Vulkan 1.0 Specification Released: Drivers & Games Inbound
Back in August of 2014, Khronos announced the Next Generation OpenGL Initiative. The industry consortium, responsible for overseeing a number of major cross-platform GPU standards such as OpenGL and...
40 by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2016
16:10 Lives On: EIZO Releases 24-inch ColorEdge CG2420 and CS2420 Professional Monitors
For anyone that loves a 16:10 screen, with resolutions such as 1920x1200 or 2560x1600, there have been relatively slim pickings in the monitor world recently. Any high end or...
41 by Ian Cutress on 2/16/2016
MWC 2016: LG to Launch new ‘X Series’ Mid-Range Smartphones, each with a Singular Premium Feature
No sooner had I finished writing the news on the LG Stylus 2 announcement had another email landed in my inbox. On the back of the mid-range model with...
17 by Ian Cutress on 2/16/2016
MWC 2016: LG to Unveil the Stylus 2
It is that time of year when the worlds of the smartphone and IoT ecosystems descend into Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. We’re still a few days out (the...
62 by Ian Cutress on 2/16/2016
Microsoft Launches The Business Focused Lumia 650
Today Microsoft launched their fourth phone in the x50 series, with the Lumia 650 being the latest Lumia to roll out of what used to be Nokia’s smartphone business...
36 by Brett Howse on 2/15/2016
Samsung Begins Rollout Of Android Marshmallow For Galaxy Devices
Today Samsung announced that they are beginning the rollout of Android 6.0 Marshmallow to their Galaxy devices. As expected, the first two devices to be updated are the company's...
17 by Brandon Chester on 2/15/2016
Apple Offering Replacement USB Type-C Cables For 2015 MacBook Owners
After last month’s “duckhead” power adapter recall, Apple has started another charger-related replacement program. Beginning today, Apple will be replacing early runs of their USB Type-C charging cable for...
12 by Ryan Smith on 2/12/2016
StarTech Unveils Dual-Display Thunderbolt 2 Docking Station with 12 Ports
Modern laptops are getting thinner with every generation and it becomes increasingly harder for PC makers to integrate multiple ports into them. Nonetheless, end-users still need to connect their...
25 by Anton Shilov on 2/12/2016
Micron 3D NAND Status Update
Update: We've got some more information and diagrams from Micron's Winter Analyst Conference earlier today. After samples of their upcoming 3D NAND were sighted in the wild at CES, Micron...
19 by Billy Tallis on 2/12/2016
HP’s New Laptops to Feature AMD FreeSync Technology
AMD has announced that the new versions HP’s Envy 15z laptops - powered by the company’s latest-generation A-series APUs - will feature the FreeSync variable refresh rate technology. In...
19 by Anton Shilov on 2/12/2016
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Wear 2100 IoT SoC
Along with today's announcements of the Snapdragon 425, 435 and 625, we also see the reveal of a new wearables-oriented SoC: the Snapdragon Wear 2100. In the past we've...
23 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/11/2016
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 625, 425 & 435 Mid- and Low-End SoCs
Today Qualcomm announced three new SoCs in the mid and low-end Snapdragon lineup. At the lowest end we find the Snapdragon 425 offering a very frugal CPU configuration consisting...
22 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/11/2016
EVGA Begins Selling "VR Edition" GeForce GTX Video Cards for VR Gaming Rigs
EVGA this week began to sell their GeForce GTX 980 Ti VR Edition video cards, a new lineup tailored for those who plan to use a virtual reality headset...
11 by Anton Shilov on 2/11/2016
Plextor Introduces M6S Plus SSDs with Toshiba’s 15nm MLC NAND
Plextor this week introduced its M6S Plus SSDs that use Toshiba’s latest MLC NAND flash memory as well as a proven controller from Marvell. The new SSDs offer the...
36 by Anton Shilov on 2/10/2016
Skylake Overclocking: Regular CPU BCLK Overclocking is Being Removed
If you follow PC technology news, you would have seen our news on how Supermicro had enabled overclocking for Skylake (Intel’s 6th Generation) processors on non Z170 motherboards. This...
73 by Ian Cutress on 2/9/2016
Micron Reports on GDDR5X Dev Progress - Volume Production This Summer
Engineers from Micron Development Center in Munich (also known as Graphics DRAM Design Center) are well known around the industry for their contribution to development of multiple graphics memory...
17 by Anton Shilov on 2/9/2016
CEO of Imagination Technologies Steps Down
Sir Hossein Yassaie, chief executive officer of Imagination Technologies, has stepped down as of Monday, Feburary 8th. Mr. Yassaie served as Imagination’s CEO since 1998 and joined the company...
23 by Anton Shilov on 2/9/2016
Sony Enters SSD Market with Phison S10-Based SLW-M Series
Sony-Asia this month introduced its first own-brand solid-state drives that it will sell in retail. The decision to start selling consumer SSDs is completely unexpected because Sony has been...
35 by Anton Shilov on 2/8/2016
AfterShokz Bone Conduction Headphones Capsule Review
Headphones are not a category we usually cover at AnandTech, and even when we do, it is restricted to gaming headsets. In my CES visits over the last several...
30 by Ganesh T S on 2/8/2016
Google Adds New Hands-Free Features to Android Wear
Google has announced this week that they have added several new functions to the Android Wear operating system in an update that is now being rolled out. The latest...
19 by Anton Shilov on 2/5/2016
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