…For nigh on three decades, Windows and Office have been the bread and butter of the Redmond, Washington company. However, the last decade has seen increasing success and competition from both Apple…
When we talk about computers -- PCs, smartphones, cars -- we generally assume that there's just one operating system: A single, monolithic piece of software that manages each individual piece of hardware, from…
Today, in a major first for any ARM vendor, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 850, with a focus explicitly on PC performance rather than smartphone or tablet performance that one would typically expect…
…RDNA 2-based GPU (Opens in a new window) , making it the first mobile chip with support for ray tracing at the hardware level. AMD and Samsung announced this collaboration back in…
…With a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 at 60 frames per second (yes, it can handle 4Kp60), this combination of powerful hardware and a next-gen video standard (Opens in a new window…
…On smaller devices, Microsoft has Windows Phone 8, and for everything else there's Windows 8, Windows Server 8 and Windows Embedded 8. With the same kernel in both WP8 and Windows…
…If the web browser is slow or temperamental it reflects poorly on the underlying OS, which 90% of the time is Windows. With Windows 8, Internet Explorer will be even more important…
…on proprietary cores, but there are some open source hardware designs for RISC-V as well. Now Read : RISC-V Tiptoes Towards Mainstream With SiFive Dev Board, High-Performance CPU ARM Co…
With a level of dedication rarely seen in today's commoditized consumer electronics market, one hardware hacker has flown all the way to Australia to get his hands on the iPhone 5…
…Initial deployments (Opens in a new window) of the technology will focus on links between FPGAs and GPUs, the two most common types of 'accelerator' that a customer is likely to use…