Technology

  Intel released a new blog post today by Jim Jeffers that details the company’s efforts to improve 3D rendering and professional applications. Intel provides a number of resources for advanced professional rendering studios, including software solutions for ray tracing like Intel Embree, and plugins for applications like Maya. Jeffers’ …

  Earlier this month, Apple and Qualcomm suddenly announced they would bury the hatchet and work together again on 5G technology. This came after an ugly period of war between the two companies, in which Apple reportedly deliberately engaged in a bad-faith attempt to persuade regulatory bodies that Qualcomm’s licensing …

  Nubia Technology is a one-time subsidiary of ZTE that’s made headlines in the last few years for its line of gaming phones. The company just announced the Red Magic 3. The device has a lot of impressive specs, including a Snapdragon 855 SoC, 12GB of RAM, a 5000mAh battery, …

  Server manufacturer Super Micro has been on the defensive since last year when a bombshell report from Bloomberg claimed the company’s hardware had been compromised by Chinese spies. While those charges remain unsubstantiated, the company has announced that it will move production out of China to assuage concerns from …

  Back in 2010, “You’re holding it wrong” practically became a mantra after Apple’s iPhone 4 proved to have an antenna problem that dramatically limited reception if the device was held in certain ways. Now Samsung reportedly has a similar and serious problem with the Galaxy Tab 5e. The timing …

  Google is almost certainly going to announce new, cheaper Pixel phones on the first day of Google I/O next week. Its efforts to keep these phones under wraps have failed spectacularly over the last few months, and it’s time for one final leak before the announcement. Some new images …

  Samsung has unveiled a line of concept televisions, including one intended for mobile-friendly content and Millennial buyers. According to the company’s PR, the new model — referred to in an image as “The Sero” and as “The Vertical” in the company’s translated press release — is designed to view …

  Motherboard manufacturers have begun to release UEFI updates for AMD’s upcoming third-generation Ryzen microprocessors and users have noticed that the updates are only coming to certain motherboards. Companies like Asus have released a long list of X470, B450, X370, and B350 motherboards that will support 7nm chips — but …

  When AMD announced its third-generation Ryzen CPUs, it also declared that it would use a new method to connect its CPUs together. Instead of building standard, monolithic CPUs (or connecting two monolithic CPUs together in what’s known as a Multi-Chip Module, or MCM), AMD opted for a new type …

  Last week, we covered the leak of an Intel roadmap for both its mobile and commercial client parts. The headline event was the general lack of 10nm silicon for desktop, which didn’t appear to pop up in non-mobile systems through the end of 2021. The same group at Tweakers.net …