Improving the State of 4K Display Support Under OS X
In my Mac Pro review I lamented the state of 4K display support under OS X 10.9.0. In my conclusion I wrote: "4K display compatibility under OS X is...
32 by on 3/7/2014OCZ's CEO Outlines Post-Acquisition Plans for TLC and Native PCIe SSDs
Late last year Toshiba announced its intentions to acquire OCZ's assets for $35 million in cash. The offer came after OCZ filed for bankruptcy, following a year of corporate...
19 by on 3/7/2014ASUS Chromebox Available for Pre-Order Now, Shipping March 14, Not Fanless
Last month ASUS announced its NUC-sized Chromebox, a small form factor affordable desktop running Google's Chrome OS. The Chromebox will be available with three different CPU options, all based...
33 by on 3/7/2014AMD Radeon R7 250 - AMD Center Giveaway
The month of Radeon R7 250 giveaways continues! Last week we chose three winners for a stack of ASUS Radeon R7 250s, and this week AMD is giving us...
945 by on 3/5/2014Apple Announces CarPlay: iOS in the Car Arriving in 2014
Earlier this morning Apple officially branded its iOS in the Car initiative as CarPlay. At a high level CarPlay allows iPhone 5/5c/5s users to access certain apps on their...
35 by on 3/3/2014NVIDIA's Tegra Note 7 LTE and Tegra 4i Devices: Hands On
Yesterday I spent some time with NVIDIA where I played with the newly announced Tegra Note 7 LTE. Internally the $299 Note 7 LTE is identical to the WiFi-only...
28 by on 2/26/2014Samsung's Exynos 5422 & The Ideal big.LITTLE: Exynos 5 Hexa (5260)
Samsung announced two new mobile SoCs at MWC today. The first is an update to the Exynos 5 Octa with the new Exynos 5422. The 5422 is a mild...
35 by on 2/25/2014The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 28 - MWC 2014 Mobile Show
After popular demand, here is our Mobile World Congress 2014 Mobile Show in podcast form. Recorded live from Mobile World Congress 2014, on this episode Anand Shimpi & Brian Klug...
18 by on 2/25/2014The AnandTech Mobile Show - MWC 2014 Edition
Earlier this morning (Barcelona time) Brian and I sat down in front of a camera and recapped some of the major news at MWC. We talked about the new...
23 by on 2/25/2014Intel Talks Atom Z3460/Z3480 (Merrifield), Z3560/Z3580 (Moorefield) and LTE at MWC 2014
For the past couple of years Intel has used MWC as an opportunity to update us on its mobile plans. This year is no different as Intel officially launches...
42 by on 2/24/2014Imagination's PowerVR GX6650: Competition for Mobile Kepler
Ryan touched on this in his excellent deep dive on Imagination's PowerVR Series 6XT GPU architecture earlier today, but I wanted to specifically call out the new high-end from...
16 by on 2/24/2014Qualcomm's Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974AC): The New 32-bit Flagship Until 805
As Qualcomm continues to move its SoCs to 64-bit ARMv8 based cores, there's still demand for high-performance 32-bit solutions today. We're still some months away from Snapdragon 805 showing...
13 by on 2/24/2014Snapdragon 610 & 615: Qualcomm Continues Down its 64-bit Warpath with 4/8-core Cortex A53 Designs
The unexpected arrival of Apple's first 64-bit ARMv8 core (codename: Cyclone) at the end of last year forced a transition to 64-bit sooner than expected. Silicon vendors keep telling...
26 by on 2/24/2014ZTE Announces Use of Qualcomm CMOS PA as March Towards RF360 Continues
Today at MWC Qualcomm announced ZTE will be the first smartphone customer to ship with Qualcomm's CMOS Power Amplifier, a part of its RF360 front end solution. This is...
7 by on 2/24/2014SanDisk iNAND Extreme in 2014: Finally a Good eMMC Solution for Mobile?
For the past couple of years we've been focusing more on tracking storage performance within smartphones and tablets. For the most part, we've come away disappointed. With smartphone ASPs...
7 by on 2/24/2014NVIDIA Adds LTE to Tegra Note 7
As Brian, Josh, Ian and myself prepare to head to Barcelona for this year's MWC, NVIDIA makes its first announcement before the show: the Tegra Note 7 will now...
21 by on 2/21/2014AMD Center Giveaway: ASUS Radeon R7 250
Lately there's been a lot of excitement around value video cards. Part of it is due to the simple fact that for low resolution gaming, you can generally approximate...
1570 by on 2/20/2014NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan Black: No Compromises for Gaming & Compute
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan was an absolute beast when it launched. With 7.1 billion transistors and an architecture that separated itself from high-end consumer GPUs, the Titan was worthy...
45 by on 2/18/2014HTC Advantage: Free Repairs for Cracked Screens in the First 6 Months of Ownership
Ahead of MWC and hot on the heels of its announcement that the next HTC flagship smartphone will be unveiled on March 25, HTC is introducing a new program...
14 by on 2/18/2014ARM Cortex A17: An Evolved Cortex A12 for the Mainstream in 2015
ARM has been doing a good job figuring out its PR strategy as of late. In the span of a couple of years we went from very little outward...
41 by on 2/11/2014