The Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer II 240 & 420 AIO Coolers Review: Big and Effective
Today we are taking a look at a couple of Arctic Cooling’s Liquid Freezer II all-in-one CPU coolers: the Liquid Freezer II 240, and the Liquid Freezer II 420...
44 by E. Fylladitakis on 1/15/2021Samsung Announces Galaxy S21, S21+ & S21 Ultra: Cheaper Baseline, Higher High-End
Today, Samsung is taking the virtual stage to release the new Galaxy S21 series of devices, including the Galaxy S21, S21+ and S21 Ultra. In a time where smartphones...
136 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/14/2021Intel Appoints Pat Gelsinger as New CEO, From Feb 15th
News is breaking that Intel has announced that Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMWare, is to take the role of CEO at Intel from February 15th. Intel today has released a...
161 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/13/2021Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA: A CPU Magnitude Shift
Today Qualcomm has announced they will be acquiring NUVIA for $1.4bn – acquiring the start-up company consisting of industry veterans which originally were behind the creation of Apple’s high-performance...
78 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/13/2021NVIDIA Announces GeForce RTX 30 Series for Laptops: Mobile Ampere Available Jan. 26th
As the cornerstone of their CES 2021 keynote, NVIDIA today has announced their GeForce RTX 30 series graphics adapters for laptops. Based on the same Ampere architecture and the...
24 by Ryan Smith on 1/12/2021AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su: Interview on 2021 Demand, Supply, Tariffs, Xilinx, and EPYC
Following the keynote press conference, AMD invited a number of key press partners for some Q&A time with Dr. Lisa Su. On the table, we were told, was any...
72 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/12/2021AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Notebooks
It has been a year since AMD launched its previous generation Ryzen Mobile processors. At the time, the update from Zen to Zen 2, as well as moving to...
117 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/12/2021The NVIDIA GeForce CES 2021 Live Blog: Game On
Kicking off in a few minutes is NVIDIA's keynote for CES 2021. Dubbed “GeForce RTX: Game On”, the keynote is going to be presented by Jeff Fisher, NVIDIA’s Senior...
21 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 1/12/2021Samsung Announces Exynos 2100 SoC: A New Restart on 5nm with X1 Cores
Today, Samsung LSI took the virtual stage to announce the new Exynos 2100 flagship SoC. The new SoC promises some very large technical upgrades – the aforementioned new Cortex-X1...
34 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/12/2021The AMD CES 2021 Keynote: A Live Blog from 11am ET / 8am PT
For the second year in a row, AMD has an official CES Keynote. A year on from the launch of Ryzen 4000 Mobile series processors, and after a recent...
16 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/12/2021Intel at CES 2021: Ice, Tiger, Rocket, Jasper, and Alder Lake
Despite only having a 30 minute press event at this year’s annual CES trade show, Intel had a lot to discuss about its plans through the next 12 months...
45 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021An Interview with Intel CEO Bob Swan: Roundtable Q&A on Fabs and Future
Intel has a very complex year ahead. On the back of what should be strong revenue year for 2020 as well as a widened scope of markets in which...
34 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021Intel Previews 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake: Core i9-11900K and Z590, Coming Q1
Spending five generations on the same base microarchitecture is a long time. Progress and excitement can be sustained through optimizing a process node, adding cores, and extracting every drop...
33 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021Intel's CES 2021 Press Event: The Future of Intel (A Live Blog, 1pm PT)
One of our first events of the annual CES trade show this year is Intel's press conference on its consumer product lines. Heading up the event with be Intel's...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021GIGABYTE Z490 Aorus Master Motherboard Review: Clawing at the Competition
Throughout the majority of 2020, we saw an escalating war between AMD and Intel battling for supremacy in the desktop CPU market, which is an obvious win for the...
18 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/7/2021Jim Keller Becomes CTO at Tenstorrent: "The Most Promising Architecture Out There"
It is high praise when someone like Jim Keller says that your company ‘has made impressive progress, and has the most promising architecture out there’. That praise means twice...
66 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/5/2021Zotac ZBOX CI662 nano Fanless mini-PC Review: Second Stab at Silencing Succeeds
Zotac is one of the major players in the SFF PC space, having marketed ultra-compact form-factor machines even before the NUCs took off. The growth in that segment has...
16 by Ganesh T S on 1/5/2021Intel Core i9-10850K Review: The Real Intel Flagship
When a company like Intel creates a CPU design, the process of manufacturing brings about variation on the quality of the product. Some cores will only reach a certain...
127 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/4/2021AnandTech Year In Review 2020: Solid State Drives
Solid state storage might not have been the most exciting tech sector to follow in 2020, but it certainly had its fair share of new technologies arriving, consumer-friendly price...
85 by Billy Tallis on 12/30/2020ASRock DeskMini H470 Review: A No-Frills LGA 1200 mini-PC Platform
The mini-STX form-factor was introduced by Intel in 2015 to provide additional options in the burgeoning small form-factor (SFF) PC space. Since then, vendors such as ASRock, ECS, and...
26 by Ganesh T S on 12/29/2020