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Google IO: Google made its AI smarter by building its own custom chips
Google believes artificial intelligence (AI) is the future, so much so that it started making its own custom processors to allow its algorithms to learn faster. Google calls these chips Tensor...
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Versus: Nvidia GTX 1080 vs GTX 1070
Introduction Nvidia has wowed the computing world with its new GeForce GTX 1080: a monster graphics card that promises a 30% performance increase over the last generation while reducing power...
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Toshiba plays catch up with 8TB performance hard drive
The competition is heating up at the top end of the hard disk drive market with Toshiba finally announcing its first 8TB hard disk drive, the X300, one aimed at the high performance market: that’s...
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Computex: Intel’s Broadwell processors go extreme with 10 cores and ludicrous...
The Broadwell-E Intel Core i7-6950X is arguably the world’s most powerful processor ever created. It’s the first processor from Intel to come packing 10-cores. What’s more, they’re all running at a...
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Intel’s new Xeon CPUs aim to deliver a revolution in video streaming
Intel has unveiled its new Xeon E3-1500 v5 range of Skylake-based processors which are designed to be a cost-effective solution for streaming video and other graphics-heavy applications. As the...
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This SSD weighs less than a paper clip but holds 512GB
Not content with making the world’s highest-capacity microSD card, Samsung is doubling down on a miniature solid-state drive that’s barely the size of a fingernail but stores a whopping 512 gigabytes...
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COMPUTEX: AMD Radeon RX 480 just made Oculus Rift and HTC Vive PCs more...
Everyone keeps saying "virtual reality is here," but the price of an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, coupled with building a high-end PC, remains fantastical barrier to entry. At Computex 2016, that’s a...
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Computex: AMD’s Bristol Ridge processor takes it to the limit
AMD has been teasing its 7th generation Bristol Ridge APUs for quite a while now but we’re finally getting the full details on the company’s new system on a chip. As expected, Bristol Ridge comes with...
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Should your business switch to flash storage now?
Introduction and falling costs Flash storage as a replacement for traditional hard drives has been touted as the next great hardware advance for the last few years. When techradar pro spoke with...
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Planning to buy an SSD? You absolutely must read this
A new survey from data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack has found that SSDs suffer from a worryingly high failure rate. The research, which encompassed some 1,850 customers across North America, Europe and...
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Samsung’s new 512GB SSD is smaller than a US postage stamp, lighter than a dime
If you want the ultimate in storage and speed in your PC today, then an M.2 SSD like the Samsung 950 Pro is where it’s at. Up to 512GB of memory boasting write […] This article is from: Samsung’s new...
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SanDisk debuts dual-sided flash drives for laptops and smartphones
USB Type-C is quickly becoming the standard smartphone and laptop port, replacing the aging microUSB standard. SanDisk is getting with the times with its new line of dual-tipped flash drives that...
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Intel unleashes new Xeon E7 v4 CPUs including 24-core monster
Intel has unleashed its new Xeon E7-8800 and E7-4800 v4 range of processors which offer what the company claims is remarkable performance improvements over predecessors, with CPUs boasting up to...
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Forget USB ports, cable-free laptops aren’t far away now
A wide range of connectivity is obviously important, but nobody likes ports and cables which clutter up the place – but the good news is that the likes of USB ports are decidedly on the wane as we...
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This powerful 1,000-core processor is surprisingly energy-efficient
These days, we might be used to some fairly big numbers in terms of core counts for processors – such as the likes of Intel’s whopping 72-core Knights Landing supercomputing chip – but researchers...
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Updated: The 7 best USB-C accessories, cables and adapters
Goodbye clutter, hello USB Type-C Update: Need to add more ports to your desktop? We’ve added Aukey’s USB-C PCI-Express card to the tail-end of our list. What the port Gods giveth, they taketh away –...
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SanDisk’s new 256GB microSD makes your phone as spacious as a laptop
SanDisk is breaking new ground with a pair of microSD memory cards with 256GB of storage capacity and lightening quick transfer speeds. First up is the new 256GB Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card, which...
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Updated: Top 10 Best SSDs of 2016 in the UK
Introduction Size does matter. And when it comes to SSDs, size costs too. At least, it did. Back in 2008, Intel launched its first solid state drive aimed at mere punters rather than enterprise...
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Nvidia’s VR-ready GTX 1060 promises 980 performance for less
What’s silver and black, matches a GTX 980 for performance but costs less? Nvidia’s new GTX 1060 graphics card, according to its maker, which has been officially unveiled to the world. The GTX 1060 is...
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Two years in, USB Type-C still isn’t up to snuff
Introduction Look around you. Even with the advent of the cloud and the ubiquity of Wi-Fi replacing cables nothing beats a good old Universal Serial Bus port – or simply USB. It’s ingrained in our...
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