Intel Announces Optane Storage Brand For 3D XPoint Products
At IDF 2015 this year Intel has announced that their forthcoming 3D XPoint technology based products will be sold under a new brand for the company, Optane. The Optane products...
50 by Ryan Smith on 8/18/2015Google Announces The OnHub WiFi Router
Today Google announced that they are moving into the WiFi router market. The new router is produced through a partnership with TP-Link and it's called OnHub. Google is marketing...
32 by Brandon Chester on 8/18/2015AnandTech Screwdriver Giveaway
Good morning everyone. While we wait for today's IDF 2015 keynote to start, we have another giveaway starting up this morning, this time for screwdrivers. Our publisher, Purch, has commissioned...
38 by Ryan Smith on 8/18/2015Understanding Qualcomm's ImproveTouch
Although the Xperia Z4 Tablet was announced as far back as MWC, it wasn’t until recently that the enhanced noise rejection of the touchscreen was really shown off. At...
13 by Joshua Ho on 8/18/2015Western Digital Updates WD Red Pro and WD Black with 5 & 6TB Models
It is that time of the year when Western Digital updates their Red lineup. Launched in 2012, the WD Red drives target network attached storage units with an optimized...
51 by Ganesh T S on 8/18/2015Google Revamps Hangouts On The Web
As someone who uses Google Hangouts for both personal and work related correspondence, I've always been frustrated that the only viable options for using it are to install Chrome...
8 by Brandon Chester on 8/17/2015Google Releases Final M Preview: Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Today Google released the third developer preview for the M release and at the same time also reveals its official codename as well as final version name: Android 6.0...
51 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/17/2015A Quick Look at LG G4 Leather Back Covers
With the LG G4 review, our design commentary was mostly targeted towards the G4’s standard polycarbonate back cover. But recently we received some leather back covers from LG designed...
24 by Joshua Ho on 8/17/2015Rambus To Go Into Fabless Chip Production, Announces RB26 DDR4 DIMM Chipset
Since its inception in 1990, DRAM technology company Rambus’s business model has been an unusual one, focused on the creation and licensing of technology as opposed to selling finished...
20 by Ryan Smith on 8/17/2015Nixeus NX-VUE24A 144Hz FreeSync Monitor Set to Ship
We briefly covered the launch of the Nixeus NX-VUE24A FreeSync monitor as part of our write-up on AMD's FreeSync demonstrations at Computex 2015. Nixeus today sent news that the...
40 by Ganesh T S on 8/14/2015HGST And Mellanox Show Off SAN Fabric Backed By Phase Change Memory
It seems that NAND flash memory just isn't fast enough to show off the full performance of the latest datacenter networking equipment from Mellanox. They teamed up with HGST...
19 by Billy Tallis on 8/14/2015NVIDIA Releases 355.60 Drivers; GameWorks VR Now In Beta
As the week starts to wind down NVIDIA is back with another driver release, 335.60. This latest release is notable for a few different reasons. Officially NVIDIA is releasing this...
18 by Ryan Smith on 8/13/2015Samsung SSD Update: 48-layer 256Gbit TLC 3D NAND & Three New TLC SSDs Announced
When Samsung took the stage at the 2015 Flash Memory Summit, they admittedly didn't deliver any bombshell announcements on the scale of the Intel/Micron 3D XPoint surprise, but they...
61 by Billy Tallis on 8/13/2015Qualcomm Details the Adreno 530 GPU and ISP inside the Snapdragon 820
Snapdragon 820 is still a mystery as far as official information from Qualcomm goes. However, today Qualcomm has given a bit of insight into their upcoming SoC. While there's...
66 by Brandon Chester on 8/12/2015Toshiba Brings Through-Silicon Vias to NAND Flash
At Flash Memory Summit this week, Toshiba is showing off a NAND flash device packaged using through-silicon vias rather than traditional wire-bonded connections. The NAND flash currently on the market...
18 by Billy Tallis on 8/12/2015Build-A-Rig Round 1: The Winners
As our final update to what has been a very successful first round for our Build-A-Rig project, last week we held the drawing to determine the winners. Each of...
19 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2015SanDisk Announces Second Generation CloudSpeed Ultra SATA Enterprise SSD
At Flash Memory Summit today SanDisk announced the second generation of their CloudSpeed Ultra enterprise drive. This is the sibling to the gen. 2 CloudSpeed Eco that was announced...
7 by Billy Tallis on 8/11/2015Seagate Introduces New Nytro PCIe SSDs: XP6500 & XF/XM1440
After acquiring SSD controller designer SandForce, LSI took the quick route towards creating high-performance PCIe SSDs by putting multiple SandForce controllers and an LSI RAID controller on a single...
20 by Billy Tallis on 8/11/2015NVIDIA Announces Quadro M5000 & M4000 Video Cards, DesignWorks Software Suite
Back in March at GTC 2015, NVIDIA announced the first member and flagship of their Maxwell 2 generation of Quadro cards, the Quadro M6000. Packing a fully-enabled GM200 GPU...
27 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2015Toshiba Announces Three New NVMe SSD Families
On the eve of Flash Memory Summit (August 11-13), Toshiba has announced a full range of NVMe-based PCIe SSDs using Toshiba controllers and Toshiba MLC flash. Toshiba NVMe Drive Families Drive...
17 by Billy Tallis on 8/11/2015