Best Consumer Hard Drives: Holiday 2018
Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. While SSDs have taken over the role of the primary drive in most computing systems, hard drives continue...
0 by Ganesh T S on 11/15/2018SK Hynix Develops First 16 Gb DDR5-5200 Memory Chip, Demos DDR5 RDIMM
SK Hynix on Thursday announced that it had completed development of its first DDR5 memory chip. The new chip offers a capacity of 16 Gb and is said to...
29 by Anton Shilov on 11/15/2018OWC Announces 14-in-1 Thunderbolt 3 Dock: Now with microSD, 85 W Power Delivery
OWC this week introduced its new flagship Thunderbolt 3 dock, which features 14 ports. Living up to its flagship aspirations, the “one dock to rule them all” can also...
22 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2018ASUS Comments on Intel Shortages, U.S.-China Trade War
ASUS this week released its financial results for the third quarter of the year, and in the process issued comments regarding two pressing issues: shortages of Intel’s chipsets and...
30 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2018Google Rolls Out Night Sight Tech to Improve Quality of Low-Light Photos
Google on Wednesday began to roll out its Night Sight low-light computational photography technology to its Pixel-branded smartphones. The technology is designed to improve the quality of low-light photos...
33 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2018AnandTech Forums XenForo 2.0 Upgrade Today (11/14)
For our forum regulars who may be wondering what’s going on – or even just onlookers who are curious as to what’s up at AnandTech – you’ll want to...
12 by Ryan Smith on 11/14/2018Samsung Announces 8nm Exynos 9820 With Tri-Group CPU Design
Early this morning Korea time, Samsung LSI announced their newest generation flagship SoC, the Exynos 9820. The Exynos 9820 succeeds this year’s Exynos 9810, which we’ve covered extensively both in...
36 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/14/2018AMD 64-Core Rome Deployment: HLRS ‘Hawk’ at 2.35 GHz
Last week AMD pre-announced its next-generation EPYC processors, code-named Rome. These new processors are set to be officially announced next year, but will feature up to 64 cores using...
30 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018Imagination Launches PowerVR Automotive Initiative, 8XT-A GPU IP
The automotive industry is changing rapidly these days thanks to the influx of computing poweer, and it will continue to consume considerably more CPU and GPU horsepower in the...
2 by Anton Shilov on 11/13/2018G.Skill Unveils 64 GB DDR4-4266 and 128 GB DDR4-4000 Kits for HEDTs
Coinciding with today’s launch of Intel’s HEDT “Skylake-X/Basin Falls Refresh” family of CPUs, G.Skill today announced its new 64 GB DDR4-4266 and 128 GB DDR4-4000 kits designed for high-end...
1 by Anton Shilov on 11/13/2018Western Digital Announces Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive
Western Digital on Monday introduced its new special-purpose SSD designed to speed up in-memory processing applications. The new Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive uses proven hardware and comes...
8 by Anton Shilov on 11/13/2018Just When You Thought It Was Dead: Qualcomm Centriq Arm Server Systems Spotted
Much to our surprise, we saw a Qualcomm Centriq server from an OEM at Supercomputing this week.
7 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018First AMD EPYC Rome Motherboard Spotted
Part of AMD’s recent pre-announcement of its next generation Rome server processors, using 7nm chiplets and running up to 64 cores, is that the new processors will be compatible...
71 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018AMD Launches High-Frequency EPYC 7371 Processor
AMD has announced its new high-frequency EPYC 7371 processor designed for applications that benefit from high clocks. The CPU has 16 cores and is aimed at tasks like electronic...
23 by Anton Shilov on 11/13/2018Buffalo Unveils New 10GBase-T Network Card with 2.5G+5G
One of the interesting elements in NBase-T networking is how and when companies are releasing new multi-gig 2.5G+5G+10G controllers to the market. This week Buffalo lifted the lid their...
9 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018Microsoft Releases Surface Go LTE
Earlier this year, Microsoft launched their lower cost, smaller Surface Go. With a display size of 10 inches, and weighing 1.15 lbs, or 515 grams, it’s a more portable...
22 by Brett Howse on 11/12/2018TACC Frontera: Targeting 210W Next-Gen Xeons and Extreme Performance
The Frontera supercomputer is the next generation high performance machine set to debut at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). As part of Intel’s HPC Forum, being held just...
9 by Ian Cutress on 11/12/2018Intel Offers More Cascade Lake-AP Performance Numbers
One of the announcements from last week involved Intel and its new Cascade Lake Advanced Performance category of processors to launch next year. These new processors will be based...
52 by Ian Cutress on 11/11/2018In The Lab: Double Capacity 2x32GB DDR4 from G.Skill and ZADAK
One of the interesting things to come out of the news in recent weeks is the march to double capacity memory. In today’s market, memory modules for consumer grade...
19 by Ian Cutress on 11/9/2018Eurocom Launches Tornado F7W DTR Laptop: Desktop Core i9-9900K with 128 GB of RAM
Eurocom this week introduced its newest high-end desktop replacement mobile workstation, the Tornado F7W. Aimed at those who need desktop-class performance in a clamshell form-factor – with little heed...
34 by Anton Shilov on 11/9/2018