Microsoft cedes consoles to Sony, gives up on gaming
XBox 720 loses badly because Microsoft didn't try
GDC this year made one thing clear, Sony wins the next generation console race, period.
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AMD’s HD 7790 Versus Intel’s HD 4000
What do you gain from adding discrete graphics to your system?
“What do you gain by dropping an extra $150 on discrete graphics?”. It’s from this perspective that we’ll be reviewing AMD’s HD 7790.
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Archos shakes up cell phones with three new models
Platinum 50 and 53, Carbon 35 are the future, really
It looks like Archos just shook up the cell phone market with three new Android entries, the 35 Carbon, 50 Platinum, and 53 Platinum.
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Jak makes DLNA adapters cute again
MWC 2013: By far the cutest USB stick SemiAccurate has ever seen
DLNA and Miricast dongles were a dime a dozen at MWC, but one of the nicest was the Jak from a little Korean company called bCoda.
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Intel outs two Open Networking reference designs
A switch and a server to meet every need
Intel is taking the whole Software Defined Networking paradigm serious with the release of two new platforms today.
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HiAlgoBoost For Far Cry 3
A real-time dynamic resolution and texture quality scaling app...
About this time last year we looked at an app called DynamiX from LucidLogix.
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Microsoft tries a new Windows 8 damage control message
Analysis: Unleash the astroturfers to blacken the forums ASAP
If you have never seen how a large company does damage control from the inside, the somewhat surreal proceedings are a bit hard to understand.
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Cisco has to fab chips at an Intel foundry
Analysis: It isn't a choice as much as a requirement
Cisco is going to make chips with Intel as a foundry for one simple reason, they have to.
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Putting Intel’s New HD 4000 Driver to the Test
Can it live up to our expectations?
Back at GDC Intel spent a considerable amount of time talking up their latest driver release.
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IDC shows Windows 8 is actively destroying PC sales
Just like we told you would happen, just a bit worse
Remember when SemiAccurate said Microsoft had failed?
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Thunderbolt: Still broken but new parts talked up
Garbage in, garbage out, but still anti-user garbage
Intel is still trying to pretend Thunderbolt is not dead, but two new chips don’t do much to change the underlying problems.
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Intel shows off Rack Scale Architecture and Rack Disaggregation plans
Current leads to Emerging, then to Future once again
Intel is re-imagining the what servers are, and the result looks nothing like what you think of as a server.
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Intel talks about Briarwood, Avoton, Rangley, and Centerton Atoms
All look interesting but have no chance to succeed
Intel is going code name crazy during IDF Beijing and is teasing three Atom code names.
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Intel talks up three new Xeon families at IDF
By talk we mean nothing other than names, did you expect real info?
IDF didn’t neglect the bigger CPUs for Atoms, there were no less than three families of big Xeons teased too.
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Calxeda jumps aboard HP’s Pathfinder Innovation Ecosystem
Thankless tasks but someone has to do it
The lucky among you missed the HP Moonshot webcast yesterday, but we can sum it up in a paragraph.
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