DELL XPS 10 WindowsRT ARM Tablet

Once Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system is launched this October, ARM will have secured a serious foothold in the Windows software market. Sure the x86 Windows applications will not work on WindowsRT, but we’re certain that these will be much easier to port than going from ARM Android to x86 Windows 8. American company DELL is the second well-known brand to show a WindowsRT-based tablet at this year’s IFA event in Berlin, Germany, but this one is a lot different from ASUS’s own Vivo Tab RT tablet. The new tablet is called DELL XPS 10 and it is not powered by Nvidia’s popular Tegra 3 mobile processor, but it is using a Qualcomm processor. The most likely suspect inside DELL’s 10” XPS 10 tablet is the powerful APQ8064...

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AMD Steamroller Prepared to Be Faster Than Intel Haswell

Nobody can radically change a computing architecture and manage to get the first iteration to act exactly as what was initially envisioned. Just like AMD's Barcelona some time ago, many expected it to trample all over Intel’s Core 2 Duo, but in fact it didn’t. There was nothing catastrophically wrong with the design itself, but not all the bugs were ironed out and the design was not completely optimized. At the time, Barcelona seemed rushed out, as the company was in a hurry to offer something different than the popular Athlon 64 X2 available in those days. All that was needed was some grooming in the bug forest and a considerably larger level 3 cache. Then we had Phenom II that was and still is successfully competing...

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PowerColor AMD Radeon PCS+ HD 7950 Boost State Edition

AMD is preparing for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 video card launch and in the war for the $300 price point, the new Radeon HD 7950 Boost State Edition is the weapon of choice. Those that expect heaps of more GDDR5 memory or more shader cores active are in for a disappointment. AMD’s Radeon HD 7950 Boost State Edition is nothing more than the same video card with the same GPU and memory working at slightly higher frequencies by the means of a new BIOS using the newer Power Tune feature. PowerColor’s PCS+ version of the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost State Edition is using the same efficient cooling system with three 8-millimeter heatpipes and two 92-millimeter cooling fans. The card is very overclockable, very fast and a lot quieter...

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The iPhone 5’s nano-SIM Starts Shipping

Deutche Telekom is sending out nano-SIM cards to its partners one week ahead of the rumored iPhone 5 launch. The spec is said to be a perfect fit for the next-generation iPhone, which might be the first to adopt the nano-SIM standard. The operator is sending out these nano-SIMs with instructions that they’re to be used with “the latest generation of smartphones” launching in the near future. No reference to the iPhone has been made, but Apple’s next smartphone is said to be the first to adopt the new specification. Apple is widely expected to send out its own invitations to an event scheduled for next week, during which it will ceremoniously unveil the next-generation iPhone. The handset is said to have a four-inch...

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Windows Server 2012 Becomes Available Today

Today, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is set to make the Windows Server 2012 platform available for purchase and download. The company announced plans to make the move in early August, when it also announced that the OS was released to manufacturing, and has reportedly confirmed it yesterday at Tech Ed in New Zealand. To celebrate the event, Microsoft plans on holding a launch party. Those interested in learning more on the availability of Windows Server 2012 are invited to tune in starting with 8:00 am US Pacific Time (11 am ET). Microsoft’s hardware and software partners have already had access to the RTM flavor of the platform since early August. Volume licensing customers also received access to the bits last...

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AMD Jaguar Based APU Runs at 2 GHz and Beats AMD Brazos by 260%

AMD’s up and coming Jaguar architecture has been revealed at this year’s Hot Chips conference and we reported on that here and here. The new x86 core design is supposed to bring more instruction set support, better performance and much improved power efficiency. One thing we’ve noticed about all the Jaguar reports that are floating on the Internet, and that is that nobody seems to think about how much performance it will bring in the low-end sector and how that will correlate with Intel’s missing Atom upgrade. As most of you know, Intel hasn’t upgraded the Atom processor line in a while now and the company apparently wants to leave things the way they are now until next autumn or even later. Seeing that Intel is not doing...

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A6 CPU on Purported iPhone 5 Logic Board

A photo of the next-generation iPhone logic board has recently surfaced in photos, spurring speculation that Apple is, indeed, putting an all-new chip inside the chassis of its iPhone 5. Originating from Sonny Dickson (9to5mac researcher and tech enthusiast), the image is said to be “enhanced with Photoshop.” This, of course, doesn’t help its credibility one bit, but we wouldn’t deny our readers any tidbit that could potentially hold valuable information. For our part, we’ve enhanced the photo as well to show the clear A6 designation on the black silicon chip. We cannot confirm whether or not someone simply used a photo editor to put the “A6” on that black background. Given how fuzzy the picture is, there’s a good chance the...

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Complete List of Windows 8 Devices

We've been reporting on devices running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system for months, and the latest weeks have had more than a few official releases, but, for those who want a complete view of the “ecosystem”, such as it is, we have a nice chart to share. Following this link will take you to a file that lists all Windows 8 devices known so far, as well as the specifications, insofar as they are known. We aren't the ones who made it though. That credit goes to blogger Aidan Finn, whose original post can be found here. The file is a very thorough piece of work, and what we can claim is that we've written about many of the entries. There are 32 in total. Some run the Windows 8 standard version, while others...

