Nvidia RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Review: You Can't Polish a Turing
…It's willing to pay a die and performance penalty to try and hit those targets, and it's picked a launch moment when there's very little competition in the market…
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on the planet for mainstream laptops, desktops, and servers for most of the past two decades. Its products represent the default option, the safe choice. Over time, Intel CPUs have become more-or-less synonymous with "the best and fastest CPUs." But Intel hasn't had much luck delivering significant performance gains on a core-for-core basis since Sandy Bridge launched in 2011. Improvements have come incrementally and often relied on SIMD instruction set optimization or specific test cases. So long as Intel faced no meaningful market competition, there was no real argument against the idea that
Intel Is at a CrossroadsWhy Haven't Server Sales Skyrocketed?
AMD says it'll report its server share details later in the year when IDC reports, but the question of AMD's relatively slow ramp in servers comes up practically every conference call, and I'm sure it'll come up again when they eventually publish. What everyone remembers is this graph: What this graph shows is that somewhere between January 2005 and June of 2006, AMD's server market share went from ~5-7 percent to ~22 percent in just 18 months. There are several reasons why AMD isn't repeating that ramp this time around. First, the chart's starting position is incorrect. AMD didn't begin tryin
AMD's Market Share Hits Highest Overall Level Since 2012Google confirms it will offer carrier services, may operate Google brand across pre-existing network
…Companies like Verizon and AT&T have little reason to work with Google to create a brand that the latter will benefit from, while smaller competitors like T-Mobile and Sprint have…
AMD's RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT Reviewed: RDNA Puts Radeon Back in the Game
The AMD RX 5700 and AMD RX 5700 XT are Team Red's latest salvos in the GPU market, and a major attempt to improve its competitive standing relative to Nvidia. While…
Apple's First ARM-Powered Mac Could Launch in November
Ever since Apple announced it would move to its own custom ARM CPUs for laptops and desktops, there've been questions about what kind of platform we should expect and how the…
Apple iPad patents: All bark and no bite?
…From then on it was just a question of time. Touch input isn't new, and neither are handheld devices with screens. We covered some of them, like the Eo and the…
Raspberry Pi Opens Its First Official Retail Store
…In addition to offering Apple some local competition in the critical tech-stores-named-after-tasty-fruit market, the store aims to introduce consumers who may not have heard of the RBP…
European Union Reverses Qualcomm's $1 Billion Antitrust Fine
…markets. Later this year, the General Court will rule on Google's challenge of a record €4.34 billion fine. A ruling in favor of Google is not out of the question…
Razr Sharp: Motorola's Retro-Futuristic Foldable Phone Praised
…Motorola hasn't been a major competitor in the high-end phone market for years, but the company was going to ship a foldable display -- a technology Samsung was clearly struggling to…
Pokemon X and Y: When will the game's graphics be as good as the TV show?
…The question is, though: When will the graphics of a Pokemon game be better than the TV show? Prior to the Nintendo 3DS, the Nintendo portables packed some of the weakest hardware…
The Best CPUs Ever Made
…When Intel wanted to bring its Medfield phones to market, the Cortex-A9 was the competitor product they had to position against. ARM continues to launch well-regarded mobile CPUs, but the…