Analysing AMOLED Power Efficiency Improvements
Over the last few years we’ve been repeatedly reporting how Samsung was able to improve AMOLED power efficiency by employing better emitter materials on each new device generation. This...
73 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/23/2015Windows 10 Insider Activation Update: Part 2
Just a couple of days ago, Microsoft put out a blog post outlining how Windows Insiders would be updated to the release version of Windows 10. Later, they updated...
76 by Brett Howse on 6/22/2015Samsung Launches Two FreeSync Capable UltraHD Monitors
Today Samsung launched two new UltraHD monitors with support for AMD's Freesync technology. AMD actually announced these monitors at their Future of Compute event last year, but there wasn't...
29 by Brandon Chester on 6/22/2015Windows Insiders To Receive Full Windows 10
Yesterday, Gabe Aul, the head of the Windows Insider program, put up a blog post which answers one of the most asked questions regarding the ongoing Windows 10 preview...
101 by Brett Howse on 6/20/2015Comparing Snapdragon 810 v2 and v2.1: More Memory Bandwidth, Higher Clocks
Around a few weeks before the launch of the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro, I was digging through kernel source to understand Snapdragon 810 and some other Qualcomm SoCs. We...
84 by Joshua Ho on 6/18/2015Amazon Updates The Kindle Paperwhite
The venerable Kindle is one of my favorite tech devices. I owned the Kindle 3, but the obvious shortcoming was the lack of lighting, forcing me to use a...
55 by Brett Howse on 6/18/2015AMD Shows Off Dual-GPU Fiji Card At PC Gaming Show
Briefly announced and discussed during AMD’s 2015 GPU product presentation yesterday morning was AMD’s forthcoming dual Fiji video card. The near-obligatory counterpart to the just-announced Radeon R9 Fury X...
133 by Ryan Smith on 6/17/2015HTC Tests Native Ads In BlinkFeed
Today HTC has announced a pilot program of sorts for the display of native ads within BlinkFeed, their news and content aggregation application. Since Blinkfeed displays right on a...
26 by Brandon Chester on 6/16/2015Xbox At E3: New Controller, Game Emulation, And Plenty Of Exclusives
Today is the first official day of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, otherwise known as E3, and the Xbox team was on-stage to deliver plenty of news surrounding Xbox. It...
63 by Brett Howse on 6/15/2015Comparing OpenGL ES To Metal On iOS Devices With GFXBench Metal
In the past couple of years we've seen the creation of a number of new low level graphics APIs. Arguably the first major initiative was AMD's Mantle API, which...
34 by Brandon Chester on 6/15/2015EVGA expands the SuperNOVA G2 PSU series
As users are becoming more and more aware of how PSUs operate and what the real energy requirements of their systems are, sales of high wattage units decrease in...
17 by E. Fylladitakis on 6/13/2015NVIDIA Acquires Game Porting Group & Tech From Transgaming
While NVIDIA’s core businesses and gaming have been inseparable since the start, it’s only relatively recently that NVIDIA has become heavily involved in game creation itself, and not just...
56 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2015JMicron SSD Controller Roadmap: JMF680 SATA 6Gbps & JMF815 PCIe Controllers Next Year
JMicron is getting ready to ship its new JMF670H controller to its customers and we also have reference design samples in for testing, but in its suite at Computex...
14 by Kristian Vättö on 6/12/2015Oculus Rift Controllers, VR Games, And Software Features Announced
On the eve of E3, Oculus held a livestream to announce some more details of the upcoming Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset. Just about a month ago, they announced...
44 by Brett Howse on 6/11/2015Nantero Exits Stealth: Using Carbon Nanotubes for Non-Volatile Memory with DRAM Performance & Unlimited Endurance
The race for next generation non-volatile memory technology is already on at full throttle. We covered Crossbar’s ReRAM announcement last year and last week a very exciting company with...
35 by Kristian Vättö on 6/11/2015Plextor M7e PCIe SSD to Ship in Q3, M7V TLC SSD in 2016 & New Software Features
Plextor first showed off the M7e at CES earlier this year and at Computex we got an update on the release schedule. Plextor is now aiming for Q3 release...
16 by Kristian Vättö on 6/11/2015Synology Launches RC18015xs+ / RXD1215sas High-Availability Cluster Solution
Synology is no stranger to high-availability (HA) systems. Synology High Availability is touted as one of the features that differentiate Synology's NAS units from other vendors' for small business...
4 by Ganesh T S on 6/11/2015Phanteks Computex 2015 Booth Tour
Phanteks had its new Enthoo EVOLV series cases in both mini-ITX and full ATX form factors on display in its suite at Computex. The mini-ITX version is made out...
3 by Kristian Vättö on 6/11/2015Lian Li Computex 2015 Booth Tour
Lian Li had close to a dozen new or prototype-level cases on display at Computex. I've added most in the gallery at the end of this post, but I'll...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 6/11/2015Microsoft Surface Hub Availability And Specifications Announced
Today Microsoft announced more news regarding the Surface Hub, which is their large-screen collaboration device. Built specifically for the business conference room, the Surface Hub packs some impressive features...
38 by Brett Howse on 6/10/2015