The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 2
We're back! After a false start last week, we have our second podcast. This week Brian Klug, Ryan Smith and myself discussed Thunderbolt, Quick Sync in OS X, Windows...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/28/2012
PowerColor Announces Their Custom Devil13 HD7990 Dual-GPU Video Card
While AMD’s official Radeon HD 7990 (New Zealand) continues to be missing in action, we’ve known for some time now that PowerColor has been working on their own custom...
15 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2012
AMD Announces FirePro S Series: S9000 and S7000 For Servers
One of the surprising things we learned earlier this month with the launch of AMD’s FirePro W Series was that AMD would be retiring their FireStream brand. FireStream had...
8 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2012
Sprint 4G LTE Network Performance on the Motorola Photon Q
Last week Motorola sent us the Photon Q 4G LTE, a Qualcomm MSM8960 based Android smartphone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. While I'll touch on the phone and its...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/26/2012
Qualcomm's APQ8064 and GLBenchmark 2.5 - MDP/T Results
A month ago Qualcomm invited us to play with their latest mobile development platform, the APQ8064 based MDP/T. For those of you who have trouble following Qualcomm's naming scheme...
9 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/24/2012
Two New Z77 mITX Announced
Over the past couple of days, two new Z77 mini-ITX motherboards have been seen on the radar. The first is Gigabyte's Z77N-WiFi model, to be released alongside the...
43 by Ian Cutress on 8/23/2012Qualcomm Announces upcoming LG Smartphone with APQ8064 and MDM9615 Inside
We've been talking about how the next upcoming smartphone platform from Qualcomm will be the combination of a Snapdragon S4 Pro quad core APQ8064 alongside an MDM9x15 baseband for...
4 by Brian Klug on 8/22/2012
Open Source Router Platforms - Part 1: The Hardware
Open Source Router Spotlight A few months ago we asked a simple question - what do you use for your router, and what would you look for in a router...
46 by Brian Klug on 8/22/2012
NVIDIA Quietly Releases OEM GeForce GTX 660
As is typically the case for NVIDIA when it comes to OEM products, they have once again quietly released their newest OEM video card. Their latest OEM addition is...
36 by Ryan Smith on 8/22/2012
Intel's Medfield Reference Design Picked up by Russia's MegaFon
Intel has taken a unique approach to getting its Medfield SoC into the hands of customers around the world. After building a competitive, midrange (by today's standards) reference smartphone...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/22/2012
Diamond Multimedia Launches AMP1000 Android Media Player
Diamond Multimedia is well known for its AMD graphics cards and USB capture devices. The Android Media Player, AMP1000, being launched today is the latest addition to their TV...
16 by Ganesh T S on 8/21/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series Price Cuts, New Game Bundle Inbound
In another quick shift in the hyper-competitive performance video card market, AMD sends word this afternoon that they are enacting some price cuts that will be taking effect later...
120 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2012
Corsair Releases Neutron/Neutron GTX SSD Pricing
When we published our Neutron/Neutron GTX SSD review this morning we didn't have official pricing from Corsair. That's not all that unusual as pricing for many components can be...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/20/2012
Synaptics ForcePad: A Thinner, Pressure Sensitive Trackpad for Notebooks
Late last week I talked a bit about Synaptics’ smartphone touch technology, but today’s announcements apply to their role in the notebook space. Today Synaptics is announcing two new...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/20/2012
Synaptics ThinTouch: Bringing the Capacitive Touch Revolution to Mechanical Keyboards
Earlier this month Synaptics announced the acquisition of Pacinian, a company that focused on physical keyboards that used capacitive touch. To expand, Synaptics has to look beyond clickpad and...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/20/2012
Synaptics Talks In-Cell Touch & The Value of a Good Touch Controller
After Rick Bergman left AMD, a few familiar faces joined him at his new home Synaptics. Godfrey Cheng joined not too long after Bergman's departure as Synaptics' VP of...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/17/2012
Xiaomi Announces MIUI Phone Mi-Two with Quad Core Krait APQ8064 inside
About a year ago, I had the chance to play with a Xiaomi MIUI Mi-One handset while working on our Vellamo introduction and benchmarking story. The phone was based...
34 by Brian Klug on 8/16/2012
Intel Brings TRIM to RAID-0 SSD Arrays on 7-Series Motherboards, We Test It
In an unusually terse statement, Intel officially confirmed that the ATA TRIM command now passes through to RAID-0 SSD arrays on some systems running Intel's RST (Rapid Storage Technology...
41 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/16/2012
Live from Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 Launch
We just sat down at Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 US launch event. First announced at Mobile World Congress earlier this year, the Galaxy Note 10.1 brings Samsung's Note brand...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/15/2012
Microsoft Reveals First Battery Life Specs for Windows RT Tablets
Yesterday Microsoft announced the final roster for ARM based Windows RT tablets expected to launch this year. We'll see Windows RT tablets from ASUS, Dell, Lenovo and Samsung, as...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/14/2012
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