ARM Unveils the Cortex-A72 Processor Architecture Details
On February 3rd, ARM announced a slew of new designs, including the Cortex A72. Few details were shared with us, but what we learned was that it could…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Apr 29, 2015 | Processors | 6
On February 3rd, ARM announced a slew of new designs, including the Cortex A72. Few details were shared with us, but what we learned was that it could…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Apr 27, 2015 | Processors | 63
There are some pretty breathless analysis of a single leaked block diagram that is supposedly from AMD. This is one of the first indications of what the Zen architecture looks like from…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Apr 1, 2015 | Editorial | 48
We have been very spoiled throughout the years. We likely did not realize exactly how spoiled we were until it became very obvious that the rate of process technology advances…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Feb 26, 2015 | Graphics Cards | 11
The last few weeks have been dominated by talk about the memory controller of the Maxwell based GTX 970. There are some very strong opinions about that particular issue, and…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Feb 24, 2015 | Processors | 34
Some months back AMD introduced us to their “Carrizo” product. Details were slim, but we learned that this would be another 28 nm part that has improved power efficiency…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Feb 4, 2015 | Processors | 2
ARM has an interesting history of releasing products. The company was once in the shadowy background of the CPU world, but with the explosion of mobile…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Jan 10, 2015 | General Tech | 15
I was invited to a meeting with Samsung on my last day at CES. The Samsung Pavilion was absolutely packed, but I was able to see a handful of products that should…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Jan 6, 2015 | Processors | 3
It wouldn’t be CES if there wasn’t an Intel release. Today they are releasing their latest 14 nm Cherry Trail SOC. Very little information has been released about this part, but it…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Jan 5, 2015 | Processors | 25
NVIDIA seems to like begin on a one year cycle with their latest Tegra products. Many years ago we were introduced to the Tegra 2, and the year after that…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Dec 11, 2014 | Motherboards | 17
I have been impressed by the Asus ROG boards for quite a few years now. I believe my first encounter was with the Crosshair IV Formula, followed by…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Nov 20, 2014 | Processors | 14
AMD has certainly gone about doing things in a slightly different manner than we are used to. Today they announced their two latest APUs which will begin shipping in the first half…
Read MorePosted by Josh Walrath | Nov 20, 2014 | Displays | 33
We have been teased for the past few months about when we would see the first implementations of AMD’s FreeSync technology, but now we finally have some concrete news about who will…
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