Haswell Will Enable 10 Days of Connected Standby Battery Life
Intel just announced that Haswell (due out in 2013) was designed to reduce connected standby power by 30% compared to Sandy Bridge. The Haswell platform as a whole will...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
Ivy Bridge Will Bring a 35W Quad-Core i7
Earlier this year Intel revealed its mobile Sandy Bridge lineup, including a slew of 45W quad-core Core i7 SKUs. Next year Ivy Bridge will expand the range to include...
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
Meet the 2012 Thunderbolt Controllers: Cactus Ridge
Image Courtesy iFixit Thunderbolt has seen limited use this year - the standard has only been implemented by Apple and Sony, the rest of the PC market will have to...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
AMD Sets World Overclocking Record with 8.429GHz Bulldozer Processor
Before every major architecture launch from AMD or NVIDIA, the companies typically hold an editor's or tech day. These events usually last about a day (sometimes two) and involve...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
The Updated Tegra Roadmap: Kal-El+ in 2012, Wayne in Late 2012/Early 2013
Last week we confirmed NVIDIA would be introducing a Tegra SoC with integrated Icera baseband called Grey, but we got the timeframe down. Above you'll see the updated Tegra...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2011
Pricing Revealed for First AMD Bulldozer FX Chips
Though AMD began shipping Bulldozer-based sever CPUs last week, we're still waiting until Q4 for the new architecture to hit the desktop. In the meantime, however, pre-order pricing for...
58 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/12/2011
Acer Iconia Tab A501 Coming To AT&T's HSPA+ Network
Acer made a value play with their Acer Iconia A500, and the results left something to be desired. How much of that was Honeycomb growing pains is hard to...
2 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2011
HTC Titan Stretches Mango To 4.7" On AT&T
And hot on the heels of Samsung's Mango news, HTC has announced they're bringing their surprisingly thin HTC Titan to AT&T with Windows Phone 7.5 in tow. We first...
15 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2011
Samsung Brings Mango To AT&T This Fall
Not content to flood the market in Android variants, Samsung is starting their roll out of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) devices. The release we received this morning was scant...
6 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2011
Ivy Bridge Configurable TDP Detailed
At Computex Intel announced that Ivy Bridge would be its first processor to support a configurable TDP. Today all CPUs are rated at a single maximum TDP. Mainstream notebook...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2011
Samsung's Galaxy S 2: The Smoothest Scrolling Android Device Around
One aspect of differentiation between Android smartphones has always been how smoothly they scroll both in the OS and in the browser. Later versions of Android have addressed the...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2011
Ivy Bridge GPU Performance: Up to 60% Faster than SNB & Better QuickSync
This week Intel will begin sharing some of the first details of its Ivy Bridge processor (2012 Core i-series CPU) at the annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2011
ARM's Mali-400 MP4 is the Fastest Smartphone GPU...for Now
Earlier this morning we published our long awaited review of the Samsung Galaxy S 2. In it we dedicated a few pages to investigating Samsung's own Exynos 4210 SoC...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2011
Intel Leaks i7-2700K
Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs were launched in January and so far, the desktop i7 lineup has consisted of three SKUs: i7-2600, i7-2600K and i7-2600S. Earlier this week, Intel released...
24 by Kristian Vättö on 9/10/2011
NVIDIA Announces "Grey", First Tegra SoC with Integrated Baseband Due in 2012
Four months ago NVIDIA announced the acquisition of Icera, a baseband solution provider. Icera's technology didn't make it into any smartphones but it did have some success in the...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/9/2011
Demo for Indie PC Shooter Hard Reset Now Available
Dust off your old-school shooter skills: a demo for the indie cyberpunk FPS Hard Reset is now on Steam. Hard Reset comes from Flying Wild Hog, a Polish developer made...
7 by Craig Getting on 9/9/2011
TouchDroid Project Dies, But Work Continues on Touchpad Android Port
The TouchDroid project, which was created just weeks ago in the wake of HP's Touchpad liquidation sale, has already disbanded. The project's discontinuation stems not from technical problems but...
17 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/9/2011
Windows 8 Features Vastly Improved Boot Times
Windows 8 news continues to trickle from the Building Windows 8 blog at a steady clip: today, Gabe Aul detailed changes to the Windows 8 boot process that promise...
52 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/9/2011
Intel Not Selling MeeGo, Says Manager
Responding to this week's rumors that Samsung might be looking to acquire MeeGo, the Linux-based mobile operating system introduced by Intel and Nokia, Intel's Systems Software Division manager Doug...
7 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/8/2011
Dell Precision Mobile Workstations: Now with Larger and Faster SSDs
I recently received an email from a reader asking for advice on the "best" laptop Dell has to offer. The reader's work is footing the bill, but with the...
9 by Jarred Walton on 9/8/2011
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