Western Digital My Cloud NAS Updates Target Prosumers and Small Businesses
Western Digital is no stranger to the NAS market. Their Sentinel series units (based on Windows Storage Server) have targeted business users for quite some time now. The My...
1 by Ganesh T S on 2/26/2015Gigabyte 17.3” P37X Gaming Notebook Now in North America
Gigabyte has an interesting line of gaming notebooks these days, including their own brand of P-series laptops as well as the AORUS brand. We’re in the process of reviewing...
9 by Jarred Walton on 2/26/2015Samsung Announces 128GB UFS Storage For Smartphones
We've first heard about plans to adopt UFS (Universal Flash Storage) with the announcements of Toshiba and Qualcomm reported over a year ago. While the promised late 2014 schedule...
31 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/25/2015Motorola Announces Moto E (2015): Cortex-A53 + LTE For $149
Today Motorola has announced the launch and immediate availability of the 2015 version of the Moto E, the latest member of the company’s line of low-end smartphones. The 2015 edition...
29 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/25/2015ZyXEL Launches Affordable 10G Switches, Brings UTM Devices to Home Users
ZyXEL has a track record of making affordable networking equipment for both home users and service providers. Post-CES, the company has made a couple of product line announcements that...
29 by Ganesh T S on 2/24/2015Embedded World 2015: Skylake-DT Industrial Motherboard Spotted
Even with Broadwell not completely out of the door, a lot of attention is being put towards Skylake, the 14nm architecture update from Intel. Current information out the wild...
13 by Ian Cutress on 2/24/2015Pebble Announces the Pebble Time
The original Pebble watch was arguably the first device in what is now a rapidly growing smartwatch segment of the wearables market. Since its release, the software of the...
19 by Brandon Chester on 2/24/2015Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health Updated
This week Microsoft announced several updates for their wearable and health products: Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health. Microsoft stated that overall feedback has been positive, but as with any...
15 by Stephen Barrett on 2/24/2015ASUS Goes USB 3.1: Motherboards, PCIe Cards and Enclosures Tested
As the motherboard reviewer at AnandTech, I speak to my contacts at the motherboard manufacturers on a regular basis. All the recent talk has had a heavy sprinkling about...
32 by Ian Cutress on 2/24/2015Valve to Showcase SteamVR Hardware, Steam Machines, & More at GDC 2015
Typically we don’t do announcements of announcements. However in Valve’s case it’s not entirely clear if there’s actually going to be an announcement at GDC, so let's take a...
8 by Ryan Smith on 2/23/2015AMD at ISSCC 2015: Carrizo and Excavator Details
AMD is using the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week to present a paper and announce some interesting developments regarding the next iteration of the Bulldozer architecture, codenamed ‘Excavator’...
82 by Ian Cutress on 2/23/2015Google Acquires Softcard and Partners with US Carriers On Mobile Payments
Today Google has acquired the technology and IP behind Softcard. Softcard is a joint venture between AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to support NFC based mobile payments in the United...
19 by Brandon Chester on 2/23/2015Intel at ISSCC 2015: Reaping the Benefits of 14nm and Going Beyond 10nm
As part of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference every year, Intel brings forward a number of presentations regarding its internal research. The theme this year at ISSCC is ‘Silicon...
55 by Ian Cutress on 2/22/2015Samsung Releases Statement on 840 EVO Performance - Another Fix Is In the Works
Over the last month there has been some concern over the read performance of Samsung’s 840 EVO drives, and whether after Samsung’s previous performance fix, that these same drivers...
75 by Ryan Smith on 2/20/2015NVIDIA Mobile Overclocking - There and Back Again
The past few months have been a bit interesting on the mobile side of the fence for NVIDIA. Starting with the R346 drivers (347.09 beta and later), NVIDIA apparently...
36 by Jarred Walton on 2/20/2015Apple Initiates Video Repair Program for 2011-2013 MacBook Pros
This week Apple has announced that they are initiating a new repair extension program for the MacBook Pro, in order to address video corruption and stability problems with certain...
60 by Ryan Smith on 2/20/2015Lenovo, SuperFish and Security
For the many of us that have purchased a laptop, we are somewhat used to the amount of bloatware that comes pre-installed. Most of this relates to the company...
42 by Ian Cutress on 2/19/2015Samsung Acquires Mobile Payment Company LoopPay
Today the US based mobile payment company LoopPay announced that they have been acquired by Samsung Electronics America. LoopPay is a unique example of a payment company that is building...
34 by Brandon Chester on 2/18/2015Qualcomm Announces New SoC Lineup, Modem Branding
Qualcomm today announced 4 new additions to its Snapdragon 400 and 600 lineup of SoCs, along with a reshuffle and rebranding of their modem lineup. Let's begin with the...
40 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/18/2015ASUS GPUs: Strix GTX 750 Ti 4GB and GTX 960 2GB DirectCU Mini Launched
When ASUS first launched their mini-ITX sized graphics cards, limited to 17cm for mini-ITX builds, my initial reaction was ‘why has no-one thought of this before?’. The idea has...
39 by Ian Cutress on 2/17/2015