ASUS Motherboard Division Director: An Interview with Dr Albert Chang
Following our interviews previously with Rod O’Shea at Intel UK, Kris Huang at ASUS and Jackson Hsu at GIGABYTE, I was offered the opportunity to spend some time with...
11 by Ian Cutress on 8/15/2014ASRock Shows X99 Micro-ATX: The X99M Killer
One of the problems of Intel’s high end desktop platforms is size: the sockets are large, and all the DRAM slots take up a fair amount of space. ...
23 by Ian Cutress on 8/15/2014Intel Demonstrates Direct3D 12 Performance and Power Improvements
Since the introduction of Direct3D 12 and other low-level graphics APIs, the bulk of our focus has been on the high end. One of the most immediate benefits to...
42 by Stephen Barrett & Ryan Smith on 8/15/2014Isolated Internet Outages Caused By BGP Spike
The day was Tuesday, August 12th 2014. I arrived home, only to find an almost unusable internet situation in my home. Some sites such as AnandTech and Google worked...
12 by Brett Howse on 8/14/2014HTC Launches Zoe Beta: Hands On and First Impressions
Today, HTC is finally launching their Zoe application. Normally, such an announcement is rolled into a smartphone launch, but the launch of this application is one of the first...
14 by Joshua Ho on 8/14/2014ASUS ROG Z97 Maximus VII Impact Officially Launched
One of the highlights of ASUS’ ROG Computex Press Event was the announcement of the Maximus VII Impact, the successor to the popular mini-ITX ROG Impact range of motherboards...
26 by Ian Cutress on 8/14/2014Samsung Announces Exynos 5430: First 20nm Samsung SoC
While we mentioned this in our Galaxy Alpha launch article, Samsung is finally announcing the launch of their new Exynos 5430 SoC. The main critical upgrade that the new chips...
77 by Joshua Ho & Andrei Frumusanu on 8/13/2014Razer Announces Chroma Keyboard, Mouse, and Headset
Today in Cologne, Germany at Gamescom 2014, Razer revealed their latest updates for their line of peripherals. Launching with a new feature dubbed Chroma, Razer announced three updated devices...
25 by Jarred Walton on 8/13/2014OCZ Launches ARC 100 Value SSD
The release of the Vector marked as a change in OCZ's strategy. With a new CEO, OCZ's goal was to change the company's brand image from being a low-cost...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 8/13/2014Samsung launches the Galaxy Alpha
Samsung today announces the new Galaxy Alpha, a mid-range "premium" built device that creates a new range in Samsung's lineup. The Alpha totes a 4.7" 1280x720 AMOLED screen, coming...
64 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/13/2014USB Type-C Connector Specifications Finalized
Today it was announced by the USB-IF (USB Implementers Forum) that the latest USB connector which we first caught a glimpse of in April has been finalized, and with...
66 by Brett Howse on 8/12/2014Intel Disables TSX Instructions: Erratum Found in Haswell, Haswell-E/EP, Broadwell-Y
One of the main features Intel was promoting at the launch of Haswell was TSX – Transactional Synchronization eXtensions. In our analysis, Johan explains that TSX enables the CPU...
63 by Ian Cutress on 8/12/2014NVIDIA Launches Next GeForce Game Bundle - Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
After letting their previous Watch Dogs bundle run its course over the past couple of months, NVIDIA sends word this afternoon that they will be launching a new game...
8 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2014NVIDIA Refreshes Quadro Lineup, Launches 5 New Quadro Cards
Continuing today’s spate of professional graphics announcements, along with AMD’s refresh of their FirePro lineup NVIDIA is announcing that they are undertaking their own refresh of their Quadro lineup...
24 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2014AMD Completes FirePro Refresh, Adds 4 New FirePro Cards
Kicking off a busy day for professional graphics, AMD is first up to announce that they will be launching a quartet of new FirePro cards. As part of the...
28 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2014Short Bytes: Intel's Core M and Broadwell-Y SoC
Intel has slowly been feeding us information about their upcoming Broadwell processors for a couple years now, with the first real details kicking off almost a year ago at...
31 by Jarred Walton on 8/12/2014Lenovo Announces New ThinkStation P Series Desktop Workstations
As much as I would like to be at SIGGRAPH, one of the reasons to visit would be to see Lenovo’s latest launch of their Haswell-E Desktop Workstation series...
18 by Ian Cutress on 8/12/2014HTC Brings the Desire 816 to the US
HTC is expanding their lineup of devices in the United States with the official launch of the Desire 816 on Virgin Mobile USA. We talked about the Desire 816...
5 by Brandon Chester on 8/11/2014Intel’s 14nm Technology in Detail
Much has been made about Intel’s 14nm process over the past year, and admittedly that is as much as Intel’s doing as it is the public’s. As one of...
38 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014Khronos Announces Next Generation OpenGL Initiative
As our regular readers have already seen, 2013 and 2014 has been one of the most significant periods for graphics APIs in years. While OpenGL and Direct3D have not...
22 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014