I’ve recently reached my target sum for my big upgrade. After 8 years with the same PC, It was high time to get with the times and push my little piece of tech to the next level. It required replacing (almost) everything inside the PC casing.. since my hardware included a LGA775 socket based motherboard, …
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrSBfLbRIdw] Meegopad is trying to use crowdfunding to help finance the development of their new “Intel Cherry Trail Compute Stick” on Indiegogo. The USB PC-on-a-stick is based on the new Cherry Trail SOC platform with the Atom Z8300 CPU @1.84 GHz in its heart. They offer two models with this campaign: The T07 with …
[Update at end of article] Tech Specs: Minix Neo X8-H Android TV Box CPU: Amlogic S802-H Quad Core 2.0Ghz (Cortex-A9) GPU: Mali-450 RAM: 2 GigaByte DDR3 Storage: 16 GigaByte Nand Flash Expansion: SD Card Slot, support max 64 GigaByte (reported to support up to 128 GigaByte) Wireless Communication: 802.11n Dual Band Wi-Fi (2.4GHz/5.8GHz), Bluetooth 4.0 Dimensions: 135*125*25mm Weight: 292 Grams Packaging …
Apple announced yesterday three new devices: Iphone 6, Iphone 6 Plus, and Apple Watch. The new phones offer thinner bodies, bigger screens (4.7″ and 5.5″), and snappier (though only dual core) 64 bit processors, but other than that they don’t offer anything new. They include the standard myriad of sensors, and come in 3 different …
As Intel and AMD grew close to the physical limit of the smallest transistor they could build, they had to find ways of packing more transistors and continue to increase computing power. Their solution was to add more processing units – all working together in tandem, and sharing some of the cache memory provided. Since …