Investigating NVIDIA's Jetson AGX: A Look at Xavier and Its Carmel Cores
Today’s piece is a bit of an unusual review; NVIDIA’s new Jetson AGX embedded system kit isn’t really a device platform we’re expecting the average reader to think about...
51 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/4/2019The Enterpise TLC Storage Era Begins: Rounding Up 13 SSDs With Samsung, Intel, and Memblaze
It's been a busy year for consumer SSDs. With all the NAND flash manufacturers now shipping high-quality 3D NAND in volume, we've seen more competition than ever, and huge...
36 by Billy Tallis on 1/3/2019AnandTech Year in Review 2018: SSDs
Rounding out our series of articles taking a look back at 2018, the past year has been one of the most exciting years in the SSD space since the...
40 by Billy Tallis on 1/2/2019AnandTech Year In Review 2018: Flagship Mobile
As we’re drawing to a close of the calendar year, it is time to look back and revisit what 2018 has brought to the mobile space. Unlike the PC...
65 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/28/2018AnandTech Year in Review 2018: CPUs
When Ryan initially asked me to write a roundup of the year’s news on CPUs, I laughed. There has been a lot going on this year, from processor releases...
43 by Ian Cutress on 12/27/2018AnandTech Year in Review 2018: GPUs
2018 has nearly drawn to a close, and as we’re already gearing up for the event that kicks off 2019 for the industry – the mega-show that is CES...
35 by Ryan Smith on 12/26/2018Gemini Lake SFF PC Showdown: Intel's June Canyon (NUC7PJYH) and ECS's LIVA Z2 Reviewed
Small form-factor PCs have become a major growth segment in the PC market over the last decade. In particular, UCFF (ultra-compact form-factor) PCs have become a welcome and permanent...
61 by Ganesh T S on 12/20/2018Missed Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018? It’s All In Here
If there’s one thing I love about this job, it’s about finding what makes the companies in our industry tick. This goes above and beyond just the product announcements...
18 by Ian Cutress on 12/19/2018The Lenovo ThinkPad A285 (12.5-Inch) Review: Ryzen Pro Gets Down to Business
A couple of months back Lenovo released the ThinkPad A285; a 12.5-inch business-class notebook featuring AMD’s Ryzen Pro mobile processor, complementing their 14-inch A485 Ryzen Pro powered model. These...
73 by Brett Howse on 12/18/2018The MSI MEG Z390 ACE Motherboard Review: The Answer To Your USB 3.1 Needs
The MSI Z390 ACE sits below the MSI Z390 Godlike in the company's product stack and has plenty to shout about including a trio of M.2 slots, a well...
27 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/17/2018Talking Snapdragon: An Interview with Cristano Amon, President of Qualcomm
It has been difficult to move around in 2018 without bumping into someone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845-powered smartphone. The success the company has seen in capturing most of...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/14/2018AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition: Streaming for Videos, Games, & VR
As 2018 winds down, once again it’s time for AMD’s annual major feature update for their graphics drivers, Radeon Software. Going by the unassuming title of ‘Radeon Software Adrenalin...
38 by Nate Oh on 12/13/2018Intel's Architecture Day 2018: The Future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid x86
It has been hard to miss the fact that Intel has been vacuuming up a lot of industry talent, which brings with them a lot of experience. Renduchintala, Koduri...
149 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/12/2018The MSI B450 Tomahawk Motherboard Review: More Missile Than Axe
From the few second-generation AMD B450 and X470 motherboards we have tested, the majority have been refreshed models of pre-existing boards. Over time, the vendors have had the opportunity...
37 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/11/2018The Seagate BarraCuda (500GB) SSD Review: Getting Back In The Game
Seagate has been one of the top names in the storage industry for decades, but it's almost exclusively for their hard drives. The company has been largely absent from...
39 by Billy Tallis on 12/7/2018Qualcomm Tech Summit, Day 3: Snapdragon 8cx, the New ACPC SoC
For the final day of Qualcomm’s 3rd Annual Tech Summit, the focus is on its Always Connected PC (ACPC) platform. This is Qualcomm’s attempt to bring mobile processors to...
43 by Ian Cutress on 12/6/2018The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Pre-Dive: Going Into Detail on 2019's Flagship Android SoC
Following today’s early-on coverage of the Day 2 coverage of Qualcomm’s Tech Summit event in Maui, Hawaii, we recap the major story of the day: The new Snapdragon 855...
47 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/5/2018Qualcomm Tech Summit, Day 1: Announcing 5G Partnerships and Snapdragon 855
The third annual Qualcomm Tech Summit has just started, and the first announcements from Day One have been made. To start this event, Qualcomm President Cristano Amon is sharing...
29 by Ian Cutress on 12/4/2018The 2018 Apple iPad Pro (11-Inch) Review: Doubling Down On Performance
Apple’s iPad lineup for 2018 offers arguably the largest design change since the original iPad launched, with the introduction of the latest iPad Pro models in both 12.9-inch and...
146 by Brett Howse & Andrei Frumusanu on 12/4/2018Analyzing Core i9-9900K Performance with Spectre and Meltdown Hardware Mitigations
One of the key aspects of the most recent Intel processor launch, its Core 9th Generation processors, is that the new design affords some hardware-based protection for a couple...
35 by Ian Cutress on 12/3/2018