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Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote. AMD announced not one but two new client platforms that will utilize the latest Zen 5 cores. This includes AMD's latest AI PC-focused chip family for the laptop market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. In comparison, the Ryzen 9000 series caters to the desktop market, which uses the preexisting AM5 platform. Built around the new Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture with some fundamental improvements to both graphics and AI performance, the Ryzen AI 300 series, code-named Strix Point, is set to deliver improvements in several areas. The Ryzen AI 300 series looks set to add another footnote in the march towards the AI PC with...
The Great Equalizer Part 2: Surface Pro vs. Android Devices in 3DMark
While we're still waiting for Windows RT and iOS versions of the latest 3DMark, there is one cross-platform comparison we can make: Ivy Bridge/Clover Trail to the Android devices...
57 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/2/2013
3DMark for Android: Performance Preview
As I mentioned in our coverage of GL/DXBenchmark 2.7, with the arrival of Windows RT/8 we'd finally see our first truly cross-platform benchmarks. Kishonti was first out of the...
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The Great Equalizer: Apple, Android & Windows Tablet GPUs Compared using GL/DXBenchmark 2.7
For the past few years we have been lamenting the state of benchmarks for mobile platforms. The constant refrain from those who had been around long enough to remember...
83 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2013
A Visual Guide to the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile
This is normally Brian's beat but with him busy putting the finishing touches on his review of HTC's One, I thought I'd help out. We're still seeing (and hearing...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/29/2013
The Razer Edge Review
This story starts in a dark meeting room in the back of Razer’s booth at CES 2012. I’m sitting with CEO Min-Liang Tan, who is walking me through the...
89 by Vivek Gowri on 3/28/2013
Apple to Ship Updated A1428 iPhone 5 With AWS WCDMA Enabled for T-Mobile USA
Back when I did my Qualcomm modems and transceivers piece, I gained a deeper understanding about the cellular RF engineering side of the handset puzzle. Specifically, how an OEM...
31 by Brian Klug on 3/26/2013
The HTC One: A Remarkable Device, Anand’s mini Review
For the past week and a half our own Brian Klug has been hard at work on his review of HTC’s new flagship smartphone, the One. These things take...
437 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/21/2013
More Details On NVIDIA’s Kayla: A Dev Platform for CUDA on ARM
In this morning’s GTC 2013 keynote, one of the items briefly mentioned by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was Kayla, an NVIDIA project combining a Tegra 3 processor and an...
17 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2013
NVIDIA Updates Tegra Roadmap Details at GTC - Logan and Parker Detailed
We're at NVIDIA's GTC 2013 event where team green just updated their official roadmap and shared some more details about their Tegra portfolio, specifically additional information about Logan and...
25 by Brian Klug & Ryan Smith on 3/19/2013
Samsung ATIV Smart PC: Revisiting Clover Trail Convertibles
The Windows 8 tablet space at launch consisted exclusively of Tegra 3-based or Core i5/i7 ULV-based systems. That changed with the release of Krait and Clover Trail tablets like...
60 by Vivek Gowri on 3/18/2013
Samsung's Galaxy S 4: Introduction & Hands On
Since 2010 Samsung has grown to become not only the clear leader in the Android smartphone space, but the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Its annual iteration of...
209 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2013
Samsung's Unpacked 2013 Launch Event Live Blog
We're live from Samsung's Unpacked event in NYC where the company is about to announce their next-generation flagship smartphone. Keep it parked here for live updates!
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/14/2013
Imagination Technologies Confirms PowerVR SGX 544 IP used in Exynos 5 Octa
ARM was being unusually coy when talking about the GPU IP used in Samsung's recently announced Exynos 5 Octa. We eventually found out why: unlike the Exynos 5 Dual...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/12/2013OpenCL drivers discovered on Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 devices
As regular Anandtech readers will know, OpenCL is a standard by Khronos group that allows you to access the computational power of parallel devices such as multicore CPUs and...
19 by Rahul Garg on 2/27/2013
A Look at Broadcom's BCM21892 LTE Baseband at MWC
Yesterday we stopped by Broadcom to look at their newly announced BCM21892 LTE baseband, which we saw teased previously at CES doing a VoLTE call. If you're not famliar...
8 by Brian Klug on 2/27/2013
A Look at ST-Ericsson's THOR M7450 Category 4 LTE Modem with Carrier Aggregation
Earlier this morning we stopped by ST-Ericsson to talk about their SoCs and modem platforms, and took a look at their new Thor M7450 baseband which includes both support...
15 by Brian Klug on 2/26/2013
Live from Nokia's MWC 2013 Press Conference
We just took our seats at the Nokia MWC 2013 press conference here in the new MWC venue in Barcelona. We're not sure what to expect from Noka today...
19 by Brian Klug on 2/26/2013
Hands on with the ASUS Fonepad, and ASUS PadFone Infinity
In its annual tradition at MWC, ASUS held a press conference off-site to introduce some of its mobile devices. The introductions are always interesting and typically unique in the...
70 by Brian Klug on 2/25/2013
Hands On With Nokia's New Phones - Lumia 520, Lumia 720, Nokia 105 and Nokia 301
Right after the Nokia press conference I spent time playing around with all of the newly announced Nokia phones, and there are four. Nokia's announcement primarily focused on the...
13 by Brian Klug on 2/25/2013
LG Optimus G Pro Hands On & Performance Preview, Snapdragon 600 Tested at MWC 2013
We began our day at Mobile World Congress with a visit to LG's booth, where it offered hands on with its 1H 2013 lineup of smartphones. Among them is...
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/25/2013
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