From X-bit Labs: The recent restructuring of Advanced Micro Devices seems to have drastic effects on the company’s roadmap. Earlier this year it transpired that the company has no plans to update its FX line of high-end desktop microprocessors in 2014 – 2015 timeframe. A new slide from AMD server...
From PC World: Samsung Electronics has announced a new chip that will make it possible for the company and others to build smartphones and tablets with up to 4GB of RAM.
Samsung has developed the industry’s first 8 Gigabit LPDDR4 (low power double data rate) mobile DRAM. By combining four of them...
From DailyTech: Samsung has pulled the wraps off a new and very massive 4K UHD TV. The TV measures 110-inches and will likely be seen in the Samsung booth at CES 2014, which kicks off next week. There isn’t much in the way of details on the massive TV at this time.
Other than the screen size, we...
I do not claim to be a hardcore photographer (Mainly because I do not have the skills nor the cash), but being an enthusiast at heart, I still have some pretty decent equipment kicking around the house. A few years ago, one girl saw me shooting with my Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM telephoto lens. "That looks like a crappy camera," she remarked, as she continued on with her Panasonic point and shoot. For at least a minute, with about $3000 of...
From EETimes: Europe's newly-minted 5GPPP Association plans to launch as many as 20 research projects in 2014, open to all comers, with a total budget of about 250 million euros. The ambitious effort, described in an interview with the new group's chairperson, is one of a handful of collaborations...
From PC World: Apple has been fined NT$20 million (US$663,332) by the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission for interfering with the pricing of the iPhone by three mobile carriers, according to reports.
The antitrust agency found Apple’s unit in charge of Taiwan sales violated article 18 of the Taiwan’s...
From DailyTech: Seemingly out of nowhere Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Chrome OS -- a Linux-kernel based personal computer operating system -- has emerged as a dominant force in the PC market.
According to market share data from the NPD Group Inc. -- a top market research group -- this year has been a rough...
From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp.’s code-named Maxwell graphics architecture has been discussed by the company for several years now and it is expected that it will debut sometime in April or March, 2014, around two years after the company unveiled its Kepler architecture. However, there are signs that...
When it comes to sequels and continuations, they usually go to one extreme or the other when it comes to quality. At times, you will see sequels that get praise and acclaim greater than the original, and other times you will see sequels that are said to not even deserving to be named after the original. For me, this is one of those statements I look at almost on a regular basis when it comes to both my personal life and my professional life. For...
From Maximum PC: Intel doesn't yet offer an 8-core processor for consumer desktop applications, but by the end of the year, that's going to change. The world's largest semiconductor company, despite being motivated to aggressively compete in the mobile market, is said to be readying the launch of 8...
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