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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...
GIGABYTE at CES 2014: BRIX MAX SFF NAS, running Android
GIGABYTE is attacking the NUC sized form factor with seemingly every idea on the market. This is a good thing in a market that loves innovation. We...
27 by Ian Cutress on 1/10/2014Swiftech: Enhanced Liquid-Cooling Options
Swiftech is a fairly well-known name in the realm of computer cooling, founded nearly 20 years ago by Gabriel Rouchon (but not officially named Swiftech until 2001). While they...
15 by Jarred Walton on 1/9/2014OriginPC: New Genesis and Millennium Systems (and More)
OriginPC is a boutique PC system integrator with a twist: they ship their systems in gigantic wooden crates designed to kill reviewers like Dustin (RIP). The past couple of...
6 by Jarred Walton on 1/9/2014VisionTek at CES 2014: The R9 290 Liquid Cooled CryoVenom
Extra performance is always welcome, whether that is CPU performance, memory performance, SSD performance or GPU performance. It makes it a lot more worthwhile if the performance comes...
10 by Ian Cutress on 1/8/2014Mushkin CES 2014: SF-3700 SSDs
USB sticks and memory are fine, but the more interesting products at Mushkin are their upcoming SSDs. We’ve already discussed their new line of enterprise class SSDs, but Mushkin...
8 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2014T-Mobile CES 2014 Uncarrier 4.0 Event Live Blog
We're seated now at T-Mobile's CES 2014 press event, where the operator will hopefully share some of its plans for the fourth step in its uncarrier series of changes...
31 by Brian Klug on 1/8/2014Mushkin CES 2014: Ventura Ultra 480GB SF-2281 and Atom USB Sticks
One of the first products we saw at Mushkin’s suite is their final USB 3.0 USB stick with a SandForce SF-2281 controller. Not everyone needs ultra-high performance from a...
9 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2014Lenovo's BEACON Brings Evansport to the Living Room
Intel's Evansport storage platform and their Berryville STB platform are, for all practical purposes, the same. Given this, it is only logical to expect an Evansport NAS to double...
6 by Ganesh T S on 1/8/2014Asustor Updates ADM OS, Prepares Haswell-based Rackmounts
We visited Asustor at CES last year and saw a host of Atom-based NAS units. In the span of one year, a lot of changes have taken place. There...
2 by Ganesh T S on 1/8/2014Diamond Multimedia Tests Networking Waters at CES
Diamond Multimedia is well known for its AMD graphics cards and USB capture devices. To date, the AMD graphics cards continue to be their cash cow, flying off the...
3 by Ganesh T S on 1/8/2014USB-IF Updates Us on Type C Connector, Demonstrates USB SuperSpeed 3.1 Transfers
December of last year, the USB-IF announced that the definition of a new type of compact connector, dubbed type C, was underway. After pushback from the USB 3.0 micro-B...
31 by Brian Klug on 1/7/2014Ambarella Shows off Wearable A7LW Camera Platform for Google Helpouts
Wearables seem to already be the unofficial theme of CES 2014, which officially begins today. I stopped by Ambarella to see their latest and greatest, now well known for...
3 by Brian Klug on 1/7/2014AMD/TI's DockPort Adopted As Official Extension to DisplayPort Standard
Shortly after the launch of Intel’s Thunderbolt interface in 2011, there was a great deal of discussion to be had in several camps over what the future of data...
27 by Ryan Smith on 1/7/2014Gigabyte’s New AORUS SLI Gaming Notebook
Gigabyte had all of their current generation notebooks on display, which you can see in the images below, but while many of them are interesting in their own right...
24 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2014AMD Press Conference Highlights
Ian has already written up most of the information AMD covered in their press conference tonight, so if you haven’t already I suggest you start there. Kaveri is the...
13 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2014Corsair at CES 2014: A Mechanical Keyboard with Per-Key Full RGB, aka the MX RGB Project
In a small CES preview, Corsair have emailed us about one of their internal design projects they will be showcasing this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las...
39 by Ian Cutress on 1/6/2014AMD’s Kaveri: Pre-Launch Information
On the back of AMD’s Tech Day at CES 2014, all of which was under NDA until the launch of Kaveri, AMD have supplied us with some information that...
133 by Ian Cutress on 1/6/2014Mushkin Launch ProSpec SSDs for Enterprise: SF-2582
All aboard the press release train and up next is Mushkin, launching their new range of ProSpec Enterprise SSDs based on the SandForce SF-2582 controller. Available in capacities...
5 by Ian Cutress on 1/6/2014AMD Demonstrates "FreeSync", Free G-Sync Alternative, at CES 2014
AMD has been relatively silent on the topic of NVIDIA’s variable refresh rate G-Sync technology since its announcement last year. At this year’s CES however, AMD gave me a...
82 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/6/2014Intel CES 2014 Live Blog
We just walked over from the Qualcomm press conference slash Q&A extravaganza to Intel's press conference, which should be getting underway at 1 PM PT.
26 by Brian Klug & Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014