As the dust settles after the unfortunate shuttering of LG’s Mobile Business, Sony has bounced out a new trio of handsets. Besides foldables, candybar style smartphones have been getting increasingly boring as of late. While LG tried to impress with it’s Explorer program and came out with some wacky designs like the Wing, they often […]
AMD unveils their Radeon 6700XT whilst supply chain constraints affect the industry.
Much speculated but finally unsheathed to the world, AMD have introduced yet another member to it’s RDNA2 family, the Radeon 6700XT. Navi 22 XT is the chip powering the show, fabricated on TSMC’s 7 Nanometer process technology, paired this time with a paired back 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192 bit memory bus, compared to […]
Nvidia resurrects Pascal back from the Dead! Why this is a good idea.
2020 and so far 2021 has been a miserable time if you’re a gamer looking to make some upgrades. Ryzen, Big Navi, Ampere are damn near impossible to get a hold of. Scalpers continue to hoover up PS5/Xbox Series inventory and Cryptominers any high end GPUs they can get their mitts on. Lead times for […]
Intel lashes out at Apple with “Go PC” campaign, uses cherry picked benchmarks (yet again).
Oh boy… Well ain’t this a bit embarrassing. I know divorces of any kind can be messy, feelings are hurt and tensions fray, but most people try to not air their dirty laundry in public. Everybody and their mother at this point has heard about Apple’s split from longtime CPU supplier Intel, moving to their […]
SpaceX’s Satellite Service Starlink gets preorder expansion as Elon Musk eyes up IPO.
Elon Musk is a man of many goals. Make the most performant, desirable and pervasive fleet of electric cars ever? Check. Save Australian Citizens over $116 Million in electricity costs over 2 years with the world’s biggest battery? You bet! Deliver 4 astronauts to the International Space Station, oh hell yeah! Clearly a man with […]
Changing waves at Amazon: Jeff Bezos steps down but doesn’t step away.
In a surprise announcement, Jeff Bezos the CEO of Amazon, whose name is inseparable from the e-commerce and technology goliath that he founded back in July 1994, will be stepping down as CEO this year to focus more on other projects such as Blue Origin. While it’s no secret that Amazon has been Bezos’ main […]
ASUS ROG CES 2021 – ROG Embraces the power of AMD and Unity to Steal the Show.
It’s been a CES like no other. No in person booth attendance due to the pandemic has left every company out there grappling with this new reality and forging new experiences in the virtual worlds for their audiences. Some do some flashy presentation, some release a press briefing. If you’re ASUS though, nah that simply […]
Acer CES 2021 – 11th Gen Intel Core, Zen 3 and Ampere make their way to Helios, Triton, Nitro and Aspire.
If 2021 is shaping up to be anything, it’s the year of the laptop. Seems like every OEM is keen to make their mark this year, hitting us with the best Intel, NVIDIA and AMD have to offer. Acer keen on being in on the action has refreshed it’s offerings, aiming to bring even better […]
NVIDIA CES 2021 – Ampere Mobile makes it’s debut
It’s a CES like no other this year. As the world has adapted to the pandemic, CES has switched things up, ditching the rows upon rows of booths and exhibitions of years past in lieu of a fully online digital experience this year. NVIDIA made it’s splash on January 12th with a live stream hosted […]
Jim Keller and the State of the Union at Intel
We’re only a few days into 2021 and it’s already shaping up to be a year of shakeups. Sony market share in decline in its native Japan, Elon Musk becomes the richest man in the world, and a tectonic personnel change hits Intel. Jim Keller, Guru tier Microprocessor Engineer, a true doyen in the field, […]