CES 2016
Earlier this year before CES 2016, we approached ASUS with an idea: as the Republic of Gamers brand is now in its 10th year of operation, we wanted to get together and discuss the feeling and utility of ROG a decade on, record it, have a question and answer session from our readers, and publish the video. The Republic of Gamers brand from ASUS has been difficult to ignore, both from an engineering perspective when it comes to motherboards and graphics cards, but also the origin story, integration with users, and the expansion out to many different product lines. I felt it was important to hear from the source, and see what makes the mind tick of some of the integral cogs behind the...
CES 2016: MSI’s Golden Idea for Motherboards
The problem with a gold motherboard color is that it often looks too much like copper, and several companies have tried it in recent years (ASUS on Z77, ECS&rsquo...
28 by Ian Cutress on 1/13/2016CES 2016: Deepcool’s Genome is a Water Cooling Equipped Case with a Helix Reservoir
We’ve dealt with closed loop liquid coolers for computer processors for the best part of five years now, and there are users different sides of the fence regarding their...
11 by Ian Cutress on 1/13/2016CES 2016: The Race to Skylake Xeon Motherboards at GIGABYTE
I have been relatively tight lipped on the swathe of Xeon focused motherboards recently making headlines, for good reason. Back at the launch of Intel’s latest generation of processors...
22 by Ian Cutress on 1/13/2016CES 2016: Lenovo Booth Tour
Once again Lenovo took over the Aquaknox in the Venetian hotel to show off all of its new products for 2016. Lenovo launched a big refresh for CES, with...
4 by Brett Howse on 1/13/2016CES 2016: GIGABYTE’s Double Length Gaming BRIX
The BRIX mini-PC line from GIGABYTE is an odd internal mashup within the company whereby the server business unit designs it, but the consumer arm does the marketing and...
12 by Ian Cutress on 1/12/2016CES 2016: Deepcool’s Gamer Storm brand Exhibits Water Cooling for a Power Supply
Typically the water cooling scene in PC building focuses on two main areas – the processor and the graphics card, with memory or the motherboard being a distant third...
21 by Ian Cutress on 1/12/2016Intel and Google Equip Smartphones with 3D Cameras and Computer Vision
Computer vision and sensing are crucial for cars, robots, drones and many other applications. However, existing devices such as personal computers or mobile gadgets can also take advantage of...
9 by Anton Shilov on 1/12/2016SanDisk Updates DAS Lineup at CES
Billy and I met with SanDisk at their CES 2016 suite. While Billy talked to them about their internal SSD efforts, I checked out the updates to their direct-attached...
2 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2016CES 2016: Dell Booth Tour
In 2015, Dell’s CES product launch included the redesigned XPS 13, arguably one of the best Windows laptops on the market today. With the launch of Skylake, the XPS...
15 by Brett Howse on 1/11/2016Intel Expands Compute Stick Family with Cherry Trail and Core M Models
The desktop PC market is seeing growth only in two areas - the gaming high-end and the mini-PCs (in the NUC form factor). Intel has been strengthening its offerings...
34 by Ganesh T S on 1/11/2016Hisense at CES: Affordable and Feature-Packed 4K TVs for HTPCs
We usually don't cover televisions in detail here at AnandTech. However, the current flux in the market when it comes to 4K displays for HTPCs made CES 2016 an...
18 by Ganesh T S on 1/11/2016Netgear Updates Networking Lineup at CES
Netgear's flagship router - the Nighthawk X8 (R8500) - was launched in October. At CES, Netgear took the opportunity to upgrade the Nighthawk X4 line. Interestingly, the original X4...
6 by Ganesh T S on 1/10/2016Linksys Expands Max-Stream Networking Lineup at CES
Linksys was one of the first vendors to jump on to the MU-MIMO bandwagon last year with the launch of the EA8500 AC2400-class 802.11ac router. The Max-Stream branding is...
1 by Ganesh T S on 1/10/2016Synology Demonstrates RT1900ac 802.11ac Router at CES
Synology had organized the Synology 2016 Conference back in September 2015 to talk about their plans for the next couple of quarters. We had covered it in great detail...
17 by Ganesh T S on 1/10/2016QNAP at CES: A M.2 SSD NAS, Dual-Xeon ZFS NAS and More
At CES 2016, QNAP showed off what they had been introducing into the APAC market over the last three months. CES was used to make the North American market...
10 by Ganesh T S on 1/10/2016AMD Announces A10-7890K APU and Upgrades Desktop Platforms
AMD plans to improve performance of its desktop computing platforms by launching a new accelerated processing unit as well as another generation of AM3+ and FM2+ motherboards with USB...
60 by Anton Shilov on 1/9/2016AMD Reveals Wraith: Next-Generation Cooler for Microprocessors
Both AMD and Intel bundle cooling solutions with their microprocessors. Such coolers are inexpensive, they are rather reliable and they do their job. They are not supposed to enable...
54 by Anton Shilov on 1/8/2016Zeiss Smart Optics: Discreet Smart Glasses
With Google Glass, one of the major barriers to adoption was just how glaringly obvious it was that you were wearing Google Glass. The display was a field sequential...
19 by Joshua Ho on 1/8/2016Dell Demonstrates 30-inch 4K OLED Display
Dell does not produce its own display panels, but when it comes to unique “world’s first” monitors, it is sometimes years ahead of all of its rivals. At the...
83 by Anton Shilov on 1/7/2016Revisiting Keyssa: Commercial Availability, Products in Q1 2016
While we talked about Keyssa at CES last year, details were rather sparse as the technology was still in the early stages of getting off the ground. However, this...
28 by Joshua Ho on 1/7/2016