ASUS Launches 970 Pro Gaming/Aura Motherboard: USB 3.1 and M.2 to AMD FX Platform
ASUS has introduced its latest motherboard for AMD FX microprocessors that brings up-to-date features to the platform. The ASUS 970 Pro Gaming/Aura belongs to a new class of AMD...
25 by on 2/2/2016
VAIO to Start Selling Laptops in the U.S. This Spring
Due to intense competition in the market of personal computers and miniscule margins, Sony decided to spin off its PC division into a separate company called VAIO back in...
49 by on 2/1/2016
Apple Recalls "Duckhead" Power Adapters for Select Mac Laptops and iPads
Apple has announced today that they are recalling AC wall plug adapters for its MacBook laptops and iPads in select countries. The issue stems from a design flaw that...
25 by on 1/28/2016
Das Keyboard Unveils Its First Gaming Peripherals
The Das Keyboard trademark is best known for mechanical keyboards designed for the combination enthusiast and professional. For many years Metadot, the owner of the brand, has been going...
23 by on 1/28/2016
NVIDIA’s Partners Roll-Out GeForce GT 710 to Fight Integrated Graphics
Advancements made by iGPUs by AMD and Intel in the recent years essentially destroyed the market of inexpensive discrete video cards. High-performance iGPUs can outperform low-end standalone graphics adapters...
60 by on 1/27/2016
Intel and Tsinghua University to Co-Develop Semi-Custom Solutions for Servers
At present, investors state that Intel controls 98% of the server processor market with its Xeon CPUs, but the server market is changing. Intel's acquisition of Altera is telling...
16 by on 1/27/2016
GDDR5X Standard Finalized by JEDEC: New Graphics Memory up to 14 Gbps
In Q4 2015, JEDEC (a major semiconductor engineering trade organization that sets standards for dynamic random access memory, or DRAM) finalized the GDDR5X specification, with accompianing white papers. This...
70 by on 1/22/2016
Logitech Formally Exits OEM Mouse Market
In a bit of news that is a sign of the times, this week Logitech announced that it had completed its exit from the OEM mouse business. The company...
39 by on 1/22/2016
Corsair and G.Skill Introduce 128 GB (8x16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory Kits
An average personal computer nowadays is equipped with 8 GB or less of DRAM, according to analysts from DRAMeXchange. Due to the requirements of Microsoft Windows 10 operating system...
10 by on 1/21/2016
Microsoft to Recall Power Cables for Previous-Gen Surface Pro Tablets
Microsoft plans to recall power cables for previous-generation Surface Pro tablets. The cords can overheat and pose fire hazard, according to reports. While Microsoft recalls millions of cables, the...
28 by on 1/20/2016
JEDEC Publishes HBM2 Specification as Samsung Begins Mass Production of Chips
The high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology solves two key problems related to modern DRAM: it substantially increases bandwidth available to computing devices (e.g., GPUs) and reduces power consumption. The first-generation...
42 by on 1/20/2016
Intel: For Mainstream Gamers, Our IGPs Are Equivalent to Discrete GPUs
Intel’s integrated graphics processors (iGPUs) are the most widespread PC-class graphics adapters on the planet. Enthusiasts of high-performance personal computers do not use Intel’s iGPUs, but the world’s largest...
96 by on 1/14/2016
Compulab Rolls-Out Passively-Cooled Airtop Systems
Compulab, a maker of miniature and small form-factor computers, is introducing its first desktop system called Airtop today. The new computer can be equipped with rather high-performance components, but...
35 by on 1/14/2016
Seagate Unveils 10 TB Helium-Filled Hard Disk Drive for Cloud Datacenters
Seagate Technology on Wednesday introduced its first helium-filled hard disk drive. The novelty is designed for cloud datacenters that require maximum amount of storage and enhanced reliability. By filling...
40 by on 1/13/2016
Seagate Introduces First 8 TB Hard Disk Drive for Consumer NAS Applications
Seagate Technology on Tuesday introduced its new breed of hard disk drives (HDDs) for network area storage (NAS) and RAID applications. The new family of NAS HDDs from Seagate...
38 by on 1/12/2016
Intel 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 on 1/12/2016
AMD 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 on 1/9/2016
AMD 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 on 1/8/2016
Dell 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 on 1/7/2016
Oculus VR Reveals Retail Price of Its Virtual Reality Headset: $599
Oculus VR on Wednesday revealed the price of its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset as well as its launch date. The price of the VR hardware appears to be...
75 by on 1/7/2016
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