AMD Licenses ARM Technology – ARM TrustZone Technology Coming To APUs

Over the past year there has been much speculation that AMD and ARM would enter some sort of an IP licensing deal. Many expected to hear some big announcement like AMD licensing ARM’s CPU cores or ARM licensing AMD’s Radeon IP, but that didn’t exactly happen. That changed today when AMD announced it will integrate the ARM TrustZone technology into future Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) via a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design methodology.

By Nathan Kirsch

AFDS 2012: HSA Foundation Formed By AMD, ARM, Imagination, MediaTek and Ti

Earlier this year, AMD outlined the companies HSA (Heterogeneous Systems Architecture) plans through 2014 and talked about how AMD was fully backing the architecture. Today at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit (AFDS) it was announced that the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation was created. The goal of the HSA foundation is to provide a hardware specification that will be uniform and can utilize the same program coding.

By Nathan Kirsch

SanDisk Extreme SATA III 240 GB SSD Review

Don’t look now but here comes another SandForce SF-2281 drive, this time by SanDisk. This is the first time we’ve had our hands on an SSD from SanDisk but are very familiar with their other products. Can their expertise in the storage industry help their Extreme series drive top the performance charts? With high-density, Toggle Mode NAND and read and write specifications of 550MB/s and 520MB/s, we think it’s got a shot. Check out the full review to see.

By Joe Evans

E3 Expo 2012 – Razer Taipan, Project Artemis, BlackShark 2.0

This year’s E3 Expo turned out to be surprisingly good for new hardware announcements and manufacturer partnerships. At the Razer booth, we saw an example of both – the new Taipan ambidextrous gaming mouse, new Battlefield 3 Edition BlackShark gaming headset, and MechWarrior Online tie-in Project Artemis controller. Read on to get a taste of what Razer has in store for gamers this summer.

By Ken Brown