Trade Shows
As Intel looks to streamline its business operations and get back to profitability in the face of weak revenues and other business struggles, nothing is off the table as the company looks to cut costs into 2025 – not even Intel’s trade shows. In an unexpected announcement this afternoon, Intel has begun informing attendees of its fall Innovation 2024 trade show that the event has been postponed. Previously scheduled for September of this year, Innovation is now slated to take place at some point in 2025. Innovation is Intel’s regular technical showcase for developers, customers, and the public, and is the successor to the company’s legendary IDF show. In recent years the show has been used to deliver status updates on Intel’s fabs, introduce new...
Samsung at CES 2019: 219-Inch and 75-Inch Micro LED Ultra-HD TVs Demonstrated
Samsung showcased its new ultra-large television with a 219-inch diagonal at CES 2019. Dubbed “The Wall”, the TV uses the company’s Micro LED technology that offers very high brightness...
25 by Anton Shilov on 1/11/2019CES 2019: PowerColor & VisionTek Launch Compact eGFX Solutions
The majority of Thunderbolt 3-enabled external chassis for video cards are rather big in order to accommodate high-end graphics adapters that tend to feature large PCBs and cooling systems...
13 by Anton Shilov on 1/11/2019AMD: “No Chiplet APU Variant on Matisse, CPU TDP Range same as Ryzen-2000”
One of the big questions coming out of AMD’s CES announcements was if its new CPU design, codenamed Matisse and which enables two chiplets and an IO die on...
53 by Ian Cutress on 1/11/2019Dell at CES 2019: Alienware 55-Inch 4K 120 Hz OLED Gaming Monitor Showcased
In a surprising move Dell demonstrated a prototype of its Alienware 55 OLED display for gamers at CES. The 55-inch OLED monitor features a 120 Hz adaptive refresh rate...
21 by Anton Shilov on 1/11/2019Dell at CES 2019: Alienware m17 Packs Core i9, GeForce RTX into 17.3-Inch Chassis
Having launched Alienware m15 ultra-thin gaming laptops last year and updated them this week, Dell is rolling out more notebooks for gamers concerned about compact dimensions. The new Alienware...
18 by Anton Shilov on 1/11/2019Mushkin at CES 2019: Carbon X100 & Carbon Z100 External SSDs at Up to 2.2 GB/s
Mushkin introduced its new external SSDs featuring USB Type-C and Thunderbolt 3 interfaces and powered by desktop-class controllers. The Carbon X100 and the Carbon Z100 drives offer performance akin...
6 by Anton Shilov on 1/11/2019Lenovo at CES 2019: 43.4-Inch Curved Monitors for Gaming and Work
Large-sized curved displays with a 32:10 aspect ratio have been gaining traction in the recent years both among gamers and professionals. At CES Lenovo introduced its own Legion Y44w...
7 by Anton Shilov on 1/10/2019CES 2019: Colorful’s New Watercooled iGame GeForce RTX 2070 Neptune OC
The market for pre-overclocked graphics cards is quite strong. But taking the leap into providing water-cooling for GPUs at retail has only been attempted by a few vendors, and...
9 by Ian Cutress on 1/10/2019Lenovo at CES 2019: Yoga C730 Gets AMOLED Display
Lenovo at CES announced a new version of its Yoga C730 convertible laptop featuring a 4K Ultra-HD AMOLED monitor. The revamped Yoga C730 also uses Intel’s Whiskey Lake processors...
10 by Anton Shilov on 1/10/2019Lenovo at CES 2019: 7th Gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gets Thinner
Lenovo this week introduced its 7th Generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptops. The new notebooks got a number of tangible improvements when compared to their predecessors. The latest ThinkPad X1...
16 by Anton Shilov on 1/10/2019ASRock at CES 2019: DeskMini A300, World’s First AMD Ryzen Mini STX PC Launched
ASRock has introduced its miniature DeskMini A300-series desktop PC barebones that are powered by AMD AM4 processors with integrated graphics. The world’s first Mini STX platform supporting AMD Ryzen...
8 by Anton Shilov on 1/10/2019CES 2019: Cooler Master Announces Three New Wireless Mechanical Keyboards, SK621, SK631 And SK651
Cooler Master has announced its first range of wireless mechanical keyboards, the SK621, the SK631 and SK651 models. All three models feature Bluetooth 4.0 functionality and have a slimline...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/10/2019CES 2019: FSP's Cannon 2000 Watt Power Supply
When you build a cannon of a system, perhaps with dual processors and four graphics cards and lots of RGB, then something needs to power it. FSP has just...
12 by Ian Cutress on 1/10/2019CES 2019: TeamGroup And ASRock Release Phantom Gaming Branded Memory and SSD
One of the leading players in memory Team Group has joined forces with ASRock to release the Phantom Gaming branded T-FORCE DELTA Phantom Gaming RGB SSD and T-FORCE XCALIBUR...
5 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/10/2019Lexar at CES 2019: 1 TB SDXC UHD-I Memory Card Announced
Lexar has announced the industry’s first commercial SD memory card featuring a 1 TB capacity. The SDXC card is designed for photo and video professionals who require massive capacities...
8 by Anton Shilov on 1/10/2019Toshiba at CES 2019: World’s First 16 TB TDMR HDD Debuts
Toshiba has announced the industry’s first hard drive featuring a 16 TB capacity. The MG08-series HDDs are designed for nearline applications and use two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) technology, therefore...
8 by Anton Shilov on 1/9/2019CES 2019: Thermaltake Unveils Its WaterRAM RGB Liquid Cooled DDR4-3200 Memory
At CES 2019 Thermaltake officially entered the memory market with two new kits of DDR4 3200 RAM which not only include integrated water blocks but also includes 16.8 million...
13 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/9/2019AMD Ryzen 3rd Gen 'Matisse' Coming Mid 2019: Eight Core Zen 2 with PCIe 4.0 on Desktop
Blink and you miss it: AMD's keynote address this year was a whirlwind of primetime announcements for the company. The message is clear: AMD is committing itself to 7nm...
353 by Ian Cutress on 1/9/2019CES 2019: Liquid Cooled Power Supplies from FSP, up to 1200W
A few years ago I remember visiting a company at the Computex trade show that was showing off a prototype liquid cooled power supply. At the time I said...
19 by Ian Cutress on 1/9/2019CES 2019: GIGABYTE’s Tower of EPYC
With many enterprise platforms developers have various goals for their software, such as high performance, throughput, storage, or tackling the main issue of the day. It’s one thing to...
11 by Ian Cutress on 1/9/2019