CES 2012
A Cheaper Way to 4K: Intel’s Collage Driver If you heard my recent rant on Podcast 13, my main beef was with the state of monitors to the end user. With 5 inch 1080p screens becoming the norm, finding a monitor that could show above 1920x1080 in anything less than 27” was quite rare. An idea thrown around in the Podcast was to place four 1080p 10” tablet screens in a 2x2 arrangement and sell it as a monitor, even if consistency between panels was an issue – this would give 4K in 20”, a form factor that Panasonic showcased at CES with a tablet (albeit with a single substrate). Thus the only way to get 4K on a home system would...
Mushkin's 1.8", mSATA & PCIe SF-2281 SSDs at CES
The SSD market is continuing to grow and we're seeing no slowdown in the number of players trying to get in on the action. Mushkin, one of the first...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2012Patriot SSDs, Flash, and Large Memory Applications
Patriot has been supplying memory products for some time now, and they had the usual assortment of SSDs, RAM, USB, and other Flash products on display in their suite...
4 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2012Lian Li Enclosures, Big and Small
In addition to the craziness going on over at the SilverStone suite, Lian Li had a mountain of new case designs on display. Most of them are smaller units...
7 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/10/2012SilverStone Continues to Shake Things Up
Over the past year we've had the pleasure of testing more and more SilverStone enclosures, but the case and power supply designer is not content to rest on their...
3 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/10/2012Intel Shows off Thunderbolt, AppUp on Ivy Bridge Ultrabook Reference Design
Intel just dropped a bunch of news about its first smartphone platform partners and their respective products, followed by more news about Ultrabooks. Intel showed off its Ivy Bridge...
3 by Brian Klug on 1/10/2012HighPoint Aggressively Pursuing Consumer Market
HighPoint Technologies is going to be a pretty familiar name to users who have heard of their RocketRAID expansion cards, but at CES their booth was surprisingly devoid of...
0 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/10/2012Intel's Medfield & Atom Z2460 Arrive for Smartphones: It's Finally Here
It's here. Intel's first smartphone SoC that you'll actually be able to buy in a device before the end of the year. The platform is called Medfield and Paul...
164 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2012Intel Announces its Second Smartphone Platform Partner - Motorola
Intel just showed off the Lenovo K800, its first design win with Atom inside. The second partnership was just announced as well, and it's Motorola. None other than Motorola...
8 by Brian Klug on 1/10/2012Intel Announces its First Medfield Smartphone Partner at CES 2012 - Lenovo K800
We're at the Intel keynote here at CES 2012 where Intel has announced one of its first Medfield design wins. Lenovo will be launching a phone based around Medfield...
7 by Brian Klug on 1/10/2012Dell Launches XPS 13 Ultrabook
While Dell is one of the last vendors to actually announce an entry in Intel’s ultrabook category, their announcement is a bit of a doozy, and it arrives alongside...
13 by Dustin Sklavos on 1/10/2012Sapphire Shows Off Vid 2X, Motherboards, etc.
Sapphire was showing off their latest products in their suite, including a just-in-from-Taiwan Ivy Bridge motherboard, along with X79 and 990FX motherboards for SNB-E and Bulldozer. Also on display...
11 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2012Hands-on with the Samsung Series 9
The Samsung Series 9 update was announced Monday and we got a peek at Samsung's thinnest notebook ever while at PepCom's Digital Experience, just ahead of CES. The latest...
7 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/10/2012Hands-on with the Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE and Galaxy Note
I had a minute to chat with Philip Berne of Samsung and get my some time with the Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE and AT&T's recently announced LTE variant of...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/10/2012Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon S4 Member MPQ8064, new Atheros WiFi and Powerline Chipsets
We're live at the CES 2012 Qualcomm keynote, and although CEO Paul Jacobs hasn't quite taken the stage yet, Qualcomm has already released a number of the announcements it...
1 by Brian Klug on 1/10/2012Intel Confirms Working DX11 on Ivy Bridge
Yesterday we reported Intel ran a video of a DX11 title instead of running the actual game itself on a live Ivy Bridge notebook during Mooly Eden's press conference...
63 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2012Seagate's GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapters
Finally, we're getting somewhere. After seeing nothing but Thunderbolt storage devices with built in, overpriced drives, Seagate is going to be delivering the first GoFlex docks with Thunderbolt support...
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2012Lenovo IdeaTabs Shown Off with Krait, Tegra 3, and Atom
Tablets can be found everywhere at CES, and not just with the manufacturers—it’s hard to swing a mouse by the cord without hitting someone starting at their tablet. Like...
7 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2012Lenovo ThinkPads at CES
Lenovo had a large area reserved where they could display all of their new and upcoming hardware along with some of their recently released products. While there were various...
20 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2012FXI Cotton Candy Demo: More Power than You Can Shake a (Thumb) Stick at
Anand and Jason had a chance to speak with FXI a while back, but at the time they weren’t able to give him any hands-on time with their micro-computer...
18 by Jarred Walton on 1/9/2012MSI's GUS II: External GPU via Thunderbolt
In addition to 7-series motherboards, MSI had its GUS II external GPU solution on display. The external chassis features a Thunderbolt interface and an internal PCIe slot. Despite running...
47 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/9/2012