Trade Shows
As Intel looks to streamline its business operations and get back to profitability in the face of weak revenues and other business struggles, nothing is off the table as the company looks to cut costs into 2025 – not even Intel’s trade shows. In an unexpected announcement this afternoon, Intel has begun informing attendees of its fall Innovation 2024 trade show that the event has been postponed. Previously scheduled for September of this year, Innovation is now slated to take place at some point in 2025. Innovation is Intel’s regular technical showcase for developers, customers, and the public, and is the successor to the company’s legendary IDF show. In recent years the show has been used to deliver status updates on Intel’s fabs, introduce new...
Huawei Announces The MediaPad M2 10
Today at CES Huawei made a number of announcements. One of them is a new tablet called the Huawei MediaPad M2 10. It's a new tablet coming to the...
11 by Brandon Chester on 1/5/2016Seagate Updates DAS Portfolio at CES 2016
Seagate has announced four new DAS (direct attached storage) products at CES 2016. Three of them target the premium / luxury market under the LaCie brand name. Seagate Backup Plus...
12 by Ganesh T S on 1/5/2016HTC Unveils the Vive Pre Dev Kit
Today HTC has taken the wraps off of the second generation version of the HTC Vive. As you probably know, the HTC Vive is a virtual reality head-mounted display...
11 by Brandon Chester on 1/5/2016Lenovo Announces The VIBE S1 Lite
Today Lenovo introduced the VIBE S1 Lite at CES in Las Vegas. The VIBE S1 Lite is a mid range smartphone offered by Lenovo which offers some notable specs...
1 by Brandon Chester on 1/4/2016Lenovo Launches ThinkPad X1 Yoga At CES With OLED Display
The ThinkPad Yoga has been around for some time, as a business focused version of the Yoga family, but Lenovo is launching the X1 Yoga today which takes the...
49 by Brett Howse on 1/3/2016Lenovo Launches ThinkVision Displays With USB-C Docking At CES
As soon as the USB-C connector and alternate modes were announced with DisplayPort adding support, I instantly envisioned a monitor with USB-C as the single cable to allow docking...
13 by Brett Howse on 1/3/2016Lenovo Launches The Modular ThinkPad X1 Tablet at CES
The convertible tablet segment has certainly gained a foothold over the last year or two, and now we are seeing a lot of great designs in this space. Lenovo...
16 by Brett Howse on 1/3/2016Lenovo Refreshes ThinkPad Lineup at CES
Lenovo is taking the opportunity to use CES as the launching point for its refreshed ThinkPad lineup, and pretty much the entire product portfolio is getting some sort of...
22 by Brett Howse on 1/3/2016Host-Independent PCIe Compute: Where We're Going, We Don't Need Nodes
The typical view of a cluster or supercomputer that uses a GPU, an FPGA or a Xeon Phi type device is that each node in the system requires one...
8 by Ian Cutress on 12/21/2015Q&A Session with ASUS at CES 2016: 10 Years of the Republic of Gamers
As part of our coverage of CES 2016 a few short weeks away, we have teamed up with ASUS for a round-table into their Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand...
24 by Ian Cutress on 12/18/2015Going for Gaming: An Interview with MSI VPs Charles Chiang and Ted Hung on Gaming and Strategy
MSI’s march on the gaming market has been well documented with plenty of pushes into notebooks, motherboards, graphics and an attempt to move the barrier forward with both brand...
17 by Ian Cutress on 12/18/2015Workstation Love at SuperComputing 15
One of the interesting angles at Supercomputing 15 was workstations. In a show where high performance computing is paramount, most situations involve an offload of software onto a small...
36 by Ian Cutress on 12/14/2015Supermicro with Greenlow Motherboards at SuperComputing 15
One of the bigger shakeups of the Xeon ecosystem of late is the recent discovery that Intel will be severing the few ties that the Xeon family of processors...
14 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2015Omni-Path Switches at SuperComputing 15: Supermicro and Dell
It was clear at SuperComputing 15 that Intel had two main things in mind to promote: Knights Landing, their new Xeon Phi product, and Omni-Path, their new 100 Gbps...
10 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2015ARM on AMD: The A1100 Seattle Silicon at SuperComputing 15
Anyone loosely following AMD’s efforts with ARM intellectual property would have had on their periphery the noise of the A1100 product aimed at servers, codenamed Seattle. The idea was...
18 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2015Broadwell E3 v4 Xeons: Cirrascale at SuperComputing 15
The hubbub about the Broadwell Xeon family was relatively interesting. We managed to get hold of the models that came in a socketed form for testing, the E3-1285 v4...
6 by Ian Cutress on 11/23/2015SuperComputing 15: Intel’s Knights Landing / Xeon Phi Silicon on Display
There are lots of stories to tell from the SuperComputing 15 conference here in Austin, but a clear overriding theme – in order to reach ‘Exascale’ (the fancy name...
26 by Ian Cutress on 11/19/2015A Few Notes on Intel’s Knights Landing and MCDRAM Modes from SC15
When learning about new hardware, there are always different angles to look at it. For the most part, manufacturers talking to the media will focus on the hardware aspects...
10 by Ian Cutress on 11/16/2015Intel @ SC15: Launching Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” & Omni-Path Architecture
The fourth and final of the major SC15 conference announcements/briefings for today comes Intel. As Intel is in the middle of executing on their previously announced roadmap, they aren’t...
7 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2015NVIDIA @ SC15: US NOAA to Build Tesla Weather Research Cluster
Continuing with our coverage of today’s spate of SC15 announcements, we have NVIDIA. Having already launched their Tesla M40 and M4 server cards last week to get ahead of...
15 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2015