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Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote. AMD announced not one but two new client platforms that will utilize the latest Zen 5 cores. This includes AMD's latest AI PC-focused chip family for the laptop market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. In comparison, the Ryzen 9000 series caters to the desktop market, which uses the preexisting AM5 platform. Built around the new Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture with some fundamental improvements to both graphics and AI performance, the Ryzen AI 300 series, code-named Strix Point, is set to deliver improvements in several areas. The Ryzen AI 300 series looks set to add another footnote in the march towards the AI PC with...
The LG G5 Launch Event Live Blog
We're here at MWC 2016 in Barcelona to cover LG's keynote, aptly named LG G5 Day.
16 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/21/2016
ARM Announces New Cortex-R8 Real-Time Processor
ARM’s Cortex-R range of processor IP is something we haven’t talked about too much in the past, yet it’s a crucial part of ARM’s business and is integrated in...
22 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/17/2016
Revisiting The Google Pixel C - Better, But Not There Yet
Last month I published my review of the Pixel C. While I thought it was a very interesting tablet, in the end I was unable to give it any...
67 by Brandon Chester on 2/17/2016
Samsung Announces New Exynos 7870 Mid-Range 14nm SoC
Today Samsung announced a new mid-range SoC called the Exynos 7870. The new SKU sports 8x Cortex A53s running at up to 1.6GHz. The GPU should be an ARM...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/17/2016
Vulkan 1.0 Specification Released: Drivers & Games Inbound
Back in August of 2014, Khronos announced the Next Generation OpenGL Initiative. The industry consortium, responsible for overseeing a number of major cross-platform GPU standards such as OpenGL and...
40 by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2016
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon Wear 2100 IoT SoC
Along with today's announcements of the Snapdragon 425, 435 and 625, we also see the reveal of a new wearables-oriented SoC: the Snapdragon Wear 2100. In the past we've...
23 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/11/2016
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 625, 425 & 435 Mid- and Low-End SoCs
Today Qualcomm announced three new SoCs in the mid and low-end Snapdragon lineup. At the lowest end we find the Snapdragon 425 offering a very frugal CPU configuration consisting...
22 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/11/2016
ARM Announces New 28nm POP IP For UMC Foundry
Today ARM announces a new POP IP offering directed at UMC's new 28HPCU manufacturing process. To date we haven't had the opportunity to properly explain what ARM's POP IP...
8 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/4/2016
Skylake Iris Pro hits Intel’s Pricing Lists: Xeon E3-1575M v5 with GT4e
One of our forum members, Sweepr, posted Intel’s latest pricing list for OEMs dated the 24th of January and it contained a number of interesting parts worth documenting. ...
72 by Ian Cutress on 1/26/2016
The Google Pixel C Review
In early 2010, Google and HTC launched the Nexus One. While it was designed in a partnership between Google and HTC, it represented Google's first step into the arena...
122 by Brandon Chester & Joshua Ho on 1/25/2016
The Apple iPad Pro Review
At this point it probably isn’t a secret that tablet sales have leveled off, and in some cases they have declined. Pretty much anywhere you care to look you’ll...
408 by Ryan Smith, Joshua Ho & Brandon Chester on 1/22/2016
Conexant Announces New Audio Processing Solutions At CES
At CES, Conexant gave me a demo of some of the audio processing technology that they've been working on. Conexant is a company that probably has their technology in...
10 by Brandon Chester on 1/14/2016
Revisiting Keyssa: Commercial Availability, Products in Q1 2016
While we talked about Keyssa at CES last year, details were rather sparse as the technology was still in the early stages of getting off the ground. However, this...
28 by Joshua Ho on 1/7/2016
Ambarella CES 2016 Tour
Yesterday Josh and I met with Ambarella and went on a tour of their exhibits. The main topic was their new line of SoCs, along with the various products...
6 by Brandon Chester on 1/7/2016
Imagination Announces PowerVR Series7XT Plus Family - Rogue Gets Improved Compute
A regular sight at CES at most years is a new PowerVR graphics announcement from the crew over at Imagination, and this year is no exception. Shortly before CES...
35 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2016
Hands On With the Huawei Honor 5X
We’ve reviewed Huawei Honor devices before, but by and large they were designed to target China and similar markets. There were also a number of growing pains as seen...
14 by Joshua Ho on 1/6/2016
Honor Launches The Honor Band Z1
Today during their pre-CES launch event honor announced a new smartphone as well as a new fitness tracker called the honor band Z1. I found interest in the honor...
4 by Brandon Chester on 1/6/2016
Samsung Unveils The Galaxy TabPro S
During Samsung's CES press conference the company announced a brand new 2-in-1 tablet. While it was initially thought to be an Android tablet to take on the likes of...
24 by Brandon Chester on 1/5/2016
Huawei Launches Huawei Watch Elegant and Huawei Watch Jewel
Huawei has announced two new versions of the Huawei Watch that target users looking for something more flashy than the standard steel model. The new versions of the Huawei...
6 by Brandon Chester on 1/5/2016
Gold Nexus 6P Comes To The US
One of the smaller announcements from Huawei at CES was the arrival of the gold colored Nexus 6P in the United States. The gold Nexus 6P, also known as...
3 by Brandon Chester on 1/5/2016
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