AMD Announces Radeon Crimson Driver Branding & New Settings Control Panel
It was just under two months ago that AMD announced the major restructuring of their graphics division, which would see the graphics division made whole once again, more than...
88 by Ryan Smith on 11/2/2015ASRock Rack Launches Xeon D Motherboards
Intel's Xeon D SiP (System-in-package) has turned out to be one of the exciting launches this year in the server CPU space. We have already analyzed Xeon D in...
37 by Ganesh T S on 10/30/2015Behind The Scenes: Evaluating NAS Units with Solution-Based Benchmarks
Recently, I had the opportunity to visit a leading NAS vendor and provide some insights on how we evaluate NAS units. In particular, the talk dealt with the importance...
17 by Ganesh T S on 10/29/2015OnePlus Launches the OnePlus X
When OnePlus launched the OnePlus Two earlier this year the company also mentioned that they would be launching a second smartphone in 2015, and that the new phone would...
53 by Brandon Chester on 10/29/2015Samsung Announces The 18.4" Galaxy View
For a while now there have been small pieces of information about an 18.4" Samsung Android tablet that was due to release in the near future. The tablet was...
56 by Brandon Chester on 10/28/2015Apple FY 2015 Q4 Results: Record Fourth Quarter With 48 Million iPhones Sold
Today Apple released their Q4 results from fiscal year 2015, and in what seems like an almost unending cycle, the company has once again set a new record for...
44 by Brett Howse on 10/27/2015Motorola Announces the DROID Turbo 2 and DROID Maxx 2 For Verizon
Motorola has been one of Verizon's Android device partners for many years now. Before Verizon had the iPhone, Motorola's DROID smartphones provided several alternatives for users who didn't want...
22 by Brandon Chester on 10/27/2015ARM Announces New CCI-550 and DMC-500 System IPs
Today ARM announces two new additions to its CoreLink system IP design portfolio, the CCI-550 interconnect and DMC-500 memory controller. Starting off with the CCI announcement, we find the...
5 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/27/2015Hello Windows Hello: Firmware Update Adds Biometric Login To Surface Pro 4 And Surface Book
Just the other day, I posted my review of the Microsoft Surface Pro 4. One of the most exciting additions to the convertible tablet from Microsoft was the implementation...
39 by Brett Howse on 10/25/2015Microsoft FY 2016 Q1 Results: Cloud Growth And PC Slowdown
Today Microsoft released their earnings from the first quarter of fiscal year 2016. Revenue fell 12% year-over-year to $20.4 billion for the quarter, driven by a 17% decline in...
37 by Brett Howse on 10/22/2015Western Digital To Acquire SanDisk
Western Digital announced today that they have entered in to an agreement to acquire SanDisk for approximately $19 billion. Western Digital is one of the few remaining hard drive...
35 by Billy Tallis on 10/21/2015The Microsoft Surface Book First Look
Today is the official launch day for not only Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4, but also the Surface Book which was announced back at the Microsoft Windows 10 Devices event...
101 by Brett Howse on 10/21/2015AMD Launches Excavator Based R-Series APUs for Embedded with DDR4 Support
Despite the recent news surrounding AMDs reorganization and financials, today AMD is announcing the launch of its first DDR4 processors. But rather than aiming at the high end or...
34 by Ian Cutress on 10/21/2015Hands On With the HTC One A9
Today, HTC is launching their flagship smartphone for the holiday season. For those that have followed HTC, this launch shouldn’t be too much of a surprise given that the...
61 by Joshua Ho & Brandon Chester on 10/20/2015The Lenovo Yoga 900 Series Launched: The ‘Thinnest’ Core Laptop and a 27-inch Portable All-In-One
Lenovo’s Yoga line has been consistently at the forefront of attempting to define exactly what a combination clamshell laptop ‘that’s also a sort of tablet’ should be. Over the...
50 by Ian Cutress on 10/20/2015ARM Announces Mali-470 GPU: Low Power For Wearables & More
One of the more surprising facts we learned from ARM when we sat down with them last year to discuss their Mali GPU architecture was just how successful the...
11 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2015More Greenlow Motherboards Announced: ASRock Rack’s C230 Series
On the back of Intel’s muted launch for the Xeon E3-1200 v5 platform, the server based business units from normal motherboards consumer facing companies are announcing their C230 series...
17 by Ian Cutress on 10/20/2015Skylake Xeon Motherboards: GIGABYTE’s C230 Series Announced
With the new E3-1200 v5 processors announced today we also get a new series of workstation/server motherboards under the C230 series. Aside from standard workstation and Xeon markets that...
13 by Ian Cutress on 10/19/2015Intel Launches ‘Greenlow’: C236 Chipset and Skylake E3-1200 v5 Xeons
One of the recent notable aspects about the Xeon E3 family was the lack of a significant presence with Intel’s Broadwell architecture. A handful of them were released under...
31 by Ian Cutress on 10/19/2015ASUS Announces the Z170-based Maximus VIII Extreme ROG Motherboard
We caught a glimpse of it very briefly in our motherboard overview at the time that Intel launched its 6-th Generation Skylake processors, but at the end of last...
18 by Ian Cutress on 10/19/2015