Hardware

It Took Five Years To Make A Beautiful Android Phone

Android has become an enormous success in part by appealing to a lot of people who don’t prioritise aesthetics. It’s no wonder it’s been ugly for half a decade. But it has finally spawned a truly gorgeous object for everyone: the HTC One.


Rumourmodo: Intel In Discussions To Produce Apple Chips

Reuters is reporting today that Intel has been in rather unlikely discussions that could pave the way for the processor giant producing chips to Apple specifications.


Hardware Comes Last

Google’s Chromebook Pixel is aspirational in nearly every way. It’s designed within an inch of its life, a physical specimen worthy of Rodin. Its lines are sharp, its display is crisp. And nearly every review has had the same takeaway: It’s amazing. Don’t buy it.


Under The Hood: Nvidia Titan Is The Massive GPU That Might Be Unbeatable

Today Nvidia is pulling the wraps off the GK110-based GeForce GTX Titan, a single-GPU card that is expected to easily capture the title of Baddest arse GPU in the world when benchmarks are released this Thursday, February 21. The Titan is Nvidia’s “Big Kepler” GPU, and has double the transistors and almost double the CUDA cores of the mid-range GK104 chip found in its flagship GeForce GTX 680 GPU. Though it runs at a lower clock speed in stock trim, it should still offer a sizable performance improvement over the already capable GTX 680.


Nvidia Tegra 4i: Quad-Core Processing And 4G For Mobile Awesome

Just over a month after announcing the Tegra 4 processor, Nvidia’s back with another mobile chipset, the Tegra 4i, which comes with an integrated LTE modem. It’s designed specifically for use with smartphones. Where the Tegra 4 is all about raw power for big phones and tablets, the Tegra 4i is a marvel of tiny efficient design.


Where Apple Sources All Its Components (It Ain’t Just China!)

This map, put together by China File, plots all of the publicly available suppliers who fuel Apple’s production lines. While the majority are found in Asia, it’s interesting to see that the rest of world represents too.


Intel’s New Chips: Everything You Need To Know

Intel is talking about its new stuff today at CES. Some of it is new, some of it we’ve heard before. But we’ll let you know everything important that goes down today.


Intel To Stop Making Desktop Motherboards

It’s the end of an era: Intel has announced that, over the next three years, it will wind down production of desktop motherboards to zero.


Report: Xbox 720 Will Pack 8-Core AMD Chip, 1.2 Teraflops Of Power

How does an eight-core 1.6GHz chip backed by a 768-thread-packing GPU in your Xbox sound? Apparently the Xbox 720, or whatever it ends up getting called, will boast 1.2 teraflops of processing power. Those gun-toting scumbags are never going to look so real when you blow their heads clean-off.


How Facebook Will Power Graph Search

Facebook’s new Graph Search is an ambitious project and brings with it the need for some serious computational grunt. Here’s how Facebook is taking on that challenge.


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