WE GOT SOME hands on time with Gigabyte’s new X58A-OC motherboard that the company has designed specifically for overclockers and most of the features that go beyond the normal motherboard bits…
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MSI IS KNOWN for their Lightning branded enthusiast cards, basically hight end parts hand picked for OC-ing, with all the goodies to make that happen.
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ASUS HAD A ton of goodies at CES, and most didn’t make headlines because the flashier things like GPUs and mobos got all of the love from the press. Some of the devices that fell through the cracks however were …
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YOU PROBABLY ARE not too familiar with Giada if you live in the US, but they are starting to make some pretty interesting products. At CES this year, they had the only finished ultra-slim Brazos HTPC that we ran across. …
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(NASDAQ: INTC) INTEL SCREWED UP the best thing about Light Peak, the name, calling it by the marketing name ‘Thunderbolt’. Other than that, the only thing that changed is they lost the optical part, leaving nothing more than an expensive …
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WE’RE FAIRLY CERTAIN that Intel couldn’t possibly be any more confusing when it comes to its CPU line-ups these days and that’s just the standard desktop parts, but today we’re going to take a closer look at Intel’s Westmere-EX line of Xeon E7 processors. The E7 series of Xeon processors are those that are above the Sandy Bridge-EP socket 2011 parts and they use the older socket 1567, confused yet?
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ACER IS JUMPING back into the server market in a big way with the launch of six separate lines of products and a comprehensive support network. This is not just a simple launch, Acer is taking the server market very seriously, intending to mirror their success in laptops and desktops.
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APPLE HAS A business model for the iPad as lucrative as printers with abusively priced toner, something that you can only do with absolute control.Their 30% “tax” on apps actually makes sense, at least for Apple, but will it spread to their other products over the long term?
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INTEL IS FINALLY starting to talk about the upcoming Poulson chip, the first real update to the Itanium architecture in years. While the chip may be huge and technically complex, it is hard to see anyone other than die-hard HP big iron shops actually caring.
Update: Die size corrected
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ST-ERICSSON MIGHT NOT be a name that many of us are affiliating with high-end SoC’s for mobile devices, but as of lately the company has changed gears and is getting ready to take on the big players such as Qualcomm and TI. The latest announcement from ST-Ericsson includes a wide range of new models, but the most interesting one is the upcoming Nova A9600 SoC which should be sampling towards the end of the year with PowerVR Series6 graphics.
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The use of cell phones (and tablet PCs) for email and SMS services have raised data security concerns in many organizations, but nowhere moreso than among hardware designers and their various partners.
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THE BIGGEST LOSER in the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia is none other than Intel. While they may try to put a brave face on the matter, the simple fact remains that their Atom line is now without a future.
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IF YOU’VE EVER built your own PC you might be familiar with the terms North Bridge and South Bridge, well, Cypress has a third entry which it calls a West Bridge which in a way is similar to Intel’s PCH, except that it’s mainly intended for ARM based solutions. The West Bridge sits between the processor and the USB interface and handles quite a bit of the processing that would otherwise have been done by the SoC and as such can help free up resources and improve battery life.
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AMD PUT OUT a speed bump for the Magny-Cours CPUs today, five new chips in all. They aren’t anything huge, just a slight speed increase for the top end Opteron 6100 line.
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RENESAS IS MOVING into a lot of market spaces and its mobile division has announced that it will be showing its new SH-Mobile APE5R ARM Cortex A9 SoC at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. The SH-Mobile APE5R is the first Cortex A9 SoC to use Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR SGX MP multi-core graphics core and it’ll be interesting to see how powerful it is.
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