Jen-Hsun's Email to NVIDIA Employees on a Successful Kepler Launch
The road to any new microprocessor design is by no means simple. Planning for a major GPU like NVIDIA's Kepler starts four years prior to the chip's debut. In...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/22/2012Microsoft Talks Screen Resolution in Windows 8, Suggests "Retina"-esque Tablets
Microsoft's David Washington has penned another informational tome on the Building Windows 8 blog, this one about Windows 8 and its support for varying screen resolutions. The above chart...
29 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/22/2012Acer Iconia Tab A510: Tegra 3 Hits $450
Asus's Transformer Prime just got some company. Available for pre-order today, the Acer Iconia Tab A510 brings the price of entry for a 10.1" Tegra 3-powered tablet down to...
21 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/22/2012Quick Look: ASUS 1025C and Cedar Trail
We've known about Cedar Trail for quite a while now, the next iteration of Intel's Atom processor line. As far as the CPU is concerned, not a lot has...
12 by Jarred Walton on 3/22/2012Tested: Battery Life on the new iPad
Hot on the heels of our Retina Display analysis we have some more data for you: battery life of the new iPad. The chart above is our revamped web...
50 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/19/2012Archos 80 and 101 G9 Turbo 1.5 GHz Available Now In US
Quick update, to the Archos news we've had rolling lately. US buyers can now pick up the Archos G9 Turbo line of tablets at their promised 1.5 GHz; the...
6 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/19/2012This Just In: PowerColor PCS+ HD7870
Though AMD announced the Radeon HD 7800 series nearly two weeks ago, it won’t be until Monday that the cards officially go on sale. While we’re still at work...
27 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2012Apple's A5X Floorplan
Apple's A5X SoC Today has been pretty exciting. Not only did we confirm the die size of Apple's A5X SoC (162.94mm^2) but we also found out that it's still built...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/16/2012Apple A5X Die Size Measured: 162.94mm^2, Samsung 45nm LP Confirmed
Contrary to what we thought yesterday based on visual estimation of the A5X die, Chipworks has (presumably) measured the actual die itself: 162.94mm^2. While the A5 was big, this...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/16/2012Archos Shipping 1.5GHz 80 G9 Turbo Across The Pond
UK readers have one more thing to lord over their colonial cousins. Starting today, Archos has made available the long promised Archos 80 G9 Turbo in its full 1.5...
8 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/16/2012HTC Vivid Android 4.0 Sneaks Out For Some
The long road to Android 4.0 for US subscribers seems to be getting shorter; and for some lucky users the time has come. AT&T's HTC Vivid was one of...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/16/2012Archos 35 Home Connect Review: Android at the Bedside
Over the last few years of smartphone ownership, one of the most satisfying and somewhat surprising uses has been listening to good old fashioned FM radio, streamed through the...
9 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/15/2012Apple's A5X Die (and Size?) Revealed
iFixit saved us all a whole lot of trouble and performed a teardown of the new iPad announced last week. The internals were mostly what we expected, down to...
45 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/15/2012Diablo III Coming on May 15
After a few delays and many recitations of Blizzard's "We'll release it when it's ready" mantra, Diablo III finally has a release date: May 15th. On that date, Blizzard's...
46 by Craig Getting on 3/15/2012Marvell's 3rd Generation 88SS9187 SSD Controller
Today Marvell is announcing its third generation SSD controller with the 88SS9187. Its predecessor, the 88SS9174 was used in many drives including Crucial's m4 and Intel's SSD 510. The...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2012HTC Publishes Updated Ice Cream Sandwich Rollout Plans
About a month ago, Brian wrote about HTC's initial Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) release plans. Yesterday HTC published a blog post which added a few models to the list...
24 by Kristian Vättö on 3/14/2012NVIDIA Releases 296.10 GeForce Driver, Introduces Windows 8 Driver Support
NVIDIA has just posted the WHQL-certified GeForce driver 296.10 for Windows 7 and Vista desktops and laptops and Windows XP desktops, and has also released a 296.17 driver specifically...
6 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/13/2012Google and Mozilla Working on Metro-Enabled Browsers, Opera May Follow Suit
Both Mozilla and Google have confirmed to various sources that they have begun (or are planning to begin) work on Metro-style versions of their Firefox and Chrome browsers for...
11 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/13/2012The Frequency of Apple A5X in the New iPad Confirmed: Still Running at 1GHz
While Apple's new iPad won't be available until Friday, some users have gotten their hands on the new models and done some preliminary benchmarks. A Vietnamese site, tinhte.vn, posted...
49 by Kristian Vättö on 3/13/2012Firefox 11 Due Today, Features Chrome Migration, Add-on Sync
Mozilla is due to release Firefox 11 to the stable channel today, and like every Firefox release since 4.0 the new version adds a handful of new features and...
25 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/13/2012