There is a common misconception that mobile computing systems outfitted with the same processor, GPU, memory, and storage configurations, will offer nearly identical performance.

Today marks the launch of AMD's EPYC family of processors for data center servers. Based on the company's Zen microarchitecture, it has become abundantly clear that AMD was targeting the lucrative data center market first and foremost with its new CPU architecture and the highly scalable Naples platform that leverages it.

Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman recently said, “The phone is already dead -- people just haven’t realized.” He made this statement while discussing Microsoft’s HoloLens and potential future iterations of similar mixed-reality devices, which could be eventually be integrated into our daily lives much like the smartphone is today.

Apple fools everyone expecting a soft quarter leading up to the launch of the next generation iPhone this coming September, beating earnings estimates by a long shot.