Trade Shows
As Intel looks to streamline its business operations and get back to profitability in the face of weak revenues and other business struggles, nothing is off the table as the company looks to cut costs into 2025 – not even Intel’s trade shows. In an unexpected announcement this afternoon, Intel has begun informing attendees of its fall Innovation 2024 trade show that the event has been postponed. Previously scheduled for September of this year, Innovation is now slated to take place at some point in 2025. Innovation is Intel’s regular technical showcase for developers, customers, and the public, and is the successor to the company’s legendary IDF show. In recent years the show has been used to deliver status updates on Intel’s fabs, introduce new...
ASUS Zenbook Infinity: Hands On with the Most Beautiful Notebook at Computex
I think I just saw the most beautiful notebook at Computex this year. Although it went unannounced in ASUS' Computex 2013 press conference, the Zenbook Infinity garnered a lot...
105 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/6/2013Computex 2013: Rosewill
On the Rosewill stand for 2013 we were shown a few interesting cases, plus a competitor to the Corsair AX1200i. The main case I particularly liked was the new Rosewill...
20 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2013Intel Announces Thunderbolt 2 at Computex: 20Gbps Bi-Directional Bandwidth per Channel
Earlier this year Intel revealed some details about Falcon Ridge, its 2014 Thunderbolt controller. Today it went a little further and gave the updated Thunderbolt spec a new name...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2013ASUS ROG Press Conference: Combined Air/Water GPU Cooling
The next big announcement from the ASUS ROG Press Conference is the Poseidon – the air and water cooling combination on a graphics card. This opens up a range of...
8 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2013ASUS ROG Press Conference: ROG Maximus VI Formula and Impact
ASUS ROG Press Conference: Motherboards For at least every Computex I have attended, ASUS have put on a show – the ROG press conference. This is ASUS’ opportunity to...
27 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2013ASUS ROG Press Conference: Sonic Radar Gaming Software
With a brand focused at gamers (and overclocking), software is all important. Over previous generations ASUS have included better audio software packages, integrated SSD caching, network-stack bypassing NICs...
12 by Ian Cutress on 6/3/2013The ASUS Transformer Book Trio: Atom + Haswell, Android + Windows 8
Now on to notebooks, ASUS just announced the Transformer Book Trio - what it is calling the world's first three-in-one notebook, tablet and desktop PC. In a move that's...
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013ASUS' $149 MemoPad HD 7: Quad-Core Cortex A7, 1280x800 IPS Display
It just keeps coming. ASUS also announced a $149 16GB MemoPad HD 7 featuring a quad-core Cortex A7 SoC and a 1280 x 800 IPS display. The HD 7...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013ASUS Announces 6-inch FonePad Note
The FonePad Note is a 6-inch tablet complete with a 1080p Super IPS+ display, Atom Z2560 SoC (Clover Trail+), 2GB of RAM and a 3G modem with support for...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013ASUS' New Transformer Pad Infinity: Tegra 4 + 2560 x 1600 IPS Display
ASUS just announced its next-generation Transformer Pad Infinity based on NVIDIA's Tegra 4 SoC and featuring a 2560 x 1600 display.
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013ASUS MemoPad FHD10: Clover Trail+, 10-inch, 1920x1200, Android 4.2
Alongside the beautiful Zenbook Infinity ASUS also displayed its MemoPad FHD10, a 10-inch Clover Trail+ tablet running Android 4.2. ASUS' silicon of choice is Intel's Atom Z2560, a dual-core...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013ASUS Zenbook Infinity: 28W Haswell with Iris 5100 Graphics, 2560 x 1440 Panel?
I just got seated for ASUS' annual Computex press conference, but just outside of the conference area ASUS already had its to-be-announced products on display. The most exciting? The...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013Computex 2013: Kabini in a BRIX, Haswell Too
Despite Computex not officially starting yet, I am spending most of today in the Gigabyte suite. Before my booth tour I took a quick look around and a...
23 by Ian Cutress on 6/3/2013ARM Cortex A12: Between Cortex A9 and A15 in Power & Perf, Sampling in Late 2014
We’ve talked about the hole in ARM’s product lineup for quite a while now. The Cortex A9 is too slow to compete with the likes of Intel’s Atom and...
78 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/2/2013ARM Mali-T622 & V500 Video Block Complement Cortex A12
Alongside today's Cortex A12 announcement, ARM is also announcing two new IP blocks: the Mali-T622 GPU and the Mali V500 video encode/decode block. The Mali-T622 is a 2-core implementation of...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/2/2013Gigabyte Launching Two New Haswell Xeon Server Motherboards
On the back of the Haswell launch a Gigabyte email dropped in our inbox regarding a pair of new single socket workstation motherboards they are launching for Haswell Xeons...
13 by Ian Cutress on 6/2/2013The Gadget Show Live, April 2013: Technology in the UK
On Tuesday this week I went to The Gadget Show Live, a trade and public show about technology and entrepreneurs in the UK. There are some interesting developments...
25 by Ian Cutress on 4/4/2013Intel's Clover Trail+: Dual-Core CPU and Graphics Unveiled at MWC 2013
We find ourselves at another Mobile World Congress, discussing another Intel Atom based smartphone SoC. While last year we were talking about faster and lower performing versions of the...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/25/2013A Look at SkyCross and their Actively Tuned VersiTune Smartphone Antenna
On the last day of CES, while still getting over some of the death curry that we foolishly ingested the night before, I had a meeting with SkyCross, who...
9 by Brian Klug on 1/20/2013Vizio's AMD Z60 Hondo-based Windows 8 Tablet PC at CES 2013
Even with the comprehensive overhaul of their notebook lineup, the big news out of Vizio’s CES booth was definitely their new Windows 8 tablet. The Vizio Tablet PC is...
32 by Vivek Gowri on 1/15/2013