Nova 5T: Huawei Can Still Make New Phones With Google Services (sort of)
Today at a small event in Paris, Huawei announced its latest device for the more mass market: the Huawei Nova 5T. The Nova line from Huawei is part of...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/15/2019PCIe 6.0 Dev Reaches v0.3; On-Track for a Full Specification In 2021
Having wrapped up their work on the PCI-Express 5.0 specification earlier this year, the PCI-SIG wasted no time in getting to work on the next version of the specification...
45 by Ryan Smith on 10/15/2019AMD Refreshes Embedded GPU Lineup, Launches Polaris-Based Embedded Radeon E9560 & E9390
AMD’s GPU division has long had its hands in many businesses. While their consumer GPUs and semi-custom efforts tend to attract the most attention – and more recently, their...
7 by Ryan Smith on 10/15/2019AMD B550A System Spotted: OEM Only Chipset, PCIe 3.0
In every motherboard generation on AMD's AM4 socket, we have seen a premium motherboard chipset and a more budget friendly chipset play out in the market. For the latest...
16 by Anton Shilov on 10/15/2019HP Unveils Chromebox Enterprise G2: A Chrome OS-Based Business Desktop
Business and enterprise desktops is an interesting market recently - on the one hand, because extended support for Windows 7 nears its end early in 2020, multiple companies are...
39 by Anton Shilov on 10/14/2019Razer’s Blade Pro 17 for eSports: Now with a 240 Hz Display
Already a big name in the gaming laptop market thanks to its sizable-yet-portable form factor, Razer has announed that they're going to be expanding the range of their flagship...
17 by Anton Shilov on 10/14/2019Samsung & TSMC Develop 8nm & 7nm Automotive-Grade Nodes
As vehicles are getting ‘smarter’ and gaining autopilot capabilities, it is easy to predict that the demand for higher-performing and more complex automotive SoCs will be growing rapidly in...
29 by Anton Shilov on 10/14/2019Corsair 16GB DDR4-5000 Vengeance LPX Memory Kit: Built for AMD Ryzen 3000 and MSI
The high-tech industry loves milestones that are round numbers, be it frequency, number of cores, transistor count or something else. It is not that extra 100 MHz – 200...
38 by Anton Shilov on 10/11/2019Synopsys Demonstrates CXL and CCIX 1.1 over PCIe 5.0: Next-Gen In Action
Synopsys, one of the leading developers of chip development tools and silicon IP, demonstrated its CXL over PCIe 5.0 as well as CCIX 1.1 over PCIe 5.0 solutions at...
5 by Anton Shilov on 10/11/2019Intel to Discontinue Nearly All Desktop Kaby Lake CPUs
Intel has announced End-of-Life plan for most of its desktop Kaby Lake and remaining Skylake processors. The boxed and tray versions of the chips will be available for interested...
55 by Anton Shilov on 10/10/2019New Tools & IP Accelerate Development of 5nm Arm ‘Hercules’ SoCs
Arm, Synopsys, and Samsung Foundry have developed a set of optimized tools and IP that will enable chip designers to build next-generation SoCs based on Arm’s Hercules processor cores...
9 by Anton Shilov on 10/10/2019Fitbit Shifts Production Away from China
Fitbit has announced plans to shift its production away from China starting early 2020. The company indicated that the decision was conditioned by the fact that its products were...
21 by Anton Shilov on 10/10/2019TRX40 Chipset For Upcoming AMD Ryzen Threadripper Listed
In what is being put down to an inadvertent leak by MSI, it could be that the currently unannounced chipset for AMD's new 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper series processors...
21 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/10/2019HP Unveils Chromebooks for Enterprise: AMD and Intel
HP has introduced its first business-oriented Chromebooks for Enterprise mobile PCs that support advanced security, management, and deployment features. The lineup consists of two machines featuring different configurations: Intel-based...
7 by Anton Shilov on 10/10/2019The Oppo Reno Ace: 90 Hz AMOLED 6.5-inch HDR10+ with 65W Charging
Today in China, top 5 smartphone company Oppo launched its latest flagship smartphone. The new Oppo Reno Ace goes above and beyond the Oppo Reno launched earlier in the...
24 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/10/2019Intel Releases Advisory: Update X299 for Cascade-X, and Lose Kaby-X Support
Motherboard firmware is a fickle thing: in order to support as many CPUs as possible, especially in the multi-core and turbo era, each processor has to have its own...
23 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/10/2019Intel Starts to Close Omni-Path: OPA1 Xeon CPUs on EOL, OPA2 Axed
Intel this week announced plans to discontinue its 1st Generation Xeon Scalable processors with Omni-Path interconnect a year from now. With no 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable products announced to...
9 by Anton Shilov on 10/10/2019G.Skill Launches 32 GB DDR4 Modules, 256 GB Kits: Up to DDR4-4000
G.Skill has now rolled out its 32 GB unbuffered DDR4 modules in dual-channel and quad-channel memory kits. The modules are offered with data transfer rates from 2666 MT/s to...
27 by Anton Shilov on 10/9/2019Team Group Joins PCIe 4.0 SSD Race with Cardea Zero Z440 Drives
The rollout of AMD’s PCIe 4.0 Ryzen platform has accelerated releases of PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD drives. Team Group this week introduced its versions of SSDs based on Phison’s...
28 by Anton Shilov on 10/9/2019AMD Brings Ryzen 9 3900 and Ryzen 5 3500X To Life
Seemingly always with AMD’s product portfolio, there is a persistent drip of new products being inserted into the product stack throughout the lifetime of a given generation of hardware...
39 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/8/2019