Curved 4K LCD panels to land on a desk near you
One of the world’s largest display panel manufacturers has demoed a series of 4K curved LCD displays which may pave the way for a new generation of premium business displays. Hold your horses, though,...
View ArticleIntel’s Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt can drive two 4K displays, eyes 40Gb/s speeds
Intel’s new Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt interface is getting ready to strap on its skis and clock up some serious speed on the data slopes – up to 40Gb/s – according to a leaked slide for the design. The...
View ArticleIntel’s beefy Broadwell CPU set to supercharge PCs by Christmas
Intel has promised to deliver its next-generation processors, codenamed Broadwell, in time for the Christmas holidays. Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel, spoke to Reuters at the Maker Faire in San Mateo,...
View ArticleIntel enlists Panasonic as foundry client
Intel has announced that it will be manufacturing system-on-chip (SoC) products for Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, becoming the company’s sixth customer. Other names include Altera, Achronix...
View ArticleAmazon launches Zocalo to compete with Box and Dropbox
Amazon has unveiled an enterprise storage and collaboration service designed to compete with Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. The service, Amazon Zocalo, allows users to save, send,...
View ArticleAnalysis: Should Qualcomm buy AMD?
The news last week of Qualcomm’s renewed interest into the buzzing ARM-based server market got me thinking: should Qualcomm, the Intel of the ARM ecosystem, buy AMD, the only other significant x86...
View ArticleIn depth: Build your first gaming PC: 5 tips from a first-time builder
Why it took me so long to build a PC Hey everyone, my name is Joe, Reviews Editor for TechRadar, and I’ve never built a PC. Until now. Yes, I work for a technology media outlet and have never tangled...
View ArticleHTC invite teases ‘world’s first’ octa-core 64-bit smartphone
Never mind the fact that Apple lobbed the opening 64-bit smartphone salvo nearly a year ago with the iPhone 5S – HTC plans to stake claim to a first of its own next week with a presumed successor to...
View ArticleBeating bottlenecks amid the big data deluge
What is a storage bottleneck? And how can you avoid it? Thomas Pavel, EMEA Storage Sales Director at Avago Technologies, told us about the strains caused by the data deluge and how your organisation...
View ArticleAnalysis: Here’s why Oracle could buy AMD tomorrow
AMD has been the subject of acquisition speculations, more often than not in the past and with yesterday’s joint presentation with tech giant Oracle, many will wonder whether now isn’t the right time...
View ArticleNASA manufactures first 3D-printed object in space
3D printing has quite literally gone out-of-this-world following the news that NASA has manufactured the first 3D-printed object in space, which the space agency says will "pave the way to future...
View ArticlePC Format turns 300!
Three hundred issues. Twenty four years. Over 22,000 pages covering the wonderful world of technology, equating to something like 13 million words on our favourite subject. That’s an incredible body...
View ArticleCES 2015: SanDisk unveils flash and SSD drives for consumers
SanDisk has updated its flash storage and consumer solid state drive (SSD) products to help you more quickly transfer and save large amounts of data. The SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0 is a USB...
View ArticlePC-in-a-mouse is an intriguing concept
We had the PC-in-a-keyboard (hello, Asus Eee Keyboard) and now a Polish firm has come up with what looks like an Android-based PC-in-a-mouse called Mouse-Box. It’s powered by a quad-core TI OMAP...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi 2 outed with faster CPU, double RAM and Windows 10 support
A new version of the popular Raspberry Pi micro-computer has raced out of the traps and is six times more powerful than the previous model according to the Cambridgeshire-based charity behind it, the...
View ArticleSamsung rumored to be acquiring AMD
Future Samsung smartphones and tablets could get a major boost in graphical muscle. An AMD Radeon-powered boost to be precise. Is there any substance to today’s rumor that Samsung is considering...
View ArticleInterview: Helium hard drives to become mainstream says HGST
After Seagate, we caught up – twice – with HGST, a WD company, to get an update on their plans. The HDD maker has announced that it wants to push helium into hard disk drives as fast as possible. It...
View ArticleSlim storage: Samsung Portable SSD T1 launches
Portable hard drives can be frustratingly unreliable beasts, so Samsung is hoping you’ll channel that frustration into forking out for its slick, but pricey, new Portable SSD T1. Weighing in at just...
View ArticleYou could store 400 Blu-ray movies on HGST’s new 10TB hard drive
8TB hard disk drives from Seagate have been flooding the consumer market for a few months now, and the company’s rivalry with HGST is bound to go up a notch after the latter announced a 10TB hard disk...
View ArticleHow to share an external monitor between Macs
It’s possible to run into trouble when sharing monitors between your Mac and another computer. You may be trying to use an external monitor with a Mac, for example. Sometimes when unplugging it from a...
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