Apple A5X Die Size Measured: 162.94mm^2, Samsung 45nm LP Confirmed
Contrary to what we thought yesterday based on visual estimation of the A5X die, Chipworks has (presumably) measured the actual die itself: 162.94mm^2. While the A5 was big, this...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/16/2012
Archos Shipping 1.5GHz 80 G9 Turbo Across The Pond
UK readers have one more thing to lord over their colonial cousins. Starting today, Archos has made available the long promised Archos 80 G9 Turbo in its full 1.5...
8 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/16/2012HTC Vivid Android 4.0 Sneaks Out For Some
The long road to Android 4.0 for US subscribers seems to be getting shorter; and for some lucky users the time has come. AT&T's HTC Vivid was one of...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/16/2012
Archos 35 Home Connect Review: Android at the Bedside
Over the last few years of smartphone ownership, one of the most satisfying and somewhat surprising uses has been listening to good old fashioned FM radio, streamed through the...
9 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/15/2012
Apple's A5X Die (and Size?) Revealed
iFixit saved us all a whole lot of trouble and performed a teardown of the new iPad announced last week. The internals were mostly what we expected, down to...
45 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/15/2012
Diablo III Coming on May 15
After a few delays and many recitations of Blizzard's "We'll release it when it's ready" mantra, Diablo III finally has a release date: May 15th. On that date, Blizzard's...
46 by Craig Getting on 3/15/2012
Marvell's 3rd Generation 88SS9187 SSD Controller
Today Marvell is announcing its third generation SSD controller with the 88SS9187. Its predecessor, the 88SS9174 was used in many drives including Crucial's m4 and Intel's SSD 510. The...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2012
HTC Publishes Updated Ice Cream Sandwich Rollout Plans
About a month ago, Brian wrote about HTC's initial Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) release plans. Yesterday HTC published a blog post which added a few models to the list...
24 by Kristian Vättö on 3/14/2012
NVIDIA Releases 296.10 GeForce Driver, Introduces Windows 8 Driver Support
NVIDIA has just posted the WHQL-certified GeForce driver 296.10 for Windows 7 and Vista desktops and laptops and Windows XP desktops, and has also released a 296.17 driver specifically...
6 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/13/2012
Google and Mozilla Working on Metro-Enabled Browsers, Opera May Follow Suit
Both Mozilla and Google have confirmed to various sources that they have begun (or are planning to begin) work on Metro-style versions of their Firefox and Chrome browsers for...
11 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/13/2012
The Frequency of Apple A5X in the New iPad Confirmed: Still Running at 1GHz
While Apple's new iPad won't be available until Friday, some users have gotten their hands on the new models and done some preliminary benchmarks. A Vietnamese site, tinhte.vn, posted...
49 by Kristian Vättö on 3/13/2012
Firefox 11 Due Today, Features Chrome Migration, Add-on Sync
Mozilla is due to release Firefox 11 to the stable channel today, and like every Firefox release since 4.0 the new version adds a handful of new features and...
25 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/13/2012
Boston Releases Intel Xeon E5-2600 Based Setups
Quattro 1264-T Intel's Xeon E5-2600 lineup was released last Tuesday and as expected, several manufacturers have released products based on these processors. Today we are looking at Boston's offerings, which...
8 by Kristian Vättö on 3/12/2012
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.2 Drivers, Supports Radeon HD 7000 Series
AMD has released the WHQL-certified version of its Catalyst 12.2 driver package for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. In addition to the fixes and...
13 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/12/2012
Samsung Announces SGS2 GT-I9100 ICS Update Hitting March 10th - Update: Not March 10th
Not to be outdone by Apple with its recent iOS 5.1 announcement, nor HTC with its rollout to Sensations in Nordic countries, Samsung has announced that it will make...
28 by Brian Klug on 3/8/2012
Archos Rolls Out ICS Update to Entire G9 Line
We saw a preview build at ICS and now it's here. Archos announced today a worldwide rollout of its Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update for the G9 line...
15 by Jason Inofuentes on 3/8/2012The new iPad 4G contains Qualcomm's MDM9x00 Baseband
A while back we speculated that Apple would use Qualcomm's 28nm MDM9615 basband for future iDevices with 4G LTE. The part made logical sense at the time, in part...
18 by Brian Klug on 3/8/2012
The iOS 5.1 update, "4G", AT&T, and the 3G Toggle
When the iPhone 4S first launched, AT&T ominously noted (through a document leaked to The Verge) that it was "working with Apple" to update the 3G indicator to 4G...
12 by Brian Klug on 3/7/2012
Supermicro Launches 100+ Server Solutions Based on the Xeon E5 Family
The Sandy Bridge based Xeon E5-2600 processors were launched by Intel yesterday, and Supermicro wasn't far behind in launching a host of solutions supporting / based on these processors...
33 by Ganesh T S on 3/7/2012
Micron Announces 2.5" PCIe SSD for Enterprise
Micron has announced the first 2.5" SSD which utilizes PCIe interface instead of the more common SATA interface. The 2.5" form factor allows for easy serviceability because the drives...
12 by Kristian Vättö on 3/7/2012
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