HANDS UP ANYONE who didn’t see the Google Chrome OS coming, no points if you are an MS CxO? MS has only itself to blame for the nuclear missile that may very well have ended the company, they simply produced crap for way too long.
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ONE OF THOSE press releases that snuck by under the radar answered a year old question about solar panels, would the huge Applied Materials panels live up to their early promise? Based on the recent IEC certification of their 5.7m^2 panels, the answer is yes.
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AFTER LITERALLY YEARS of silence, the new Monkey Island game is out. Yes, mere weeks after revealing it’s existence at E3, you can now get the first episode from Telltale games.
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WITH EFFICIENCY GAINS at the CPU level becoming harder and harder to find, a lot of work has turned to the platform to squeeze out a few more watts here and there. During Research At Intel Day (R@ID), Intel was showing how to bunch I/Os intelligently for large system power savings.
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IN CASE YOU haven’t noticed over the past two or three years, Intel is very interested in sensor technology. During Research At Intel Day a few weeks ago, they were showing off technology to make air quality sensors mobile and ubiquitous.
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THERE HAS BEEN a lot of false information floating around about TSMC and their 40nm process. It ranged from the overly optimistic to hopelessly wrong, so lets clear the air, it is OK now.
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IN ORDER TO GAIN access to the Chinese market, US companies have co-operated in one way or another with government requests to restrict freedom of access to the Internet. Why are those companies pushing back now because of China’s new Green Dam web filter?
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AFTER HAVING ATTENDED the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) annual technology conference in Manhattan for several years, this years event came as quite a shock. Attendance was down noticeably, and several big names were not in attendance.
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The TJX retail chain has agreed to pay $9.75 million to the states after a huge data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of cardholders to identity thieves. They have also agreed to implement and maintain a “comprehensive information security program”, supposedly designed to safeguard consumer data at TJX. Since they already attested that they were complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards, why should consumers believe them now?
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FIREFOX 3.5 IS OUT. Not much more to say, the browser that more than half of you use to read this with is now much better.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the killer attack lawyers are circling the big OEMs, the scent of payola in the air. If you have been following the whole battery life tiff in the news, you will not be surprised that the affair is about to become a class action.
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JUST WHEN YOU thought PC OEMs couldn’t get any dumber, HP reaffirms that the bottom has yet to be reached with their new Pavilion PC. How any OEM could be this abjectly stupid is beyond me, but they managed to take a PC that aspires to mediocrity and make it worse.
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WORD HAS REACHED our tender ears that Apple has shown Nvidia the door, very unceremoniously. Several people who are familiar with the ‘negotiations’ are saying the language used tended to be a bit harsh.
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INTEL HELD RESEARCH@INTEL DAY at the Computer Museum in MountainView, California last week. They presented a TLS replacement technology that could make it easier to deploy very large numbers of secure connections across the internet.
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IN WHAT IS SURE to be the news event of the year in gaming, ZeniMax Media has completed its acquisition of iD Software. This is a historic merging of two giants of the industry; with titles such as Doom, Quake, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Wolfenstein under its umbrella, ZeniMax can legitimately say that is home to the most innovative and immersive games ever conceived. In fact, ZeniMax is a Zelda or a Super Mario away from having a monopoly in the legendary games business.
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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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