The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard Review: A Truly Unique, Truly Expensive Keyboard for Pros
Today we are having a look at the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, the most overconfident and expensive mechanical keyboard that has ever found its way into our labs. Developed with...
73 by E. Fylladitakis on 3/12/2020Amazon's Arm-based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute
It’s been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called 'A1' instances. While the processor...
98 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/10/2020How Good (or Bad) is a $100 Laptop? The Coda Spirit Review
Back in late 2014, I remember Brett reviewing the HP Stream 11-inch laptop for $200. At the time, it was a great little machine, offering all you need to...
99 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/9/2020AMD Financial Analyst Day 2020 Round-Up: Laying A Path For Bigger & Better Things
AMD’s first Financial Analyst Day since 2017 has just wrapped up. In the last three years AMD has undergone a dramatic change, launching its Zen CPU architecture, and greatly...
51 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2020El Capitan Supercomputer Detailed: AMD CPUs & GPUs To Drive 2 Exaflops of Compute
Back in August, the United States Department of Energy and Cray announced plans for a third United States exascale supercomputer, El Capitan. Scheduled to be installed in Lawrence Livermore...
54 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2020Intel CFO: Our 10nm Will Be Less Profitable than 22nm [Morgan Stanley Transcription]
This week at Morgan Stanley’s Analyst Conference, Intel’s CFO, George Davis, sat down to discuss the future of where Intel’s profitability lies. No stranger to the odd comments relating...
92 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/4/2020Next Generation Arm Server: Ampere’s Altra 80-core N1 SoC for Hyperscalers against Rome and Xeon
Several years ago, at a local event detailing a new Arm microarchitecture core, I recall a conversation I had with a number of executives at the time: the goal...
69 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/3/2020Intel NUC10i7FNH Frost Canyon Review: Hexa-Core NUC Delivers a Mixed Bag
Small form-factor (SFF) PCs and gaming systems have represented the bulk of the growing segment in the PC market over the last few years. Intel's NUC line-up has enjoyed...
85 by Ganesh T S on 3/2/2020Testing a Chinese x86 CPU: A Deep Dive into Zen-based Hygon Dhyana Processors
In 2016, through a series of joint ventures and created companies, AMD licensed the design of its first generation Zen x86 processors to be sold into China. The goal...
133 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Wendell Wilson on 2/27/2020The MSI Creator TRX40 Motherboard Review: The $700 Flagship for Threadripper
The TRX40 chipset is designed to support all the current generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors including the 3990X which has 64-cores and 128-threads of processing power. On the test...
47 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/26/2020Sony Announces New Xperia 1 II Flagship, Teases Xperia PRO
Today Sony announces the successor to last year’s Xperia 1 flagship phone, the new Xperia 1 II, as well as teasing a new interesting device in the form of...
120 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/24/2020Qualcomm’s New 3rd Generation Snapdragon X60 5G Modem, Built on 5nm
To date Qualcomm has promoted two key standalone 5G modems for widespread adoption: the Snapdragon X50 and the Snapdragon X55. Today the company is disclosing details on its upcoming...
50 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/18/2020Enterprise NVMe Round-Up 2: SK Hynix, Samsung, DapuStor and DERA
Nine enterprise NVMe SSDs suffer through our updated test suite to show who's who for high-end storage.
33 by Billy Tallis on 2/14/2020AT 101: Wi-Fi 6 And Why You Want It
Over the last generation of computing, there has been an explosion of devices that no longer have or need the capability of connecting to a hard-wired Ethernet connection, and...
149 by Brett Howse on 2/12/2020Samsung Announces The Galaxy S20, S20+ and S20 Ultra: 120Hz, 5G, Huge Batteries, Crazy Cameras and $$$
The year is 2020. The 20’s are back (we’ll see if they’ll be roaring or not), and not only is it a new decade, but it’s also time for...
172 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/11/2020Samsung's Unpacked 2020 Event: Galaxy S20 And More - Live Blog (11am PT)
Today Samsung is hosting the 2020's first Unpacked launch event in San Francisco. We're expecting the brand new Galaxy S20 series, a new foldable phone, and maybe a few...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/11/2020The 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review: In The Midst Of Chaos, AMD Seeks Opportunity
The recent renaissance of AMD as the performance choice in the high-end x86 market has been great for consumers by enabling a second offering at the top-end of the...
282 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 2/7/2020The Corsair Hydro X Custom Water Cooling Review, on a Ryzen 9 3950X
During Computex 2019, Corsair unveiled its new Hydro X series - a new range of water cooling hardware that markts its first entry into custom water cooling market. The...
72 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/5/2020Enterprise SATA SSDs: Can Budget 2020 beat Top Line 2017?
Today we're looking at two wildly different enterprise SATA SSDs: the Kingston DC450R entry-level server SSD with the latest controller and 96L 3D NAND, and the Micron 5100 MAX...
21 by Billy Tallis on 2/4/2020Western Digital Roadmap Updates: Energy Assisted Recording, Multi-Stage Actuators, Zoned Storage
Between CES at the beginning of the month, a series of presentations at Storage Field Day last week and a quarterly earnings report this week, we've heard from just...
115 by Billy Tallis on 1/31/2020