Alienware and Dell level up their gaming laptops
These are not the laptops of yesterday.
Alienware and Dell level up their gaming laptops
These are not the laptops of yesterday.
CES 2023—Work or relax, viewing just gets bigger, brighter, better
Part 2: Portable computing systems, latest in TV/home entertainment display/audio technology, LED lighting solutions catch the eyes of attendees.
Education initiative in Ukraine
Acer donates notebooks and tablets to a school in war-torn Lviv.
Acer starts 2023 off with a bang
Acer burst into the new year with new products in its Swift Go line, laptops for gaming, new 3D stereo tech, and more.
The new 3D graphics pipeline
Who loses and who gains when consumers get access to vast libraries of content for a minimum monthly fee or because they are willing to put up with ads? I
Apple’s footprint
As you’ve heard by now, maybe a hundred times, Apple has a new multi-chip SoC called M1 Ultra. They also have a new workstation, a new set of smartphones, and more stuff in the Apple tube-o’-plenty of consumer products. How did a struggling PC vendor with a small MP3 player get to have such a reach? They did it with … Read more
Apple’s tiny but mighty Mac Studio
Apple’s new Mac Studio, clawed out of a single aluminum extrusion, measures 7.7-inches square and 3.7inches tall—designed to fit nicely under a display. Two fans on top draw air up from the circular vent on the bottom, pass over the PSU and motherboard and exhausted out from the back. It should be relatively quiet, but Apple hasn’t released any decibel … Read more
Apple’s M1 Ultra (2022)
In March 2022, at its annual new products conference, Apple announced a new version of the M1—the M1 Ultra, a dual-die chiplet device that introduced Apple’s UltraFusion interconnect technology. Apple’s UltraFusion packaging architecture connects two M1 Max die to create the M1 Ultra. (Source: Apple) Apple’s UltraFusion used a silicon interposer to connect the chips across more than 10,000 … Read more
Chiplets need a home—UCIe has one for them
Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) is an open specification that defines the interconnect between chiplets within a package, enabling an open chiplet ecosystem and ubiquitous interconnect at the package level. Forming an open industry standard organization around UCIe are Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), AMD, Arm, Google Cloud, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, and TSMC. The feasibility of implementing complex systems … Read more
Gunnir enters AIB market with Intel GPU
China-based Gunnir has introduced three AIBs and got featured on Intel’s newish GPU website along with Asus as users of the Intl Iris Xe DG1 GPU. Gunnir’s page, in Chinese, reveals the following (after a Google translation): Gunnir’s Lanji DG1-based AIB. (Source: Gunnir) The company offers two additional DG1-boards: the Iris Xe IndexV2 and the Iris Xe Max Index … Read more
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5
Happy researchers running their screen with a ball-point pen. (Source: Lenovo) Lenovo has done a springtime refresh of their mobile office products and brought some new, powerful features to the enterprise market. Announced at MWC, Lenovo showed the latest additions to its ThinkPad and ThinkVision portfolios. The ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5 is powered by an Intel vPro with … Read more