NVIDIA announced it’s newest flagship graphics card at an event in San Francisco on Friday, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang claims that it’s the product of billions of dollars of research and development. That claim is easy to believe when you hear that the card, known as the GeForce GTX 1080, is faster than two of its predecessors running… Continue reading NVIDIA has announced its newest flagship graphics card
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Rumor: NVIDIA will launch its next flagship graphics card in May
Gaming enthusiasts won’t have to wait much longer for NVIDIA’s next-generation flagship graphics card, according to a report from a Chinese website known as BenchLife on Friday. BenchLife has a pretty solid track record when it comes to leaks for AMD and NVIDIA products, so it’s safe to assume that the website’s claim that NVIDIA is planning… Continue reading Rumor: NVIDIA will launch its next flagship graphics card in May
Smartphones will soon have 256GB of storage thanks to Samsung
Nextbit wants to solve the problem of storage anxiety on smartphones by using the cloud to ensure that you never run out of storage space, but Samsung has a more traditional solution: just give smartphones more internal storage. That’s easier said than done, however, because it’s not enough to develop a storage chip with a larger… Continue reading Smartphones will soon have 256GB of storage thanks to Samsung
Samsung’s new Bio-Processor will power next year’s fitness trackers
Being able to regularly monitor your pulse is cool and all, but Samsung wants to take fitness trackers to the nest level with the Bio-Processor, a new chip that’s supposed to bring much more functionality to next year’s fitness trackers. The chip enables fitness trackers to monitor body fat, heart rate, skeletal muscle mass, skin temperature, and stress… Continue reading Samsung’s new Bio-Processor will power next year’s fitness trackers
Researchers have developed the first light-based microprocessor
A group of researchers from Berkeley, Boulder, and MIT have successfully demonstrated a microprocessor that transmits data through optical connections instead of electrical wires, which the researchers claim allows it transmit data at ten to fifty times the speed of traditional microprocessors. The MIT Technology Review does a better job of explaining how this works and why it’s significant,… Continue reading Researchers have developed the first light-based microprocessor
Huawei might be developing its own mobile GPU and flash memory
Not content with being the largest smartphone maker in China, and the third-largest in the world, Huawei has spent the last few years trying to expand into the semiconductor market with its own mobile chipsets. The expansion has actually been pretty successful, and the company’s newest Kirin 950 chipset is its most-impressive one yet, which is probably… Continue reading Huawei might be developing its own mobile GPU and flash memory
Sony is developing smartphone batteries that last 40% longer
Don’t get me wrong, I like the power increase that comes with each successive generation of smartphones, but I’m far from alone when I say that I’d rather have a battery that lasts longer than an improved processor whose added power I probably won’t even utilize. Improving battery technology is much easier said than done,… Continue reading Sony is developing smartphone batteries that last 40% longer
Apple might be working on its own display technology for the iPhone
Apple is unique in the smartphone industry in that it designs many of the components that power its devices, although Huawei and Samsung have started doing the same thing, but there are still a few important components of the iPhone that come from third-parties. Perhaps the most notable of these components is the display, but hot on the… Continue reading Apple might be working on its own display technology for the iPhone
Apple is reportedly developing its own mobile GPU
Apple likes to control as much of the technology that powers its products as possible, because the more control it has, the more efficient and optimized its products can become. That’s why the A-series chipset that powers most of Apple’s mobile devices is developed almost entirely in-house, but there are still a few areas where… Continue reading Apple is reportedly developing its own mobile GPU
NVIDIA wants to power the autonomous robots of the future
NVIDIA is known to most people as a graphics card company, one that specializes in gaming computers, but the company has been trying to diversify these past couple of years. It’s been especially interested in self-driving cars, and has a vision of its hardware powering the smart cars of the future, but looks like that… Continue reading NVIDIA wants to power the autonomous robots of the future