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By Jim Evans I’m reminded that when I do what I do best and don’t try to be all things to all people, I get much more accomplished. Interestingly, I’ve found that the same approach applies to server storage system controllers – and to the home PC I use for photo editing. The question many…

By Jim Evans I’m reminded that when I do what I do best and don’t try to be all things to all people, I get much more accomplished. Interestingly, I’ve found that the same approach applies to server storage system controllers – and to the home PC I use for photo editing. The question many…

By Desire Athow It looks more and more likely that Intel’s once-formidable archrival, AMD, could receive some significant capital from a little known Chinese conglomerate called Loongson Technology. VRWorld reports that key AMD staff have visited China over the last few weeks and that Loongson will use some of its 120 billion Yuan (about £12.6…

By Desire Athow It looks more and more likely that Intel’s once-formidable archrival, AMD, could receive some significant capital from a little known Chinese conglomerate called Loongson Technology. VRWorld reports that key AMD staff have visited China over the last few weeks and that Loongson will use some of its 120 billion Yuan (about £12.6…

By Desire Athow It’s been only a few weeks since Intel launched its Broadwell-U processor range in Las Vegas. The first parts are not expected to hit the mainstream retail component market till the second quarter of 2015, just a few months before Skylake, the next generation of Intel microprocessors is expected to launch. In…

By Kevin Lee Doing more with motion When it comes to input devices for our computers, not a lot has changed in the last two decades. Keyboards were around well before computers even existed, and the first mouse was invented way back in 1946. Meanwhile, track pads have been a part of mobile computing since…

By Chuong Nguyen If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by having to scan the occasional receipts for an expense report, the Canon imageFORMULA DR-C225W could help. Unlike traditional flatbed scanners, the imageFORMULA’s upright design saves space on a desk and the built-in WiFi reduces cable clutter. imageFORMULA has a feed tray that can hold up to…

By Desire Athow Despite the arrival of cloud storage and the ever-decreasing price of data storage, optical media still have a place in computing, especially when it comes to storing bytes in a safe place for a long time. Verbatim has unveiled a new 100GB Blu-ray optical disc, the M-DISC, which promises to store data…

By Desire Athow We spoke to Mark Whitby, Senior Vice President, Branded Products Group at Seagate Technology, EMEA, about data and the future of storage, and the impact of the rapidly onrushing global data capacity gap. Yes, in short, the world is running out of drive space – but what can be done about it?…

By Chuong Nguyen Your next workstation could pack as many pixels as today’s leading 8K televisions. The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has approved a new Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) 1.4a standard that will support 8K resolution screens. New all-in-one computers and mobile devices, including laptops, will start supporting the higher resolution as early as 2016.…

By EZ Bardeguez Introduction Ten years ago, monitors were nothing more than necessary accessories. Today, they can be luxury items that dramatically improve all aspects of computing and content consumption. There are so many types of monitors that suit so many different needs. Screen resolution, response time, panel weight: everything should be considered when choosing…

By Chuong Nguyen ARM is announcing its next generation ARM Cortex-A72 processor based on the 64-bit ARM v8-A design. ARM claims that the new chip delivers as much as 50 times the performance gain compared to processors from just five years ago, or 3.5 times the performance gain of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor from last…

By Chuong Nguyen ARM is announcing its next generation ARM Cortex-A72 processor based on the 64-bit ARM v8-A design. ARM claims that the new chip delivers as much as 50 times the performance gain compared to processors from just five years ago, or 3.5 times the performance gain of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor. The new…

By JR Bookwalter Introduction and Core processors Not so long ago, processors were judged largely by raw clock speed alone, a measure of how many calculations the chip is capable of performing in the space of a second. As megahertz (MHz) speeds have given way to today’s faster gigahertz (GHz) processors, however, there’s more to…

By Kane Fulton Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton is looking to spark a nostalgic Amiga emulation revolution following the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2. Thanks to a faster, quad-core ARM CPU and double the RAM of the previous model, Upton is confident that the new $35 (£22.85/AU$45) board is more capable of handling more…