Apple Announces A8 SoC
As expected from this year’s iPhone keynote, Apple has announced a new member of their internally developed family of ARM SoCs. The latest SoC, dubbed A8, is Apple’s first SoC...
66 by on 9/9/2014NVIDIA Files Patent Infringement Complaints Against Qualcomm & Samsung
In a surprising move this afternoon, NVIDIA has announced that they will be filing patent infringement complaints against both Qualcomm and Samsung. This complaint is centered around the alleged...
77 by on 9/4/2014Samsung Announces Gear VR: A VR Harness For Your Note 4
Alongside today’s announcement of the Galaxy Note 4, Samsung also used the occasion to announce that they intend to break into the nascent VR headset market with their own...
20 by on 9/3/2014Meet the New Boss
Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss. If you had told me 15 years ago that I would one day be the Editor in Chief for AnandTech, there’s...
94 by on 8/30/2014NVIDIA & VMware Preview GRID vGPU & Tegra K1 Chromebook Support
NVIDIA has been anything but shy about their GPU virtualization aspirations, making it a focal point for the company’s development since the launch of their first GRID cards back...
11 by on 8/27/2014AMD Announces Radeon R9 285, Shipping September 2nd
During their 30 years of graphics celebration, today AMD announced a forthcoming addition to the Radeon R9 200 graphics card lineup. Launching on September 2nd will be the company’s...
84 by on 8/23/2014Intel Demonstrates Direct3D 12 Performance and Power Improvements
Since the introduction of Direct3D 12 and other low-level graphics APIs, the bulk of our focus has been on the high end. One of the most immediate benefits to...
42 by on 8/15/2014NVIDIA Launches Next GeForce Game Bundle - Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
After letting their previous Watch Dogs bundle run its course over the past couple of months, NVIDIA sends word this afternoon that they will be launching a new game...
8 by on 8/12/2014NVIDIA Refreshes Quadro Lineup, Launches 5 New Quadro Cards
Continuing today’s spate of professional graphics announcements, along with AMD’s refresh of their FirePro lineup NVIDIA is announcing that they are undertaking their own refresh of their Quadro lineup...
24 by on 8/12/2014AMD Completes FirePro Refresh, Adds 4 New FirePro Cards
Kicking off a busy day for professional graphics, AMD is first up to announce that they will be launching a quartet of new FirePro cards. As part of the...
28 by on 8/12/2014Intel’s 14nm Technology in Detail
Much has been made about Intel’s 14nm process over the past year, and admittedly that is as much as Intel’s doing as it is the public’s. As one of...
38 by on 8/11/2014Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M
Typically we would see Intel unveil the bulk of the technical details of their forthcoming products at their annual Intel Developer Forum, and with the next IDF scheduled for...
158 by on 8/11/2014Khronos Announces Next Generation OpenGL Initiative
As our regular readers have already seen, 2013 and 2014 has been one of the most significant periods for graphics APIs in years. While OpenGL and Direct3D have not...
22 by on 8/11/2014OpenGL SIGGRAPH 2014 Update: OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1, & More
Taking place this week is SIGGRAPH 2014, the graphics industry’s yearly professional event. As the biggest graphics event of the year this show has become the Khronos Group’s favorite...
4 by on 8/11/2014Khronos Announces OpenCL SPIR 2.0
The last time we talked to Khronos about the OpenCL Standard Portable Intermediate Representation (SPIR) was back at SIGGRAPH 2013. At the time Khronos was gearing up for the...
2 by on 8/11/2014Synology Advises Users of SynoLocker Ransomware
NAS and storage server manufacturer Synology sends word this afternoon that they are informing their customers of a currently ongoing and dangerous ransomware attack that is targeting Synology devices. Dubbed...
19 by on 8/4/2014NVIDIA GeForce 340.52 WHQL Drivers Now Available
Joining today’s launch of the SHIELD Tablet is a new GeForce driver set from NVIDIA. After last month’s release of the first R340 beta driver, 340.43, NVIDIA is back...
4 by on 7/29/2014AMD Gaming Evolved Client 4.0 Released
Just over a month ago, AMD and their partner Raptr pushed out the first version of their video recording Game DVR utility, which ships as a part of AMD’s...
12 by on 7/28/2014Imagination Posts PowerVR Rogue Specification Summary
Being in the business of licensing out GPUs rather than building them directly, Imagination’s PowerVR group has always walked a fine line in how they communicate with their direct...
7 by on 7/17/2014ARM’s Mali Midgard Architecture Explored
This year then has been especially productive for learning more about SoC GPUs, and as of today it’s going to get even better. After we took a look at...
66 by on 7/3/2014