Apple iPhone 5: Announced
Apple announced its 6th generation iPhone, the iPhone 5, at a special event in San Francisco this morning. The iPhone 5 brings a huge list of improvements. Apple unexpectedly...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2012Apple Introduces New 8-pin Dock Connector, Dubs It Lightning
There was little doubt by the start of the event that Apple would be replacing their nearly decade old 30-pin connector. Apple always leaves room for suprises though. The...
33 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2012Apple's iPhone 5 Uses A6 SoC
This one caught us off guard, but Apple just announced the A6 SoC powering the new iPhone 5 features 2x faster CPU and GPU performance compared to the iPhone...
118 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2012Haswell: Up to 128MB On-Package Cache, ULV GPU Performance Estimates
Intel was surprisingly quiet about the remaining details of Haswell at IDF this year. We know the rough CPU architecture details, some info at a high level about the...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2012Hands On With Western Digital's New 5mm Hybrid Hard Drive
Remember the 5mm hybrid HDD announcement from yesterday? I just spent some time with the drive itself at the IDF Tech Showcase. The 5mm drive will be OEM-only at...
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012OCZ Vector: The First True Indilinx Based SSD (Barefoot 3) from OCZ
I just saw the outcome of a year long effort from both the Indilinx and the PLX teams at OCZ: the Vector SSD (pictured above). Unlike the Octane and...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012Intel's Xeon Phi in 10 Petaflops supercomputer
Intel announced the Xeon Phi ("Knights Corner") a few months ago and bought the Qlogic infiniband team and Cray fabric team to bolster its HPC efforts. A clear signal...
15 by Johan De Gelas on 9/11/2012Ivy Bridge Gets 4K Display Support in October
This October Intel will be providing a driver update for Ivy Bridge that will enable 4K x 2K resolution support as well as hardware accelerated 4K video decode. You'll...
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012Acer Iconia W510 and W700 Hands On at IDF
Intel had Acer W510 (Clover Trail/Atom based) and a W700 (Ivy Bridge based) Windows 8 tablets in its private press demo room at IDF. Both devices are featured in...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012Acer Aspire S7 Ultrabook Hands On at IDF 2012
Intel worked very closely with Acer on its upcoming lineup of Windows 8 tablets and Ultrabooks. As a result, Acer is featured front and center in many of Intel's...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012Intel's Next Unit of Computing: 4"x4", Core i3, Systems Targeted at $399
Intel tasked its engineers with building the absolute smallest fully featured compute unit possible. The result is something Intel markets as the Next Unit of Computing. This isn't a...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012IDF 2012: Haswell GT3 Running Skyrim
Although material on Haswell has been fairly light thus far, we have gotten a few gems. During this morning's keynote Dadi Perlmutter showed off Haswell GT3 (the highest end...
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012Intel Haswell Architecture Slides (IDF 2012)
If you didn't follow our live blog you can check out the first Haswell architecture disclosure slides in the gallery below.
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Hands On
Last week we were able to spend some time with Samsung's new Galaxy Note 2. The device is a largely updated version of the original Galaxy Note, that enjoyed...
50 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012Intel's Haswell: 20x Lower Platform Idle Power than Sandy Bridge, 2x GPU Performance of Ivy Bridge
If you've been following our IDF Live Blog you've already seen this, but for everyone else - Intel gave us a hint at what Haswell will bring next year...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012Netgear’s RAIDiator 5.3.6 Launches ReadyNAS Cloud Features
We have taken a look at the Netgear NV+ v2 multiple times in the past. With the launch of RAIDiator 5.3.6, Netgear is keeping up their promise to keep...
1 by Ganesh T S on 9/11/2012AMD Introduces SeaMicro SM15000 with Piledriver and Ivy Bridge Compute Cards
In its first major announcement since the acquisition by AMD, SeaMicro unveiled its SM15000 server. This is an updated version of the standard 10U SeaMicro chassis with 64 compute...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Johan De Gelas on 9/10/2012HP Brings Windows 8 Ready All-in-Ones
At our briefing with HP in the city, we had a chance to see just how far their Spectre branding was stretching by taking a look at their refreshed...
20 by Dustin Sklavos on 9/10/2012Western Digital Teases 5mm Hybrid Hard Drive
Intel's Ultrabook push has forced hard drive makers to do two things: take hybrid drives more seriously (because of the Ultrabook performance requirements) as well as focus on thinner...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2012Intel: By 2020 The Size of Meaningful Compute Approaches Zero
Intel Labs is a super interesting arm of the company, responsible for developing technologies that would potentially go into products 5 - 10 years down the road. It's from...
37 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2012