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The Inland Performance Plus 2TB SSD Review: Phison's E18 NVMe Controller Tested

Phison’s E18 is their second-generation PCIe 4.0 SSD controller, and it keeps them in the running for the fastest consumer SSDs. Micro Center’s Inland Performance Plus is the cheapest way to get this much performance, if you live close to one of their retail stores. Source: Recent News

Jim Keller Q&A: What Should We Ask Him?

Jim Keller Q&A: What Should We Ask Him?

A few weeks ago silicon guru Jim Keller reached out to me with a very simple question: shall we do an interview about his new position at Tenstorrent, alongside the CEO? After about 0.2 seconds of thinking, I said of course. However, interviews are typically initiated by companies who want to talk about their product, […]

The ASUS Zenfone 8 Hands-On Review: A New Compact Direction

Today ASUS is launching the new Zenfone 8 – a new device in the series, trying to carve itself a niche amongst smaller flagship phones. With a Snapdragon 888, narrow 68.5mm width and light 169g weight, starting at 599€, can ASUS cater to this audience? Source: Recent News

NVIDIA Launches GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti for Laptops

NVIDIA Launches GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti for Laptops

Coinciding with today’s launch of Intel’s Tiger Lake-H CPUs for high performance laptops, NVIDIA is also using the occasion to launch their latest lineup of laptop video cards, the GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti For Laptops. Based on NVIDIA’s newest and smallest Ampere GPU, GA107, the RTX 3050 series finally rounds out the […]

Intel Launches 11th Generation Core Tiger Lake-H: Eight Core 10nm Mobile Processors

Ever since the launch of the first series of Intel Core 11th Generation Tiger Lake processors aimed at the ‘U-series’ 15 W market, Intel has teased us that there was another design being produced in the wings. While the Tiger Lake-U was built for portability, battery life, and integrated graphics, the Tiger Lake-H series would […]