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Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote. AMD announced not one but two new client platforms that will utilize the latest Zen 5 cores. This includes AMD's latest AI PC-focused chip family for the laptop market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. In comparison, the Ryzen 9000 series caters to the desktop market, which uses the preexisting AM5 platform. Built around the new Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture with some fundamental improvements to both graphics and AI performance, the Ryzen AI 300 series, code-named Strix Point, is set to deliver improvements in several areas. The Ryzen AI 300 series looks set to add another footnote in the march towards the AI PC with...
Hands On with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus
As the iPhone 6’s design turned 2 years old the iPhone 7 was launched to continue the two year cadence for their smartphone designs. As you might expect from...
91 by Joshua Ho on 9/7/2016Apple Announces Apple Watch Series 2
In addition to announcing the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus today, Apple introduced Apple Watch Series 2. Like all first-generation products, the original Apple Watch had some...
15 by Matt Humrick on 9/7/2016Apple Announces iPhone 7 & iPhone 7 Plus: A10 Fusion SoC, New Camera, Wide Color Gamut, Preorders Start Sept. 9th
Today at Apple’s annual iPhone event held in San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the company announced their next generation of iPhones: the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7...
97 by Ryan Smith on 9/7/2016Motorola Moto G4 Play: The Least Expensive G4
Today Motorola announced that they're bringing an additional member of its Moto G4 family: the Moto G4 Play, to the United States. A refreshed third-generation Moto G (2015), it’s...
23 by Matt Humrick on 9/6/2016Update: Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note7 Due to Battery Fires, Initiates Exchange Program
Update 09/02, 8:20pm ET: Moving quickly, Samsung has esbtablished a product exchange program for Note7 owners in the US. Samsung is giving owners the option of either replacing the...
46 by Brandon Chester on 9/2/2016IFA 2016: Qualcomm Announces VR820 Reference Platform, QCA9379
Following up the announcement of details on the Snapdragon 821, Qualcomm is also announcing a dedicated standalone VR HMD running Snapdragon 820 as a reference design which was designed...
3 by Joshua Ho on 9/1/2016Sony Announces Xperia XZ and Xperia X Compact
Today at IFA 2016 Sony announced two new phones to flesh out the Xperia X lineup, namely the Xperia XZ and Xperia X Compact. Starting with the Xperia XZ, it...
25 by Joshua Ho on 9/1/2016IFA 2016: Huawei Press Event
We're here with Huawei, expecting a new phone or two.
13 by Ian Cutress on 9/1/2016HTC Announces One A9s: Helio P10, 5" 720p Display
Today at IFA 2016 HTC is announcing an updated variant of the One A9 called the One A9s. In this case, the update is designed to put the One...
9 by Joshua Ho on 9/1/2016Motorola Adds The Moto Z Play Droid, Reveals Pricing For Unlocked Versions
Motorola’s modular Moto Z family gets a new member today. The Moto Z Play Droid costs less than the Moto Z Droid and Moto Z Force Droid, both of...
8 by Matt Humrick on 8/31/2016Hands On With the Samsung Gear S3
For a while now the smartwatch market has been developing in fits and starts. One of the more interesting developments in this space isn’t Android Wear and watchOS, but...
35 by Joshua Ho on 8/31/2016Qualcomm Details Snapdragon 821: Clocks, Efficiency, and IP
While Qualcomm already announced the Snapdragon 821, with the announcement details were rather sparse. Fortunately, today Qualcomm followed up with more details. Those that followed the announcement might recall...
32 by Joshua Ho on 8/31/2016Samsung Announces Exynos 7570 14nm Budget SoC
Today Samsung LSI launches a new 14nm SoC oriented at the budget and IoT segments. The new Exynos 7570 seems to be a a successor to the Exynos 3470...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/30/2016The Meizu PRO 6 Review
The Meizu PRO 6 features an attractive design and excellent build quality, but is not a clear upgrade over the previous generation PRO 5. Lurking inside its all-aluminum chassis...
48 by Matt Humrick on 8/26/2016Xiaomi Launches Redmi Note 4 in China
While we normally don’t cover China-only smartphone releases, Xiaomi is a fairly major player as far as volume as they were one of the first companies in the industry...
34 by Joshua Ho on 8/25/2016Hot Chips 2016: NVIDIA Discloses Tegra Parker Details
At CES 2016 we saw that DRIVE PX2 had a new Tegra SoC in it, but to some extent NVIDIA was still being fairly cagey about what was actually...
29 by Joshua Ho on 8/25/2016Hot Chips 2016: Exynos M1 Architecture Disclosed
While we can always do black-box testing to try and get a handle for what a CPU core looks like, there’s really only so much you can do given...
29 by Joshua Ho on 8/25/2016Android 7.0 Nougat Released
Google has completed its five month beta program and is officially releasing Android 7.0 Nougat today. The company will begin rolling it out to select Nexus devices, including the...
51 by Matt Humrick on 8/22/2016