Xiaomi Announces 15.6-inch Mi Gaming Laptop: Mid-Specs with Aggressive Pricing
Chinese brand Xiaomi this week announced its new Mi Gaming Laptop, its first endeavor into the gaming side of laptops. The 15.6-inch Full-HD 1080p gaming laptop will offer up...
19 by Joe Shields on 3/29/2018
Phantom Gaming: ASRock Unveils as an AMD GPU Partner
ASRock has officially introduced its first graphics cards. The Phantom Gaming family will initially include four GPU models based on the Radeon RX 500-series GPUs and are aimed at...
12 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2018
NVIDIA Pauses Self-Driving Vehicle Testing; Confirms DRIVE Wasn’t In Last Week’s Uber Collision
While not announced as part of this week’s GTC keynote, during the keynote itself word got out via Reuters that the company had suspended their active testing of their...
14 by Ryan Smith on 3/29/2018
Goodix Ships Optical In-Display Fingerprint Sensor for Smartphones
Goodix this month introduced its first optical in-display fingerprint reader for smartphones featuring rigid or flexible AMOLED screens. The company claims that performance of the sensor is higher when...
22 by Anton Shilov on 3/28/2018
Intel’s Last Atom in Smartphones: A 2018 Benchmark
Intel's push into smartphones over the last 10 years has been well documented, as well as the subsequent downfall after its Broxton smartphone SoCs were cancelled in April 2016...
56 by Ian Cutress on 3/28/2018
Glorious Glass: Lian Li Alpha Series Cases Now Available
Back in November 2017, Lian Li announced the new Alpha series of cases. The Alpha 330 and Alpha 550 cases were designed to bring users a steel internal frame...
15 by Joe Shields on 3/28/2018
Foxconn Acquires Belkin for $886m: Gets Belkin, Linksys, Wemo
Foxconn Interconnect Technology this week signed a definitive agreement to take over Belkin International, the company that controls such brands as Belkin, Linksys, Wemo, and Phyn. Foxconn will pay...
12 by Anton Shilov on 3/28/2018
Your New $2220 Smartphone: The Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS
In a world where we were only just starting to see the emergence of $999 flagship phones, Huawei and Porsche Design go and break the barrier by marketing their...
38 by Ian Cutress on 3/27/2018
NVIDIA’s DGX-2: Sixteen Tesla V100s, 30 TB of NVMe, only $400K
Ever wondered why the consumer GPU market is not getting much love from NVIDIA’s Volta architecture yet? This is a minefield of a question, nuanced by many different viewpoints...
28 by Ian Cutress on 3/27/2018
Big Volta Comes to Quadro: NVIDIA Announces Quadro GV100
Along with today’s memory capacity bump for the existing Tesla V100 cards, NVIDIA is also rolling out a new Volta-based card for the Quadro family. Aptly named the Quadro...
22 by Ryan Smith on 3/27/2018
NVIDIA Develops NVLink Switch: NVSwitch, 18 Ports For DGX-2 & More
Back in 2016 when NVIDIA launched the Pascal GP100 GPU and associated Tesla cards, one of the consequences of their increased server focus for Pascal was that interconnect bandwidth...
22 by Ryan Smith on 3/27/2018
NVIDIA Bumps All Tesla V100 Models to 32GB, Effective Immediately
Update 05/24: NVIDIA has since reached out to us, informing us that their previous statement about 32GB cards replacing 16GB cards was in error, and that the 16GB V100...
7 by Ryan Smith on 3/27/2018
GIGABYTE's G190-G30: a 1U Server with Four Volta and NVLink
GIGABYTE Server, the B2B arm of GIGABYTE's enterprise line, is adding the G190-G30 to its roster. This is a 1U server that uses four SXM2 GPUs and dual Xeon...
2 by Joe Shields on 3/27/2018
New Apple iPad with Pencil Support: From $299 for Students
As part of the Apple announcements today at the education focused event in Chicago, Apple introduced/refreshed an iPad aimed mostly at students. The heart of the iPad is similar...
31 by Ian Cutress on 3/27/2018
Acer Announces Chromebook Tab 10: A Tablet Running Google’s Chrome OS
This week Acer introduced its first tablet running Chrome OS, a tablet positioned primarily for the education market. Chrome OS runs Android applications from Google Play store and is...
13 by Anton Shilov on 3/27/2018
Samsung Reveals M.2 Z-SSD
Last week at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose, Samsung's booth included a surprise appearance of a Z-SSD in the M.2 form factor. Samsung has been...
37 by Billy Tallis on 3/27/2018
GIGABYTE's ThunderXStation with Dual Cavium ThunderX2 Arm SoCs
GIGABYTE this month introduced its ThunderXStation workstation based on two Cavium ThunderX2 processors featuring Armv8 architecture. The machine is primarily aimed at software developers porting or developing various applications...
23 by Anton Shilov on 3/27/2018
Marvell Launches New SSD Controllers And RAID-Capable NVMe Switch
At OCP Summit last week, Marvell unveiled a new generation of NVMe SSD controllers and a unique NVMe switch that blurs the lines between a standard PCIe switch and...
9 by Billy Tallis on 3/27/2018
Xiaomi Announces Mi MIX 2S: Snapdragon 845 and Dual Camera for Mi MIX
Today, Xiaomi is announcing its new high mid-range Mi MIX 2S. This is the latest entry in the Mi MIX series, noted for its display that goes all the...
6 by Nate Oh on 3/27/2018
ROCCAT Launches Horde AIMO: "Membranical" keyboard
ROCCAT has unveiled their latest keyboard, the 'Horde AIMO'. The Full-size Horde features ROCCAT’s 'Membranical' keys which are claimed to combine the strengths of mechanical and membrane keys in...
6 by Joe Shields on 3/27/2018
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