Trade Shows
Wrapping up our IFA coverage, at least week's trade show TPV demonstrated a preproduction version of its upcoming ultra-wide (32:9 aspect ratio) 49” Philips display. The 492P8 monitor will have something in common with Samsung’s C49HG90 introduced earlier this year, but it will lack quantum dots and a number of other features. A good news is that it will cost less, at a little over $1000. Over the past few quarters companies like Philips, LG, Samsung, JapanNext and some other have introduced computer displays with diagonals significantly exceeding 30” – 34”, setting a new trend for ultra large monitors. Separately, ASUS, Dell, Samsung, LG and other have launched LCDs with a 21:9 aspect ratio, setting another trend, this time for ultra-wide monitors. Different suppliers of...
Raijintek Shows Off Pumpless Liquid Cooling System
In the recent year’s all-in-one liquid cooling solutions gained significant popularity thanks to efficiency and quieter operation. However, even with those improvements, a closed loop cooler still needs a...
65 by Anton Shilov on 6/3/2016
Patriot to Release Viper DDR4-2400, DDR4-2800 SO-DIMMs for Laptops
Patriot Memory has introduced its first enthusiast-class DDR4 SO-DIMMs for high-performance-notebooks and small form-factor PCs. The new Patriot Viper modules will combine fairly high clock-rates with decent capacities, thus...
6 by Anton Shilov on 6/2/2016
Synaptics to Add Inexpensive Fingerprint Reader to Any PC
The importance of biometric authentication is growing these days because passwords, which are easy to remember, are usually not strong enough, whereas complex passwords are hard to remember and...
45 by Anton Shilov on 6/2/2016
Corsair Announces Dominator Platinum Special Edition and Vengeance LED Memory Modules
In the last 10 years, Corsair has greatly expanded its product lineup and nowadays it produces virtually the whole range of hardware and accessories for enthusiasts with the exception...
16 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2016
SanDisk Unveils New Generation of USB Type-C Flash Drives
Last year SanDisk released its first-gen USB flash drives featuring two types of connectors: USB-A and USB-C in a bid to address the growing market of devices featuring USB...
25 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2016
Patriot Adds 2 TB SSD into Lineup of Mainstream Drives
Patriot has introduced a new addition to the lineup of Ignite SSDs, this time with 2 TB capacity. The new drive will offer a lot of solid-state storage, but...
18 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2016
Samsung Begins Mass Production of PM971: Tiny BGA SSDs with 1500 MB/s Read Speed
Samsung this week said that it had begun mass production of its first SSDs in BGA form-factor. The PM971-NVMe tiny drive weighs about one gram, can store up to...
40 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2016
ASUS Readies ROG Laptops with Optional 120 Hz AHVA Display Panels
In the recent years, ASUS became one of the world’s largest supplier of gaming notebooks and gaming displays. Having obtained a lot of expertise in building monitors and laptops...
11 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2016
FSP Enters the Market of High-Wattage SFX PSUs with Dagger
FSP has introduced its first power supplies in SFX form-factor designed for high-performance gaming PCs. The new Dagger family of PSUs will contain 500 W and 600 W models...
23 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2016
HP and MSI Demonstrate Backpack PCs for VR Gaming
Virtual reality gaming promises to drive demand for higher-performance graphics cards as well as richer game content. But even before the first AAA VR games make their debut, computer...
22 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2016
Intel Announces Xeon E3-1500 v5: Iris Pro and eDRAM for Streaming Video
The rise of video stream services, especially live services, has accelerated the need for dynamic and on-the-fly conversion of video content and the infrastructure to do so. Moving from...
28 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2016
Computex 2016: Intel Keynote Live Blog at 2pm TPE (2am EDT)
We're at Intel's Computex Keynote here at Computex, which is being headlined by Intel's Diane Bryant.
9 by Ian Cutress & Billy Tallis on 5/31/2016
Qualcomm Launches New GigaDSL, 802.11ac Wave 2 Chipsets
At Computex today, Qualcomm Atheros announced a few new chipsets, and it seems that as a part of their Ikanos acquisition they’ve entered the wireline business in the hopes...
3 by Joshua Ho on 5/30/2016
GIGABYTE Aero 14: Thin Gaming Laptop with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and 10-Hour Battery Life
GIGABYTE has introduced its new Aero 14 gaming laptop, which weds a relatively thin form-factor with high-performance components such as an Intel Skylake-H CPU, and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX...
33 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2016
Acer Unveils Switch V10 and Switch One 10: 2-in-1s for $199 - $249
Acer has introduced two new affordable 2-in-1 hybrid PCs ahead of Computex trade show. Both systems are based on Intel’s quad-core Atom processors, feature 10” multi-touch IPS displays and...
13 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2016
ASUS Announces the Transformer 3: Here’s a Kaby-Lake 2-in-1
One of the surprises of ASUS’ Zen press event today, aside from the surreal nature of the anthropomorphic Zenbo, was the first announcement of a Kaby Lake-based 2-in-1 device...
7 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2016
ASUS Unveils Zenbo Smart Companion Robot
At today's ASUS Zenvolution press event in advance of Computex, ASUS unveiled a new personal assistant robot for home use: Zenbo. The core functionality of Zenbo will be voice...
7 by Billy Tallis on 5/30/2016
ASUS Announces the Zenbook 3: A Macbook Competitor with Core i7, 16GB DRAM and 1TB SSD
Computex is already a whirlwind of announcements even for day zero. At the ASUS Zenvolution press event today, the lid was lifted on the next generation of premium ASUS...
34 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2016
ASUS Announces the ZenFone 3 Series, with 6 GB Deluxe Model and 6.8-inch Ultra Model
Today at Computex, as part of their annual Zen press conference, ASUS lifted the lid on the Zenfone 3 series. In previous Zenfone generations, the Zenfone has been one...
36 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2016
Computex 2016: ASUS Republic of Gamers 10 Year Press Conference
The final press event of the day - the annual Computex Republic of Gamers press conference. This year is ASUS' 10 year anniversary for ROG, and as part of...
8 by Ian Cutress & Billy Tallis on 5/29/2016
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