...
40 by Brett Howse on 2/17/2016ARM Announces New Cortex-R8 Real-Time Processor
ARM’s Cortex-R range of processor IP is something we haven’t talked about too much in the past, yet it’s a crucial part of ARM’s business and is integrated in...
22 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/17/2016NVIDIA Announces Q4 FY 2016 Results: Record Quarter And Record Year
This afternoon, NVIDIA released their financial results for the fourth quarter of their 2016 fiscal year, and the company had not only a record quarter, but also a record...
14 by Brett Howse on 2/17/2016NVIDIA Announces Tom Clancy’s The Division Game Bundle for GeForce Video Cards
NVIDIA has announced that its partners will bundle a free copy of Tom Clancy’s The Division game with select high-end GeForce GTX graphics cards starting this week and for...
5 by Anton Shilov on 2/17/2016