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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...
N-trig DuoSense Pen2: Who Needs a Stylus?
With the dawn of capacitive touch displays and the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, etc., some might think the day of the stylus is past. N-trig has been around since...
34 by Jarred Walton on 6/12/2013Ask AnandTech: Tablets at Work, What are Your Experiences?
The tablet market has grown tremendously over the past few years. What started as a content consumption device for consumers has transformed into a device that has started to...
148 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/12/2013Samsung Announces Galaxy S4 Zoom - 16 MP, Zoom, Makes Calls
Samsung's Galaxy camera came out almost a year ago, and it roughly mimicked the specs of an international SGS3 but included a unique camera system and body. Although the...
16 by Brian Klug on 6/12/2013Hands On with the Final NVIDIA Shield Hardware, Update: Now with Video
It seems like forever since CES 2013 when we first laid eyes on and played with NVIDIA’s Project Shield. Time flies, and since then Shield has dropped the Project...
46 by Brian Klug on 6/11/2013Hands On with a Tegra 4i Phone
When we stopped by NVIDIA to play with Shield, they had another surprise in store for us with a Tegra 4i-based phone currently being shopped around from an unnamed...
22 by Brian Klug on 6/11/2013WWDC 2013 Keynote Live Blog
Brian and I are live at Moscone West in San Francisco for Apple's WWDC 2013 Keynote. The keynote starts at 10AM PT/1PM ET. Check back here for our Live Blog!
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 6/10/2013Patriot Drives Further into Mobile with FUEL+ External Batteries
With the DRAM industry no longer as interesting as it once was (although I'd argue that with Haswell, high frequency DRAM is exciting once more - if only Intel...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/10/2013Intel Demonstrates Bay Trail-T Running Windows 8 and Android 4.2.2
Last month Intel took the covers off its next-generation Atom microarchitecture, codename Silvermont. The first consumer implementation of Silvermont will be Bay Trail, a quad-core SoC for tablets. At...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/6/2013Apple Not Throttling iPhone or iPad Cellular Throughput via Carrier Bundles
Yesterday there were some allegations made about whether Apple is intentionally throttling cellular data throughput on iPhones and iPads via some files used for network provisioning. The original source...
40 by Brian Klug on 6/6/2013Samsung Makes Galaxy S 4 Active Official - IP67 and Ruggedized
It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone at this point, but Samsung has just now made the ruggedized version of the popular Galaxy S 4 official, called Galaxy S...
36 by Brian Klug on 6/5/2013Outlook 2013 RT Coming Free to Windows RT 8.1 Tablets Later this Year
Microsoft has been pretty quiet at Computex thus far, but today we got a bit of expected news. Outlook 2013 RT will be coming with the free Windows RT...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/5/2013Introducing the Dual-Core Haswell SKUs
Introducing the Dual-Core Haswell SKUs On Saturday Intel lifted the embargo on information related to their quad-core Haswell processors, and we’ve been busy posting all sorts of details over the...
50 by Jarred Walton on 6/4/2013Qualcomm Announces MSM8926 - Snapdragon 400 with Quad Core A7s and Cat 4 LTE
Quite a long time ago, Qualcomm announced MSM8x26, a midrange Snapdragon 400 class SoC built on a 28nm LP process consisting of four ARM Cortex A7 CPUs running at...
4 by Brian Klug on 6/3/2013Acer Announces 8" Iconia W3 Tablet, S3 and S7 Haswell Ultrabooks
Computex is always a big stage for mobile device launches, and Taiwanese manufacturers always seem to bring a little bit extra to their home technology expo. Acer’s press event...
17 by Vivek Gowri on 6/3/2013The ASUS Transformer Book Trio: Atom + Haswell, Android + Windows 8
Now on to notebooks, ASUS just announced the Transformer Book Trio - what it is calling the world's first three-in-one notebook, tablet and desktop PC. In a move that's...
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013ASUS' $149 MemoPad HD 7: Quad-Core Cortex A7, 1280x800 IPS Display
It just keeps coming. ASUS also announced a $149 16GB MemoPad HD 7 featuring a quad-core Cortex A7 SoC and a 1280 x 800 IPS display. The HD 7...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013ASUS Announces 6-inch FonePad Note
The FonePad Note is a 6-inch tablet complete with a 1080p Super IPS+ display, Atom Z2560 SoC (Clover Trail+), 2GB of RAM and a 3G modem with support for...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013ASUS' New Transformer Pad Infinity: Tegra 4 + 2560 x 1600 IPS Display
ASUS just announced its next-generation Transformer Pad Infinity based on NVIDIA's Tegra 4 SoC and featuring a 2560 x 1600 display.
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013ASUS MemoPad FHD10: Clover Trail+, 10-inch, 1920x1200, Android 4.2
Alongside the beautiful Zenbook Infinity ASUS also displayed its MemoPad FHD10, a 10-inch Clover Trail+ tablet running Android 4.2. ASUS' silicon of choice is Intel's Atom Z2560, a dual-core...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/3/2013ARM Cortex A12: Between Cortex A9 and A15 in Power & Perf, Sampling in Late 2014
We’ve talked about the hole in ARM’s product lineup for quite a while now. The Cortex A9 is too slow to compete with the likes of Intel’s Atom and...
78 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/2/2013