So far AMD has been very tight lipped about its upcoming Llano APU, but now the company has released both specifications and a performance comparison in a video the company posted on YouTube.
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Apple has just announced its new iPad 2 and we’re looking at some pretty decent improvements overall with a new dual core processors, nine times faster graphics and a 33 percent slimmer design that even weighs less than the original iPad.
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XFX WAS SHOWING some things you would expect at CeBIT, and one line you definitely would not, complete with a new brand. Welcome our 6990 overlords and a new brand, Aviiq.
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WE CAN’T HELP but to be amused by Bigfoot Networks and all of its attempts at selling its various “gaming” NICs into every little niche possible.
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SEAMICRO IS UPDATING their Atom based server system with several much needed features, all of which stem from a new Atom SKU.
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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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(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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EARLIER TODAY APPLE announced its new MacBook Pro notebooks featuring Thunderbolt I/O , a newly developed interface by Intel and Apple which was previously known as Light Peak. Now things didn’t quite develop as what was said when Intel previewed the technology during IDF, as instead of using optical cables and a USB port like interface, Thunderbolt in Apple’s implementation uses copper wires and a mini DisplayPort interface.
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AFTER MUCH SPECULATION and a lot of last minute leaks, Apple’s new MacBook Pros are here and although they don’t bring with them any great surprises, we have to say that this is Apple’s strongest line-up of notebooks ever.
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APPLE IS EXPECTED to unveil its next generation iPad as well as several new MacBook SKUs next week at an event the company is hosting on the 2nd of March. However, for those more interested in technology than the actual devices there’s something far more interesting being announced, namely something Apple calls Thunderbolt and what is thought to be Intel’s Light Peak.
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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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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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ALTHOUGH THERE’S NO real problem as such with today’s micro HDMI connector found on many mobile devices, a better alternative has been co-developed by ST-Ericsson and STMicroelectronics which relies on the royalty free DisplayPort standard. This might seem as an odd move in a way, but let us explain the advantages of what the MYDP standard has to offer over HDMI.
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WE’VE ATTENDED A FEW, well, let’s call them briefings at the Mobile World Congress, all hosted by various industry leaders ranging from chip and device makers to service and content providers and some of what was said was very interesting while other parts were almost laughable. What became painstakingly clear though, mostly based on comments from the hardware makers, is the fact that the cost of wireless access isn’t where anyone but the network providers wants it to be.
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NVIDIA JUST FINISHED their fiscal Q4/2011 conference call, and it was mercifully short and content free. That said, there was one thing that stuck out, GPU margins.
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