The TCL Plex Smartphone Hands-On: Dedicated Low-Light Camera for Video
As one of the world’s largest TV manufacturers, with its hands in a lot of other things, TCL is a fairly common name among certain regions of the world...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/5/2019The Snapdragon 855 Phone Roundup: Searching for the Best Implementations
Over the last few years we’ve seen a lot of changes in the mobile market when it comes to the internal hardware of devices. At the heart of every...
50 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/5/2019CRU ioSafe Solo Hawk Rugged SSD Review
ioSafe's disaster-resistant solutions cater to an important niche in the storage market. In mid-2018, the company was acquired by CRU. The Solo Hawk Rugged SSD is one of the...
19 by Ganesh T S on 9/4/2019The MSI MEG X570 Godlike Motherboard Review: Thor's Flagship
With the introduction of AMD's X570 chipset, motherboard vendors have upped its game in the premium stakes with a variety of premium mid-range and high-end models. The MEG X570...
116 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/28/2019TSMC Responds to Lawsuit by GlobalFoundries: Allegations Are Baseless
TSMC has responded to GlobalFoundries accusations of patents infringements. The world’s largest foundry said that it would defend itself in courts and that it considered allegations as baseless. The...
62 by Anton Shilov on 8/27/2019GlobalFoundries Sues TSMC Over Patent Infringement; Apple, Qualcomm, Others Named Defendants
GlobalFoundries has filed a lawsuit against TSMC and its clients in the USA and Germany alleging the world’s largest contract maker of semiconductors of infringing 16 of its patents...
97 by Anton Shilov on 8/26/2019Intel Launches Comet Lake-U and Comet Lake-Y: Up To 6 Cores for Thin & Light Laptops
Capping off a busy few weeks for processors for Intel, today the company is announcing the second half of their product stack for their low-power 10th generation Core processors...
133 by Ryan Smith on 8/21/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel Lakefield and Foveros
One of the interesting developments in packaging technology in recent memory is the 3D stacking of Intel's new Foveros technology. The first chip to use this packaging technology is...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Keynote Day 2: Dr. Phillip Wong, VP Research at TSMC (1:45pm PT)
The keynote for the second day is from TSMC, with Dr. Phillip Wong taking the stage to talk about the latest developments in TSMC's research and portfolio. The talk...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Cerebras' 1.2 Trillion Transistor Deep Learning Processor
Some of the big news of today is Cerebras announcing its wafer-scale 1.2 trillion transistor solution for deep learning. The talk today goes into detail about the technology.
28 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Keynote Day 1: Dr. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD Live Blog (1:45pm PT)
The keynote for day one at Hot Chips is from Dr. Lisa Su, AMD of CEO. AMD is riding high after successful Ryzen 3000 and 2nd Gen EPYC Rome...
22 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Analysis: In-Memory Processing by UPMEM
One of the key critical future elements about this world of compute is moving data about. Moving data requires power, to the point where calling data from memory can...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019The Biostar A10N-8800E Motherboard Review: Carrizo in 2019?!
The Biostar A10N-8800 motherboard is a mini-ITX SoC option with an integrated AMD FX-8800P processor. Also featured is support for up to 32 GB of DDR4-2133 memory, a single...
75 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 8/14/2019The ASUS Pro WS X570-Ace Review: x8x8x8 with No RGB
Not all motherboards are created equal, and some come with different distinguishing features which amplify them above the others. Whether that be gaming or professional use, the ASUS Pro...
115 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/12/2019AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
If you examine the CPU industry and ask where the big money is, you have to look at the server and datacenter market. Ever since the Opteron days, AMD's...
184 by Johan De Gelas on 8/7/2019The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC "Rome" Launch Live Blog
The second – and arguably largest – shoe in the Zen 2 launch is dropping today: AMD’s EPYC 7002-series “Rome” processor. Based on all the things that made 3rd...
30 by Ryan Smith on 8/7/2019Samsung Announces Galaxy Note10 & Note10+: A Redesign With Feature Disparity
It’s that time of the year again. We’ve made it past the first half of 2019 and all vendors have released their initial flagship devices for the year. Samsung...
106 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/7/2019The Fractal Design Ion+ 760P 80Plus Platinum PSU Review: A High-End PSU For the Mainstream Builder
Fractal Design is releasing their new high-end PSU series, the Ion+. The series consists of four units with power outputs ranging from 560 to 860 Watts, all with impressive...
27 by E. Fylladitakis on 8/6/2019The Eurocom Sky X7C (Clevo P775TM1-G) Gaming Laptop Review: True Desktop Replacement
If you are thinking about a gaming laptop, but are tired of the compromises that come with normal “laptop” parts, then a Desktop Replacement laptop might be a better...
46 by Brett Howse on 8/5/2019The Ice Lake Benchmark Preview: Inside Intel's 10nm
Intel's new Ice Lake platform is the company's second attempt at producing a 10nm chip for the mass market, and follows on from the Cannon Lake platform. Using 'the...
261 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/1/2019