Unlocked Socketed 65W Broadwell Iris Pro Desktop CPU Demoed by Intel at GDC15
The next twelve months are set to be exciting times for the desktop space for Intel. While the current fifth generation mobile processors are coming to market, and the...
78 by Ian Cutress on 3/5/2015
AMD FreeSync Update
There are plenty of users looking for FreeSync displays, and for those of us in the US we will have to wait a bit longer. However, AMD sends word...
55 by Jarred Walton on 3/5/2015
Intel and Raptr Announce Partnership To Bring Raptr To Intel GPUs
Dennis Fong’s Raptr is a utility that has made a name for itself in the PC GPU space in a relatively short period of time. After pivoting off of...
33 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2015
NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX Titan X
During today’s GDC session on Epic’s Unreal Engine, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dropped in as a special guest to announce NVIDIA’s next high performance video card, the GeForce GTX...
104 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2015
Testing the HTC (Re) Vive with Steam VR: Better than Oculus…?
One of the big announcements to come out of Mobile World Congress this week is regarding HTC’s new VR headset, called the Vive or ‘Re’ Vive, depending on where...
25 by Ian Cutress on 3/4/2015
SanDisk Steps Into Storage Arrays: Launches InfiniFlash Series with Up to 512TB in 3U at <$1/GB
As a rather unexpected move, SanDisk has announced that it will be stepping into the storage array business with its in-house designed InfiniFlash all-flash array series. The driving force...
23 by Kristian Vättö on 3/4/2015
NVIDIA Announces SHIELD Console: Tegra X1 Android TV Box Shipping In May
Today NVIDIA has announced their latest addition to the SHIELD product family, the SHIELD Console. Launching in May at $199, the SHIELD Console is a combination microconsole and Android...
64 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2015
NVIDIA GRID Game Streaming Service To Become Commercial Service
As part of NVIDIA’s suite of GDC 2015 announcements, the company has announced that their GRID game streaming service is getting a promotion from beta to a commercial service. First...
18 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2015
PlayStation Plus March 2015 Free Games Preview
Generally, Sony announces the free games near the end of the month, but for this month, they squeaked it into the third day. But luckily they saved some great...
1 by Brett Howse on 3/3/2015
AMD’s LiquidVR Announced: AMD Gets Expanded VR Headset Functionality
2015 is going to be known as the year of virtual reality at GDC. Before the expo floor has even opened VR pitches, announcements, and press conference invitations are...
19 by Ryan Smith on 3/3/2015
ARM At GDC 2015: Geomerics Enlighten 3 Released
One of ARM’s more unusual acquisitions in recent years has been Geomerics, a fellow UK company who specializes in video game lighting technology. Geomerics is a far cry from...
8 by Ryan Smith on 3/3/2015
Next Generation OpenGL Becomes Vulkan: Additional Details Released
Continuing this week’s GDC-2015 fueled blitz of graphics API news releases, we have Khronos, the industry consortium behind OpenGL, OpenCL, and other cross-platform compute and graphics APIs. Back in...
44 by Ryan Smith on 3/3/2015
Khronos Announces OpenCL 2.1: C++ Comes to OpenCL
Alongside today’s announcements of Vulkan and SPIR-V, Khronos is also using the occasion of the 2015 Game Developers Conference to announce the next iteration of OpenCL, OpenCL 2.1. OpenCL 2.1...
10 by Ryan Smith on 3/3/2015
AMD Lays Out Future of Mantle: Changing Direction In Face of DX12 and glNext
Much has been made over the advent of low-level graphics APIs over the last year, with APIs based on this concept having sprouted up on a number of platforms...
95 by Ryan Smith on 3/2/2015
Broadcom at MWC 2015: BCM4359 and BCM43455 Wifi Combo Chips Announced
Today Broadcom took the lead by announcing two new Wifi combo chip solutions meant for the smartphone and tablet market. The BCM4359 is a high-end 2x2 MIMO solution for...
6 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/2/2015
Intel at MWC 2015: SoFIA, Rockchip, Low Cost Integrated LTE, Atom Renaming and 14nm Cherry Trail
After day zero at Mobile World Congress already boasting some impressive releases, Intel tackles their platform on day one on several different fronts. As part of a pre-briefing, we...
37 by Ian Cutress on 3/2/2015
Lenovo at MWC 2015: VIBE Shot SmartPhone/Camera Crossover Announced
As part of our booth tour at Lenovo during Mobile World Congress, on display was the recently announced Lenovo VIBE Shot and we managed to get some hands-on time...
16 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 3/2/2015
Microsoft at MWC 2015: Lumia 640 and 640 XL Announced, 4K 120Hz Surface Hub Demoed
Mobile World Congress is in full swing today and Microsoft woke the press up early to discuss new features coming to their smartphone and tablet space. Top of the...
41 by Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 3/2/2015
Qualcomm @ MWC 2015: Cat 11 LTE, Cat 6 Dual-Sim LTE, & LTE/Wi-Fi Link Aggregation
Not to be outdone by Qualcomm’s SoC group, Qualcomm’s communication groups are busy at MWC 2015 as well. Though Qualcomm Technologies and Qualcomm Atheros are not announcing any major...
8 by Ryan Smith on 3/2/2015
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 820 and Zeroth Platform
Today, Qualcomm is announcing the new Zeroth Platform, which is enabled by the Snapdragon 820 SoC. While Qualcomm is avoiding any real disclosure of the SoC at this point, we...
36 by Joshua Ho on 3/2/2015
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