Windows 8 Developer Preview Available for Everyone at 8 PM PST
At BUILD today Microsoft just announced that the same version of Windows 8 Developer Preview we've been using on Samsung tablets for the past day will be available at...
9 by Brian Klug on 9/13/2011
Tons of Thunderbolt Peripherals at IDF
We've been asking for more Thunderbolt devices and it looks like we're seeing the first examples of that today at IDF. Check out the gallery below for a bunch...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
OCZ Reveals 7.5mm 2.5" SSDs
OCZ just issued a press release revealing that LG is using OCZ's brand new 7.5mm 2.5" SSD in their P220 laptop. Note that regular 2.5" drives have height of...
9 by Kristian Vättö on 9/13/2011
Meet the Ultrabooks: OEM and ODMs Show Off Designs at IDF
IDF is well underway and we've just gone through the Ultrabook section of the convention center. Everyone from Foxconn to Lenovo had Sandy Bridge based Ultrabook designs at the...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
Google: All Future Versions of Android Will be Optimized for Intel x86
Paul Otellini just showed off a Medfield based Android phone (running the "latest" version of Android) and immediately announced a development partnership with Google. Andy Rubin from Google just...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
Haswell Design Complete
Intel just announced, unsurprisingly, Haswell's design is complete and already in the testing phase. Update: We just confirmed that although Haswell is complete, the solar powered demo below wasn't...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
Haswell Will Enable 10 Days of Connected Standby Battery Life
Intel just announced that Haswell (due out in 2013) was designed to reduce connected standby power by 30% compared to Sandy Bridge. The Haswell platform as a whole will...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
Ivy Bridge Will Bring a 35W Quad-Core i7
Earlier this year Intel revealed its mobile Sandy Bridge lineup, including a slew of 45W quad-core Core i7 SKUs. Next year Ivy Bridge will expand the range to include...
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
Meet the 2012 Thunderbolt Controllers: Cactus Ridge
Image Courtesy iFixit Thunderbolt has seen limited use this year - the standard has only been implemented by Apple and Sony, the rest of the PC market will have to...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
AMD Sets World Overclocking Record with 8.429GHz Bulldozer Processor
Before every major architecture launch from AMD or NVIDIA, the companies typically hold an editor's or tech day. These events usually last about a day (sometimes two) and involve...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
The Updated Tegra Roadmap: Kal-El+ in 2012, Wayne in Late 2012/Early 2013
Last week we confirmed NVIDIA would be introducing a Tegra SoC with integrated Icera baseband called Grey, but we got the timeframe down. Above you'll see the updated Tegra...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2011
Pricing Revealed for First AMD Bulldozer FX Chips
Though AMD began shipping Bulldozer-based sever CPUs last week, we're still waiting until Q4 for the new architecture to hit the desktop. In the meantime, however, pre-order pricing for...
58 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/12/2011
Acer Iconia Tab A501 Coming To AT&T's HSPA+ Network
Acer made a value play with their Acer Iconia A500, and the results left something to be desired. How much of that was Honeycomb growing pains is hard to...
2 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2011
HTC Titan Stretches Mango To 4.7" On AT&T
And hot on the heels of Samsung's Mango news, HTC has announced they're bringing their surprisingly thin HTC Titan to AT&T with Windows Phone 7.5 in tow. We first...
15 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2011
Samsung Brings Mango To AT&T This Fall
Not content to flood the market in Android variants, Samsung is starting their roll out of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) devices. The release we received this morning was scant...
6 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2011
Ivy Bridge Configurable TDP Detailed
At Computex Intel announced that Ivy Bridge would be its first processor to support a configurable TDP. Today all CPUs are rated at a single maximum TDP. Mainstream notebook...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2011
Samsung's Galaxy S 2: The Smoothest Scrolling Android Device Around
One aspect of differentiation between Android smartphones has always been how smoothly they scroll both in the OS and in the browser. Later versions of Android have addressed the...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2011
Ivy Bridge GPU Performance: Up to 60% Faster than SNB & Better QuickSync
This week Intel will begin sharing some of the first details of its Ivy Bridge processor (2012 Core i-series CPU) at the annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/12/2011
ARM's Mali-400 MP4 is the Fastest Smartphone GPU...for Now
Earlier this morning we published our long awaited review of the Samsung Galaxy S 2. In it we dedicated a few pages to investigating Samsung's own Exynos 4210 SoC...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2011
Intel Leaks i7-2700K
Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs were launched in January and so far, the desktop i7 lineup has consisted of three SKUs: i7-2600, i7-2600K and i7-2600S. Earlier this week, Intel released...
24 by Kristian Vättö on 9/10/2011
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