It will be incumbent upon benchmark app developers and the press to sort through the finer points of what makes for a quality mobile AI benchmark, and also what is a truer measure of performance for your own personal pocket AI assistant.

Following on the heels of Microsoft’s own Surface Pro X launch — a classic detachable 13-inch Surface device that’s powered by a semi-custom version of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx — Samsung stepped out in an effort to offer an even more premium laptop experience at a more competitive price point, in a traditional clamshell design, branded the Galaxy Book S.

Today, in a blog post titled “Xbox Series X: The Most Powerful and Compatible Next-Gen Console with Thousands of Games at Launch”, Jason Ronald, Director of Program Management for Xbox Series X, revealed a number of new details regarding backward compatibility and performance enhancements enroute with Microsoft’s upcoming console.

All of these partners have revealed plans to commercialize XR Viewers to provide immersive, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) experiences over 5G networks.

FPGAs have evolved into intelligent, adaptable processing engines that will be critical in burgeoning markets like machine learning and 5G wireless infrastructure, since the rate of evolution and innovation in these arenas moves so quickly.

NVIDIA is calling the newly announced DGX A100 "the world's most advanced system for all AI workloads" and claiming a single rack of five DGX A100 systems can replace an entire AI training and inference-focused data center, at 1/10th the cost, while using 1/20th the power and 1/25th the space.

In this paper, we evaluate three laptops that feature various integrated privacy panel technologies, not only for their effectiveness and the overall user experience, but to measure their impact on battery life.

There’s no question, literally every human being worldwide has a responsibility to do their part in the Coronavirus pandemic, even if it’s just simply washing your hands and staying home. However, major Tech innovators around the world have an even greater responsibility, as key intellectual property and specialized manufacturing capabilities can provide a huge positive impact in the fight against COVID-19.

As companies seek to gain a competitive edge, unfortunately, some of them are willing to bend (or break) the rules to make the performance of their products seem better than it actually is in real-world use cases.

Intel has taken a lot of heat in the tech news circuit lately, for security vulnerabilities that exist its various processor line-ups. What you might be surprised to know, especially with some of the more recent discoveries, however, is that Intel brought much of this pain upon itself…

Xilinx’s Versal products are heterogeneous compute chip solutions that target a wide array of network, compute, and machine learning applications, to address the ever-growing needs of modern datacenters. Xilinx Versal SoCs are highly integrated devices. They feature ARM-based cores for traditional processing, but also integrate a myriad of additional technologies…

San Jose-based adaptable chip manufacturer Xilinx announced an update to its line-up of SmartNICs today, that leverages and array of new technologies. You can think of SmartNICs as intelligent Network Interface Cards that are targeted at the ever-changing and scaling needs of cloud data centers and high-performance compute applications.

Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon XR2 5G back in December of last year, the second-gen 5G-enabled iteration of the company’s mobile XR platform. For the uninitiated, XR is a term Qualcomm has coined to encompass technologies employed for “Extend Reality” experiences, an amalgam of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. Today the company is taking things a step further and announcing a new XR2 5G-based reference design…

Shares of Silicon Valley machine learning and gaming chip giant NVIDIA have spiked significantly in early morning trading, as the company posted stellar fiscal Q4 results for the period ending in January 2020, after the bell yesterday. Soundly thrashing analyst estimates with $3.11 billion in sales and $1.89 EPS against a $2.97 billion and $1.67 EPS consensus…

The Cloud Gaming services battle is shaping-up to be big business across the globe in 2020, with primary competitors like Google Stadia, Microsoft xCloud, and NVIDIA with GeForce NOW ramping up their respective services and technologies.

Dell’s Alienware gaming products division stole the spotlight for many tech enthusiasts at this year’s CES 2020 show in Las Vegas, with its Concept UFO handheld PC gaming device. The product is currently just a prototype of a device that Dell-Alienware could launch some day, so there was no committed ship date given, nor pricing details of any kind. 

Currently, there are two dominant platforms employed in the majority of notebooks -- Intel’s and AMD’s -- though an array of fledgling Arm-based platforms are making in-roads as well. Regardless, the vast majority of mainstream or enterprise consumers, however, will likely be deciding between Intel- or AMD-based notebooks, when it comes times to make a purchase. In this paper, we aim to determine how the current two dominant notebook platforms perform in an array of scenarios, using an assortment of systems, including Dell’s Latitude 5400 and 7400 series laptops.

Even if you’re not a tech analyst, enthusiast or hyper-connected geek that follows the industry, it was obvious that we’ve achieved major technology milestones in 2019, and the pace of innovation is now accelerating dramatically and in some areas exponentially. Artificial Intelligence (AI) was perhaps the hallmark of technological advancement this year, with its amazing potential that’s both exciting and perhaps even frightening to some.

Earlier this month, Qualcomm unveiled its latest mobile processing engine for next generation 5G smartphones, known as the Snapdragon 865 5G Mobile Platform. The company refers to Snapdragon 865 as a “mobile platform” solution because indeed, in conjunction with its Snapdragon X55 modem, it provides a comprehensive flagship 5G smartphone silicon solution…

Battery life is often one of, if not the, most important consideration for general consumers and IT departments when contemplating the purchase of a new notebook (or fleet of notebooks). Having the ability to enjoy a full PC experience or be productive while mobile and untethered from an electrical outlet for hours on end has transformed how – and where -- we do business and entertain ourselves in recent years. For many road warriors, longer battery life directly translates into increased productivity, so maximum untethered uptime is paramount.