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As part of its CES 2021 announcements, Intel officially unveiled a number of NUCs based on their Tiger Lake SoCs. The NUC11 Performance lineup was covered earlier. This piece looks at another exciting NUC11 offering in the enthusiast category. As a refresher, Intel created the NUC Enthusiast category back in 2016 with the introduction of the Skull Canyon NUC (NUC6i7KYK). With a 4" x 5" motherboard, it had a slightly larger footprint compared to the traditional NUCs. However, the increased size allowed the incorporation of a 45W TDP processor with increased graphics flex. The second generation Hades Canyon moved to a slightly larger board (5.5" x 8"), while retaining the industrial design of the Skull Canyon NUC. It used the Kaby Lake-G processors with...
Intel Teases Thunderbolt 4, Light On Details
Intel demonstrated a Tiger Lake system on stage in their CES 2020 keynote yesterday. One of the interesting aspects was the teaser of Thunderbolt 4, with a mention of...
29 by Ganesh T S on 1/7/2020AMD at CES 2020: Q&A with Dr. Lisa Su
This week AMD took the wraps off of its latest generation of mobile processors. The company is being aggressive, offering up to eight cores for both the traditional ultra-portable...
93 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/7/2020Plugable Launches TBT3-UDZ: A Comprehensive Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C Docking Station
Plugable is introducing three new products at CES 2020, and the most interesting of the three happens to be the Titan Ridge-based TBT3-UDZ Docking Station with a 100W power...
1 by Ganesh T S on 1/7/2020CES 2020: Micron Begins to Sample DDR5 RDIMMs with Server Partners
Micron announced at CES that it had started sampling of its DDR5 Registered DIMMs with select partners. The very fact that Micron started sampling of DDR5 modules indicates that...
7 by Anton Shilov on 1/7/2020CES 2020: Lenovo’s Dual-Screen ThinkBook Plus w/ Comet Lake
Lenovo is one of the companies that experiments with form-factors and capabilities of its PCs. At CES 2020, the manufacturer introduced its ThinkBook Plus laptop that features two screens...
7 by Anton Shilov on 1/7/2020CES 2020: Corsair Reveals Elgato 4K60 S+ Capture Box w/ SD Card & HEVC
Corsair has introduced its new Elgato 4K60 S+ video capture device for gamers. The new capture box features an SD card reader and a hardware HEVC encoder that enables...
9 by Anton Shilov on 1/7/2020CES 2020: Dell’s G5 15 SE Gaming Laptop Gets 8-Core Ryzen 4000 & Radeon RX 5600M dGPU
AMD has just introduced its new Ryzen 7 4000H-series mobile APUs as well as the Radeon RX 5600M GPUs and Dell is among the first companies to use both...
27 by Anton Shilov on 1/7/2020D-Link Adds AI-enabled IP Cameras to mydlink Smart Home Lineup
D-Link's mydlink Smart Home lineup has consistently seen new products being introduced since the branding was launched in 2014. As machine learning and AI become more widespread, many edge...
17 by Ganesh T S on 1/7/2020D-Link Introduces 5G Gateway Solutions
The widespread 5G roll-out by different service providers has made wireless home broadband a very real possibility. The ability of 5G to support a denser subscriber base compared to...
5 by Ganesh T S on 1/7/2020Netgear Augments Wireless Broadband Gateway Options with Nighthawk M5 5G Wi-Fi 6 Mobile Router
Netgear's mobile broadband product stack has a variety of different product offerings mostly targeting the personal hotspot market. However, with 5G, wireless home broadband has become a credible proposition...
3 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2020Netgear Expands DOCSIS 3.1 Product Stack with Nighthawk CAX80 Wi-Fi 6 Cable Modem Gateway
Cable service providers in the US market have been aggressively deploying DOCSIS 3.1 over the last couple of years. Netgear has been selling DOCSIS 3.1-compatible modems and gateways into...
1 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2020Netgear Launches EasyMesh-Compatible Nighthawk Mesh Wi-Fi 6 System
Netgear's Orbi has enjoyed tremendous success in the Wi-Fi system / mesh networking market. Technically speaking, the Orbi kits can't interoperate with mesh nodes from other vendors or even...
4 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2020Western Digital Demonstrates 8TB Portable 20 Gbps SSD, Announces Dual-Connector 1TB Thumb Drive
Western Digital has a history of showcasing cutting-edge technological advancements in the consumer electronics space at CES every year. In 2019, a 4TB thumb drive was demonstrated, and this...
12 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2020Intel CES 2020 Keynote Live Blog: Ice, Comets, and Tigers To Come
We're here at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center for Intel's CES 2020 keynote. Intel always makes their CES presentations exciting affairs, and we're expecting much the same this year...
26 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 1/6/2020Acer Swift 3, either with Core i7-1065G7 or Ryzen 7 4700U: The Laptop Market Just Blew Wide Open
Everyone wants a notebook that fulfills their needs, is super light, lasts forever, and only costs a dime. We’re not in fantasy land just quite yet, but Acer is...
48 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/6/2020AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs: 7nm, 8-core on both 15W and 45W, Coming Q1
At last year’s CES, AMD showcased its then Ryzen 3000 mobile processors as part of the announcements. In what is becoming a trend, at this year’s CES, the company...
406 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/6/2020AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990! Coming February 7th
At the tail end of last year, one of the key launches in the creator/workstation processor market was AMD’s latest 3rd Generation Threadripper portfolio, which started with 24-core and...
109 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/6/2020D-Link Announces New EasyMesh-Compatible Wi-Fi 6 Gateways and Extenders
The Wi-Fi system / mesh market has turned out to be very attractive for gateway vendors, enabling them to have higher ASPs and more revenue per user. On the...
4 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2020AMD Keynote Presentation Press Event at CES 2020: The AnandTech Live Blog
We're here ready to Live Blog the annual CES keynote from AMD. We expect to see Lisa Su, Frank Azor, and others take to the stage to discuss what's...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 1/6/2020Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E Moniker for 802.11ax in the 6 GHz Spectrum
Wi-Fi platform vendors have long been citing the lack of enough spectrum in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands as true gigabit wireless becomes commonplace. In fact, despite...
12 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2020