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We're here in sunny San Jose California for the return of an event that's been a long-time coming: NVIDIA's in-person GTC. The Spring 2024 event, NVIDIA's marquee event for the year, promises to be a big one for NVIDIA, as the company is due to deliver updates on its all-important datacenter accelerator products – the successor to the GH100 GPU and its Hopper architecture – along with NVIDIA's other professional/enterprise hardware, networking gear, and, of course, a slew of software stack updates. In the 5 years since NVIDIA was last able to hold a Spring GTC in person, a great deal has changed for the company. They're now the third biggest company in the world, thanks to explosive sales growth (and even further growth expectations...
Nokia 9 PureView: Hands On, Impressions, Thoughts
HMD Global introduced its new top-of-the-range Nokia 9 PureView smartphone at Mobile World Congress earlier this week. The handset brings in a unique camera featuring six modules (five RGB...
34 by Anton Shilov on 3/1/2019
Dive In: Catalyst Has Apple Watch Protection for Up to 100 Meters
When smartwatches emerged several years ago, they were good enough to work as pedometers or count calories burned when their owner used an elliptical strider. However they were not...
22 by Anton Shilov on 3/1/2019
Xiaomi Teams Up with Light for Multi-Module Smartphone Cameras
Xiaomi and Light, a computational imaging firm, have announced at Mobile World Congress that the two companies will be working together to develop new multi-module cameras for smartphones. The...
9 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
Samsung's New 512 GB UFS 3.0 Chip for Galaxy Fold, Now in Mass Production
Samsung this week said that it has begun mass production of its UFS 3.0 chips. The company’s initial lineup of UFS 3.0 products includes embedded drives featuring a 128...
6 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
Lenovo's New 595-Gram Portable Display: The ThinkVision M14 USB-C Monitor
At the Mobile World Congress trade show, Lenovo has introduced a new portable display designed specifically for workers on the move. The ThinkVision M14 monitor matches design of the...
4 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
Oppo Demonstrates 5G Smartphone at MWC 2019
One theme of the Mobile World Congress trade show is for companies to show off their future 5G products - or at least a prototype with a 5G sticker...
1 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
The Sony Xperia 1: A Long 21:9 HDR 4K OLED Smartphone
Being a high-tech company with multiple divisions, Sony can fetch technologies from various units to build products with unique qualities. At Mobile World Congress 2019 the company introduced its...
20 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
Micron Returns to the microSD Card Market with the Micron c200 Series: From 128 GB to 1 TB
About a year and a half after discontinuing its Lexar consumer storage business, Micron is making a comeback with a series of microSD cards that it's demonstrating at Mobile...
5 by Anton Shilov on 2/26/2019
USB 3.2 at 20 Gb/s Coming to High-End Desktops This Year
The USB 3.0 Promoters Group announced its USB 3.2 specification update that increases theoretical performance of a USB 3.2 interface over a Type-C cable to 20 Gbps back in...
62 by Anton Shilov on 2/26/2019
Micron and Western Digital Unveil 1 TB microSD Cards with A2
The evolution of 3D NAND memory had enabled storage device makers to offer rather unprecedented capacities. To that end, this week at Mobile World Congress, Micron and Western Digital...
18 by Anton Shilov on 2/26/2019
Alcatel 3T 10 Launched: An Entry Level Android Tablet
Entry-level Android-based tablets are a relatively minor market, which is why companies offering such products tend to aim them at a specific geographical markets in a bid to avoid...
17 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2019
OnePlus 5G Prototype: Living Large
Here at Mobile World Congress, a number of companies are showing off 5G-enabled smartphones or prototypes. We've seen devices from most of the top smartphone global manufacturers, and despite...
7 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2019
Nokia Launches Nokia 9 PureView at MWC 2019: So I Heard You Like Cameras
HMD Global has introduced its new Nokia flagship smartphone at MWC 2019. The key feature of the Nokia 9 PureView is its six-module camera (five lens + Time-of-Flight) co-designed...
32 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2019
512 GB of UFS 3.0 Storage: Western Digital iNAND MC EU511
Western Digital said that it has now completed development and started sampling its first UFS 3.0 storage solutions for ‘5G era’ smartphones. The new embedded flash drives (EFDs) provide...
6 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2019
Huawei Mate X vs. Samsung Galaxy Fold: Ask the Press
One of the biggest talking points this year at Mobile World Congress is the emergence of folding phones. The two largest smartphone vendors in the world, Samsung and Huawei...
82 by Ian Cutress on 2/25/2019
Lenovo to Launch a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Laptop with 5G
At Qualcomm’s press event today at Mobile World Congress, Lenovo representatives came on stage to confirm that the company will be building a new laptop using the Snapdragon 8cx...
9 by Ian Cutress on 2/25/2019
Qualcomm Launches the QCA6390 Chipset: 1.8 Gbps Wi-Fi 6 Ready with BlueTooth 5.1
With the upcoming ratification of the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard expected in August, a number of companies are gearing up with Wi-Fi 6 ‘ready’ routers and end-points to get...
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Intel and Fibocom to Co-Develop a 5G M.2 Module for System Integration
Fibocom Wireless is a company that has won investment from Intel Capital and develops wireless modules as well as communication solutions. As part of the Mobile World Congress event...
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Intel Reveals Name of Next Generation Xeon D: Hewitt Lake
The Xeon D processor line for Intel has been a combination networking/microserver processor that increased significantly in core count, power, and capability in the previous generation. We now have...
11 by Ian Cutress on 2/25/2019
Alcatel Launches 3L at MWC 2019: A 5.94-Inch Smartphone at €139
Alcatel introduced its new entry-level smartphone that is equipped with a 5.9-inch display, a quad-core Qualcomm SoC, 16 GB of NAND storage, facial recognition, and a dual camera, a...
2 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2019
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