Happy 20th Birthday Second Reality
Every so often I get asked about what caused me to be interested in GPUs, and consequently how I ended up at AnandTech. The answer to either of those...
27 by Ryan Smith on 8/1/2013
Intel Ivy Bridge-E Pricing Leaked
Yesterday VR-Zone leaked information on the initial pricing expected for Ivy Bridge-E (IVB-E) processors, which we’ve reproduce in the table below. The LGA-2011 platform is an interesting departure from...
58 by Jarred Walton on 7/31/2013
ASUS MeMO Pad HD7 Pre-Orders Available
We just reviewed the ASUS MeMO Pad HD7, and we've now received word that pre-orders are available via several major outlets: TigerDirect.com, Newegg.com, Amazon.com, and Gamestop.com. (Let us know...
19 by Jarred Walton on 7/31/2013
Update on GPU Optimizations in Galaxy S 4
Yesterday we posted our analysis of the Exynos 5 Octa's behavior in international versions of the Galaxy S 4 in certain benchmarks first discovered by Beyond3D user @Andreif7. Samsung...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 7/31/2013
A Post About Loss and One of Our Own, Abigail Key
If you've read any of our motherboard reviews from around 2005 - 2009, chances are you're familiar with the name Gary Key. He was a member of the AT...
105 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/30/2013
Looking at CPU/GPU Benchmark Optimizations in Galaxy S 4
Somehow both Anand and I ended up with international versions of Samsung’s Galaxy S 4, equipped with the first generation Exynos 5 Octa (5410) SoC. Anand bought an international...
112 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/30/2013
Android 4.3 Update Brings TRIM to All Nexus Devices
One of the common complaints late in the life of the original Nexus 7 was slow storage I/O performance, leading to an inconsistent user experience. After a fresh flash...
46 by Brian Klug on 7/29/2013Cases and CPU Cooling Now Live in Bench
A few of you have asked for it, and I certainly wanted it, and now it's here: all of our case testing data with the current set of testbeds...
11 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/29/2013
90 Minutes with the Clevo W740SU, Featuring Iris Pro HD 5200
A couple of weeks ago I attended a press event for the Intel Experience tour in London, hosted by Intel UK. Aside from the usual array of Ivy...
28 by Ian Cutress on 7/29/2013
Enermax Releases New Adjustable Speed Fans
Some time ago we did a roundup of radiator fans and found that the Enermax Magma turned in remarkably impressive thermal performance for its acoustics. I'd heard rumblings here...
7 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/28/2013
What's New in Android 4.3
As expected, today Google made a management release for Android 4.2 official at their breakfast with Sundar event, bumping the release up to Android 4.3 and introducing a bunch...
69 by Brian Klug on 7/24/2013
Samsung Galaxy S 4 ZeroLemon 7500 mAh Extended Battery Review
One of the chief differentiators with the Samsung Galaxy S 4 versus other current flagship Android devices is the continued support for user-replaceable batteries. Although removable batteries are becoming...
75 by Brian Klug on 7/23/2013
Haswell Goes Fanless: 4.5W SDP Parts in Limited Volumes Later this Year
At the beginning of the year, Intel introduced the first 7W SDP Ivy Bridge parts in limited quantities with the promise that Haswell would bring even lower power options...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/23/2013
NVIDIA Announces Quadro K6000
As SIGGRAPH 2013 continues to roll on, today’s major announcements include those from NVIDIA. SIGGRAPH is NVIDIA’s favored show for professional graphics and Quadro product announcements, with NVIDIA using...
22 by Ryan Smith on 7/23/2013
OCZ Announces ZD-XL PCIe SQL Accelerator SSD Solution
About a year and a half ago OCZ announced the acquisition of Sanrad, an enterprise storage solutions company with experience in flash caching. Today we see some of the...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/23/2013
Samsung Updates Exynos 5 Octa (5420), Switches Back to ARM GPU
In the first part of our series on ARM, we mentioned that with every major microprocess design ARM tries to choose 3 licensees to get early access to technology...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 7/22/2013
Intel re-architecting the datacenter
This week, Intel is hosting a datacenter event in San Francisco. The basic message is that the datacenter should be much more flexible and that the datacenter should be...
18 by Johan De Gelas on 7/22/2013
Is Haswell Ready for Tablet Duty? Battery Life of Haswell ULT vs Modern ARM Tablets
With the exception of article production or live blogging, my on-the-road notebook usage model is filled with tons of idle time. Last week I was in a large conference...
83 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/22/2013
NVIDIA Confirms Ship Date for Shield - July 31
After a bout of recent bad news regarding Shield's launch date slipping due to a mechanical issue with a third party component supplier, comes news that NVIDIA will meet...
14 by Brian Klug on 7/21/2013
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 23
In this episode Brian and I talk about Nokia's Lumia 1020, Microsoft's struggles in the phone space, the HTC One mini, a giant battery for the Galaxy S 4...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/19/2013
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