WITH MOST COMPUTER displays these days using 16:9 panels it’s refreshing to see that Samsung has decided to launch a pair of good old fashioned 16:10 displays, both sporting DisplayPort interfaces to boot. They might be intended for business use, but we can see a fair few consumers being interested in these new models as well.
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MICRON IS A COMPANY best known for its memory products, but now the company has started to produce FLCOS micro projectors intended for various solutions such as handheld products, digital cameras, DVD players and toys.
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AS EXPECTED, APPLE has launched its new MacBook Air, well, the company actually launched two new models, a 13.3-inch model, as well as an 11.6-inch model. As rumoured, both models comes with an SSD instead of a hard drive, but sadly Apple decided to stick with the Core 2 platform rather than move the MacBook Air to Intel’s Core i processors.
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WE’RE STILL WAITING for the USB 3.0 host controller “war” to start, but after speaking with Renesas at TFE 2010 it looks like the company is already preparing for what will come. We also confirmed that Renesas is indeed working with AMD to help implement USB 3.0 support in its future chipsets.
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AMD SHOWED OFF a Llano board last week in Los Angeles, and again today in Taipei. Take a look at it, and notice two things, how small the heat sink is, and how few components are on the board.
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This week in Taipei AMD showed a short demo of Brazos. We will note that the cameraman needs training and better equipment. However, we do feel the need to bring you this for your viewing pleasure or pain.
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This week in Taipei AMD showed a short demo of Fusion. We will note that the cameraman needs training and better equipment. However, we do feel the need to bring you this for your viewing pleasure or pain.
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AMD SHOWED OFF a Llano wafer at TFE 2010. Yay fusion. Click below for some pictures, more to come later today.
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WHEN YOU DON’T have any product, you spin and spin and spin. Nvidia is doing just that with the upcoming paper ‘launch’ of the GTX580.
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NVIDIA IS CONTINUING to launch new GeForce 400 series cards, although this time it’s the OEM partners that are getting new cards in the shape of the GeForce GT 440 and a slightly different GTS 450. The two cards don’t appear to be all that different once you start reading the specifications, which makes us wonder what Nvidia is playing at.
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THIS WEEKEND A PICTURE of Apple’s purported upcoming MacBook Air turned up online and it looks like Apple has done some serious work on its new wafer thin notebook. Ok, so it’s not actually wafer thin, but the new MacBook Air, which is expected to launch during an Apple event on the 20th, is said to be not much thicker than a USB port, not counting the lid of course.
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ONE THING THAT so far has been missing from AMD’s repertoire is a 3D monitor, or rather support from a monitor maker despite the fact that AMD has been able to do 3D for quite some time. This has all changed now thanks to ViewSonic and its new V3D241wm-LED 3D display which has been designed specifically to work with AMD graphics cards.
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WE’RE A WEEK away from the anticipated launch of the Radeon HD 6800 series and there’s been more than a few leaks over the past 24h and we figured we’d try and collate some of that information into a more easily digestible format. There are still some key features that are missing and of course the all-important price, but apart from that, we seem to have a pretty good picture of what’s coming.
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THE ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT back in June seems to have been generally missed, possibly because most of us aren’t familiar with the Common Platform Alliance, an organization striving for a common, open design ecosystem and fab synchronization, amongst other things. Global Foundries, IBM, and Samsung are the key foundries that make up the Common Platform Alliance and they’re all currently working on a joint 28nm process technology platform which will make life easier for their customers.
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IF YOU LIVE somewhere you can’t get Google TV, yet want an Android device attached to your brand new flat panel TV, then maybe Webia’s Android TV is what you’ve been waiting for. We spotted the Android powered box at the Broadband Taiwan show and it piqued our interest as there aren’t too many devices of its kind that run Android as yet.
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Although Intel has announced new high-end parts that are slated to launch later this year the i9-7900X is still Intel’s fastest desktop CPU to date.
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In this article we’ll look at the air cooled version of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 64.
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Today we’ll be looking at AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 56 GPU.
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In this review we’ll be looking at AMD’s other Ryzen Threadripper chip the 1920X.
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