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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...
OnePlus launches the OnePlus One: Initial Thoughts
Edit: In the time since the initial launch, there's been confirmation that the OnePlus One does in fact support 802.11ac. It's a single spatial stream part, Qualcomm's WCN3680. In what...
67 by Joshua Ho on 4/23/2014
Apple Releases iOS 7.1.1 Update: Addresses Touch ID and Keyboard Issues
Hot on the heels of the major 7.1 release, Apple released a new update for iOS on iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. The iOS 7.1.1 update focuses primarily on...
13 by Brandon Chester on 4/22/2014
Google Updates Hangouts: Merging IM and SMS
Today, Google announced an update to Hangouts that brings some new features. The first mentioned is merging conversations, which brings feature parity with iMessage in that regard. Google has...
15 by Joshua Ho on 4/21/2014
HTC Adds Sense 6 Progress to Software Update Page
HTC has updated their software update status page with a section that displays the current status of the HTC Sense 6.0 upgrade. The page indicates that they intend to...
7 by Brandon Chester on 4/21/2014
Galaxy S5 Follow-Up: Water Resistance, Adobe RGB Testing and More
A Closer Look at Water Resistance Recently on the podcast, Anand mentioned that I was looking at how the Galaxy S5 performed when running benchmarks underwater. This ultimately started after...
45 by Joshua Ho on 4/19/2014
Windows Phone 8.1 Review
I was an early fan of Windows Phone 7. I remember completely switching over to the platform for about a month back in 2010, and being relatively happy. It...
111 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/14/2014
Samsung Galaxy S 5 Review
Samsung is now the undisputed king of the Android smartphone space. It was only a few years ago that the general public referred to every Android phone as a...
298 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Joshua Ho on 4/8/2014
Nokia Lumia Updates - New High End, New Markets
During the day 1 keynote at the Microsoft BUILD developer’s conference, Stephen Elop took the stage to announce some new Nokia Lumia phones with Windows Phone 8.1. First up was...
40 by Brett Howse on 4/3/2014
Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 8.1
This morning at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Microsoft kicked off its semi-annual BUILD developer conference with a keynote address detailing what’s coming now and in the near...
48 by Brett Howse on 4/2/2014
ARM Partners Ship 50 Billion Chips Since 1991 - Where Did They Go?
A few weeks ago ARM celebrated its partners shipping over 10 billion ARM based chips in 2013. As ARM makes a royalty on every IP license shipped, it was...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2014
NVIDIA Announces Jetson TK1 Dev Board; Adds Erista To Tegra Roadmap
Continuing our coverage of NVIDIA’s 2014 GPU Technology Conference, today we’re looking at NVIDIA’s Tegra-related announcements. As Tegra is primarily a consumer facing product, especially the pre-K1 parts, NVIDIA...
33 by Ryan Smith on 3/27/2014
The HTC One (M8) Review
HTC remains one of few Android OEMs insanely focused on design. Even dating back to the origins of the One brand in 2012 with the One X and One...
222 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Joshua Ho on 3/26/2014
NVIDIA SHIELD Price Cuts and Portal
NVIDIA has a couple big SHIELD-related announcements today. The first is a “limited time” price cut to $199. The original price was $299, which then dropped to $249 &ndash...
20 by Jarred Walton on 3/25/2014
HTC launches the One (M8)
HTC’s struggle in the smartphone OEM space has almost become a constant in the past few years, with a dramatic fall from the top of sales and market share...
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 and 10.1 Review
Samsung Galaxy series of tablets and smartphones have been well received since they first started appearing on store shelves, and with good reason. Not all manufacturers really get industrial...
125 by Jarred Walton on 3/22/2014
Examining MicroSD changes in Android 4.4
While Samsung Galaxy devices had new restrictions on microSD read/write access, it was hard to say whether this was the start of a trend for all Android OEMs as...
43 by Joshua Ho on 3/13/2014
LG G Pro 2 - Mini Review
At MWC, LG announced their new G Pro 2, which was written up for an early hands-on and some analysis based upon the information given out by LG’s press...
63 by Joshua Ho on 3/4/2014
Color Gamut in Smartphones: Why Bigger isn't Always Better
Post-MWC, with the launch of at least two of the major high-end flagships in the smartphone space, the basics are becoming increasingly easier to get from OEMs like high...
57 by Joshua Ho on 3/3/2014
Apple Announces CarPlay: iOS in the Car Arriving in 2014
Earlier this morning Apple officially branded its iOS in the Car initiative as CarPlay. At a high level CarPlay allows iPhone 5/5c/5s users to access certain apps on their...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/3/2014
Modular Smartphone Project Ara from Google to Start Development Conferences
Joshua talked about Project Ara (from Motorola at the time) back in October as a campaign that focused on attracting OEM interest into a modular smartphone design. The...
28 by Ian Cutress on 2/26/2014
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