WE’VE ALREADY SHOWN you Sapphire’s mini-ITX Brazos board and no-one was overly surprised at seeing this motherboard, especially as Sapphire is a long term AMD partner. However, what we have for you today is an exclusive look at a not quite final P67 chipset motherboard from Sapphire, a product that many didn’t expect to launch.
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SONY ERICSSON HAS been struggling for some time and although its Xperia line of Android handsets have improved things to a degree, the company has as many others been slow when it comes to releasing updated versions of Android for its handsets. Its latest addition to the Xperia line of devices was just announced and although it has the looks of a high-end handset, does the Xperia arc have what it takes to fight off the competition in 2011?
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ASUS JUST GOT some serious competition for its R.O.G. series of motherboards, as Gigabyte has just announced its new G1 Killer series which have been specifically designed for gamers. Now these boards do have some gimmicks that are meant to be for the target audience, but they also have a lot of features that we think will appeal to a broader market and they’re features that none of Gigabyte’s competitors have, as yet, implemented on a board level.
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WE’VE BEEN EXPECTING this product from Sapphire for quite some time, although we didn’t quite know what to expect and it seems like the company has managed to churn out a pretty decent Brazos board that differ somewhat from its competitors. The Pure Fusion Mini E350 as the board is called is the first consumer Brazos board that we’ve seen so far that uses SO-DIMMs and it’s one of the few to offer a mini card PCI Express slot as well.
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QUALCOMM APPEARS TO have blown its entire budget for this year already, as the company has announced that it has procured network chip specialist Atheros for the not so insignificant sum of $3.1 billion. Considering Atheros broad portfolio of networking products, this might very well be a fair sum paid, but we can’t help to wonder if Qualcomm couldn’t have gotten a better deal elsewhere.
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WE’RE EXPECTING TABLETS to the most widely announced products at CES, but they’re set to be closely followed by smartphones and Samsung is readying its own announcement in co-operation with AT&T. The Infuse 4G is one of Samsung’s first 4G handsets on AT&T and one of AT&T’s first 4G handsets at that and it’s a pretty impressive looking handset at that.
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DISPLAYLINK IS AN interesting company and although we’re still waiting on its USB 3.0 enabled adapters, the company has in co-operation with Mobile Monitor Technologies or MMT for short, come up with what it calls a portable monitor. Now any old monitor is portable, but the Monitor2Go from MMT looks more like a notebook than a monitor.
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AMD’S FUSION HAS finally landed and despite some suggestions that AMD wouldn’t score any design wins with the big boys, it turns out that both HP and Lenovo are the first ones to announce products based on the new platform. We’re expecting many others to follow suit this week, least not Acer and Toshiba, as Brazos based products have already leaked from both companies.
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IT’S EASY TO forget that there are three x86 CPU makers in the market and alongside AMD’s Fusion launch today, VIA has announced its first dual core processor, the VIA Nano X2. We should hopefully get more details about the new CPU at CES, as VIA has been very shy when it comes to sharing any actual specifications of the new processor family.
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AMD’S BRAZOS PLATFORM has finally arrived, well, ok so AMD has already showed off what it has to offer, but the first retail products are launching today and one of the first out of the gate with a mini-ITX motherboard based on the new platform is Gigabyte. We headed over to Gigabyte’s HQ for a quick hands on with the board and to snap a few candid shots of it.
Updated: January 4, 2011 12pm, Added pricing information.
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YESTERDAY WE TOOK a look at Intel’s Core i5 2500K and today we’re going to take a closer look at the Core i7 2600K which is currently Intel’s flagship processor based on Sandy Bridge. The big feature difference is Hyper Threading support, although the Core i7’s also feature an additional 2MB L3 cache, slightly higher clock speed and a higher turbo frequency for the integrated graphics to set them apart from the Core i5 models.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Benchmarks, Linux, Disappointment
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DUE TO A LAST minute change by Intel, the expiration of the Sandy Bridge NDA has now, well, expired and as such we’re going to start off our coverage with a quick introduction of the various processors, chipsets and what not before we start digging into the tech and benchmarks. Much of what will be covered here contains information that leaked out ahead of the launch, but Intel still managed to hold on to plenty of details available now for your reading pleasure.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Benchmarks, Disappointment, Linux
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IN RECENT TIMES Intel’s biggest jump in performance was when the company moved from the Netburst architecture to the Core 2 architecture, a move that wasn’t repeated when the company moved to Nehalem. Today we’ll take a closer look at Sandy Bridge and without giving away too much; we can tell that it offers an impressive performance boost, although not in every single category.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Disappointment, Linux
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SAMSUNG HAVE BEEN pushing its AMOLED display technology pretty hard, in fact the company has gained so much popularity that it can produce enough of its smaller displays that go into smartphones. At CES Samsung is set to show off several new AMOLED displays, including a flexible 4.5-inch model and a pair of larger qFHD transparent prototypes.
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REMEMBER HOW EVERYONE applauded Nvidia’s Optimus graphics switching technology? Well, it seems like there’s a new sheriff in town, as LucidLogix has just announced its brand new dynamic graphics switching solution called Virtu, which is all done in software and which will work with any discrete GPU, not just Nvidia’s.
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