EVGA on Friday introduced yet another graphics card based on Nvidia Corp.’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics processing unit, which boasts nearly 20 per cent higher clock-rates compared to reference boards. Performance of EVGA’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti FTW in games should be higher compared to performance of Nvidia’s GeForce …

AquaComputer, a leading maker of components for custom liquid-cooling solutions, on Friday introduced its full-cover water-block for AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards, thus making high-performance liquid-cooled gaming PCs in mini-ITX form-factor a reality. The Kryographics R9 Nano single-slot full-cover water-block for AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics boards is made …

Sales of hard disk drives have been on the decline this year because of slow demand for personal computers and tough competition from solid-state drives. While Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corp. hope that demand of HDDs will pick up in the coming quarters, a market analyst claims that it …

MicroStar International this week revealed at its Facebook page that it is getting closer to unveiling graphics cards with hybrid cooling solutions. The company did not disclose when or what it plans to launch, but one of the first graphics adapters from MSI to feature new coolers will be powered …

If Apple manages to popularize its iPad Pro tablet among professionals, then over time such devices could expand their market presence and compete against various notebooks and 2-in-1s based on microprocessors from Intel Corp. Even though Apple’s iPad Pro introduced this week leverages Apple iOS ecosystem, the new product does …

Asustek Computer is virtually the only company, which still produces audio cards for gamers. On Thursday the company introduced three new sound cards, which belong to its Strix family of products. The new cards are based on advanced C-Media audio processors and are designed to provide premium quality audio experience …

Alienware, a division of Dell that sells high-end gaming PCs, has announced that it will upgrade all newly purchased laptops to Intel Corp.’s latest processors free of charge. Alienware is known for its high-performance gaming laptops with exclusive features and capabilities not available from other manufacturers. However, exclusive things take …

Silver Lake, a leading private equity firm, is reportedly planning to acquire a significant stake in Advanced Micro Devices. Details of the deal are unclear, but it makes a lot of sense for private equity companies to buy AMD, whose stock is trading at nearly its 12-months low. Silver Lake …

Gigabyte Technology’s G1 Gaming graphics cards and mainboards are known for their outstanding performance, overclocking potential and capabilities. However, such products are primarily designed for gamers and modders. For those, who want to have even higher quality and overclocking potential, Gigabyte on Thursday introduced its new lineup of products, the …

Apple on Wednesday introduced its fourth-generation iPad mini tablet. The new slate is thinner and lighter than all of its predecessors, yet it offers considerably higher performance and image quality than previous models thanks to a new system-on-chip as well as display technology. The Apple iPad mini 4 – the company’s …

Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is expected to significantly increase areal density of hard disk drive media in the coming years, which will ultimately help to increase capacities of HDDs to 100TB in 2025. However, according to Seagate, the technology still has issues with reliability and is not ready to hit …

Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced another round of its reorganization. From now on, all the development of graphics processing technologies, graphics adapters and software will be conducted at the newly established Radeon technologies group. The new unit will be led by Raja Koduri, a legendary developer of graphics processing …

Seagate Technology has been shipping hard disk drives based on media featuring shingled magnetic recording technology for about two years now, but so far the company has not shipped a lot of such drives. Nonetheless, Seagate seems to be happy with SMR and plans to expand shipments of SMR-based hard …

Apple on Wednesday introduced its iPad Pro, the largest tablet from the company ever. The slate is designed for professionals, it sports bigger 12.9” display, comes with optional physical keyboard and stylus as well as features considerably higher performance than its predecessors. The tablet was developed as a replacement for …

Samsung Electronics has announced that it had begun mass production of LPDDR4 memory chips with 12Gb capacity. The new memory devices were designed for high-performance smartphones and tablets that require a lot of ultra-fast dynamic random access memory. Samsung’s 12Gb LPDDR4 memory chip not only features unprecedented capacity – 12Gb, …

