Netgear Introduces Orbi Pro SXK50 AX5400 Mesh System for SMBs
Netgear Business - the SMB-/SME-focused arm of Netgear - has been delivering mesh Wi-Fi systems to small businesses under the Orbi Pro lineup since 2017. The 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5...
0 by Ganesh T S on 1/3/2022AMD-Xilinx Acquisition Now Expected to Close in Q1 of 2022
AMD this afternoon has sent out a brief update to the public and investors, offering an update on the status of the ongoing Xilinx acquisition. AMD’s purchase of the...
28 by Ryan Smith on 12/30/2021ASUS Demonstrates DDR5 to DDR4 Converter Card
One of the key issues with purchasing a modern Alder Lake system today is the cost of the memory, especially when an enthusiast wants to use DDR5. Due to...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/30/2021Intel Sells SSD Business to SK hynix as new Subsidiary Solidigm
In a brief news release from Intel this afternoon, the chip firm has announced that it has closed on the first stage of its deal to sell its SSD...
21 by Ryan Smith on 12/29/2021AMD and GlobalFoundries Wafer Supply Agreement Updated Once More: Now $2.1B Through 2025
In a short note published by AMD this afternoon as part of an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, AMD is disclosing that the company has...
71 by Ryan Smith on 12/23/2021Samsung Announces First PCIe 5.0 Enterprise SSD: PM1743, Coming In 2022
Even though CES 2022 is technically still a couple of weeks away, CES-related announcements are already starting to roll in. Among these are Samsung, who is announcing their first...
12 by Ryan Smith on 12/23/2021TSMC Unveils N4X Node: Extreme High-Performance at High Voltages
TSMC this week announced a new fabrication process that is tailored specifically for high-performance computing (HPC) products. N4X promises to combine transistor density and design rules of TSMC's N5-family...
42 by Anton Shilov on 12/17/2021NVIDIA Announces GeForce RTX 2050, MX570, and MX550 For Laptops: 2022's Entry Level GeForce
NVIDIA this morning had made an unexpected news drop with the announcement of a trio of new GeForce laptop GPUs. Joining the GeForce family next year will be a...
18 by Ryan Smith on 12/17/2021Best Mechanical Keyboards: Holiday 2021
Continuing our run of holiday buyers' guides, today we're taking a look at peripherals. Considering that a PC’s peripherals can easily outlive the main system’s components and usually stay...
24 by E. Fylladitakis on 12/17/2021Semi CapEx to Hit $152 Billion in 2021 as Market on Track for $2 Trillion by 2035
Semiconductor makers have drastically increased their capital expenditures (CapEx) this year in response to unprecedented demand for chips that is going to last for years. Now the CEO of...
8 by Anton Shilov on 12/17/2021Sponsored Post: From RAW in Real-time: The Photographic Power of OPPO's New MariSilicon X
By stacking innovations and wielding a newly designed NPU, OPPO is about to push smartphone imaging performance to a whole new level.
17 by Sponsored Post on 12/15/2021Startup Showcases 7 bits-per-cell Flash Storage with 10 Year Retention
One of the key drivers to increase capacity in next generation storage has been to increase the number of bits that can be stored per cell. The easy jump...
48 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/15/2021SK Hynix to Manufacture 48 GiB and 96 GiB DDR5 Modules
Today SK Hynix is announcing the sampling of its next generation DDR5 memory. The headline is the commercialization of a new 24 gigabit die, offering 50% more capacity than...
22 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/14/2021Seagate Introduces AMD EPYC-Based Exos Application Platform: Up To 1.344PB in 5U
Seagate's Application Platform (AP) series of servers have targeted the market segments requiring tightly coupled storage and compute capabilities. The currently available SKUs - The Exos AP series with...
5 by Ganesh T S on 12/14/2021Imagination Launches Catapult Family of RISC-V CPU Cores: Breaking Into Heterogeneous SoCs
December is here, and with it comes several technical summits ahead of the holiday break. The most notable of which this week is the annual RISC-V summit, which is...
62 by Ryan Smith on 12/6/2021United States FTC Files Lawsuit to Block NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition
In the biggest roadblock yet to NVIDIA’s proposed acquisition of Arm, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced this afternoon that the regulatory body will be suing...
175 by Ryan Smith on 12/2/2021Western Digital Spills Beans on HDD Plans: 30TB HDDs Planned, MAMR's Future Unclear
Western Digital this week said that its energy-assisted magnetic recording (ePMR) and OptiNAND technologies coupled with increased number of platters per hard drive would enable it to build HDDs...
41 by Anton Shilov on 12/2/2021Seagate Exos X20 and IronWolf Pro 20TB Expand Retail 20TB HDD Options
Seagate has updated their flagship capacity options for the retail HDD market with the availability announcement for two new hard drives today - the Exos X20 and IronWolf Pro...
10 by Ganesh T S on 12/2/2021Best Laptops: Holiday 2021
With 2021 coming to a close, it is time again to look back at the laptop market. Despite bumps from the COVID pandemic, the laptop ecosystem continues to flourish...
24 by Brett Howse on 12/1/2021Best PC Power Supplies: Holiday 2021
Now that you've picked out your CPU, it's time to start picking out the rest of your system components. And perhaps the most humble but overlooked of these components...
4 by E. Fylladitakis on 11/29/2021