SAMSUNG HAVE BEEN pushing its AMOLED display technology pretty hard, in fact the company has gained so much popularity that it can produce enough of its smaller displays that go into smartphones. At CES Samsung is set to show off several new AMOLED displays, including a flexible 4.5-inch model and a pair of larger qFHD transparent prototypes.
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TWO NEW JOBS posted in December on Apple’s Mac Hardware Engineering jobs website strongly point towards a big change coming in Cupertino.
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INTEL’S SANDY BRIDGE is days away from launch, but the big news this week is the massive changes to the next generation Ivy Bridge. If Intel manages to get their drivers in order, it could destroy the entire low end GPU market.
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WE EXPECTED A FEW Brazos boards at launch, but it seems like we might end up seeing more than just a few which is good news for AMD if nothing else. ASRock is readying a board of its own called the E350M1 giving away both the CPU and chipset being used and it’s said to be a low cost solution, but it appears that ASRock might be offering a few different SKUs.
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ALTHOUGH WE’RE STILL about a week away from the official launch, MSI was showing off a pair of Brazos solutions earlier today at an event in Taipei, Taiwan and while maybe not mind blowing out of a design perspective, it’s at least a step in the right direction. On display was a 12-inch notebook as well as a 20-inch all-in-one desktop, both featuring an AMD E-350 CPU.
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IT’S NO BIG surprise that Acer is one of AMD’s Brazos partners, but at least one of its products have made an appearance on the web ahead of the January launch. It’s not going to blow anyone’s mind when it comes to performance, especially as Acer has gone for a dual core Ontario CPU, but the upside should be decent battery life.
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AFTER HAVING SEEN that Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge processors had gone on sale in some parts of the world already we decided to head over to the computer market in Taipei to see if we couldn’t coax up a CPU, but alas, none of the shops we talked to had any in stock. On the other hand, we spotted plenty of motherboards, but they’re not going to be much good without a CPU.
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DESPITE SOME OBVIOUS advantages of its display technology, Pixel Qi has as yet to have a major breakthrough and has so far only mass produced a 10.1-inch screen that has as yet to make it into any retail products. However, things appear to be set to change come next year, as Pixel Qi has announced that they’ve teamed up with Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) in a manufacturing partnership.
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SLOWLY BUT SURELY details about AMD’s partners Brazos boards are starting to appear ahead of the actual launch which is set for early January as far as we’re aware and today it’s Jetway’s turn to show off its board. This time around it’s a board not intended for consumers, but rather for industrial PC applications and other vertical markets.
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IF YOU’RE DESPERATE to get your hands on Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge processors before they officially launch, it seems like you have to take a trip to Malaysia, as there the new processors have already gone on sale. Now they’re not supposed to be selling the processors early, but it seems like some local shops don’t really care.
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NVIDIA’S FIRST DESIGN win as far as smartphones are concerned was announced today by LG in the shape of the Optimus 2X, an Android handset with a pretty rich feature set outside of the Tegra 2 processor. The Optimus 2X is equipped with a 1GHz dual core Tegra 2 processor, a 4-inch screen and some other goodies that should make this a really attractive Android handset in terms of features.
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GPUS DON’T CHANGE architectures very often, but when they do, it is big news. AMD’s new Radeon HD6900 GPUs are the largest single change from that company in three and a half years, so lets dive in to the architecture.
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WE’VE COVERED BOTH Asus and Gigabyte’s upcoming LGA-1155 boards in some detail, so we figured it was time to take a look at what MSI has up its sleeve. Today we’ll take a closer look at MSI’s H67 mATX boards which consists of at least four different models, although there might be more models coming.
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TODAY WE HAVE something a little bit different from or usual content, as we have a Q&A with Terrance Shih who is a PM at VIA Labs. We asked him some questions about VIA Labs, its USB 3.0 product line and how they see themselves positioned in the market, so with no further ado, here’s what he had to say.
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ALTHOUGH IT’S NOT the first time a motherboard manufacturer – or computer accessory manufacturer for that matter – has teamed up with a professional PC gamer to flog its wares, we have to wonder what ASRock was thinking when they teamed up with Fatal1ty, aka Johnathan Wendel. As much as he was one of the best professional gamers out there in first person shooter games, he’s become more of a brand than a gamer these days and in all honesty, we can’t say that we think he’s a great brand.
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