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- Qualcomm Acquires NUVIA For $1.4B To Accelerate 5G Connected High-Performance Computing
- Intel CEO Bob Swan Steps Down, Distinguished Former CTO Pat Gelsinger To Step In
- Qualcomm's New Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor Improves Accuracy And Is 50% Faster For Next Gen Phones
- COVID-19 Spurs Significant Growth In 2020 PC Market, Contrasting The Chaos
- Lenovo's Flashy Legion Laptops Gain Ryzen 5000 And GeForce RTX 30 GPUs For CES 2021
- Acer's New Nitro 5 Gaming Laptops Offer Choice Of Ryzen 5000, Tiger Lake-H CPUs And RTX 3080
- ASUS ROG Laptops Storm CES 2021: Ryzen 5000, GeForce RTX 30, 120Hz 4K Displays, Oh My!
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Brings Gargantuan Fun To Nintendo Switch
- Alienware M15 R4 And M17 R4 Laptops Refreshed With RTX 30, Aurora Desktop Embraces Ryzen 9 5950X
- Ubiquiti Discloses Major Data Breach, Urges Customers To Change Passwords Immediately
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Makes A Mainstream Gaming Power Play At $329 With 12GB Of RAM
- NVIDIA Unveils GeForce RTX 3080, 3070 And 3060 Laptops For Seriously Powerful Mobile Gaming
- Lenovo Debuts ThinkBook Plus With Trick E-Ink Display, ThinkBook 16p Rocking Ryzen 5000 And RTX 30
- AMD Unleashes Ryzen 5000 Mobile Processors For Big Laptop Performance Gains At CES 2021
- Intel Discrete DG2 Graphics Products Rumored For TSMC's Enhanced 7nm Node
- Samsung Unveils Exynos 2100 Flagship Mobile Chip To Battle Mighty Snapdragon 888
- Leaked Samsung Galaxy S21 Retail Packaging Confirms These Rumored Omissions
- How To Watch Dr. Lisa Su's AMD CES 2021 Keynote And What To Expect
- HotHardware And Lenovo CES 2021 New Year, New Gear Giveaway!
- Intel Takes Fight To AMD With Bevy Of New Mobile And Desktop CPUs Unveiled At CES 2021
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All News for January 2021
Qualcomm, a behemoth in the mobile chip market (namely due to its Snapdragon silicon), announced on Wednesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NUVIA for about $1.4 billion, before factoring in working capital and other adjustments. The purchase, if it clears regulatory hurdles, provides an...
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Here's an announcement that rocked the tech industry this morning: current Intel CEO Bob Swan is stepping down, effective February 15th. He will be replaced by Pat Gelsinger, who currently serves as the CEO of VMWare.
Gelsinger is a 40-year industry veteran, and spent 30 years previously at Intel. He was...
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Qualcomm's New Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor Improves Accuracy And Is 50% Faster For Next Gen Phones
Qualcomm made waves last month when it announced its new Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform, which will power 2021's best flagship smartphones. However, this week at CES 2021, the company made a more low-key announcement related to biometric authentication. The company says that its 3D Sonic Sensor Gen 2 is now readily...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating affects across the globe, upending the everyday lives of nearly everyone, while at the same time resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands. Because of how COVID-19 is spread, people that can work from home along with students participating in virtual learning have...
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Lenovo's Legion family include scores of rock-solid products that hit a number of different price points. Now, at CES 2021, Lenovo is updating its Legion lineup with some new styles and the latest processors and GPUs to make the laptops perform like how they look: incredibly good.
Legion 5
The Legion 5, in...
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There are tons of new laptops being announced today, and Acer is of course is getting in on the action. The company has revealed a couple of new products based around AMD's new Ryzen 5000 processors including the Nitro 5, Aspire 7 and the Aspire 5.
The Nitro 5 is perhaps the most interesting of the trio, as it is...
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ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) has always been a strong player in the gaming space, especially as CES. This is not going to change at CES 2021 as the company has a number of awesome products in store. With extreme laptops and powerful displays, it is time to get your game on with ASUS ROG…
ROG Flow X13/ ROG XG...
