AMD Announces Refresh of Never Settle Forever Program
After letting their Never Settle Forever gaming bundle program slowly lapse over the past few months, AMD sends word this morning that they’re going to be significantly refreshing the...
11 by Ryan Smith on 4/21/2014
Galaxy S5 Follow-Up: Water Resistance, Adobe RGB Testing and More
A Closer Look at Water Resistance Recently on the podcast, Anand mentioned that I was looking at how the Galaxy S5 performed when running benchmarks underwater. This ultimately started after...
45 by Joshua Ho on 4/19/2014
AMD Q1 2014 Quarterly Earnings Analysis
AMD hosted their quarterly earnings conference call this afternoon to announce their financial results for the quarter ending March 2014. While they still reported a GAAP loss of $20...
37 by Brett Howse on 4/17/2014
Newegg Opens Business to the UK and Australia
As a consumer, more competition can be a good thing. Competition in manufacturing brings innovation and might help drive core pricing down, whereas competition in selling pits retailers against...
46 by Ian Cutress on 4/16/2014
Ruckus Brings Cloud-based Management to Public Wi-Fi Networks
We have been expanding our coverage of wireless networking recently. In particular, there has been plenty of recent action in the enterprise Wi-Fi domain. One of the top requirements...
3 by Ganesh T S on 4/15/2014
AnandTech Live - Podcast Recording at 12:30PM ET on April 15
The past month has been pretty crazy around here with big releases from HTC, Samsung and just yesterday, Microsoft. I'm going to be wrapping all of it up in...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/15/2014
Quantenna Announces Development of 10G Wi-Fi 802.11ac Chipset
At the beginning of 2012 Broadcom announced its first 802.11ac chipsets under the banner of 5G (5th generation) WiFi. Since then we've seen the latest high end notebooks adopt...
19 by Ganesh T S on 4/14/2014
G-Technology and LaCie Roll Out Thunderbolt 2 Lineup
Thunderbolt is Intel’s high-bandwidth, do-everything connector, designed as a potential future path for all things external to a system - displays, USB devices, external storage, PCI Express, and even...
24 by Ganesh T S on 4/11/2014
CyberLink Launches PowerDVD 14 with HEVC Support
A couple of years back, we reviewed CyberLink's PowerDVD 12 in detail. At that time, support for the mobile ecosystem was one of the most important targets for CyberLink...
37 by Ganesh T S on 4/8/2014
Samsung Releases Standard, EVO and PRO SD Cards
With the rapid decrease of NAND prices in the last few years, the SD card market has more or less become a commodity with very little differentiation. We don't...
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NVIDIA GeForce Experience 2.0: Remote GameStream and Notebook Support
Coinciding with today’s launch of the R337 driver, NVIDIA has also updated their GeForce Experience (GFE) software to version 2.0. The updated beta drivers are available for notebooks as...
27 by Jarred Walton on 4/7/2014
NVIDIA Releases 337.50 Beta Driver, Touts Significant Performance Improvements
Kicking off what will undoubtedly be a busy week in the world of video cards, NVIDIA has started the week with a new GeForce driver release over on their...
50 by Ryan Smith on 4/7/2014
AMD Launches FirePro W9100
Kicking off this week is the 2014 NAB Show, the National Association of Broadcasters’ annual trade show for broadcast content and technology. The NAB Show is often a launch...
20 by Ryan Smith on 4/7/2014
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808/810: 20nm High-End 64-bit SoCs with LTE Category 6/7 Support in 2015
Today Qualcomm is rounding out its 64-bit family with the Snapdragon 808 and 810. Like the previous 64-bit announcements (Snapdragon 410, 610 and 615), the 808 and 810 leverage...
101 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/7/2014
Nokia Lumia Updates - New High End, New Markets
During the day 1 keynote at the Microsoft BUILD developer’s conference, Stephen Elop took the stage to announce some new Nokia Lumia phones with Windows Phone 8.1. First up was...
40 by Brett Howse on 4/3/2014
Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 Update - Desktop as a First Class Citizen
Microsoft’s day 1 keynote for the BUILD developer conference detailed an update to Windows coming on the next scheduled patch Tuesday called 8.1 Update. Notice it’s not called Update...
149 by Brett Howse on 4/3/2014
Qualcomm Announces MU-MIMO 802.11ac Family: Increasing the Efficiency of 802.11ac Networks
At the beginning of 2012 Broadcom announced its first 802.11ac chipsets under the banner of 5G (5th generation) WiFi. Since then we've seen the latest high end notebooks adopt...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/3/2014
Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 8.1
This morning at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Microsoft kicked off its semi-annual BUILD developer conference with a keynote address detailing what’s coming now and in the near...
48 by Brett Howse on 4/2/2014
USB-IF Publishes First Type-C Connector Renderings
The last time we talked to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the governing body for USB, it was back at CES 2014. At the time the USB-IF was showing...
24 by Ryan Smith on 4/2/2014
Spotify Introduces a Major Cross Platform UI Overhaul
Spotify has been quite a busy outfit in 2014, first with their unlimited ad-supported streaming for iOS and Android tablets, followed by discounted student subscriptions in the United States...
8 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 4/2/2014
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