Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

Qualcomm’s focus for the first half of its latest Snapdragon Summit revolved around the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 platform, while the second half of the event (and our coverage) targets AR, Snapdragon Compute, advances in spatial audio, and lossless audio over Bluetooth.

At its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm has taken the veil off of its supercharged Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform. Naturally, performance in almost all regards has improved, but so too have the overall capabilities – especially those that revolve around AI.

The scaling of AI and high performance computing is fascinating. At SC22 NVIDIA explored more uses for its Omniverse and Digital Twin approach to the metaverse, It showcased HPC deployment of its H100 GPUs, edge computing, and developing true to life models of the planet with Lockheed Martin.

AMD announced today its latest generation of GPUs, the Radeon RX 7000 series, sporting some impressive generational leaps. There were two cards announced, the RX 7900 XTX and the RX 7900 XT, to be released December 13th 2022, at $999 and $899 respectively through AMD directly. Third-party AIBs will be making announcements…..

Sometimes you just never have enough space to fit everything on a single screen. Laptops are great for productivity on-the-go, or at least providing the option of mobility, but can quickly feel too cramped when bigger projects come around. You’re comparing two documents while looking up a schedule, have eight tabs open…..

As part of the all digital CES, HyperX announced a number of new gaming peripherals for gamers, on both PC and consoles. Being the big eSports brand that it is, all these devices have been battle hardened by pro-gamers and should be up to the challenge of the home gamer. First out…..

As part of its build-up to a new GPU launch, NVIDIA released today a short, documentary-style video on how it goes about product design, and the challenges that need to be overcome when building a new graphics card. While there is nothing particularly ground-breaking on show, the video does provide a high-level…..

With just a couple of days left to go until CES 2020 officially kicks off in Vegas, NVIDIA is starting early with a number of announcements to start giving people on a heads-up of what’s to come. One of the first things out the gate is a new series of G-SYNC certified,…..

As part of its annual release schedule, AMD is releasing its big software update for GPU drivers, Radeon Software. While there are monthly updates and hot-fixes released throughout the year, it’s towards the end of the year we get a big update. With the launch of the different Crimson and Adrenaline editions,…..

Three days of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit, we get to dive into the big features and specifications of the new 865 and 765/765G processors, 5G modems, and sensor hub. There’s also big changes to gaming, with GPU drivers as an app, desktop rendering features coming with Unreal Engine, and the XR2 VR platform. Also a quick update on the 7c and 8c processors for Windows.

In Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm is holding its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, where it gets to talk about all things Snapdragon, and the larger ecosystem for Qualcomm products. Its partners are lined up, ready to show off the latest products, and we the press get a chance to see what to expect in…..

We’ve covered ModMics for a while now, and have seen the product change over time. Today marks some new arrivals into the product stack at Antlion Audio with the ModMic USB and ModMic Uni, as it attempts to simplify its product range, and at the same time fixes some of the last…..

AMD is making available the next installment in its Radeon Navi GPU rollout with the release of the RX 5500 series. These GPUs will be first Navi GPUs to be released to the mobile market, as well as desktops. These GPUs will be released straight-to-AIB products, meaning no reference design restrictions, so companies…..

In a somewhat surprise announcement from Intel, details on its next range of HEDT processors have been released. Cascade Lake-X is an update to the long-running Skylake-based architecture, and is in large part an incremental update. It has many of the security protections and mitigations implemented, higher frequencies, more memory capacity, and…..

NVIDIA’s RTX features may be a bit of a slow starter in games, but on the creative side, it’s a different story. We’re taking a look at Blender’s latest 2.81 alpha build and see NVIDIA’s OptiX render engine in action, leveraging the power of the RT cores to accelerate ray traced workloads. The results are impressive.

Two new enterprise storage hard drives were announced by Western Digital, launched under the Ultrastar range. Initial reports had speculated that these were WD’s first entry of MAMR drives into the market, but so far, no official word has been given. These new drives come in the form of the Ultrastar DC…..

Back in May, around Computex time, NVIDIA unveiled its latest range of RTX Studio laptops for creative professionals. This brought a new set of drivers specifically built for designers and artists, but also new reference designs for the laptops themselves, and the introductions of the Quadro RTX 5000 GPU for laptops. The…..

If you thought 32-core CPUs were crazy, wait until you see AMD’s 2nd Gen EPYC CPUs. These are no simple product refresh, as EPYC Rome is a major step forward for AMD with 64-cores, 256MB L3 cache, PCIe 4.0, and at half the price of the competition. This is one EPYC launch event.

With SIGGRAPH 2019 kicking off, there will be plenty of creative and workstation news coming out over the next few days. We’ve already seen the start with announcements coming from Blender and Luxion, but NVIDIA made a surprise announcement. Last year, we saw the launch of the Quadro RTX series at SIGGRAPH,…..

Announced just last week and recently reviewed, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and 2070 SUPER will be hitting store shelves and rolled out for wider release. Vendor options including custom coolers will also be made available from the usual companies such as ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, PNY, EVGA, and many more.. You can…..