Audience Announces MQ100 Motion Processor
Just a few weeks ago, Audience announced its fourth generation of voice processors at CES, which added an always-on voice activation feature called VoiceQ designed to enable experiences similar...
3 by Brian Klug on 2/24/2014
SanDisk iNAND Extreme in 2014: Finally a Good eMMC Solution for Mobile?
For the past couple of years we've been focusing more on tracking storage performance within smartphones and tablets. For the most part, we've come away disappointed. With smartphone ASPs...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/24/2014
Sapphire Combines the R7 250X with a Vapor-X Cooler
In order to differentiate yourself in the GPU market, a GPU vendor has to be creative and provide a feature that no-one else does. On the high end...
8 by Ian Cutress on 2/23/2014
MSI Launches the A88XI AC, a mini-ITX FM2+ 802.11ac Motherboard
Everyone likes the small and the powerful. If I could get the power of a GTX Titan or R9 290X in a smartphone, we should all want one...
10 by Ian Cutress on 2/23/2014
Samsung Announces Tizen-based Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo Smartwatches
This morning Samsung dropped some news ahead of its Unpacked 5 event with the announcement of a refresh of its smart watch lineup, the Gear 2 and Gear 2...
9 by Brian Klug on 2/23/2014
NVIDIA GeForce 334.89 WHQL Drivers Now Available
After the previous 332.21 WHQL drivers became a part of my 2014 test setup over a month ago, NVIDIA have quickly turned around a new set of WHQL drivers...
13 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2014
MWC 2014: Archos Unveils Q1 2014 Line
Archos is a factor in European markets and I often see their name attached to a variety of devices here in the UK at least. They are making...
9 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2014
G.Skill takes Ripjaws SO-DIMM to DDR3-2600MHz on ASRock M8
One of the many issues presented with a SO-DIMM capable system, whether laptop or desktop, is one of performance. In our recent Haswell memory scaling article using regular...
10 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2014
NVIDIA Adds LTE to Tegra Note 7
As Brian, Josh, Ian and myself prepare to head to Barcelona for this year's MWC, NVIDIA makes its first announcement before the show: the Tegra Note 7 will now...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/21/2014
Gaming Bundles Weekly Roundup: Humble, Indie, etc.
I’m going to make a change with my coverage of gaming bundles; rather than focusing mostly on Humble Bundle, I’ll try to gather together a short overview of the...
18 by Jarred Walton on 2/21/2014
Broadwell NUC Roadmap Revealed
The Next Unit of Computing (NUC) from Intel is becoming a part of the PC roadmap like never before. Anand reviewed the first generation of the NUC, the...
28 by Ian Cutress on 2/20/2014
Intel’s Three Versions of Socket 2011, Not Compatible
With our recent discussion regarding Intel’s launch of the 15-core Xeon E7 v2 ‘IvyTown’ processors, thoughts for a lot of high end consumers focused on the underlying hardware for...
47 by Ian Cutress on 2/20/2014
Red Harbinger tests the Cryptocurrency Chassis Market: The DopaMINE
With the ups and downs of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin now part of the zeitgeist; notable trends are starting to happen. The software is being probed...
27 by Ian Cutress on 2/19/2014
AMD Announces "AMD Rewards" Program for the Gaming Evolved Application
We normally don’t cover contests and giveaways, but this one is just a bit different than the others and sheds some light on the inner workings of AMD, so...
25 by Ryan Smith on 2/19/2014
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan Black: No Compromises for Gaming & Compute
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan was an absolute beast when it launched. With 7.1 billion transistors and an architecture that separated itself from high-end consumer GPUs, the Titan was worthy...
45 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/18/2014
HTC Advantage: Free Repairs for Cracked Screens in the First 6 Months of Ownership
Ahead of MWC and hot on the heels of its announcement that the next HTC flagship smartphone will be unveiled on March 25, HTC is introducing a new program...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/18/2014
5TB 3.5” Enterprise HDD from Toshiba Announced
Despite the focus on immediate storage is on the solid-state drive, whenever a large backup is needed then the mechanical hard-disk drive is still reigning supreme, and the demand...
42 by Ian Cutress on 2/15/2014
Lian Li Launches the PC-A51 ATX Mid-Tower Reverse Air-Flow Chassis
It seems that the further down the chain of PC components, the more companies there are to produce the hardware. For desktop PCs we have two main CPU...
20 by Ian Cutress on 2/14/2014
Radeon R9 290X Retail Prices Hit $900
Though we keep track of video card pricing regularly on an internal basis, it’s not something we normally publish outside of our semi-regular buyer’s guides. More often than not...
135 by Ryan Smith on 2/14/2014
AMD’s DockPort Given Virtual Overview
Flying somewhat under the radar, DockPort from AMD is designed to be a low-cost all-in-one solution for external connectivity for a PC or tablet. Sound familiar? Like...
52 by Ian Cutress on 2/13/2014
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