Intel eyes PC revival as Iris Pro heads to the desktop
Intel is hoping to revive the desktop computer industry with a slew of new processors and partnerships this year. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the chip giant outlined an...
View ArticleRenesas offers Apple stake in smartphone display chip unit
Troubled chipmaker Renesas is talking to one of its bigger clients, Apple, to see if it’s interested in buying a chunk its smartphone display chip unit. According to Nikkei, Renesas is making huge...
View ArticleCurved 4K LCD panels to land on a desk near you
One of the world’s largest display panel manufacturers has demoed a series of 4K curved LCD displays which may pave the way for a new generation of premium business displays. Hold your horses, though,...
View ArticleStudies point to home and business growth for 3D printing
Two new studies have suggested that the 3D printing industry is on the verge of a boom. It is thought that sales of consumer printers are likely to begin increasing rapidly, as is the value of good...
View ArticleWill.i.am partners with Coca-cola for eco-friendly 3D printer
Will.i.am seems to be spending an awful lot of time in technology recently. As the chief creative officer of 3D Systems, he announced that the company he’s backing will partner with Coca Cola’s...
View ArticleAMD unveils 2 TFLOPS HPC GPU
AMD has launched its fastest server GPU yet, the FirePro S9150, one that is aimed at the supercomputing market where archrival Nvidia seems to have the upper hand with its Tesla K20X series. Two of...
View ArticleSharp’s MX-C301W printer is 17-inches wide, 18-inches tall
Businesses searching for a powerful printer in a small frame will be interested to hear about Sharp’s latest offering. Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America has released a new 17-inch wide,...
View ArticleHow Intel’s plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
View ArticleYou’ll soon be able to 3D print your own Raspberry Pi-powered laptop
From body parts to aircraft wings, barely a week goes by without hearing that something new has been made on a 3D printer, but this might be one of the most ambitious projects yet. Detailed in a...
View ArticleIn depth: Nvidia jumps into virtual reality with GeForce GTX 980 and 970
The marriage between PCs and virtual reality is stronger than ever thanks to the latest graphics card from Nvidia. During Nvidia’s inaugural 24-hour PC gaming event, Game24, CEO Jen-Hsun Jeng revealed...
View ArticleSponsored: Create better everything with LG’s new UltraWide QHD curved monitor
Technology can be a wonderful boon for creative professionals, but it can also get in the way of creativity, when the interface between you and the tools of your trade pales compared with real life....
View ArticleIn Depth: Intel processors: everything you need to know
Introduction and Core processors Not so long ago, processors were judged largely by raw clock speed alone, a measure of how many calculations the chip is capable of performing in the space of a...
View ArticleThe end of an era as Chinese company mulls plans for massive AMD investment
It looks more and more likely that Intel’s once-formidable archrival, AMD, could receive some significant capital from a little known Chinese conglomerate called Loongson Technology. VRWorld reports...
View ArticleOpinion: I dumped my mechanical keyboard because it wasn’t my type
Introduction After tucking its USB cable neatly to one side, my gleaming mechanical keyboard was lowered back into its box like a sinking sea vessel accepts its watery fate. Having only owned the...
View ArticleInterview: SDN and HAMR are key to Seagate’s near future
"Watch this space", Joe Fagan, Senior Director Cloud Initiatives, EMEA at Seagate, told me when I queried him regarding the drive for a new hard disk form factor in the hyperscale market that...
View ArticleLeaks detail Intel’s plans for Broadwell and Skylake
Another day, another couple of leaks that reveal a little more about what Intel has planned for its Broadwell and Skylake families this year. Kicking things off with Broadwell, a slide reported by...
View ArticleIntel targets mission critical applications with new Xeon chips
Intel has refreshed its top of the range Xeon processors with the new Xeon E7 v3 models, based on the Haswell microarchitecture, a product line that will target analytics, business intelligence, ERP,...
View ArticleComputex 2015: Intel’s new tech makes a one-cable world a reality
Intel has confirmed that it will be using the USB Type-C connector for the Thunderbolt 3, its next generation data communication standard, a move that brings both technologies closer. The move comes...
View ArticleMicrosoft looking to buy AMD. Why not?
Microsoft may be looking to buy AMD, according to a source familiar to the matter and quoted by tech news website, Kitguru. The two have apparently been talking for a few months with the result of the...
View ArticleUpdated: Thunderbolt 2 vs USB 3.0 vs eSATA
Introduction and speed The high-speed Thunderbolt standard has been given a huge upgrade, and it can now deliver twice as much data through a single channel. But it isn’t the only high-speed...
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