Sapphire Technologies has introduced a new entry-level graphics card designed for mini-ITX systems. The new Sapphire Nitro R7 360 is powered by “Bonaire” graphics processing unit and may be used as an inexpensive upgrade for older PCs or building of home-theater personal computers (HTPCs). The Sapphire Nitro R7 360 graphics …

It is not a secret that sales of discrete graphics processing units for personal computers are decreasing. In the second quarter of the year shipments of graphics cards for desktop computers dropped to the minimum level in many years. Despite of this, shipments of graphics cards used by gamers are …

Intel Corp. has decided to postpone release of its next-generation high-end desktop microprocessors code-named “Broadwell-E”, based on a media report. The new central processing units will be formally introduced in February or March, 2016, not in January, as expected before. According to excerpts from an Intel’s document published by BenchLife, …

Zotac has introduced its new miniature personal computer designed for gamers. Despite of small form-factor, the Zotac Zbox Magnus EN970 PC can deliver rather high performance in video games thanks to powerful specifications and a unique GeForce GTX 960 graphics adapter with 3GB of memory. The Zotac Zbox Magnus EN970 …

Micron Technology is working on the third generation of its hybrid memory cube technology, which will be unveiled next year. If the third-gen HMC doubles data rate of the memory from 15Gb/s today, then the new memory technology will offer unprecedented bandwidth. HMC uses advanced through-silicon vias (TSVs) – vertical …

Slow demand for personal computers drives prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) down. Thanks to that, DDR4 memory is getting considerably cheaper than it was a year ago. In fact, DDR4 got 25 per cent less expensive in less than three months. According to DRAMeXchange, the world’s leading computer …

Gigabyte Technology, one of the globe’s largest maker of motherboards, on Monday said that its Z170X-UD5 TH motherboard is the world’s first platform to be certified by Intel for Thunderbolt 3 compliancy. The Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH mainboard is based on Intel Z170 core-logic as well as Intel’s “Alpine Ridge” controller. …

The development of DDR4 began several years before DDR3 was commercialized and it took DDR4 about nine years to get from the drawing board into actual computers. Right now key industry players are already working on the standard, which will succeed DDR4. According to Samsung Electronics, prototypes of the new …

Even though Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 10 operating system is available for free to those, who already use a recent Windows, the software giant actually sells licenses for the OS to system makers and end users. As reported before, Microsoft decided not to use DVDs to distribute its Windows 10, but …

Legend, a maker of luxurious consumer electronics from Helsinki, Finland, has begun to take pre-orders for customized versions of Apple iPhone 6S. The company not only accepts pre-orders, but even displays what it claims to be actual products. Legend offers four versions of Apple iPhone 6S: gold-plated Classique and Momentum …

Acer Group has introduced a new ultra-wide curved display for gamers, which boasts extreme size, Nvidia G-Sync adaptive refresh rate technology as well as up to 200Hz refresh rate. While Acer mentions 200Hz refresh, it should be noted that the such frequency can only be achieved with “overclocking”, a relatively …

PowerColor has introduced the world’s first consumer-class graphics card with 16GB of onboard memory. The new adapter carries two AMD Radeon R9 390 “Hawaii” graphics processing units and will be one of the highest-performing graphics cards on the planet. Moreover, to emphasize that the new card is premium product, PowerColor …

For the second time in two years, chief executive officer of Acer Group denies plans to merge with Asustek Computer in a bid to create one of the world’s largest technology companies. Last month the founder of Acer said sarcastically that he would welcome a buyout of the company by …

Advanced Micro Devices is currently the only company to use high-bandwidth memory it co-developed with SK Hynix and other partners. While usage of HBM is clearly a competitive advantage that AMD has over its rivals, the company is encouraging others to use the new memory type and does not intend …

Toshiba Corp. has introduced its new Q300 family of solid-state drives designed for personal computers and workstations. The new drives support Toshiba’s adaptive size SLC write cache technology, which is designed to dramatically speed up write performance of SSDs based on MLC and TLC NAND flash memory. Toshiba’s new Q300 …