Lattice Announces First superMHL Chips: Sil8630 & Sil9396
Earlier this year at CES, the MHL Consortium announced the latest version of the Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) standard, superMHL. The latest iteration on MHL, superMHL was introduced to...
8 by on 8/3/2015Analyzing Intel-Micron 3D XPoint: The Next Generation Non-Volatile Memory
The current mainstream memory technologies, namely DRAM and NAND, have been around for decades. While clever engineering work has allowed the two to scale below 20nm geometries, both technologies...
80 by on 7/31/2015NVIDIA Initiates Safety Recall of SHIELD Tablets (Update: 4 Units Have Overheated)
NVIDIA sends word this morning that they are initiating a recall on the SHIELD Tablet. Being announced today and taking effect immediately, the tablets are being voluntarily recalled by...
30 by on 7/31/2015Build-A-Rig Round 1, Zotac vs. Corsair: The $1500 PC Build Logs
In early July we introduced our new Build-A-Rig project. The aim of the project, with help from our partners Newegg, is to approach the companies that make up the...
53 by on 7/30/2015Windows 10 Launch Day GPU Support Summary
With Windows 10 launching today, the first half of the path to DirectX 12 has at last been laid down. The GPUs have been here for some time, and...
68 by on 7/29/2015NVIDIA Launches Summer GeForce Game Bundle - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
As the month of July begins to wind down, so does NVIDIA’s existing Two Times the Adventure Game Bundle. With Batman: Arkham Knight having been something of a technical...
26 by on 7/23/2015Windows 10 Retail Will Be On USB Flash Drives
The death of the optical drive in the PC space has been a long time coming, and while removable media is unlikely to go away any time soon, with...
95 by on 7/16/2015AMD Posts Q2 2015 Results: Revenue Falls Once More
As financial week rolls along this week, today AMD announced their second quarter 2015 financial results. Earlier this month ahead of today’s announcement the company issued a warning for...
125 by on 7/16/2015Tick Tock On The Rocks: Intel Delays 10nm, Adds 3rd Gen 14nm Core Product "Kaby Lake"
For almost as long as this website has been existence, there has been ample speculation and concern over the future of Moore’s Law. The observation, penned by Intel’s co-founded...
138 by on 7/16/2015European Union Opens Up Antitrust Investigation Into Qualcomm
Word comes out of Europe this morning that the European Union’s executive body, the European Commission, will be opening up an anti-trust investigation into Qualcomm. The Commission has investigated Qualcomm...
22 by on 7/16/2015Quick Note: Intel “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi & Omni-Path 100 @ ISC 2015
Taking place this week in Frankfurt, Germany is the 2015 International Supercomputing Conference. One of the two major supercomputing conferences of the year, ISC tends to be the venue...
53 by on 7/13/2015The AMD Radeon R9 Fury Review, Feat. Sapphire & ASUS
A bit over two weeks ago AMD launched their new flagship video card, the Radeon R9 Fury X. Based on the company’s new Fiji GPU, the R9 Fury X...
288 by on 7/10/2015On Radeon R9 Fury X Pump Noise & Replacements
On a meta note this evening, over the last week I have received a number of questions about last week’s Radeon R9 Fury X review. Several of these questions...
47 by on 7/9/2015AMD Releases Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Drivers: Crossfire Freesync, Win10 Support, & More
After a brief detour for AMD’s driver team where they diverged their drivers for the Radeon 300 series and R9 Fury X launch, AMD has reunified their drivers with...
68 by on 7/8/2015NVIDIA @ ICML 2015: CUDA 7.5, cuDNN 3, & DIGITS 2 Announced
Taking place this week in Lille, France is the 2015 International Conference on Machine Learning, or ICML. Now in its 32nd year, the annual event is one of the...
27 by on 7/7/2015AMD Confirms 20nm Products Moved to FinFET, Warns on Q2’15 Earnings
A little bit ago AMD sent out an announcement updating their official outlook for the second quarter of 2015. Though we don’t typically publish financial projections, the long and...
62 by on 7/6/2015The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Aiming For the Top
Having launched last week and being reviewed today is AMD’s Radeon R9 Fury X, the company’s new flagship single-GPU video card. Featuring a fully enabled Fiji GPU, the R9...
458 by on 7/2/2015Introducing the Build-A-Rig Project: Company Configured PC Contest, Readers Win PCs
A while back Newegg approached us with an interesting offer. They wanted to regularly give away complete PCs to our readers, and they wanted our help in doing so. While...
68 by on 6/30/2015AMD Launches Retail Radeon 300 Series: A Prelude To Fury
Earlier this week AMD held their 2015 GPU product showcase, dubbed “The New Era of PC Gaming.” As the latest stage in AMD’s master plan, AMD held a public...
290 by on 6/18/2015AMD Shows Off Dual-GPU Fiji Card At PC Gaming Show
Briefly announced and discussed during AMD’s 2015 GPU product presentation yesterday morning was AMD’s forthcoming dual Fiji video card. The near-obligatory counterpart to the just-announced Radeon R9 Fury X...
133 by on 6/17/2015