Microsoft Teases Project Scorpio for 2017: 8 cores, 6 TeraFLOPs, Backwards Compatible with Xbox. Zen or Jaguar?!
This news piece contains speculation, and suggests silicon implementation based on released products and roadmaps.The only elements confirmed for Project Scorpio are the eight cores, >6 TFLOPs, 320 GB/s...
101 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2016Cortana Coming to Xbox Live
A short word coming out of E3: despite rolling out a couple of days ago, Microsoft has formally announced Cortana, the Windows-based speech recognition helper (similar to Siri and...
6 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2016Microsoft Announces Xbox One S Console: A Slimmer Design
Today at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft has lifted the lid on their new Xbox One console design. The Xbox One is part of the eighth generation...
58 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2016Razer Exhibits OSVR HDK2 VR Headset, And $5 Million Developer Fund At E3 2016
The Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) headsets have been progressing in the new field of VR for some time, releasing and demoing several versions of their Hacker Development Kit...
14 by Brett Howse on 6/13/2016Intel Launches 4S and 8S Broadwell-EX Xeons: E7-4800 v4 and E7-8800 v4 Families, up to 384 Threads
The super-high-end of Intel’s Xeon CPU range, based on servers with as many cores and as much memory as you can throw at them, represent a good part of...
26 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2016NZXT H440 "EnVyUs" Edition Chassis Announced: H440 Gets an e-Sports Edition
Originally released in 2014, NZXT's H440 chassis has quickly become a popular product for the company. Due to this popularity NZXT has released a few different designs over the...
26 by Anton Shilov on 6/10/2016Kingston Updates HyperX DDR4 Lineup with DDR4-3000, DDR4-3200 Modules
Following Intel’s announcement of the new Core i7 Broadwell-E lineup of HEDT processors with six, eight and ten cores, Kingston has recently refreshed its HyperX family of DDR4 memory...
8 by Anton Shilov on 6/10/2016Sirin Labs Solarin Launched: World’s First Commercial Smartphone with WiGig
Sirin Labs, a developer of smartphones from Switzerland, last week announced its Solarin smartphone which promises to combine a luxurious design with high performance components, advanced security and support...
17 by Anton Shilov on 6/10/2016Motorola Announces The Moto Z And Moto Z Force
Today at Lenovo’s Tech World event, Lenovo and Motorola announced a plethora of new products, including two new smartphones, the Moto Z and Moto Z Force, which replace the...
84 by Matt Humrick on 6/9/2016NVIDIA Releases 368.39 WHQL Game Ready Driver, Adds GTX 1070 Support
As the GeForce GTX 1070 approaches, NVIDIA has prepared a driver release for the upcoming card. Along with support to the coming GPU and a list of fixes, we...
30 by Daniel Williams on 6/8/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.1
Here we are with AMD's next driver update, Radeon Sofware Crimson Edition 16.6.1. This brings the driver version to 16.20.1025. With the changes that come along with the update...
20 by Daniel Williams on 6/7/2016Samsung Announces The Galaxy S7 Active
Today Samsung is following up the launch of its Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge smartphones with the introduction of the Galaxy S7 active, a ruggedized version of the...
48 by Matt Humrick on 6/6/2016Raijintek 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 6/3/2016Patriot 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 6/2/2016Synaptics 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 6/2/2016Corsair 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 6/1/2016SanDisk 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 6/1/2016Patriot 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 6/1/2016Samsung 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 6/1/2016Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Wear 1100 SoC For Wearables
Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon Wear 1100 SoC today at Computex 2016. Intended for wearable devices, such as fitness trackers, smart headsets, and connected watches for children, it features a...
12 by Matt Humrick on 6/1/2016