When Samsung shipped the 840 Evo, it seemed as though the drive struck a perfect balance between affordability and high-speed performance. Those impressions soured somewhat after it became clear that many 840 EVO’s suffered performance degradation when accessing older data. Samsung released a fix last year that was supposed to solve the problem for good, but a subset of users have begun experiencing ...
For the past few years, both AMD and Nvidia have been talking up their respective solutions for improving gaming display quality. Nvidia calls its proprietary implementation G-Sync, and has been shipping G-Sync displays with partner manufacturers for over a year, while AMD worked with VESA (Video Electronics Standard Association) to build support for Adaptive Sync (aka FreeSync) into the DisplayPort ...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited announced on its website that the company will invest over NTD500 billion, which is about USD15.9 billion, to build a new plant to meet the ever-growing demands for chips. The new plant will be located in Central Taiwan Science Park and it is currently undergoing an environmental impact assessment. On its completion, the new plant will create 5,000 ...
This year it was 4K — next year, it’s looking like it’ll be 8K and quantum dots. At CES 2015 — now less than a month away! — LG says it will show off a 55-inch 8K TV, and a 4K TV that uses quantum dots to improve image quality and color saturation. In both cases, we are talking about IPS LCD panels, rather than OLED technology, which should mean that both the 4K and 8K displays are reasonably ...
It seems pretty clear now that the Android OEM world is starting to play out pretty much like the PC world. The industry has become unbundled vertically between components, devices, operating system and application software & services. The components are commoditised and OEMs cannot differentiate on software, so they are entering a race to the bottom of cheaper and cheaper and more and more commoditised products, much like the PC industry. The funny thing about this is that ...
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