ASUS Launches The Transformer Book Chi
Though the Chi series was first announced at Computex way back in June 2014, it has been a long time getting to market. ASUS is now accepting pre-orders for...
20 by Brett Howse on 3/30/2015Estimating Intel-Micron 32-layer 3D NAND Die Size
Yesterday Intel and Micron shared some new details of their 3D NAND technology and during the presentation they also showed a production wafer. I missed the wafer during the...
36 by Kristian Vättö on 3/27/2015Xbox Games With Gold April Preview: Double Games!
Microsoft teased last month that April would be a special month for Xbox Games With Gold, with the program doubling up on the games made available. Last month was...
5 by Brett Howse on 3/26/2015Intel-Micron Share Additional Details of Their 3D NAND
Today must be the busiest day in the world of NAND. Earlier today, Toshiba announced that it has begun sampling of its 48-layer 128Gbit 3D NAND part and now...
35 by Kristian Vättö on 3/26/2015Toshiba Announces 48-layer 128Gbit 3D NAND - Samples Shipping Today
The 3D NAND race is heating up. Samsung has been shipping its 3D NAND products for over six months now, but so far we have known very little about...
13 by Kristian Vättö on 3/26/2015OCZ Releases Intrepid 3700 Enterprise SSD
A little over a year OCZ introduced its first in-house designed enterprise SSD series called the Intrepid 3000. What separated the Intrepid from OCZ's earlier enterprise SSDs was the...
10 by Kristian Vättö on 3/25/2015MSI Releases 970A SLI Krait Edition Motherboard with USB 3.1
The motherboard market is now laying down some heavy USB 3.1 marks in the sand. We saw motherboards at CES, then immediately followed that with some testing on the...
28 by Ian Cutress on 3/25/2015GIGABYTE Server Releases ARM Solutions using AppliedMicro and Annapurna Labs SoCs
As Johan points out in his deep dive of ARM in the server market, given a focused strategy new ARM solutions can offer the potential to disrupt some very...
16 by Ian Cutress on 3/24/2015Best CPUs: Q1 2016
When building a custom PC, especially on the consumer side, the processor is typically second or third down the list of priorities, behind graphics, storage or specific motherboard features...
17 by Ian Cutress on 3/24/2015Corsair Releases Orange Dominator Platinum DDR4-3400 for GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion
During CES earlier this year we spent some time at the Corsair booth and saw a beta system demoing an orange kit of DDR4-3400 modules on the X99-SOC Champion...
21 by Ian Cutress on 3/23/2015Microsoft Hints at Windows 10 IoT SKUs
This week at Microsoft's WinHEC 2015 conference in Shenzen, Microsoft announced new details in support of the developing IoT market. Microsoft previously announced support for the Raspberry Pi 2...
39 by Stephen Barrett on 3/20/2015Cher Wang Replaces Peter Chou as CEO of HTC
Today, Cher Wang, formerly chairwoman of HTC will replace Peter Chou as CEO of HTC. This move may seem unprecedented, but in practice it seems that Cher has increased responsibilities...
20 by Joshua Ho on 3/20/2015Microsoft Launches The Ultra Low Cost Lumia 430
To say that the Lumia brand is diluted with low cost smartphones would be a bit of an understatement. However, Microsoft has found a way to lower the barrier...
60 by Brett Howse on 3/19/2015NVIDIA Announces Quadro M6000 & Quadro VCA (2015)
Earlier this week we took a look at the GeForce GTX Titan X, NVIDIA’s first product to use their new high-end Maxwell GPU, the GM200. Now just 2 days...
29 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2015Windows 10 Update: Build 10041 Now Available
This afternoon, Microsoft release a new build of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, which is build number 10041. Just a few days ago, they promised to ramp up the...
39 by Brett Howse on 3/18/2015AMD Mantle API Programming Guide Available
For those interested in learning more about programming for AMD’s Mantle API, AMD sends word today that the public API reference documentation is now available. So pull up a...
16 by Jarred Walton on 3/18/2015The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 31 - MWC 2015 Show
The AnandTech podcast is back once more, this time with Ian and Andrei recapping their time at Mobile World Congress 2015. We kick things off with a look at the...
17 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 3/18/2015HTC Announces UH OH Protection For the One M9
Smartphones are subject to much more daily wear and tear than other devices. They can also be fragile, and easy to drop. When this does occur, a user can...
21 by Brandon Chester on 3/18/2015Windows 10 News: New Authentication, New Storage Savings, And Launch Timeframe
Microsoft has been busy releasing news of upcoming Windows 10 features which will improve several age old issues. The password has been a thorn in the side of users...
50 by Brett Howse on 3/18/2015HSA Foundation Launches ‘HSA 1.0 Final’ – Architecture, Programmers Reference and Runtime Specifications
Heterogeneous compute has been on the tip of the tongue for many involved in integrating compute platforms, and despite talk and demos regarding hardware conforming to HSA provisional specifications...
27 by Ian Cutress on 3/16/2015