EVGA Releases GeForce GTX 950 Low Power Graphics Cards with 75W TDP
EVGA this week unveiled their NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950-based video cards with reduced power consumption. As a result, these new cards do not require auxiliary power connectors and can...
26 by Anton Shilov on 4/7/2016Samsung Begins To Produce DDR4 Memory Using '10nm Class' Process Tech
Samsung Electronics has started to manufacture DDR4 memory using its new '10nm class' production technology. '10nm class', by definition, implies sub-20nm but without fully disclosing the methodology, similar to...
36 by Anton Shilov on 4/7/20163DMark Adds VRMark Preview and an Updated UI
We now have the release of the high end consumer VR headsets behind us. That sets the stage for a (hopefully) steady flow of software to use with the...
4 by Daniel Williams on 4/7/2016Tyan Introduces 1U POWER8-Based Server for HPC, In-Memory Applications
At this week's OpenPOWER Summit in San Jose, California, Tyan has introduced its new IBM POWER8-based 1U servers designed for high-performance computing (HPC) as well as in-memory applications. The...
36 by Anton Shilov on 4/7/2016IBM, NVIDIA and Wistron Develop New OpenPOWER HPC Server with POWER8 CPUs
IBM, NVIDIA and Wistron have introduced their second-generation server for high-performance computing (HPC) applications at the OpenPOWER Summit. The new machine is designed for IBM’s latest POWER8 microprocessors, NVIDIA’s...
50 by Anton Shilov on 4/6/2016Huawei Launches the TalkBand B3
I’ve been using the TalkBand B2 for a couple of months (a write-up will come soon), and Huawei is announcing the release of their TalkBand B3. This is a...
4 by Ian Cutress on 4/6/2016Huawei Launches The P9 and P9 Plus
Today in London, Huawei has launched the latest devices in its P-series line. The P9 and P9 Plus take cues from the previous P8 but also some hardware moves...
34 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 4/6/2016NVIDIA Unveils the DGX-1 HPC Server: 8 Teslas, 3U, Q2 2016
For a few years now, NVIDIA has been flirting with the server business as a means of driving the growth of datacenter sales of their products. A combination of...
31 by Ryan Smith & Ian Cutress on 4/6/2016Vivaldi Web Browser Launches With Version 1.0: Built For Power Users Of The Web
Today, Vivaldi has gone from a beta project to a production web browser with the official launch of version 1.0. After more than a year in public development, the...
55 by Brett Howse on 4/6/2016NVIDIA Announces Tesla P100 Accelerator - Pascal GP100 Power for HPC
Today at their 2016 GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA announced the first of their Pascal architecture powered Tesla cards, the Tesla P100. The P100 is the first major update to...
93 by Ryan Smith on 4/5/2016HP Unveils Spectre: The World’s Thinnest Laptop
HP has announced its new Spectre laptop - the world’s thinnest 13.3” notebook. Despite its miniature size, the Spectre uses Intel’s Core i5/i7 microprocessor, a PCIe-based SSD, a full-size...
75 by Anton Shilov on 4/5/2016HTC Vive Launch Day News & First Impressions
After what seems like entirely too long a wait, the consumer VR headset business is finally in full swing. Last week we saw the launch of Oculus’s Rift, and...
23 by Ryan Smith on 4/5/2016AMD Pre-Announces Bristol Ridge in Notebooks: The 7th Generation APU
For anyone tracking AMD’s family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), the last generation Carrizo was launched back in the middle of 2015. This was based on the fourth iteration...
38 by Ian Cutress on 4/5/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.1 Hotfix - Game Ready Support for Quantum Break
Another week another driver release, at least that feels like the way of it now. While some of AMD’s driver releases lately have been light on features and fixes...
12 by Daniel Williams on 4/5/2016NVIDIA Announces Quadro M5500 For Notebooks, Details Professional VR Plans
Taking place this week is NVIDIA’s annual developer conference, the GPU Technology Conference. A show for everything NVIDIA across all of the company’s major divisions, this year’s show stands...
16 by Ryan Smith on 4/4/2016Lenovo Upgrades 2-Way ThinkStation Workstations with Intel Xeon E5 v4 CPUs
Lenovo this week upgraded its range of 2-way workstations with Intel’s new Xeon E5 v4 microprocessors as well as recently announced NVIDIA’s Quadro M6000 24 GB graphics card. The...
16 by Anton Shilov on 4/1/2016Intel Rolls Out New PCIe SSDs for Cloud Datacenters
Intel on Thursday introduced several new PCIe SSDs designed for cloud datacenters. The new drives increase capacities, shrink latencies and offer higher throughput in order to follow demands of...
21 by Billy Tallis & Anton Shilov on 3/31/2016EVGA Rolls Out SC17: High-End Gaming Laptop Designed for Overclocking
EVGA this week officially introduced its SC17 laptop designed for demanding gamers, which combines rather high performance with UHD display. The system features an Intel Core i7 microprocessor with...
30 by Anton Shilov on 3/31/2016Microsoft Announces Xamarin Will Be Included Free With Visual Studio, And Open Source
Back in February, Microsoft announced it was acquiring Xamarin, the cross-platform toolkit which allows developers to write native apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac, using Visual Studio and...
12 by Brett Howse on 3/31/2016Hololens Round Two: Augmented Reality At Build 2016
Last year at BUILD I got my first chance to try Hololens. That experience was very interesting, not only because of the potential of Augmented Reality, but because of...
23 by Brett Howse on 3/31/2016