MINIX NEO P1 is an insanely small GaN charger
Review: Three devices, PD with 65W
MINIX is well known for its mini PC devices and has been a very successful player for years. In the meantime, the company expanded its portfolio to include USB Type-C storage and chargers.
Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus now available
$199 1TB and $399 2TB
Sabrent reached out to let us know that Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus is now available in 1TB, and 2TB sizes at Amazon.com and a few other places. The drive was initially announced in September, and it holds the fastest on the market crown with 7100 MB/s read and 6600 MB/s write performance.
Tiger Lake Xe GPU beats 4800U Renoir by 67.5 percent in Warcraft
Beat Geforce MX350 by 26 percent
An interesting development and a story has resurfaced as we have the performance results of three notebooks featuring Tiger Lake CPU with Integrated Xe, Gen 10 Core i7 with MX 350, and Ryzen 7 4800U Renoir.
Xilinx works with TI to develop energy efficient 5G radio
Texas Instruments uses Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC
Xilinx announced a collaboration with Texas Instruments (TI) to develop scalable and adaptable digital front-end (DFE) solutions to increase energy efficiency of lower antenna count radios. The solution leverages Xilinx's IP to enhance the RF performance and improve the power efficiency of indoor and outdoor radio applications.
Xiaomi Redmi TV Bar Speaker 30W reviewed
Review: Sub 50 Euro soundbar for the win
Redmi by Xiaomi is more known for phones, but in the meantime, the company also makes TV and soundbars, among other things, offering them at a favorable price in quite good quality.
Xilinx and Samsung announce Adaptable Computational Storage Drives
Industry's First
What the smart NIC did for the networking industry might be what SmartSSD powered by Xilinx FPGA might do for the storage industry. The company just announced its fully customizable and scalable SmartSSD computational storage platform. The general idea behind it moves to compute closer to storage for accelerated data processing speed and efficiency.
Apple M1 SoC performance claims don't add up
PowerPoint slides, no data
Watching Apple's MacBook silicon, M1 presentation left me astonished by the amount of information not based on facts. Without any thread of evidence, Apple's Johny Srouji, Senior Vice President, Hardware Technologies, was throwing claims that it has the fastest CPU core, fastest GPU core, best performance per watt, and throwing 2X or 3X in the equation.
Xilinx introduces breakthrough Zynq RFSoC DFE
For Mass 5G Radio Deployments
Xilinx is a rather big player in 5G infrastructure with its very attractive Zynq RFSoC, and today the company announced a new Zynq RFSoC DFE to help accomplish the evolving standard of 5G NR.
AMD announces plans to acquire Xilinx
$35 billion biggest to date
News that AMD might acquire Xilinx was quite a surprise after the Nvidia–ARM consolidation, but not surprising. Using current stock and market value increase, AMD decided to make a strategic decision to play better in the data center, 5G, automotive, and fight against the Intel–Altera alliance.
DXOMARK now scores displays
Game changing 400+ objective measurements
After great success with the scientific approach and standardization in camera testing, DXOMARK has decided to start testing mobile phone displays. There was a big debate for years how to accurately do that, and so far, no media house managed to stand out as the task is time and budget intensive.