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Eight AMD Vishera CPUs Take Over the AM3+ Platform

The refined Piledriver x86 architecture from AMD will take over the AM3+ platform very fast. The company is preparing a fast removal of the Zambezi CPUs from its product offering with an aggressive EOL plan. All the eleven Zambezi processors that are currently available in the channel will reach EOL in Q4 2012. This means that the availability will only last until sometime next spring, while shipments could still come in after the middle of the next year. This was supposed to have happened even quicker, but for certain unknown reasons, Vishera was delayed by about two months and thus the EOL is also moved back by a comparable amount of time. The top Vishera CPU will be designated FX 8350 and will go head to head with Intel’s...

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Intel Haswell Comes with Integrated Voltage Regulator

Intel is working on the new Haswell architecture and new pieces of information surface on the Internet on a daily basis. The news today is that the company’s new CPU will also integrate the voltage regulation part, but we don’t think this is good news overall. The first guys to have a problem with this are the overclockers and other enthusiasts that find it rather easy to modify the voltage regulator on the mainboard when trying to achieve better frequencies. Now that the voltage regulator will be fully integrated onto the chip itself, this will be much harder to do, if not outright impossible. The company is also claiming this will reduce the cost of the platform. However, we don’t think this will be the case, as Intel’s...

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AMD Dual-Core 28nm Richland

AMD is working hard on the successor to the successful Trinity and, apparently, it is already planning the launch schedule for next spring. In early 2013, the Richland processor is supposed to become online. This one will be built in 28nm. There were many reports saying that Richland would come with a radically different architecture that would use Steamroller cores for x86 processing power and GCN graphics for 3D performance. Now AMD is planning on releasing two 28nm processors which are supposed to be using the Richland silicon, Fudzilla reports. Both parts will fit inside the 65 watts TDP, but the graphics side will only benefit from 192 cores and the chip will have the A6 xxxxK moniker. Apparently yes, these 28nm...

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Microsoft Surface Phone Emerges in Benchmark App

As soon as Microsoft went official with its Windows 8-based Surface tablet, rumors on the possible release of a Microsoft Surface Phone also started to emerge, yet nothing has been officially confirmed on the matter for the time being. Today, however, we learn that the rumors might have got one step closer to becoming reality, as the handset has emerged in a benchmarking app, WParea.de reports. The application is none other than the popular WP Bench, which displays the Microsoft Surface Phone as being the latest addition to its database, with OS 8.0.9754.0 loaded on it. While the platform version comes in line with the previously spotted versions of the upcoming Windows Phone 8 platform, the emergence of the phone’s name...

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Galaxy Note 2 Features S Cloud and Dropbox Integration

Galaxy Note 2, Samsung’s second phablet out there, is expected to arrive on shelves with S Cloud packed inside, a video shot at the IFA 2012 show in Berlin unveils. Coming from BestBoyZ, the clip above shows not only that the feature will be loaded on Galaxy Note 2 at launch, but that it would also feature Dropbox integration, enabling users to easily sync files with the cloud service. At the moment, the feature does not appear to be working very well, most probably because it is not yet ready for launch. However, it might be ready in time for the smartphone’s release on shelves, and could easily provide users with 50GB of free Dropbox storage when signing in for the service from the phone. Apparently, Samsung might be set to make the S Cloud integration available...

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Wireless Charging Pad for Nokia Lumia 920 Leaks

One of the great features that Nokia is set to include inside its upcoming Windows Phone 8 devices has been recently rumored to be wireless charging. Present at least inside the high-end Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone, the feature will allow users to charge their phones by simply placing them on the wireless charging pad. According to The Verge, Lumia 820, the first mid-range Windows Phone 8 handset from Nokia, should pack the feature as well, based on a recently leaked photo coming from Twitter user @evleaks. The photo shows both devices on their charging pads and enables us to have a look at this device as well. The pad appears to be almost the same size as the phones, while featuring a single cord that plugs into a power...

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Card Benchmark Result Faster Than GTX 580 and AMD Radeon HD 7870

New generations of graphics adapters wouldn't be worth releasing if they didn't clearly outclass their predecessors in some fashion, and NVIDIA is determined to prove that its GeForce 600 definitely is a good deal better than 500. The GeForce GTX 680 and 670 have been around for some time, but the GTX 660 and 650 have yet to debut. Last we heard, the formal launch will happen on September 12. GeForce GTX 660 may actually impress the world more than the 680 did. While the latter was expected to be powerful, and it is, the 660, a mid-range board, wasn't expected to actually match the flagship member of the previous generation. Nevertheless, that is the case, according to some benchmark results published by TweakTown on Facebook. The...

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BlackBerry 10 L-Series (Full Touch)

For all those enthusiasts who are eagerly waiting for Research In Motion to go official with its first handsets running under the upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system, some new goodies have emerged online. Among them, we can count a new photo of the platform’s UI, which is reportedly showing it running on a BlackBerry 10 L-Series smartphone. For those out of the loop, we should note that the L-Series is expected to include the first batch of BlackBerry 10 devices when RIM makes the OS available in the first quarter of the next year. These are full touch handsets, and they should be followed shortly by N-Series smartphones, which will include both a touchscreen display and a physical QWERTY keyboard. Furthermore,...

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