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...
EVGA's GeForce GTX 680 Classified, Water Cooling Optional
As one of the most well known NVIDIA partners we were expecting a heavily overclocked, very custom take on the GeForce GTX 680. At Computex EVGA brought its GeForce...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/8/2012TI Joins the Windows RT Demo Fray
Not one for being left out, TI had a demo of Windows RT running on its OMAP 4470 reference tablet. Microsoft instructed its partners not to show off anything...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/8/2012SandForce Demos 19nm Toshiba & 20nm IMFT NAND Flash
SandForce's controllers have fairly broad compatibility with NAND available on the market today. It shouldn't be a surprise that the first demo we saw of Toshiba's 19nm and Intel/Micron's...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/8/2012Acer Launches New Aspire V5 Series Laptops for the Budget Conscious Consumer
In the midst of all the Ultrabook announcements from Computex, there are also plenty of regular laptops coming out. Acer is launching a new line of laptops called V5...
12 by Jarred Walton on 6/7/2012QNAP's JTB-400: A BYOD 4-bay Thunderbolt Enclosure
Ahh, finally what I've been asking for: a 4-bay Thunderbolt enclosure that allows you to bring your own disks. I'm reserving excitement until I see just how much QNAP's...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/7/2012ASUS Demonstrates Displays with Integrated Touch and WiDi
Years ago ASUS made the transition from being just a motherboard company to a notebook manufacturer. These days I'm getting the distinct impression ASUS would like to be much...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/7/2012ASUS' Colorful X401 Series
Priced below the S-series Ultrabooks is ASUS' X401, a fairly standard notebook without discrete graphics. ASUS seems to be really on point with the styling of its 2012 Ivy...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/7/2012The MacBook Pro Inspired ASUS S-Series Ultrabook, Below $899
While the world waits for thinner, higher-resolution notebooks from Apple, ASUS delivered part of that with its new S-Series Ultrabooks revealed at Computex this year. Priced below $899 (basically...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/7/2012ASUS' Touch Enabled Zenbook Prime UX21A
Ultrabooks got off to a very rough start. The initial designs failed to impress, but the second generation based on Ivy Bridge seem to be a lot better. We...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/7/2012Computex 2012: Some more FM2 Motherboards, including Zotac, ECS and Biostar
Having had a chance to visit most of the motherboard manufacturers in Computex so far, I popped from the Zotac booth into the AMD booth on my way to...
8 by Ian Cutress on 6/7/2012Interview with David Chien – VP of ECS Channel Business Unit
Last year at Computex, we had the opportunity to have a group interview with David Chien, VP of ECS’ Channel Business Unit. This year, ECS have also wheeled...
4 by Ian Cutress on 6/6/2012First look at an AMD Brazos 2.0 Motherboard
Sapphire showed us its Brazos 2.0 motherboard based on AMD's E2-1800 APU with Radeon HD 7340 graphics. The Pure Mini E2-1800 uses SO-DIMMs (8GB max) and features both a...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/6/2012Sapphire's Passively Cooled Radeon HD 7770
Yesterday I met with AMD's well known GPU partner Sapphire. Among their laundry list of AMD based graphics cards was this passively cooled Radeon HD 7770. The board layout...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/6/2012Computex 2012: ASUS Motherboard Technical Showcase - ZEUS with dual GPU onboard
Producing concept boards is common in the automotive industry. Every year, companies such as Ford, Audi, Jaguar or Volkswagen will produce a concept as an indication of 'this...
16 by Ian Cutress on 6/6/2012Computex 2012: ASRock's New Motherboards: X79 Extreme11 with LSI SAS and Z77 OC Formula
ASRock have now gone slightly mad. You could argue that within that madness lies some semblance of innovation, as they are going to release a mad product with...
5 by Ian Cutress on 6/6/2012Fujitsu Launches New U772 and UH572 Ultrabooks
Fujitsu isn’t one of the companies we at AnandTech usually encounter in the realm of laptops; for whatever reason, their presence in the US market is decidedly limited. Nevertheless...
12 by Jarred Walton on 6/6/2012Computex 2012: MSI Overclock Warranty
As part of our tour of the MSI booth, I was shown the Z77 MPower motherboard - designed as a mainstream XPower gaming and overclocking board. I was...
0 by Ian Cutress on 6/6/2012Computex 2012: MSI and Trinity
At the MSI booth, we were treated to several interesting FM2 motherboards for upcoming Trinity desktop processors. In a variety of form factors (including miniITX!), MSI hope to...
8 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2012Computex 2012: MSI GPU Technologies
Visiting the MSI booth today at Computex was rather exciting – they were showing off two rather interesting GPU fan technologies, alongside their portable Thunderbolt GPU device, GUS. The...
8 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2012AMD Reveals Brazos 2.0 APUs and FCH
AMD today announced their Brazos 2.0 APUs, also known as their 2012 AMD E-series APU. Brazos has actually been a major success for AMD, particularly in emerging markets, as...
31 by Jarred Walton on 6/5/2012