Hardware
Epson India yesterday introduced new range of printers targeted at home and small business users. The M-Series printers consist of M100 and M200 and promise cheaper black and white prints compared to refilled laser toners. Both printers support mono ink tank system with M100 working as a single function printer while M200 goes for the [...]
Samsung has started mass producing really thin and small SSDs for upcoming ultrathin notebooks. The new PCI-Express (PCIe) SSDs measure just 80x22mm in size and weighs just about 6 grams while boasts capacities ranging from 128GB to 512GB. This SSD is said to be the faster off the lot that promises a sequential speed of [...]
And we thought the world has moved on from the clock speed race! AMD just announced the commercial availability of the world’s first CPU to break the 5GHz clock speed. AMD claims the FX-9000 Series CPUs boast “new levels of gaming and multimedia performance” with 8-cores and “Piledriver” architecture. The CPU also supports AMD Turbo [...]
Apple’s long list of WWDC announcements also includes the first glimpse of the new Mac Pro. Apple has completely redesigned the Mac Pro that boasts a cylindrical-shape and features a unified thermal core. Clearly, the desktop device is packed with meaty specs and the 9.9-inch tall Mac Pro features next-generation Xeon E5 processors, dual AMD [...]
Qualcomm has confirmed that they’re collaborating with the Redmond giant to make Snapdragon 800 processor support Windows RT 8.1. Windows RT is Microsoft’s Windows variant built for ARM-based chip, which the Qualcomm Snapdragon CPUs are based on. The Snapdragon 800 is the most powerful processor Qualcomm currently offers that comes with multimode 3G/LTE modem, quad-core [...]
Intel’s EVP, Tom Kilroy at the Computex today unveiled the 22nm-based Atom system-on-chip (SoC) that will power the upcoming tablets expected this holiday season. Codenamed as Bay Trail-T, the SoC features a quad-core CPU that promises two times the CPU performance than current generation, supports both Android and Windows 8.1 and a battery life of [...]
Seagate has announced that they’ve started shipping their ultrathin hard drives for laptops to OEM partners. The Laptop Ultrathin HDDs are just 5mm thin or about four credit cards stacked together and 3.3 oz in weight. Seagate says the thin form factor will allow laptop manufacturers as well as tablet makers to integrate a larger [...]
ARM at the Computex 2013 announced a new ARM Cortex-A processor and Mali GPU that will cater to the mid-range devices. For the next couple of years, ARM expects their new Cortex-A12 and Mali-T622 will find a home in almost 580 million devices, including mobile phones and tablets. The Cortex-A12 processor offers a 40 percent [...]
After sorting out the desktop gaming scene with two new introductions, Nvidia wants to improve gaming experience on laptops with the GeForce GTX 700M series. The series consists of four GPUs – GTX 760M, GTX 765M, GTX 770M and GTX 780M and are expected to be integrated in a lot of notebooks that will be [...]
Nvidia is on the offensive as the company just announced another high-end graphics card – the GeForce GTX 770. Priced at Rs. 29,990, the card offers high-end gaming performance, similar to the GTX Titan and the GTX 780 (that was announced last week) and sports Kepler architecture that brings in 1,536 cores with 4GB or [...]
Asus India has launched a new router RT-N14U targeted at home users. Clad in glossy and textured black diamond finish, Asus says the finish was restricted to high-end routers earlier but it’s the first time a sub-5k router has got the same design treatment. It’s a 802.11n router that offers a speed of up to [...]
Nvidia has added a new GeForce graphics card to its roster for consumers seeking a high performance gaming experience. Nvidia says the GeForce GTX 780 is designed for gaming enthusiasts that boasts a powerful Kepler GPU with 2304 cores and 3GB GDDR5 memory, which is about 50 percent more than the GeForce GTX 680. The [...]
Asus at an event in Mumbai today unveiled their latest all-in-one PC – the Transformer AiO. On first glance, it looks like another run-of-the-mill AIO PC but it can transform into an 18.4-inch (1920×1080) tablet that you can use anywhere in your office or home. Another interesting feature of this PC-tablet hybrid is that it [...]
Western Digital has collaborated with SanDisk to introduce Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) where SanDisk will provide their iSSD for the WD Black range. The 2.5-inch WD Black SSHD will take advantage of SanDisk iSSD’s low power consumption and reliability and use WD’s proprietary hybrid tech and standard SATA IO technology. The WD Black 5mm [...]
Japan Display – a consortium between Sony, Hitachi, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan and Toshiba has developed a new 5.2-inch OLED panel that boasts a full HD 1920×1080 pixels resolution. The panel achieves a pixel density of 423 ppi with the combination of low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS), white OLED and drive technologies and uses red, green, [...]
