CES 2015: Intel Cherry Trail could bring desktop graphics to mobiles, tablets
Details of the 14nm successor to the current Bay Trail family have emerged in Singapore courtesy of online website, VR-Zone. Top of the agenda for Intel’s answer to ARM’s growing armada of...
View ArticleCES 2015: Linksys wants everyone to afford its classic blue-and-black router
Belkin-owned Linksys has used CES 2015 to announce a more affordable version of last year’s WRT1900AC router, which was an updated version of the company’s recognisable blue-and-black model from 2002....
View ArticleCES 2015: The first day of CES 2015 saw a triumph for laptop design
With the rumoured launch of Intel’s Broadwell-U CPUs at CES 2015, it was highly likely that laptops featuring slim and portable designs would emerge — but the systems that strode the red carpet under...
View ArticleAnalysis: The first day of CES 2015 saw a triumph for laptop design
With the rumoured launch of Intel’s Broadwell-U CPUs at CES 2015, it was highly likely that laptops featuring slim and portable designs would emerge — but the systems that strode the red carpet under...
View ArticleIntel Compute Stick is a PC the size of a pack of chewing gum
Devices like Google’s Chromecast and Amazon’s Fire TV brought instant media streaming to the living room, and now Intel is looking to go one further with a stick that transforms any HDMI-equipped TV...
View ArticleCES 2015: New Samsung SSD allows laptops to sleep for months
Samsung has announced that it has started mass producing a "high-performance, low-powered" PCIe solid state drive that seems destined to go in laptops that will be running on the new Intel Broadwell-U...
View ArticleCES 2015: Toshiba’s new memory card can be read by simply touching it
You will now be able to read what’s on a memory card simply by touching it, that’s what Toshiba wants to achieve thanks to the introduction of a new family of memory cards. These SDHC models are...
View ArticleMediatek could aim new 12-core chip at servers
Chinese chip designer Mediatek is apparently on the verge of launching 10- and 12-core system on chips if rumours emanating from China. As it stands though, it makes little sense for the market to...
View ArticleIndustry voice: Is there a perfect balance of performance and capacity for...
Introduction Despite storage being the foundation on which all data and applications reside, some people say working in the storage industry can be a thankless task at times, and the work often goes...
View ArticleToshiba’s new 3TB hard disk drive is a record breaker
Toshiba unveiled a new 3TB hard disk drive that’s crammed into a 2.5-inch form factor. The MQ03ABB300 is the smallest such hard disk drive and kickstarts another potential round of product launches....
View ArticleApple to use its own CPUs in future iMac and MacBooks?
A report published by analyst firm KGI claims that Apple will use its own processors in at least one Mac device in 2016 with 9to5Mac suggesting that it might be a future iteration of the...
View ArticleNavigating remote desktops on iPad just got easier with Citrix X1 mouse
Have you ever tried to tap on a link on an iPad, but missed because your fingers were too big? Having a mouse would help, but unfortunately Apple doesn’t allow Bluetooth mice to connect to iOS, unless...
View ArticleIn Depth: Intel processors: everything you need to know
Introduction and Core processors Not so long ago, processors were judged largely by raw clock speed alone, a measure of how many calculations the chip is capable of performing in the space of a...
View Article8K notebooks to become a reality next year
Your next workstation could pack as many pixels as today’s leading 8K televisions. The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has approved a new Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) 1.4a standard that...
View ArticleThe new MacBook’s hidden USB-C benefit may be battery power
If you’re a road warrior worried that the 9-hour advertised battery life of Apple’s new MacBook falls short of the 10 hours on the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, you may be able to lay that fear...
View ArticleAMD tackles datacenter silicon strategy with new chips
At its Analyst Day event, AMD showcased its datacenter computing strategy with three new chipsets covering the x86, ARM and server space. The company expects to release the products in this strategy...
View ArticleAMD’s new High Bandwidth Memory will power the graphics cards of the future
Sitting down to talk graphics memory isn’t usually anyone’s idea of a good time but these are the chips that underpin everything from GTA V to 4K Netflix – and AMD just unveiled the memory technology...
View ArticleComputex 2015: Computex 2015: The best bits
Day One We’ve been expecting big things from Computex this year and after a couple of days it’s clear that Asia’s biggest technology trade show doesn’t disappoint. Following a light schedule of...
View ArticleComputex 2015: Unannounced Intel Skylake CPU appears in mini PCs
Asus has unveiled four devices that run on an unannounced, not yet launched 6th generation Intel Core I-series Skylake processor, which comes after Broadwell. The first two are gaming workstations...
View ArticleAMD’s new processor improves battery life, brings better graphics performance...
Intro and computing cores After a series of teases, AMD has officially taken the veils off of Carrizo, launching the anticipated notebook A8 and A10 processors as part of the Sixth Generation A-Series...
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