Applied Micro's X-Gene: The First ARMv8 SoC
We covered the X-Gene announcement a couple of weeks ago when the news was first made public. I was in London at the time meeting with Nokia so I...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/14/2011AMD Releases Opteron 4200 "Valencia" and 6200 "Interlagos" Series
AMD launched Bulldozer about a month ago, but the initial CPUs were only for desktops. As a follow up, AMD has today released the server variants of Bulldozer. There...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 11/14/2011Intel's 32 in 32 Challenge: SNB-E Giveaways
If you've read our Core i7 3960X Review, you'll know that Intel's Sandy Bridge E platform can be incredibly fast. If you want to own a 3960X system without...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/14/2011LIMBO Sells a Million Copies, Due Out on Mac This Year
LIMBO, the haunting indie platformer that netted a slew of awards for its minimalist design, has sold over a million copies, announced the developer Playdead. The success has allowed...
10 by Craig Getting on 11/11/2011Steam Hacked, Valve Investigating Possible Credit Card Theft
Valve head Gabe Newell sent out a message today explaining that the breach of Steam's forums this past Sunday goes beyond the message boards and potentially includes Steam account...
37 by Craig Getting on 11/10/2011iOS 5.0.1 Released to Fix Battery Life Issues
Apple today released the final version of iOS 5.0.1, its first update to iOS 5, after a brief beta period last week. The patch's main focus is a battery...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/10/2011Kingston Releases SSDNow V200 Series
Kingston has released a new SSD lineup named as SSDNow V200. This series comes in 2.5" form factor and is the successor of V100 series, which was released a...
12 by Kristian Vättö on 11/10/2011Samsung Licenses PowerVR SGX MP from Imagination Technologies
Samsung is a bit of a mobile GPU conoisseur it seems. Its previous flagship, Hummingbird, used a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU. Its most recent high-end SoC, the Exynos 4210...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/10/2011Corsair Gives Marvell Another Try With Performance Pro SSD
Corsair is no stranger to Marvell based SSDs. Prior to its current flagship Force 3 and Force GT (SF-2281 based) SSDs, Corsair released the Performance 3 Series using Marvell...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/10/2011Understanding Intel's Android 4.0 x86 Optimizations
Earlier this week Computer World published a story about Intel adding x86 optimizations to the Ice Cream Sandwich release of Android (4.0). The story itself was fine but a...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/9/2011ARM's Mali-T658 GPU in 2013, Up to 10x Faster than Mali-400
ARM's licensed CPU cores dominate the mobile space. This year the core of choice for high-end smartphones and tablets is ARM's Cortex A9 and late next year it'll be...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/9/2011AMD's Project Win: A Misunderstanding
Last week AMD announced layoffs that impacted 10% of its workforce. A disproportionate number of those AMDers were apparently from the marketing and PR groups, but even engineering was...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/9/2011Intel Haswell Info: Single Chip for Ultrabooks, GT3 GPU for Mobile, LGA-1150 for Desktop
VR-Zone spotted a bunch of very interesting slides about Haswell over at Chiphell. The slides and information both look fairly believable so let's get with the analyzing shall we? Haswell...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/9/2011Adobe Kills Mobile Flash Plug-In
Adobe announced via a press release today that it would cease development of the Flash Player for smartphones and tablets, and would shift its focus to HTML5 support for...
40 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/9/2011ASUS' Transformer Prime Detailed: Quad-Core Tegra 3 Tablet
Alongside NVIDIA's last remaining architecture disclosures about Tegra 3, ASUS is revealing more information about the world's first Tegra 3 tablet. The Prime is much thinner than its predecessor...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/9/2011Game Review: Squids (iOS)
Squids, the first title from The Game Bakers, is the best type of game to discover on the iPhone: addictive, charming, and accessible yet not lacking in depth. It...
6 by Craig Getting on 11/8/2011Firefox 8.0 Released
Another six weeks have gone by, which means that it's time for a new Firefox release: Firefox 8.0 was moved to the stable release channel today, and it features...
38 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/8/2011Batman: Arkham City for PC Delayed Again
PC stalwarts will have to wait a little bit longer to guide the Dark Knight through Batman: Arkham City. Warner has confirmed to VG247 that Arkham City will release...
5 by Craig Getting on 11/8/2011T-Mobile Introduce HSPA+ Equipped Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus
With the WiFi SKU just a week from release, we knew we'd see a cellular radio sporting SKU crop up sooner or later. And so, T-Mobile and Samsung announced...
5 by Jason Inofuentes on 11/8/2011Mozilla Developing Open Web Mobile OS
The developers at Mozilla have been busy; Firefox 8 is just around the corner and now they seem to be developing an experimental mobile operating system. They're calling it...
18 by Amman Sood on 11/7/2011