Valve reveals specs for Steam machine prototypes
When Valve announced its Steam machine project last week, the company was mum on the subject of specifications. Today, the firm has broken its silence. A new blog post on Valve's website discloses the specs of the prototype Steam machines that will soon be sent to beta testers. It looks like there will be several configs, all featuring Intel processors and Nvidia graphics cards:
Those look like pretty solid specs for a gaming PC. I'm surprised Valve went with 16GB of RAM and no SSD, though. Our ...
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Pretty much everyone is cheating at Android benchmarks
Several Android smartphone makers have been busted for artificially inflating benchmark scores. The roots of this story can be traced all the way back to June, when a member of the Beyond3D forums discovered benchmark-specific optimizations in the Samsung Galaxy S4. AnandTech's ...
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Report: AMD to introduce ARM-based tablet chip this year
AMD announced last year that it would build processors based on ARM CPU technology. One of those chips popped up on a server roadmap in June, and it was followed by an embedded solution last month. Now, Sweclockers claims a consumer-focused tablet SoC is also in the works. The site's sources say the ARMv8-based chip will combine Cortex-A57 and A53 CPU cores with integrated graphics derived from the GCN architecture that powers the Radeon HD 7000 series.
The Cortex-A57 has a multi-issue pipeline that supports out-of-order execution, while the A53 is a simpler in-order design with lower power consumption. The two fit into ARM's big.LITTLE strategy, which combines ...
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$99, ARM-powered Utilite PC now available to order
Back in July, we told you all about
Compulab's Utilite, a $99 mini-PC designed to run either Android or
Ubuntu Linux atop a Freescale i.MX6 processor. We were pretty intrigued
by the machine, especially given the small dimensions (5.3" x 3.9" x
0.8") and the wealth of connectivity options.Now, as Liliputing reports , the Utilite has become available to order. ...
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Thursday Night Shortbread
The Starting Five
- Bloomberg: Twitter makes IPO prospectus public amid surging sales
- Reuters: Gates, Ballmer seek re-election to Microsoft board
- Reuters: Apple iPad mini with sharper display faces delay
- DigiTimes: Gigabyte ships 6 million motherboards
in 3Q13; aiming to achieve 21 million for 2013
- Polygon: New Kinect can understand two people talking at the same time
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Seagate's Desktop SSHD 2TB hybrid drive reviewed
SSHD is the latest buzzword in the PC storage industry. Although the branding is fresh, the term refers to a class of products that's been around for quite some time. Otherwise known as solid-state hybrid drives, SSHDs combine mechanical platters with flash-based cache memory. They first popped up in the Windows Vista era and were designed to work with that operating system's ReadyDrive feature. Vista wasn't exactly popular at the time, and hybrids faded into obscurity.
Seagate revisited the idea in 2011 with the Momentus XT notebook drive. This hybrid solution was independent of the OS, instead relying on drive-level intelligence to manage the flash. All things considered, ...
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Radeon R9 290X listings appear at Newegg
AMD announced its next-gen top-of-the-line graphics card, the Radeon R9 290X, at its GPU14 event in Hawaii last week. The company also revealed that limited-edition R9 290X bundles with Battlefield 4 would become available for pre-order on October 3—i.e. today.
Well, we don't see any pre-order listings around just yet, but Newegg has listed two of these R9 290X Battlefield 4 bundles as "coming soon" with an "auto-notify" button standing in for the pre-order link. Newegg conceals the cards' ...
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Intel's Quark SoC spawns Arduino-compatible development board
Remember the tiny Quark SoC Intel debuted at IDF? The sub-Atom chip is closer to release than we thought. Intel has partnered with the Arduino folks to offer the chip on a development board set to start selling November 29. Dubbed Galileo, the board is compatible with not only the Arduino software library, but also hardware "shields" that provide additional functionality.
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Dell's Venue 11 Pro may be the Win8.1 convertible I've been waiting for
Cyril already wrote about Dell's new tablets and notebooks, but he totally glossed over the coolest one. The Venue 11 Pro looks a lot like the do-everything convertible I've been waiting for.
It's the little details that impress me the most. Dell has endowed the system with loads of connectivity, including a microSD slot and a full-sized USB 3.0 port. According to Wired , ...
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