Android 7.0 Nougat Released
Google has completed its five month beta program and is officially releasing Android 7.0 Nougat today. The company will begin rolling it out to select Nexus devices, including the...
51 by Matt Humrick on 8/22/2016
ARM Announces ARM v8-A with Scalable Vector Extensions: Aiming for HPC and Data Center
Today ARM is announcing an update to their line of architecture license products. With the goal of moving ARM more into the server, the data center, and high-performance computing...
15 by Ian Cutress on 8/22/2016
Early AMD Zen Server CPU and Motherboard Details: Codename ‘Naples’, 32-cores, Dual Socket Platforms, Q2 2017
At the AMD Zen microarchitecture announcement event yesterday, the lid was lifted on some of the details of AMD’s server platform. The 32-core CPU, codename Naples, will feature simultaneous...
65 by Ian Cutress on 8/18/2016
NVIDIA Releases GeForce GTX 1060 3GB: GTX 1060, Yet Not
In a low-key press blast sent today, NVIDIA has announced that they are expanding the GeForce 10-Series of cards with another entry. Augmenting the current series of cards is...
124 by Ryan Smith on 8/18/2016
HP and MAINGEAR Team Up for Omen X High-End Gaming PC
HP this week re-entered the market of high-end gaming PCs with its Omen X desktop. The machine uses rather unusual cube-shaped tri-chamber design featuring high-end hardware, liquid cooling and...
19 by Anton Shilov on 8/18/2016
More Details on Broxton: Quad Core, ECC, Up to 18 EUs of Gen9
An interesting talk regarding the IoT aspects of Intel’s Next Generation Atom Core, Goldmont, and the Broxton SoCs for the market offered a good chunk of information regarding the...
21 by Ian Cutress on 8/18/2016
Micron Cancels Ballistix TX3 NVMe SSD
At Computex in June, Micron announced that Crucial's Ballistix brand was being promoted to a standalone brand for gaming-oriented products. Their exhibit included three tiers of Ballistix DRAM products...
7 by Billy Tallis on 8/18/2016
Marvell Announces NVMe Controller for DRAM-Less PCIe 3.0 x2 SSDs
Marvell has announced its new controller for affordable and miniature SSDs, the 88NV1160. The chip can be used to build small form-factor SSDs in M.2 as well as BGA...
25 by Anton Shilov on 8/17/2016
Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi For Deep Learning
In a brief announcement as part of today’s Day 2 ketnote for IDF 2016, Intel has announced a new member of the Xeon Phi family. The new part, currently...
24 by Ryan Smith on 8/17/2016
Intel Unveils Joule: A High-Performance Atom-Powered IoT Module & Maker Kit
Today at Intel’s annual Developer Forum, the hardware manufacturer announced the latest in their Internet of Things-focused product kits: Joule. Based around Intel’s canceled-but-not-quite Broxton Atom processor, Joule is...
60 by Ryan Smith on 8/17/2016
Intel Announces Project Alloy: Untethered Augmented Reality in a VR Headset with RealSense
During the Keynote today at IDF, Intel showed off the next play into the Virtual Reality design space. In an interesting twist, their new Project Alloy headset was demonstrated...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/16/2016
Intel Teases Mobile Kaby Lake: HEVC Main10 Profile Support, Coming This Autumn
During the Intel Keynote presentation today at IDF Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel, demonstrated several upcoming Kaby Lake 2-in-1 prototypes from HP and Dell. While no concrete details about...
35 by Ian Cutress on 8/16/2016
Intel Optane And 3D XPoint Updates From IDF
At Intel Developer Forum this week in San Francisco, Intel is sharing a few more details about its plans for their Optane SSDs using 3D XPoint memory. The next milestone...
36 by Billy Tallis on 8/16/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.8.2 Hotfix
In very short order AMD has dropped another driver update in response to the latest. The 16.8.2 hotfix gives the driver version a minor bump to 16.30.2511.1001. With only...
3 by Daniel Williams on 8/16/2016
NVIDIA Releases 372.54 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Yesterday NVIDIA unveiled the GeForce GTX 10 Series for notebooks. Following through they have sent out the new 372.54 driver update with support for the new notebooks and in...
4 by Daniel Williams on 8/16/2016
ASRock Rack Launches the 2U4N-F/X200: Four 72-core Knights Landing Xeon Phi CPUs in 2U
This week is Intel’s Developer Forum in San Francisco, the annual event where Intel and Intel’s partners show their latest products and discuss a number of core topics to...
33 by Ian Cutress on 8/15/2016
Toshiba Begins to Sample eMLC-Based ZD6300 7.68 TB SSDs to Customers
Toshiba has quietly expanded its ZD6300 family of SSDs with a 7.68 TB model, its most capacious storage device announced to date. The new drive was designed for mixed...
30 by Anton Shilov on 8/12/2016
Western Digital to Use 3D ReRAM as Storage Class Memory for Special-Purpose SSDs
At the Flash Memory Summit this week, Western Digital announced that it intends to use 3D Resistive RAM (ReRAM) as storage class memory (SCM) for its future special-purpose ultra-fast...
38 by Anton Shilov on 8/12/2016
NVIDIA Announces Record Revenue For The Second Quarter Of Fiscal Year 2017
This afternoon, NVIDIA announced their quarterly earnings for the second quarter of their 2017 fiscal year, which ended July 31. NVIDIA had record revenues for the quarter, coming in...
67 by Brett Howse on 8/11/2016
Maxiotek Unveils MK8115: Low-Cost SSD Controller for 3D NAND SATA SSDs
Maxiotek this week introduced its first SSD controller designed for affordable SSDs with an SATA interface, which is meant to be paired with new types of NAND flash memory...
6 by Anton Shilov on 8/11/2016
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