The Wi-Fi Alliance has introduced an extension to the upcoming IEEE 802.11ah specification aimed at the “smart home” users and business. Dubbed, HaLow, this new specification will extend Wi-Fi into the 900 MHz band used Continue reading “Longer Range 900MHz Wi-Fi HaLow Introduced”. …more
By Ken Brown •
Jan. 5, 2016 at 9:19pm
Yesterday afternoon at Storage Visions Bev Crair, Vice President and General Manager, Storage Group at Intel Corporation was speaking and just happened to hold up an early mechanical sample 512GB NVDIMM that utilizes 3D XPoint Continue reading “Intel Shows Off 512GB Optane Drive With 3D XPoint Technology That Fits in DDR4 Slot”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 5, 2016 at 6:59pm
In a press announcement, Zotac has revealed a number of new products to be showcased at CES 2016 including several small form factor PCs and a PCI-E SSD. The new PC highlights are an updated Continue reading “Zotac Showcases New Small PCs and PCI-E SSD at CES 2016”. …more
By David Yee •
Jan. 5, 2016 at 11:10am
The show floor at CES 2016 is already packed with convention folks and new products, but there are a few products getting a ton of attention. The Linksys EA9500 Max-Stream Tri-Band AC5400 Wi-Fi router is Continue reading “Linksys Shows Off EA9500 Max-Stream AC5400 Tri-Band MU-MIMO Router”. …more
By Ken Brown •
Jan. 5, 2016 at 9:50am
In a pre-CES announcement featured on their official blog, Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire German manufacturer and designer of drones and their accompanying technology, Ascending Technologies. Intel previously partnered with Ascending Technologies Continue reading “Intel acquires German drone manufacturer and design startup Ascending Technologies”. …more
By Sean Sinha •
Jan. 5, 2016 at 1:41am
AMD’s Polaris Architecture was almost kept quite before CES 2016, but now AMDs Radeon Technologies Group has lifted the embargo holding back some of the first details of its new Polaris architecture for 2016 Radeon Continue reading “AMD Reveals Polaris GPU Architecture – GCN 4.0”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 4, 2016 at 8:00pm
As announcements continue to roll out from CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Maingear caught our eye with an extreme gaming machine that they are debuting. Normally, gaming machines are not anything special or unusual at Continue reading “Maingear Creates Buzz with 18-Core All-In-One Gaming PC at CES 2016 “. …more
By Ken Brown •
Jan. 4, 2016 at 5:43pm
Netgear Targets Gamers and Smart Home Users at CES Netgear has unveiled their 2015 CES lineup with a number of announcements at their showroom suite in the Marriott Las Vegas. Many of the products announced Continue reading “Netgear Targets Gamers and Smart Home Users at CES 2016”. …more
By Ken Brown •
Jan. 4, 2016 at 5:10pm
Global PC Builders Rally Around NVIDIA to Deliver VR-Ready PCs and Add-in Cards NVIDIA has just announced a new program that allows consumers to instantly identify Virtual Reality (VR) capable PCs, notebooks and other peripherals Continue reading “Global PC Builders Rally Around NVIDIA to Deliver VR-Ready PCs and Add-in Cards”. …more
By Ken Brown •
Jan. 4, 2016 at 2:00pm
Johnathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendel is back in the headlines this week with a teaser trailer for what looks to be the first Fatal1ty by Monster audio solution for gamers. The original announcement that Monster would be Continue reading “Fatal1ty Gaming Headsets by Monster To Debut At CES 2016”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 4, 2016 at 2:20am
CaseLabs will be discontinuing the Mercury S3, Mercury S8S, Mercury S8 Test Bench, Magnum M8A and Magnum TX 10 as of January 4th, 2016. This means that you literally only have a handful of days Continue reading “CaseLabs Streamlines Inventory By Discontinuing 5 PC Cases”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 31, 2015 at 8:05pm
HardwareBattle over in Korea has leaked an image of what is said to be AMD presentation slide that shows AMD’s future graphics products are referred to as Polaris. People around the web now believe that Continue reading “AMD Radeon 400 Series Video Cards To Use Polaris GPUs”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 31, 2015 at 1:47pm
Last month, PCM, Inc. purchased TigerDirect and some other assets from Systemax in a deal that totaled $14 million dollars. The deal closed this month and it appears that some of the first changes have Continue reading “TigerDirect Shutting Down? Up Top 50% Off Sale And All Sales Final”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 29, 2015 at 6:35pm
It appears that Plextor has scrapped the M7e PCIe SSD that was going to use the Marvell 88SS9293 controller and that the successor to the M6e PCIe SSD released in 2014 will be the M8Pe Continue reading “Plextor M8Pe PCIe SSD To Debut At CES 2016”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 29, 2015 at 2:26pm
CPU World is reporting that Intel has released an eight additional Broadwell- and Skylake-based processors to their processor pricing sheet that came out on December 27th, 2015. Two of the eight are new desktop processors: Continue reading “Intel Announces Two New Desktop Skylake Processors Without Integrated GPUs”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 28, 2015 at 2:30pm