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One of the more subtle trends at this year's Computex was that the majority of high-end motherboards now come equipped with a 5GbE network controller. At present, this might be considered a limited benefit as 5GbE and 10GbE switches and routers are still pretty expensive. But Realtek is planning on tackling the issue from both ends, as the company is preparing a hardware platform for sub-$100 5GbE switches. Realtek’s quad-port 5GbE switch platform consists of five key chips: one RTL9303 switch system-on-chip, and four RTL8251B 5GbE physical interfaces (PHYs). The chips are accompanied by various other components, such as power management ICs, but in general it relies solely on in-house developed components, which is why it can be made so cheap. RealTek's platform is...
ASUS 2011 UX Series: Ultra Thin and Light Sandy Bridge
ASUS just unveiled its 2011 UX Series, which looks a lot like a MacBook Air: p.p1 span.s1 The new UX comes with a 6Gbps SATA SSD, although ASUS didn’t...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011
The ASUS Padfone: A Smartphone That Docks into a Tablet
A number of you have asked for this innovation over the past few months: a smartphone that docks into a tablet. Given that the two platforms generally share the...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011
ASUS Eee PC X101: Running MeeGo, Windows Optional - Starting at $199
It wouldn't be Computex without another Eee PC announcement and today's is a big one. ASUS officially introduced the next-generation of Eee PC, the X101: The X101 weighs...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011
Computex 2011: SandForce mSATA Drives & No More Supercap
I haven't been to Computex since 2005. I felt that for a while there the show had lost some of its appeal. Motherboards alone weren't all that interesting and...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2011
Computex 2011: ASRock Llano, 990FX and Z68 Motherboards
Computex 2011 is officially underway. Although technically it started yesterday with informal meetings at LAX, Ian and I kicked off our plethora of meetings at the show today with...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Ian Cutress on 5/30/2011
CTIA Hands On Extravaganza: LG Optimus 3D and G2x, HTC Flyer, HD7S, EVO 3D, and Galaxy Tab 10.1, 8.9
It's been a busy yet incredibly productive second day at CTIA 2011, and we've been getting hands on with all the latest and greatest from LG, HTC, and Samsung...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/23/2011
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 & 8.9, Smaller than iPad 2, Competitively Priced
Last month at Mobile World Congress Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 10.1, a NVIDIA Tegra 2 based Honeycomb tablet. Since then, Apple's iPad 2 raised the bar for ergonomics...
73 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/22/2011
LG Optimus 2X coming to USA as T-Mobile G2x
When we reviewed the LG Optimus 2X a while ago, we weren't quite sure what carrier it would wind up on when it came stateside. T-Mobile seemed the most...
14 by Brian Klug on 3/22/2011
Sprint and Google Announce Nexus S 4G and Native Google Voice
Today kicked off the start CTIA 2011, and Anand is already over in Orlando, Florida covering the event. I'm missing out this time, instead working on a couple of...
16 by Brian Klug on 3/21/2011
Cebit 2011: Some Quick Server Related Impressions
We can not say that we are dazzled by the amount of new products at CeBIT. Most demonstrations we saw and documentation we found of the tier-one OEMs were...
19 by Johan De Gelas on 3/14/2011
Samsung's Tegra 2 Superphone: The GT-I9103
On Day 0 of this year's Mobile World Congress Samsung and NVIDIA announced that the new Galaxy Tab 10.1 will come to market with NVIDIA's Tegra 2 (T20) SoC...
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/16/2011
LG Optimus 3D Preliminary Performance - OMAP4 Tested
We covered the LG Optimus 3D during its launch event yesterday, and the device has continued to draw our attention. Today we decided to track down an LG Optimus...
29 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/15/2011
Sony Ericsson Announces Xperia Play, Neo, and Pro
Sony Ericsson’s big news from Barcelona is obviously the Xperia Play, the mysterious and oft-rumoured PSP-phone. But they’ve also announced two new additions to the Xperia line - the...
20 by Vivek Gowri on 2/14/2011
Samsung's Galaxy S II Preliminary Performance: Mali-400MP Benchmarked
There's a lot of speculation about the SoC used in Samsung's Galaxy S II, thankfully through process of elimination and some snooping around we've been able to figure it...
63 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 2/14/2011
Microsoft Announces a Host of Windows Phone 7 Updates
At MWC 2011, Microsoft just announced a number of improvements for WP7 including the timeline for when its first update will be pushed to devices. The update with app-loading performance...
35 by Brian Klug on 2/14/2011
Qualcomm Demos Remote Handwriting Recognition Using an Ultrasonic Pen
We've been talking about higher performance SoCs for quite a while now, but the number of applications for these things beyond making your UI faster is fairly limited today...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
HP's TouchPad at MWC 2011
HP stopped by a Qualcomm roundtable discussion to demonstrate the HP Veer, Pre 3 and TouchPad that it recently announced. Mithun covered the webOS event for us but this...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
Intel @ MWC 2011: Atom-Based Medfield SoC Now Sampling, Low-Power LTE Modems In 2012
Though we still like to think of Intel first and foremost as a computer CPU company, the fact of the matter is the company is trying its hardest to...
21 by Ryan Smith on 2/14/2011
Intel Shows Off MeeGo Tablet User Experience
While I was scheduling my Mobile World Congress meetings I got an email request from Intel. It wanted to give me a quick tour of the latest MeeGo UI...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
Qualcomm's Announces Krait CPU: The Successor to Scorpion
Last year Qualcomm told us about the MSM8960, its next-generation Snapdragon SoC based on a brand new microprocessor architecture. Today Qualcomm announced some more details on the architecture behind...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2011
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