Razer, a company that styles itself as by gamers, for gamers,has today unveiled its latest product, a modular NUC dubbed the Tomahawk. Available as both a barebones package and a high-tier gaming solution, the Razer Tomahawk looks to offer a cutting edge mixture of functionality, performance, and graphics card compatibility, all within a NUC inspired chassis. Some of the key specifications include

Sometimes for a company to get its projects over the line, it requires the help of crowdsourcing ideas.One such company is Eve Tech, or EVE for short, and looking to build on the success of its first-generation EVE V 2-in-1 dubbed the Surface Pro Killer. Todaythe company has officially lifted the lid on its second-generation EVE V. The new EVE V 2-in-1 includes a whole host of impressive features

QNAP is a well-known manufacturer of network-attached storage (NAS) units. Recently they have been testing the waters in allied areas such as switches and Wi-Fi expansion cards. As a natural extension, they recently introduced their first standalone Wi-Fi router - the QHora-301W. The consumer market for Wi-Fi routers is a saturated one with multiple established vendors such as Netgear, TP-Link, D-

ASRock and Razer have today announced a product collaboration. Two of ASRocks premium models for AM4 are being updated with Razer styling and Razer Chroma connectivity:the X570 and B550 Taichi Razer Edition. Built upon the popular Taichi series, both of the new Razer Edition variants includea 16-phase power delivery, with official support and compatibility with Razers Chroma RGB ecosystem. Whenev

In the past month, three SSD controller designers have announced new enterprise NVMe SSD controllers, bringing a wave of new competition to the high-end enterprise/datacenter SSD market. FADU is a relative newcomer to the market, having only released one previous SSD controller. Silicon Motion and Phison are both very familiar competitors, but they have been most successful with their client/consu

The Enterprise and Datacenter SSD Form Factor family of standards is now about three years old, and continues to evolve. The EDSFF form factor options are gaining traction in several markets, and lessons learned by early adopters are still driving tweaks to the specifications. The myriad variations under the EDSFF umbrella have not been simplified much, but at least the brief format war between th

One of the key tenets of having good security is reducing how attackable your system is. This is what we call an attack surface a system needs as few attack surfaces as possible, and as small as possible, to minimize any potential unwarranted intrusion. Beyond that, any additional security to detect and protect is vital. Both hardware and software can be used for that layer of additional security

One of the key questions when AMD launched its latest Ryzen Mobile processor family, Renoir, was when the chip would be available in the Mini-PC space. At the time, AMD made motions saying that the key market they were focusing on was for laptops, but they wouldnt preclude partners that were interested in building miniature systems. Were starting to see a few of them trickle through into the marke

This week at the annual Supercomputing HPC show, were going to see a number of high-profile enterprise announcements across a wide array of industries that support server and high-performance computing environments. One such announcement is from BittWare, which is announcing its new IA-840F add-in card built upon Intels latest FPGA product line. The IA-840F add-in card is a PCIe 4.0 x16 enabled de

So far we have three products in the market built on TSMCs N5 process: the Huawei Kirin 9000 5G SoC, found in the Mate 40 Pro, the Apple A14 SoC, found in the iPhone 12 family, and the Apple M1 SoC, which is in the new MBA/MBP and Mac Mini. We can now add another to that list, but its not a standard SoC: here we have IP for a SerDes connection, now validated and ready for licensing in TSMC N5. Tod

Today Samsung LSI announced the new Exynos 1080 SoC, a successor to last years Exynos 980. This years 1080 is seemingly positioned a little above the 980 in terms of performance as were seeing some quite notable gains in features compared to the 980. Its to be remembered that this is a premium SoC, meaning its not a flagship SoC, but its also not quite a mid-range SoC, fitting itself in-between th

Earlier this year, we wrote a news segment about AMD and Googles announcement about bringing confidential virtual machines to the cloud using features enabled through 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. At the time, AMD and Google marketed the announcement as the first commercially available cloud confidential VMs, powered through AMDs Secure Encryption Virtualization feature. After writing up the news,

At Flash Memory Summit this week (online for the first time), Western Digital is showing off three new SSD products and have outlined the companys areas of strategic focus in a keynote presentation. First up, Western Digital is commercializing NVMe Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) technology with the new Ultrastar DC ZN540 datacenter SSD. We covered ZNS in depth earlier this year after the extension to t

Last week, Kioxia rounded out their lineup of PCIe 4.0 enterprise and datacenter SSDs with the announcement of the XD6. Now, theyre bringing PCIe 4.0 support to their client NVMe product line with the new XG7 and XG7-P M.2 NVMe SSDs. The XG7 family doubles the sequential read speed and increases sequential write speed by 60% compared to the XG6 series, thanks to the PCIe 4.0 support and a new SSD

Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) is announcing the new XD6 series datacenter NVMe SSDs, featuring PCIe 4.0 support and using the EDSSF E1.S form factors. The XD6 is Kioxias first mass-produced product to use an EDSFF form factor, and may end up being one of the first widely-available products using an E1.S form factor. Kioxia started their PCIe 4.0 transition earlier this year with the CD6 and CM

After a couple of weeks of rumor, as well as a couple of years of hearsay, AMD has gone feet first into a full acquisition of FPGA manufacturer Xilinx. The deal involves an all-stock transaction, leveraging AMDs sizeable share price in order to enable an equivalent $143 per Xilinx share current AMD stockholders will still own 74% of the combined company, while Xilinx stockholders will own 26%. Th

Silicon Motion has announced the official launch of their first generation of PCIe 4.0-capable NVMe SSD controllers. These controllers have been on the roadmap for quite a while and have been previewed at trade shows, but the first models are now shipping. The high-end SM2264 and mainstream SM2267/SM2267XT controllers will enable consumer SSDs that move beyond the performance limits of the PCIe 3.