AMD Briefly Shows Off Zen “Summit Ridge” Silicon
After an already packed Computex 2016 event with Radeon Polaris and Bristol Ridge/Stoney Ridge news, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su had one final surprise to close out the company’s...
89 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2016AMD Announces the 7th Generation APU: Excavator mk2 in Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge for Notebooks
The Carrizo SoC, using Excavator cores, was touted in the press as being the biggest upgrade to the base Bulldozer design since the introduction of Bulldozer itself. This was...
69 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2016ASUS Readies ROG Laptops with Optional 120 Hz AHVA Display Panels
In the recent years, ASUS became one of the world’s largest supplier of gaming notebooks and gaming displays. Having obtained a lot of expertise in building monitors and laptops...
11 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2016FSP Enters the Market of High-Wattage SFX PSUs with Dagger
FSP has introduced its first power supplies in SFX form-factor designed for high-performance gaming PCs. The new Dagger family of PSUs will contain 500 W and 600 W models...
23 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2016HP and MSI Demonstrate Backpack PCs for VR Gaming
Virtual reality gaming promises to drive demand for higher-performance graphics cards as well as richer game content. But even before the first AAA VR games make their debut, computer...
22 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2016Micron Launches 3D NAND Client SSDs
Today Micron is announcing their first client/OEM SSDs with 3D NAND. First mentioned at an enterprise announcement event in April, the Micron 1100 and 2100 SSDs are part of...
20 by Billy Tallis on 5/31/2016HSA 1.1 Specification Launched: Extending HSA to More Vendors & Processor Types
For the last few years now we have been keeping tabs on the development of the Heterogeneous System Architecture, a set of technical standards and an associated instruction language...
6 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2016The Sony Xperia X Preview
For some time now, Sony has been mostly absent from the US market. While we’ve seen devices here and there, there have been issues with keeping launches aligned, and...
45 by Joshua Ho on 5/31/2016Digital Storm Announces The Aura 34” All-in-One Featuring A 10-Core i7-6950X and GTX 1080 GPU
Without missing a beat with the launch of the latest Broadwell-E processors from Intel, and the highest performing graphics card ever with the NVIDIA GTX 1080, Digital Storm has...
34 by Brett Howse on 5/31/2016Intel Announces Xeon E3-1500 v5: Iris Pro and eDRAM for Streaming Video
The rise of video stream services, especially live services, has accelerated the need for dynamic and on-the-fly conversion of video content and the infrastructure to do so. Moving from...
28 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2016Qualcomm Launches New GigaDSL, 802.11ac Wave 2 Chipsets
At Computex today, Qualcomm Atheros announced a few new chipsets, and it seems that as a part of their Ikanos acquisition they’ve entered the wireline business in the hopes...
3 by Joshua Ho on 5/30/2016ZOTAC MAGNUS EN980 Detailed - A SFF VR-Ready PC with GeForce GTX 980
Several months ago, ZOTAC introduced its ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 PC featuring NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 980 Notebook GPU. It was positioned as one of the world’s smallest VR-Ready systems. This...
18 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2016GIGABYTE Aero 14: Thin Gaming Laptop with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and 10-Hour Battery Life
GIGABYTE has introduced its new Aero 14 gaming laptop, which weds a relatively thin form-factor with high-performance components such as an Intel Skylake-H CPU, and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX...
33 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2016ASUS Announces Transformer 3 Pro: 2-in-1 with Core i5/i7
Not to be outdone on the subject of 2-in-1s today, ASUS has announced a second 2-in-1 to complement the newly announced Transformer 3. Dubbed the Transformer 3 Pro, this...
22 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2016Acer Unveils Switch V10 and Switch One 10: 2-in-1s for $199 - $249
Acer has introduced two new affordable 2-in-1 hybrid PCs ahead of Computex trade show. Both systems are based on Intel’s quad-core Atom processors, feature 10” multi-touch IPS displays and...
13 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2016ASUS Announces the Transformer 3: Here’s a Kaby-Lake 2-in-1
One of the surprises of ASUS’ Zen press event today, aside from the surreal nature of the anthropomorphic Zenbo, was the first announcement of a Kaby Lake-based 2-in-1 device...
7 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2016ASUS Unveils Zenbo Smart Companion Robot
At today's ASUS Zenvolution press event in advance of Computex, ASUS unveiled a new personal assistant robot for home use: Zenbo. The core functionality of Zenbo will be voice...
7 by Billy Tallis on 5/30/2016ASUS Announces the Zenbook 3: A Macbook Competitor with Core i7, 16GB DRAM and 1TB SSD
Computex is already a whirlwind of announcements even for day zero. At the ASUS Zenvolution press event today, the lid was lifted on the next generation of premium ASUS...
34 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2016ASUS Announces the ZenFone 3 Series, with 6 GB Deluxe Model and 6.8-inch Ultra Model
Today at Computex, as part of their annual Zen press conference, ASUS lifted the lid on the Zenfone 3 series. In previous Zenfone generations, the Zenfone has been one...
36 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2016ARM Details Built on ARM Cortex Technology License
As part of today's announcements, we're able to provide more information on ARM's new "Built on ARM Cortex Technology" license. The license was first officially revealed in ARM's quartely...
10 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/29/2016