The Apple 2018 iPhone Event Live Blog
With fall quickly approaching, it's that time of year again in the tech industry as well: iPhone season. To that end, kicking off in a few hours for Apple's...
53 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/12/2018The MSI Z370-A Pro Motherboard Review: Entry Level Business (And Pleasure)
The MSI Z370-A Pro is an inexpensive motherboard from MSI's 'Pro' series of boards. The Pro series boards are designed for content creators and professionals who can use the...
12 by Joe Shields on 9/11/2018Seagate BarraCuda Pro 14TB HDD Review: Massive Storage for Desktops
The exponential increase in data storage requirements over the last decade or so has been handled by regular increases in hard drive capacities. Multiple HDD vendors supply them to...
71 by Ganesh T S on 9/10/2018The SteelSeries Apex M750 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review: Set Apart by Software
Today we are taking a look at the SteelSeries Apex M750, the highest-end mechanical keyboard that SteelSeries currently offers. The Apex M750 also sports the company's new QX2 mechanical...
18 by E. Fylladitakis on 9/7/2018The Toshiba XG6 1TB SSD Review: Our First 96-Layer 3D NAND SSD
For the second year in a row, Toshiba is the first to ship a new generation of 3D NAND. The new XG6 NVMe SSD for OEMs otherwise changes little...
32 by Billy Tallis on 9/6/2018AMD Updates its 25x20 Goal: Progress in a Generation
Last year we published an article detailing AMD’s progress on its self-set 25x20 goal for its processors: 25x more energy efficiency of its chips by the year 2020. In...
47 by Ian Cutress on 9/5/2018Huawei’s GPU Turbo: Valid Technology with Overzealous Marketing
One of the biggest announcements from Huawei this year is that of its new GPU Turbo technology. The claims that it could provide more performance at less power, without...
64 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 9/4/2018Huawei & Honor's Recent Benchmarking Behaviour: A Cheating Headache
Does anyone remember our articles regarding unscrupulous benchmark behavior back in 2013? At the time we called the industry out on the fact that most vendors were increasing thermal...
84 by Andrei Frumusanu & Ian Cutress on 9/4/2018HiSilicon Announces The Kirin 980: First A76, G76 on 7nm
This year at IFA, instead of suddenly finding the new silicon on the show floor, Huawei’s CEO Richard Yu announced this year’s new Kirin 980 during the company’s keynote...
120 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/31/2018Spectre and Meltdown in Hardware: Intel Clarifies Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake
With the launch of Intel’s latest 8th Generation Core mobile processors, the 15W Whiskey Lake U-series and the 5W Amber Lake Y-series, questions were left on the table as...
107 by Ian Cutress on 8/30/2018Intel Launches Whiskey Lake-U and Amber Lake-Y: New MacBook CPUs?
Earlier this year Intel announced that it would be introducing two new families to its low power notebook range: Whiskey Lake for new 15W (U-Series) processors, and Amber Lake...
80 by Ian Cutress on 8/28/2018The Samsung Portable SSD X5 Review - Thunderbolt 3 and NVMe in a Premium Enclosure
Samsung is launching their first Thunderbolt 3 SSD, the Portable SSD X5, today. It places an OEM version of their 970 EVO NVMe SSD behind an Alpine Ridge controller...
23 by Ganesh T S on 8/28/2018GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development: Opts To Focus on Specialized Processes
GlobalFoundries on Monday announced an important strategy shift. The contract maker of semiconductors decided to cease development of bleeding edge manufacturing technologies and stop all work on its 7LP...
127 by Anton Shilov & Ian Cutress on 8/27/2018MSI B360 Gaming Plus & B360 Gaming Arctic Review: Fraternal Twins On The Cheap
Today we get an opportunity to look at two motherboards out of MSI's B360 stable in the form of the B360 Gaming Plus and B360 Gaming Arctic. The two...
20 by Joe Shields on 8/27/2018Kishonti GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins: OpenGL & Vulkan Benchmark Hands-On
Today Kishonti have finally released their final update to GFXBench version 5.0. The update introduces the new Aztec Ruins scene in two complexity modes as well as OpenGL, Vulkan...
40 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/24/2018The MSI Z370I Gaming Pro Carbon AC (mITX) Motherboard Review: Balanced Gaming Diet
Today we're looking at one of MSI's Mini-ITX motherboards, the Z370I Gaming Pro Carbon AC. The Gaming Pro Carbon AC supports 8th Gen Intel Core Coffee Lake-based processors with...
18 by Joe Shields on 8/23/2018The Corsair RM850x (2018) PSU Review: Exceptional Electrical Performance
In today's review we are taking a look at the new revision of Corsair's RM850x power supply. Corsair's RM series is renowned for delivering high performance and quiet operation...
16 by E. Fylladitakis on 8/22/2018Hands-on with the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti: Real-time Raytracing in Games
After yesterday’s announcement from NVIDIA, we finally know what’s coming: the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080, and GeForce RTX 2070. So naturally, after the keynote in the...
104 by Nate Oh on 8/21/2018AnandTech at Hot Chips 30: Our 2018 Show Coverage
The last couple of days have been a whirlwind of coverage at two key events: Hot Chips, the semiconductor industry conference regarding new product designs, and some minor thing...
5 by Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 20 Series: RTX 2080 Ti & 2080 on Sept. 20th, RTX 2070 in October
NVIDIA’s Gamescom 2018 keynote just wrapped up, and as many have been expecting since it was announced last month, NVIDIA is getting ready to launch their next generation of...
224 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2018