The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 37: IDF 2016, Alloy, Joule, Broxton, and AMD Zen
Today’s podcast covers the show known as the Intel Developer Forum, or IDF for short. IDF is an annual event focusing on new Intel technologies and product visions, showcasing...
13 by Ian Cutress on 8/30/2016Samsung Announces Exynos 7570 14nm Budget SoC
Today Samsung LSI launches a new 14nm SoC oriented at the budget and IoT segments. The new Exynos 7570 seems to be a a successor to the Exynos 3470...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/30/2016ASUS X99-E-10G WS Motherboard Launched: Dual 10GBase-T Ethernet via an Integrated X550-AT2
When we wrote up our list of 10GBase-T capable consumer motherboards back in July, we noted that out of the two main ways to get 10GBase-T on a motherboard...
42 by Ian Cutress on 8/29/2016SilverStone Introduces VT01 Mini-STX Chassis for $35
At Computex, SilverStone started to show off its early mini-STX prototype cases. This week it introduced its first commercial product, the VT01. The new PC case inherits classic design...
22 by Anton Shilov on 8/29/2016Intel’s 140GB Optane 3D XPoint PCIe SSD Spotted at IDF
As part of this year’s Intel’s Developer Forum, we had half expected some more insights into the new series of 3D XPoint products that would be hitting the market...
66 by Ian Cutress on 8/26/2016HP Announces EliteBook Laptops with On/Off Sure View Privacy Screens
On Thursday, HP introduced adjustable privacy screens for the EliteBook 840 as well as the EliteBook 1040 notebooks. These are aimed at business users concerned about visual hacking and...
43 by Anton Shilov on 8/26/2016Eurocom Sky E9E2 Laptop: Intel Core i7, Two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/1070 GPUs in SLI, Optional 120 Hz Display Panel
Eurocom has released one of the world’s first laptops featuring two NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080/1070 GPUs, along with one of Intel’s latest Core i7 CPUs for good measure. The...
80 by Anton Shilov on 8/26/2016Xiaomi Launches Redmi Note 4 in China
While we normally don’t cover China-only smartphone releases, Xiaomi is a fairly major player as far as volume as they were one of the first companies in the industry...
34 by Joshua Ho on 8/25/2016ADATA Introduces Ultimate SU800 SSD: SMI Controller, 3D NAND, SATA Interface
ADATA has formally introduced its first SSDs based on 3D NAND flash memory. The Ultimate SU800 drives are designed for price-conscious market segments and use SATA interface, which means...
11 by Anton Shilov on 8/25/2016Intel Launches 3D NAND SSDs For Client And Enterprise
Today Intel is announcing a variety of new SSDs with their 3D NAND flash memory. The new models use a mix of 3D MLC and 3D TLC, some SATA...
49 by Billy Tallis on 8/25/2016Hot Chips 2016: NVIDIA Discloses Tegra Parker Details
At CES 2016 we saw that DRIVE PX2 had a new Tegra SoC in it, but to some extent NVIDIA was still being fairly cagey about what was actually...
29 by Joshua Ho on 8/25/2016Hot Chips 2016: Exynos M1 Architecture Disclosed
While we can always do black-box testing to try and get a handle for what a CPU core looks like, there’s really only so much you can do given...
29 by Joshua Ho on 8/25/2016NVIDIA Announces Paragon Game Bundle For GeForce Video Cards
As game releases ramp up and GPU manufacturers build market interest approaching the fall season, bundles seem to be popping up like daisies. The latest to join the fray...
31 by Daniel Williams on 8/24/2016AMD Bundles Together Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and AMD FX CPUs
Buying new hardware is almost always exciting, and purchases are even sweeter when they come with included gifts. In spirit of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided receiving DX12 support in...
19 by Daniel Williams on 8/24/2016Unpacking AMD's Zen Benchmark: Is Zen actually 2% Faster than Broadwell?
At a satellite event to Intel's Developer Conference last week, AMD held an evening soiree with invited analysts and press to talk about their new upcoming Zen microarchitecture. This...
177 by Ian Cutress on 8/23/2016G.Skill Shows Off Trident Z 8x8 GB and 8x16 DDR4-3333 Memory Kits
When Intel launched its new Core i7 Broadwell-E processors for high-end desktops earlier this year, all leading makers of motherboards released their new breed of Intel X99-based products that...
0 by Anton Shilov on 8/23/2016Supermicro Releases Intel Xeon Phi x200 (KNL) Systems: Servers and a Developer Mid-Tower
Supermicro has released two systems featuring Intel’s many-core Xeon Phi x200 processors: a workstation and an ultra-dense server. The platforms support up to 384 GB of DDR4 memory and...
9 by Anton Shilov on 8/23/2016MSI Unveils the X99A Workstation Motherboard
Last week MSI introduced its new X99A Workstation motherboard, part of the X99 refresh we've seen over the past couple of months following the launch of the Broadwell-E processor...
6 by Anton Shilov on 8/23/2016Hot Chips 2016: Memory Vendors Discuss Ideas for Future Memory Tech - DDR5, Cheap HBM, & More
Continuing our Hot Chips 2016 coverage for the evening, along with the requisite presentations on processors, several of the major players in the memory industry are also at the...
11 by Ryan Smith on 8/23/2016Hot Chips 2016: NVIDIA Pascal GP100 Die Shot Released
The first day of conference sessions wrapped up earlier this evening at the annual Hot Chips symposium. One of the computing industry’s lower-key events, the IEEE conference for high...
13 by Ryan Smith on 8/23/2016