Jan 12, 2011

So what happens to AMD now?

With Dirk out, a world of possibilities are opened up

Talk about a wild start to the week.  Between the Intel/Nvidia settlement, Verizon’s announcement to flog Apple kit, recovering from a week in Vegas at CES, and now Dirk Meyer’s abrupt departure from AMD the tech press has been without sleep for quite some time.  With the industry in such a chaotic state it can be hard to see what the future holds for all these companies, so let us peer into S|A’s patent pending crystal ball to see what’s in store for AMD.
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Jan 11, 2011

P67 motherboard roundup

Gigabyte, Intel and MSI upper mid-tier boards go head to head

TO CONTINUE ON our current theme of Sandy Bridge motherboard reviews, today we have three upper mid-range boards going head to head that should leave most users not wanting for anything much more in the way of features. The boards in question are the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4, the Intel DP67BG and the MSI P67A-GD55, all having similar features and price point.
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Jan 10, 2011

Alcatel-Lucent’s LTE based connected car concept

CES 2011: Teenage life is about to get a whole lot harder

One of the oft passed by booths at CES was held down by Alcatel-Lucent, a purveyor of equipment sold primarily to telecom companies and cable providers.  They were however showing off a conceptual technology that demonstrates some interesting ways to utilize all that sweet, sweet bandwidth provided by new “4G” phone technologies, specifically LTE.
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Jan 10, 2011

Gigabyte H67M-UD2H vs Intel DH67BL

Review: The battle of the mATX H67 boards

TODAY WE’RE TAKING a look at two mATX H67 chipset motherboards in the $100 price range, namely the Gigabyte H67M-UD2H and the Intel DH67BL. We tested both boards with the Core i5 2500K processor as that is what we had at hand, but there’s no reason to buy a K series processor for an H67 board, as you can’t overclock the CPU when paired with the H67 chipset.
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Jan 9, 2011

First LGA-2011 consumer board details appear

Blurred out MSI board shots

INTEL’S NEXT HIGH-END consumer platform has so far been a topic for much discussion on the interwebs as Intel hasn’t uttered a word so far as to what we can expect. However, thanks to a Chinese website and some blurred out pictures of an upcoming MSI motherboard, it’s not clear that Intel will be offering the LGA-2011 platform as a replacement for the current LGA-1366 platform.
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Jan 9, 2011

Motorola: from brilliant to utter crap

CES 2011: Android at both extremes

Motorola has demoed some really cool android-based products at CES this year; from the Honeycomb packing, Tegra2 powered Xoom tablet, to their potentially game changing Atrix phoneputer.  These products largely gloss over the turd they call the HS1001 cordless home phone, but it looked out of place enough that we had to stop by and stare at the train wreck.
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Jan 8, 2011

Nuvixa: intelligent, immersive presentations and beyond

CES 2011: OpenCL based Kinect-like technology for the classroom

Nestled in a dimly lit corner of the AMD suite was a start-up company called Nuvixa.  While much of the suite’s floor space was dedicated to pimping out fusion-based laptops and 6000 series video cards, Nuvixa was showing off some tech that can actually put all that compute goodness to practical use.  Enter the presenter.
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Jan 7, 2011

OnLive lives to see its first CES, now inside Vizio TVs

CES 2011: Streaming game concept still alive and kicking

It’s hard to believe that OnLive launched a little over 6 months ago in June of 2010.  Well they are still around, and have launched a few new products along the way including an announcement that they have partnered with Vizio to include their software inside of certain newly released “VIA Plus” series TV sets.  We stopped by their booth to see how the second half of 2010 treated them, and what they are focusing on going forward.
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Jan 7, 2011
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Is this the first Z68 board in the wild?

Not CES 2011: Mitac shows off an odd Sandy Bridge motherboard

SPOTTING ODD HARDWARE is not unusual at product launches and trade shows, but for what it’s worth, we spotted a motherboard at Intel’s Sandy Bridge launch event in Taiwan that we can’t quite figure out what it is. At first it looks like a mATX P67 board, but once you start to look closer at it, you notice that it has an HDMI port around the back.
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