At Computex 2017 earlier this month, we heard a lot about the AMD Ryzen Threadripper and the Intel Core X i9, two superpowered processors built for gamers and streamers. This week at E3 in Los Angeles, those monsters are being put to good use. Dell is refreshing their triangular tower PC, the Alienware Area-51, and they’re […]
With Moore’s Law changing and Intel taking longer to shrink their transistors, there’s been talk of silicon becoming a thing of the past in the semiconductor industry. If silicon’s days are indeed numbered, it looks like it’s going to go out with a bang — thanks to a couple brand new, lucrative, and very power hungry […]
AMD has a quite a year ahead of them. Their Ryzen Mobile processors could wind up in some very competitive laptops and 2-in-1s, and they might just leap back into the enthusiast market with two very highly anticipated releases. The superpowered Ryzen Threadripper CPU and the new Vega architecture for the AMD’s GPUs were already […]
Want an affordable laptop that can run Overwatch decently while letting you stream your sick D.Va skills at the same time? That’s the promise of Ryzen Mobile, the laptop-friendly version of AMD’s new high-end processors. We’ll soon find out if they can keep that promise — the first Ryzen Mobile laptops are coming later this year. The […]
The initial wave of VR was held back by the need for expensive desktop PCs to supply the computing power. At Computex 2017, we’re seeing that cost come down significantly. Dell is doing their part with the Inspiron Gaming Desktop, a tower PC with AMD CPUs and GPUs, that starts at just $600. That’s super […]
Gaming is one of the main focuses of Computex 2016, and for good reason — this is the launch year for VR, and a lot of companies have made a lot of big bets on VR being a hit. Ahead of this year’s show, we saw NVIDIA announce new graphics cards based on their new Pascal […]
Through a partnership with The Boys and Girls Club of America, AMD will donate a computer lab for a Boys and Girls Club of Austin if they receive 1,000 or more tweets including the hashtag #spreadjoy this week of Black Friday. AMD is also helping spread joy to holiday shoppers across the U.S. by sharing deals and steals […]
AMD announced at CES the January 14 release of the first round of new processor chips, “Kaveri”. Kaveri is AMD’s most advanced APU, or CPU/GPU combo, to date. Kaveri utilizes a new technology known as HSA, heterogeneous system architecture, which effectively removes the idea of “CPU cores” and “GPU cores” and instead shares all the […]
There are a lot of neat laptop/tablet 2-in-1 convertible form factors coming out now running Windows 8.1. Unfortunately many of them are pretty pricey. The Toshiba Satellite Click on the other hand, is a 2-in-1 convertible that is designed to offer the convenience of both a laptop and a tablet, but at an affordable price […]
AMD has just announced their 2nd generation of A-Series APUs, codenamed “Trinity”. These new APUs will start making their ways into everything from mainstream and ultra thin notebooks, to All-in-one PCs, desktops, media center PCs, and more. These new APUs offer an increase of nearly 29% in CPU performance over the previous generation. But besides […]
Last year we reviewed the HP Pavilion dm1z powered by AMD’s first generation of Fusion processors and were impressed with the amount of value and performance it offered at such a low price. Since then HP has rolled out an update to the popular dm1z, which brings significant design and hardware refinements to this budget […]
The past few months at AMD have been shaky. After laying off over 1500 employees, and bringing on a slew of new high ranking execs, many have been left wondering about the company’s future. We sat down with AMD’s Leslie Sobon during CES to talk about what lies ahead for AMD. It turns out that […]
AMD has been driving hard at impressing the overclocking community this year, even breaking a few records in the process. It looks like the company isn’t ready to call 2011 a year yet, as they are releasing new versions of their A-Series APUs.
Excited about the new quad-core processors found in computers selling today? Looks like that’s old news now. AMD has announced their Unlocked FX CPU line – the first eight-core (octocore?) processors the world has ever laid eyes on.
The Ultraportable war is heating up. AMD has announced an update to their AMD Fusion processors, or more specifically updates for their C and E-Series APUs Accelerated Processing Units. The updates bring improved battery life of up-to 12 hours for the C series and 10.5 hours for the E series, enhanced HD graphics capabilities, DDR3 […]
Thanks to the dropping prices on pocket video cameras, and smartphones with built-in video recording capabilities, more than ever people are recording and sharing video, especially HD video. But the problem with the video produced by these pocket and smartphone cameras is that the footage often ends up being a shaky mess. So while many […]
Sony has two new series of laptops coming out, and both are quite lovely. In particular, we’re super fond of the new C series. The C series is available in two bold colors – neon red or thunder blue. Not only do these colors pop, but you’ll love their complimenting backlit keyboard. You also get […]
AMD has released a new series of APUs, the AMD Fusion A-Series with AMD Vision technology. The A series of APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) is designed to be used in desktop replacement laptops, while keeping the price of the laptop at around $599, and not above $1000. The A series even promises to be more […]
This week at Computex, AMD finally went ahead and talked about their plans to start putting their chips inside of tablets. There has been a lot of speculation about when AMD would finally jump onboard the tablet bandwagon, so the announcement wasn’t too much of a surprise. The first tablets to be running on the […]
Traditionally, there has been a large gap between ‘netbook’ and ‘ultraportable’ laptops. Netbooks cost anywhere from $200 to $400 and are quite underpowered. Ultraportables generally start at $900 and cost much more than a laptop with comparable performance. As of earlier this year AMD has drastically redefined the ultraportable market by releasing their affordable AMD […]
The Sony VAIO Y Series laptop was one of the first laptops on the market to sport the AMD Fusion chipset. Unlike netbooks which are affordable, but also underpowered, the AMD Fusion series is designed to power ultraportable laptops and make them affordable, without sacrificing performance. The VAIO Y Series configuration that we tested runs […]
