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With the announcement of Intel’s Alder Lake H series of laptop processors, MSI is one of the first out of the gate to announce their refreshed gaming laptop series featuring the newest Intel processors. As one of the market leaders in gaming notebooks, MSI has some new tricks up its sleeves to boost performance even further. New this year for MSI are some key software features to boost performance across the lineup, as well as functionality. As an example, MSI will offer a new Smart Auto Power system to adjust the laptop performance levels based on what application is running, rather than relying on the end user to configure the settings manually. For users that want to tweak their own system, the manual system will...
DyleTV at CES: Mobile TV Coming One Step At A Time
Mobile digital TV has been a popular technology in parts of Asia for some time, with incredible adoption by mobile customers eagerly devouring hours and hours of video without...
2 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/9/2013NVIDIA CES 2013 Press Event: Live Blog
We just sat down for NVIDIA's Pre-CES press event. Things are running a bit late now, but we expect the event to start in the next 15 minutes. Keep...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 1/6/2013LG's G6 Series: A New Kind of Google TV Partnership
A common feature in some of the world's most succesful companies is an evangelist. Sometimes that person will be a founder or CEO, other times it will be a...
5 by Jason Inofuentes on 2/6/2012Wilocity Demonstrates 60 GHz WiGig (Draft 802.11ad) Chipset at CES
At CES, I visited Wilocity to learn more about their WiGig chipset and see how close they were to being production-ready. A number of news articles covering Wilocity at...
16 by Ganesh T S on 1/22/2012Samsung Launches Series 9 All-in-One PC
Samsung has released Series 9 All-in-One (or simply AIO), and more specifically the model that was released today carries a model number 900A7A. It adopts a similar design as...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 1/22/2012HD Videoconferencing Solutions at CES: Vidyo & Biscotti
At CES, we had the opportunity to see a couple of HD videoconferencing systems in action. At ShowStoppers, we saw the Vidyo teleconferencing system, and later, on the show...
7 by Ganesh T S on 1/22/2012Netgear at CES 2012: Consumer Networking, Storage and Media Products
It is almost a week since CES got over, but I still have a few meetings from the show that are pending coverage. There isn't much point in just...
1 by Ganesh T S on 1/20/2012MIPS Technologies Targets Mobile Push
There are a number of IP vendors in the SoC processor space. ARM, MIPS and PowerPC are the most popular. Each vendor holds the edge in a particular area...
8 by Ganesh T S on 1/18/2012The Best of CES 2012
CES is all wrapped up and everyone is back home, and one of the questions I’ve been asked repeatedly by friends and family is, “What was the coolest thing...
84 by Jarred Walton on 1/17/2012AppliedMicro Demonstrates Catalina Based Platforms
The launch of the AppliedMicro's Catalina SoC for the NAS market was covered here. In a follow up to the initial coverage, we visited AMCC at CES to look...
4 by Ganesh T S on 1/15/2012Sony VAIO: Z with Dock, SE with IPS, and an Ultrabook Concept
When we stopped by the Sony booth, there was plenty to see. Vivek will be covering some of the other areas—tablets and gaming devices—while I’ll focus on the laptop...
20 by Jarred Walton on 1/15/2012Hands on with Samsung's Line of New Notebooks
Samsung showed off a completely new line of notebooks at CES, and we've gotten to go hands on with all of them. In addition to the refreshed Series 9...
18 by Vivek Gowri on 1/14/2012Sony Shows Off VAIO Slider Concept
We’ve seen a lot of laptop ideas come and go over the years. One that seems to periodically resurface is the slider, a device that can function as a...
5 by Jarred Walton on 1/14/2012AMD Clarifies 7000M Strategy
CES has wrapped up now and we’re all back home, but we’ve still got a few items to cover. While Anand was meeting with AMD on Thursday to go...
16 by Jarred Walton on 1/14/2012IDT at CES : Touchscreen Controllers and Display Port Solutions
Home theater enthusiasts might identify IDT (Integrated Device Technology) with the HQV benchmark and video processor. That division of IDT was sold off to Qualcomm last September. But, that...
4 by Ganesh T S on 1/13/2012AOC's Thunderbolt Display
This one was pretty low key but AOC had their own Thunderbolt display at Intel's booth. No word on pricing or availability but hopefully we'll see more Thunderbolt equipped...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/13/2012Sumitomo Electric's Thunderbolt Cable
Since the launch of Thunderbolt the only cable supplier has been Apple. Given that no current Thunderbolt devices come with a Thunderbolt cable (save Apple's own Thunderbolt Display which...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/13/2012AMD's 4K and BF3/Video Conferencing Eyefinity Demos at CES
One of the underlying themes of CES this year was the transition to 4K displays. AMD had a 4K (4096 x 2160) demo at its booth driven by a...
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/13/2012Toshiba Demos Excite 10.1” and Concept Tablet Designs
We reviewed Toshiba’s Tegra 2-based Thrive 10.1” late last year and from a design standpoint, we were pretty disappointed with it. While elements like the removable battery, full size...
6 by Jarred Walton, Vivek Gowri & Manveer Wasson on 1/13/2012CES 2012 LTE Face-Off - AT&T versus Verizon Wireless
My friends often think I've lost my mind given how many times I run speedtests on handsets in the process of reviewing them. The reason I'm compulsive about testing...
24 by Brian Klug on 1/13/2012