Habey Releases MITX-6771, J1900 Thin Mini-ITX with Long Life Cycle Support
Habey’s main focus in the PC market is towards industrial computers, with Ganesh having reviewed the BIS-6590 and BIS-6922 fanless systems last year. Industrial oriented components by their nature...
7 by Ian Cutress on 8/23/2014
Apple Begins iPhone 5 Battery Replacement Program for Certain Defective Devices
Today Apple has started a replacement program for certain iPhone 5 devices experiencing significantly reduced battery life. The company is stating that the affected devices were sold between the...
18 by Brandon Chester on 8/22/2014
AMD Celebrates 30 Years of Gaming and Graphics Innovation
AMD sent us word that tomorrow they will be hosting a Livecast celebrating 30 years of graphics and gaming innovation. Thirty years is a long time, and certainly we...
32 by Jarred Walton on 8/22/2014
Lenovo Announces Trio Of Business PCs
Lenovo has added three ThinkCentre desktop PCs to its stable of business devices this week. The three devices span the range of desktops, with the ThinkCentre E63z being an...
19 by Brett Howse on 8/22/2014
G.Skill Announces Ripjaws DDR4, up to DDR4-3200
Much like the recent swathe of X99 motherboard previews we have seen, memory manufacturers are getting on board with showcasing their DDR4 memory modules to use with the Haswell-E...
20 by Ian Cutress on 8/22/2014
Measuring Toshiba's 15nm 128Gbit MLC NAND Die Size
Courtesy of Custom PC Review At Flash Memory Summit, Toshiba was showcasing their latest 15nm 128Gbit MLC NAND wafer that has been developed in partnership with SanDisk. I simply could...
12 by Kristian Vättö on 8/22/2014
Interview with ADATA's President Shalley Chen
At this year’s Computex, I had the opportunity to sit down with Mrs. Shalley Chen, ADATA’s President, to discuss the current trends in the memory and SSD business, as...
7 by Kristian Vättö on 8/22/2014
FMS 2014: Marvell Announces NVMe-Enabled PCIe 3.0 x4 88SS1093 SSD Controller
Two weeks ago Marvell announced their first PCIe SSD controller with NVMe support, named as 88SS1093. It supports PCIe 3.0 x4 interface with up to 4GB/s of bandwidth between...
23 by Kristian Vättö on 8/21/2014
Examining Huawei's Benchmark Optimizations in the Ascend P7
While benchmark optimization has been a hot topic, recently it has faded into the background as the industry adjusted. Previously, we saw changes such as an automatic 10% GPU...
24 by Joshua Ho on 8/21/2014
Unity Adds Native x86 Support for Android
Intel is facing an uphill battle in the mobile space from a marketshare perspective, but there's an additional challenge: the bulk of mobile apps are compiled targeting ARM based...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/20/2014
FMS 2014: Silicon Motion Showcases SM2256 SSD Controller with TLC NAND Support
A couple of weeks ago at Flash Memory Summit, Silicon Motion launched their next generation SATA 6Gbps SSD controller. Dubbed simply as SM2256, the new controller is the first...
8 by Kristian Vättö on 8/20/2014
HTC Announces the HTC One (M8) for Windows
It's been a while since we've seen a high-end device running Windows Phone 8 launch from a company other than Nokia. Despite Nokia's dominance, HTC has certainly not given...
61 by Brandon Chester on 8/19/2014
SanDisk Releases Ultra II SSD: Bringing More TLC NAND to the Market
It is a busy day in the client SSD space as earlier today AMD announced the company's first SSD, the R7, and now SanDisk is releasing the Ultra II...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 8/19/2014
State of the Part: SoC Manufacturers
Introduction A few years ago, it seemed a new System-On-Chip (SoC) design using an ARM-based architecture would pop up every other week. While competition can be great, with so many...
94 by Jarred Walton on 8/19/2014
ECS Announces Z97-PK: A Motherboard with ‘One Key OC’ 4.7 GHz for Pentium G3258
With the launch of the overclockable Pentium G3258 processor, some motherboard manufacturers have been scrambling to get a cheaper product to market to be the centre point of a...
22 by Ian Cutress on 8/19/2014
AMD Jumps Into the SSD Market: Radeon R7 Series SSD Launched
Back in 2011, AMD made a rather unexpected move and expanded its Radeon brand to include memory in addition to graphics cards. With today's announcement AMD is adding another...
43 by Kristian Vättö on 8/19/2014
ARM's Cortex M: Even Smaller and Lower Power CPU Cores
ARM (and its partners) were arguably one of the major causes of the present day smartphone revolution. While AMD and Intel focused on using Moore’s Law to drive higher...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/18/2014_carousel.png)
FMS 2014: HGST Announces FlashMAX III PCIe SSDs
Continuing with our Flash Memory Summit coverage, HGST announced their FlashMAX III enterprise SSD, which is the first fruit of HGST's Virident acquistion and continues Virident's FlashMAX brand. The...
18 by Kristian Vättö on 8/18/2014
FMS 2014: SanDisk ULLtraDIMM to Ship in Supermicro's Servers
We are running a bit late with our Flash Memory Summit coverage as I did not get back from the US until last Friday, but I still wanted to...
30 by Kristian Vättö on 8/18/2014
Browser Face-Off: Chrome 37 Beta Battery Life Revisited
Last week we posted our Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored 2014, where the battery run down times of Firefox 31, IE11 Desktop, IE11 Modern, Chrome 36, and Chrome 37...
22 by Stephen Barrett on 8/18/2014
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