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Bowser is one perpetually grumpy dude, and also persistent. Unfortunately for Super Mario and the gang, he is about to become a gargantuan menace. As in, literally gargantuan, like Godzilla or King Kong. And fortunately for gamers, he's headed to Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury for the Nintendo Switch next month...
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Over the years, Dell has produced some sleek yet almost alien in appearance products, hence the Alienware brand. These computers have always been on the bleeding-edge of technology, and Dell continues that trend at CES 2021. We get to see a refresh of the Alienware m15, m17, and Alienware Aurora R10, which should pack...
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It seems getting hacked has become a near-daily occurrence that people should expect will happen at some point. Yesterday, people reported that Ubiquiti, a major vendor of internet of things (IoT) devices such as routers, security cameras, access points, and more, suffered a breach through a third-party cloud...
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We all knew it was coming, but today, NVIDIA made it official. The company announced the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060, which takes its 8nm Ampere architecture even further down-market. As you might have already guessed, the GeForce RTX 3060 slots in right below the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which launched back in early...
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NVIDIA has released a bevy of GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards for desktop PCs of the last few months, but gaming notebooks have remained chained to the previous-generation GeForce RTX 20 family. That all changes today, however, as the company just announced new GeForce RTX 30 mobile GPUs based on its latest...
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Yesterday, Lenovo made some updates to its ThinkPad X1 family of laptops and convertibles by offering refreshed designs and 11th generation Intel Tiger Lake power across the board. Today, Lenovo is turning its attention to the ThinkBook family, which has four refreshed members to whet your appetite.
ThinkBook Plus...
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AMD CEO Dr. Lisa kicked off the company’s highly-anticipated CES 2021 keynote with some discussion about the importance of high-performance computing and the gaming industry in general. She talked about the latest AMD-powered game consoles and the recent launch of the Radeon RX 6000 series, otherwise known as “Big...
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Assuming things go to plan, Intel will eventually launch a discrete graphics card for gamers, built around its Xe architecture. There are many questions left to be answered, such as what the full lineup will look like, how will the cards compare to offerings from AMD and NVIDIA, and what price points they land at. One...
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After several early teasers, Samsung has officially unveiled its next-generation Exynos 2100 SoC. As we previously reported, Samsung jettisoned its custom, in-house Mongoose cores this time around, and is instead going with the stock Arm designs.
Samsung's custom cores in practice haven't been able to keep up with...
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In just a few more days—January 14, the last day of this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES)—Samsung will host its Unpacked event, starting at 10:00am Eastern (7:00am Pacific). At this point, we have little doubt the company will unveil its much-anticipated Galaxy S21 series of flagship phones (which might actually...
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is now in full swing (albeit virtually), and today is a particular busy one. Part of the reason is because AMD's Dr. Lisa Su is scheduled to deliver a keynote, where she will discuss the company's current CPU and GPU portfolio, and almost definitely announce some new stuff as...
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With 2020 behind us (thankfully!) and CES 2021 just starting, we thought it would be a great time to give away yet another batch of fresh, new gear. So, hot on the heals of a couple of amazing giveaways that recently concluded, we are going to keep the party going and offer up yet more HOT new tech, brought you by...
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At its virtual CES 2021 event today, Intel’s Executive Vice President Gregory Bryant, along with a host of additional executives, engineers, and partners, unveiled an array of new processors and technologies targeting virtually every market, from affordable Chromebooks, to enthusiast-class gaming laptops, and high-end...
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Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 family of ultraportables has always been popular, and the company is looking to widen its appeal even further with the introduction of three new models. The devices feature all-new designs, and are among the thinnest and lightest in their respective classes.
ThinkPad X1 Titanium...
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HyperX is the gaming division of Kingston Technology Company and has been creating concrete gaming accessories and peripherals since 2002. This year at CES2021, HyperX is back with new PC and console gaming gear for the masses.
HyperX Alloy Origins 60 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
Perhaps you are working on a small...
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