Microsoft Corporation has released the Windows Embedded 8 line of operating systems five months after the release of Windows 8. The Windows Embedded 8 line is based on Windows 8 and includes Windows Embedded 8 Standard, Windows Embedded 8 Pro and Windows Embedded 8 Industry and targets enterprises, which want to use a modern platform for all their embedded needs and edge devi...
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AMD Radeon HD 7790 specs confirmed, available tomorrow
21 March 2013 | PC
AMD has unofficially confirmed the specs of the upcoming Radeon HD 7790 graphics card in a leaked presentation slide that has been circulating the Web for the past few hours. According to the slide the AMD Radeon HD 7790 is indeed based on brand new silicon and will feature the Bonaire GPU with 2.08 billion transistors and 896 stream processors on 28 nm tech process. The GPU ...
AMD will cut CPU and APU prices next month
21 March 2013 | PC
Looking for a new CPU? Maybe its time to wait for a few more weeks… Advanced Micro Devices has announced it will reduce the prices of its current CPUs and APUs in April 2013 in an attempt to boost its market share before the arrival of Intel's LGA1150 platform and the Haswell family of processors in June this year. AMD will reduce the prices of the followi...
NVIDIA announces Volta architecture
20 March 2013 | PC
NVIDIA Corp. has officially unveiled a new radically-changed GPU architecture known as Volta due sometime in 2016-2017. Volta will take over the still upcoming Maxwell architecture – itself a successor to the current Kepler generation. The new GPU architecture will try to solve one of the biggest GPU bottlenecks – the always insufficient memory bandwidth. ...
Noctua offers free mounting upgrade to LGA1150
20 March 2013 | PC
CPU cooler maker Noctua has announced it will offer owners of Noctua coolers a free mounting upgrade that will offer compatibility with Intel’s upcoming LGA1150 platform and Haswell chips. "We're determined to provide the best possible support to our customers and over the years, we've sent many thousands of mounting kits free of charge to users who want...
Habey presents BIS-6621 mini computer
19 March 2013 | PC
The US company Habey, known for making mini-computers, has presented its latest super small PC known as BIS-6621. The new product measures just 127 x 133.35 x 48.77 mm and sports an Intel Atom N2800 or D2550 processor on an Intel NM10 chipset. To keep quiet the system uses passive cooling. Other specs include support for a 2.5-inch hard drive, mSATA, mini PCI-Express peripher...
NVIDIA works on another GK110-based graphics card
19 March 2013 | PC
The successful launch of the GK110-based GeForce GTX Titan graphics card has convinced NVIDIA that there's more to this powerful GPU - therefore the company will launch another GK110 consumer-oriented graphics card later this year. The new product is still unnamed but preliminary specs suggest 13 SMX units for a total of 2496 stream processors, 208 texture units, 40 ROPs, a 3...
AMD to release Radeon HD 7790 this week
19 March 2013 | PC
NVIDIA’s attempt to release a faster GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card by the end of March or early April 2013 has prompted AMD to hurry with its Radeon HD 7790 video card solution. As a result the new AMD product is expected to be officially unveiled by the end of this week. The specs remain unchanged – 896 stream processors packed in the Bonaire GPU, which itself is buil...
Microsoft pushes Windows 7 SP1 via Windows Update
19 March 2013 | PC
Users of Microsoft Windows 7 have finally got the opportunity to update their systems with Service Pack 1 via Windows Update. The major Windows 7 update has been around for more than two years but up until this moment it was available as a standalone software pack available for download at Microsoft's web site. The thing with adding the update to Windows Update is that Microsoft ...
Sapphire exhibits first Radeon HD 7790 graphics card
18 March 2013 | PC
AMD’s long term graphics card partner Sapphire has showed the company's first Radeon HD 7790 Dual-X graphics card. The new product is based on a 21.5 cm long PCB and cooling designed by Sapphire and includes an aluminum fin-stack heatsink cooled by two 80 mm fans. The card has two DVI connectors as well as HDMI and DisplayPort and draws power from a single 6-pin PCI-E power...
Updated GeForce GTX 650 Ti may feature GPU Boost, wider memory bus
18 March 2013 | PC
The upcoming launch of AMD's Radeon HD 7790 graphics card has forced NVIDIA to counter the new threat with a faster version of the current GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card. The first specs have already surfaced - but there's more to the picture it seems. The still unnamed future graphics card is now said to feature GPU Boost - a feature that the regular GeForce GTX 650 Ti...
