Computing

With the start of the new year, I always discover I’m getting ready to go in the mornings. Possibly it’s the new objectives or new energy, however I feel more determined than ever to obtain out there and get things done. Healthy smoothies are the healthiest method to get your …

Last week in Sonoma, AMD unveiled new details on its upcoming CPU architecture, codenamed Zen. For the past 16 years, AMD has relied on a combination of Greek (Athlon, Phenom) and Latin-derived (Duron, Opteron). More recently, it’s used the old “FX” moniker from its high-end Athlon 64 consumer hardware to …

Apple’s new MacBook Pro is a dongle-happy mess for anyone who uses peripherals manufactured prior to 2017, since the system only supports Thunderbolt 3 by default. Apple’s solution to the problem has been to push users towards a variety of dongles for replacing various aspects of Mac functionality. There’s nothing …

Micron has announced that it will deploy triple level cell (TLC) NAND in its 5100 Series, marking the first time any company has used TLC NAND in an enterprise product. Typically, enterprise and many consumer drives are based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND, which stores two bits of information per …

One of the fastest growing sectors in consumer technology is video monitoring. The floodgates opened with the launch of the popular Dropcam, and has kept going with a rash of competitors from both startups and established competitors. However, while most of them let you view the camera feed for free, …

The idea that AMD might license its graphics IP to Intel for inclusion in upcoming Intel CPUs sounds like the kind of headline we might write as an April Fool’s joke — but there’s a rumor that this may, in fact, be in the works. The question is, what kind …

Apple’s new MacBook Pro hasn’t had the smoothest debut. It’s more expensive than previous Mac systems, and it relies heavily on dongles or third-party add-ons to offer port compatibility. But the systems themselves have reviewed well. If you can live with the restrictions Apple puts on the MacBook Pro and …

This week, Microsoft announced a new initiative with Qualcomm aimed at bringing full 32-bit Win32 compatibility to ARM devices running Windows 10 in 2017. It’s a significant change from the company’s previous ARM strategy, and it could finally clear the way for the kind of cross-platform compatibility that Microsoft promised …

Just over a year ago, Qualcomm announced that it would throw its hat into the server market with a 24-core server processor built on its own custom ARM architecture. Even at the time, we knew the 24-core chip was just a prototype, but it’s still surprising to see Qualcomm going …

Hard drives may not demand the enthusiast attention they once did, thanks to the vastly improved performance of SSDs. But they still offer much more storage at a lower cost per gigabyte than your typical solid state drive. Western Digital was the first company to bring helium-filled hard drives to …