Hands On With the New Google Pixel Phones
After Google’s launch event today in San Francisco, I had an opportunity to get my hands on its new Pixel and Pixel XL phones. My initial impression is that...
73 by Matt Humrick on 10/5/2016Google Announces Chromecast Ultra: 4K & HDR for Chromecast
Though the big Google news for today is of course the new lineup of Pixel phones, phones were only a small part of what Google had in store. Alongside...
19 by Ryan Smith on 10/4/2016Google Announces Pixel and Pixel XL Phones: Snapdragon 821, 5" & 5.5" Screens, $649, Preorders Start Today
At an event today in San Francisco, Google unveiled its latest vision for Android smartphones—the Google Pixel and Pixel XL. For this generation, Google nixes the familiar Nexus name...
103 by Ryan Smith & Matt Humrick on 10/4/2016One Month With: The Huawei TalkBand B3
I think I'm getting the reason why smartwatches exist now - or at least watches in general. When I was younger, before smartphones, I wore a simple cheap watch...
10 by Ian Cutress on 10/4/2016AMD Announces 7th Gen Bristol Ridge PRO APUs with Extended Support
There are a number of directions for ‘professional grade’ processors in the market, varying from embedded to long-life support to server functionality. AMD’s PRO lines of processors are akin...
26 by Ian Cutress on 10/4/2016GlobalFoundries Updates Roadmap: 7 nm in 2H 2018, EUV Sooner Than Later?
GlobalFoundries recently announced the first details about its next generation 7 nm manufacturing technology, which is being developed in-house, and revealed plans to start production of chips using the...
76 by Anton Shilov on 10/3/2016NBASE-T Alliance Receives Boost with IEEE P802.3bz Approval for 2.5G/5G Ethernet
Wired networks relying on traditional Cat 5e and Cat 6 cables (at their maximum channel length of 100m) have been limited to 1 Gbps so far. At the other...
37 by Ganesh T S on 10/3/2016USB-IF Publishes Audio over USB Type-C Specifications
The USB Implementers Forum this week published the USB Audio Device Class 3.0 specification, which standardizes audio over USB Type-C interface. The new spec enables hardware makers to eliminate...
93 by Anton Shilov on 9/30/2016Roku Unveils 2016 Streaming Media Players with 4Kp60 and HDR Support
Roku this week introduced a new family of five streaming media players for various needs and customers. The new affordable players support 1080p HD video streaming and some of...
34 by Anton Shilov on 9/30/2016ADATA Launches XPG SX8000: High-End M.2 NVMe SSD Featuring 3D MLC NAND
ADATA on Thursday introduced its first lineup of SSDs powered by 3D MLC NAND flash memory. The XPG SX8000 drives promise up to 2.4 GB/s read speed as well...
14 by Anton Shilov on 9/29/2016Giveaway: OCZ VX500 & RD400 SSDs
It’s been a while since we’ve last had a hardware giveaway, so for those of you looking for some new hardware, you’re in luck. As part of the recent...
14 by Ryan Smith on 9/29/2016BlackBerry Stops Development of Smartphones, Set to Outsource Hardware Development
BlackBerry on Wednesday said it would cease internal development of its hardware and will transfer that function to its partners. While the BlackBerry-branded devices will remain on the market...
37 by Anton Shilov on 9/28/2016NVIDIA Teases Xavier, a High-Performance ARM SoC for Drive PX & AI
Ever since NVIDIA bowed out of the highly competitive (and high pressure) market for mobile ARM SoCs, there has been quite a bit of speculation over what would happen...
36 by Ryan Smith on 9/28/2016Xiaomi Mi 5s and Mi 5s Plus Announced
Xiaomi announced two new flagship smartphones today. The Mi 5s and Mi 5s Plus are updates to the Mi 5 / Mi 5 Pro and Mi 5 Plus phones...
23 by Matt Humrick on 9/27/2016Razer Updates The DeathAdder Elite Gaming Mouse
Although Razer has become one of the well known gaming computer companies, they got their start with gaming mice, and today Razer is launching their next iteration of the...
25 by Brett Howse on 9/27/2016New ARM IP Launched: CMN-600 Interconnect for 128 Cores and DMC-620, an 8Ch DDR4 IMC
You need much more than a good CPU core to conquer the server world. As more cores are added, the way data moves from one part of the silicon...
14 by Johan De Gelas on 9/27/2016CEVA Launches Fifth-Generation Machine Learning Image and Vision DSP Solution: CEVA-XM6
Deep learning, neural networks and image/vision processing is already a large field, however many of the applications that rely on it are still in their infancy. Automotive is the...
3 by Ian Cutress on 9/27/2016AMD Announces Embedded Radeon E9260 & E9550 - Polaris for Embedded Markets
While it’s AMD’s consumer products that get the most fanfare with new GPU launches – and rightfully so – AMD and their Radeon brand also have a solid (if...
16 by Ryan Smith on 9/27/2016Xilinx Launches Cost-Optimized Portfolio: New Spartan, Artix and Zynq Solutions
Some of the key elements of the embedded market are cost, power and efficiency. A number of applications for embedded vision and IoT, when applying complexity, rely on the...
1 by Ian Cutress on 9/27/2016Satechi and StarTech USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C HDD/SSD Enclosures Review
Storage bridges come in many varieties within the internal and external market segments. On the external side, they usually have one or more downstream SATA ports. The most popular...
33 by Ganesh T S on 9/26/2016