Intel Announces the Core i7-8086K: Coffee Lake at 5 GHz
As an homage to both Intel’s 50 year company anniversary and the 40 year anniversary of the eponymous 8086 processor, today Intel surprised us all in announcing the Core...
70 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018The Intel Computex 2018 Keynote: A Live Blog (2pm Taiwan, 6am UTC)
Usually one of the bigger press events of Computex is Intel's Keynote. This year it will be hosted by Intel's Gregory Bryant, and we will be all-ears to hear...
13 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 6/5/2018ASUS Zen Press Event Live Blog (11:30am Taiwan, 3:30am UTC)
Anton and I are at ASUS' consumer press event, more often called the 'Zen' press event. We expect a quick flurry of launches from Jonney Shih, so stay tuned...
5 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 6/4/2018The Apple WWDC 2018 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 1pm ET)
Kicking off at 10am PT (1pm ET) is Apple's annual World Wide Developers Conference keynote speach. We're live from always sunny San Jose, California, to see what Apple has...
21 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 6/4/2018ASUS Gaming Smartphone: 11mm-style ROG Phone with Speed-Binned Snapdragon 845
ASUS producing a gaming smartphone is one of the more esoteric news stories at the Computex 2018 trade show this year. To fire a shot right across the bow...
83 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2018The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 47: Intel Goes Super Premium Optane
Today at Intel’s Data Center Memory Summit, the new ‘Apache Pass’ Optane memory DIMMs were announced, with capacities from 128 GB to 512 GB. This new 3D XPoint type...
36 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2018ASUS ROG Press Event at Computex 2018 (6:30pm Taiwan, 10:30am UTC)
ASUS' Press Event. For Those Who Dare, apparently. We've got some tasty news lined up, and we're coving the press event with a Live Blog.
7 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2018Computex 2018 NVIDIA Live Blog (1pm TW, 5am UTC)
We're here at NVIDIA for our first Live Blog of Computex. Event starts in a few minutes.
29 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2018The Riotoro Prism Gaming Mechanical Keyboard Review: Making A Strong Debut
Today we are taking a look at Riotoro's first mechanical keyboard, the Ghostwriter Prism. The company's first mechanical keyboard is targeted towards demanding gamers and advanced users, with original...
13 by E. Fylladitakis on 6/1/2018Arm's Cortex-A76 CPU Unveiled: Taking Aim at the Top for 7nm
Another year, another TechDay from Arm. Over the last several years Arm’s event has come as clockwork in the May timeframe and has every time unveiled the newest flagship...
123 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/31/2018Arm Announces Mali-G76 GPU: Scaling up Bifrost
It’s been two years since Arm announced their first “next-generation” GPU architecture based on Bifrost and alongside with it its first implementation the G71. Following its release in the...
25 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 5/31/2018Intel Launches Optane DIMMs Up To 512GB: Apache Pass Is Here!
Intel today announced the availability of their long-awaited Optane DIMMs, bringing 3D XPoint memory onto the DDR4 memory bus. The modules that have been known under the Apache Pass...
74 by Ian Cutress & Billy Tallis on 5/30/2018Intel Persistent Memory Event: Live Blog
It's a Live Blog! More Optane in bound, looks like Apache Pass.
28 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2018The Supermicro X11SRA Motherboard Review: C422 based Workstation for Xeon-W
For many professionals, a consumer level board may not have the features needed to satisfy their needs. Typically these boards include additional network functions and can have more and...
63 by Joe Shields on 5/30/2018Qualcomm Announces XR1 Platform: Dedicated SoC for VR/XR Headsets, Coming Late 2018
For the better part of the past few years now, Qualcomm has been making a serious and concentrated effort to establish themselves as the dominant player in the mobile...
19 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2018Qualcomm VR and AR Press Event: Live Blog (7pm PT, 2am UTC)
Qualcomm is attending the AWE Event, an AR and VR expo. We're here at their press event in Levi's Stadium, ready for the Live Blog. Event starts at 7pm Pacific.
43 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/29/2018The Windows 10 April Update (1803): The Littlest Big Update
We’re about three years into Windows 10, and we’ve seen a lot of changes to the OS, as well as the servicing model, in those three years. The move...
164 by Brett Howse on 5/25/2018The Plextor M9Pe NVMe SSD Review: Teaching An Old Chip New Tricks
The M9Pe is Plextor's first NVMe SSD to use 3D NAND, replacing the previous flagship's planar MLC with Toshiba 3D TLC NAND but keeping the same aging Marvell controller...
15 by Billy Tallis on 5/24/2018Assessing Cavium's ThunderX2: The Arm Server Dream Realized At Last
A little less than 2 years ago, we investigated the first Arm server SoC that had a chance to compete with midrange Xeon E5s: the Cavium ThunderX. The SoC...
98 by Johan De Gelas on 5/23/2018The New HTC U12+ Smartphone Hands On
After the latest deal with Google on personnel, the next flagship out from HTC is the U12+, succeeding the squeeze-focused U11 and U11+ from 2017. For this generation HTC...
47 by Ian Cutress on 5/23/2018