CES

With the announcement of Intel’s Alder Lake H series of laptop processors, MSI is one of the first out of the gate to announce their refreshed gaming laptop series featuring the newest Intel processors. As one of the market leaders in gaming notebooks, MSI has some new tricks up its sleeves to boost performance even further. New this year for MSI are some key software features to boost performance across the lineup, as well as functionality. As an example, MSI will offer a new Smart Auto Power system to adjust the laptop performance levels based on what application is running, rather than relying on the end user to configure the settings manually. For users that want to tweak their own system, the manual system will...

Mushkin CES 2014: Ventura Ultra 480GB SF-2281 and Atom USB Sticks

One of the first products we saw at Mushkin’s suite is their final USB 3.0 USB stick with a SandForce SF-2281 controller. Not everyone needs ultra-high performance from a...

9 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2014

USB-IF Updates Us on Type C Connector, Demonstrates USB SuperSpeed 3.1 Transfers

December of last year, the USB-IF announced that the definition of a new type of compact connector, dubbed type C, was underway. After pushback from the USB 3.0 micro-B...

31 by Brian Klug on 1/7/2014

Ambarella Shows off Wearable A7LW Camera Platform for Google Helpouts

Wearables seem to already be the unofficial theme of CES 2014, which officially begins today. I stopped by Ambarella to see their latest and greatest, now well known for...

3 by Brian Klug on 1/7/2014

Gigabyte’s New AORUS SLI Gaming Notebook

Gigabyte had all of their current generation notebooks on display, which you can see in the images below, but while many of them are interesting in their own right...

24 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2014

AMD Press Conference Highlights

Ian has already written up most of the information AMD covered in their press conference tonight, so if you haven’t already I suggest you start there. Kaveri is the...

13 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2014

Intel CES 2014 Live Blog

We just walked over from the Qualcomm press conference slash Q&A extravaganza to Intel's press conference, which should be getting underway at 1 PM PT.

26 by Brian Klug & Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014

Qualcomm CES 2014 Live Blog

We're seated at Qualcomm's CES 2014 press conference, which is getting underway shortly at noon PT. Stay tuned for our live coverage.

16 by Brian Klug & Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014

Huawei Announces Ascend Mate 2 - 6.1 inch and 1.6 GHz Quad Core

We’re here at Huawei’s 2014 CES press conference, where they’ve announced their newest smartphone, the Huawei Ascend Mate 2. The Ascend Mate 2 is the successor to the Ascend...

8 by Brian Klug on 1/6/2014

LG Announces G Flex Coming to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile in 2014

We've been using and working on our review of the SK Telecom version of the LG G Flex, and have heard rumors about the device coming stateside and to...

2 by Brian Klug on 1/6/2014

MSI Motherboards at CES 2014: Kaveri and Socketed Kabini

Wrapping up our visit with MSI, we’ve already seen many of their already-launched motherboards (e.g. series 8 chipsets), but MSI did have some upcoming Kaveri motherboards on display with...

1 by Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014

MSI GPUs at CES 2014: Massive R9 290X Lightning and More

Along with notebooks and all-in-ones, MSI had quite a few large GPUs on display. The past month saw a massive shortage of AMD GPUs, thanks in no small part...

8 by Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014

MSI All-In-Ones at CES 2014

Notebooks weren’t the only thing on display – along with a couple desktops sporting MSI GPUs, MSI also had a couple of all-in-one touchscreen PCs on display. One is...

2 by Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014

MSI: Updated Notebooks at CES 2014

MSI had all of their latest notebooks on display, along with some upcoming models that feature new designs and hardware. Most of the hardware and design elements remain the...

4 by Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014

Checking Their Pulse: Hisense's Google TV Box at CES

So, Google TV is still happening. Indeed, more players are getting into the game than ever. Hisense is a Chinese OEM/ODM that's seen steady growth in the television market...

10 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/14/2013

Wilocity Bringing WiGig To Your Desk, Lap, Home and Office

We had a chance to meet with Wilocity to take a look at their progress in bringing WiGig to market. Let’s start with a primer. WiGig (802.11ad) is an...

10 by Jason Inofuentes & Cara Hamm on 1/12/2013

CES 2013: Real Talk In A Surreal Spectacle

Anand asked us to say a few words about this year's CES. We're not the sort to award prizes at trade shows, nor do a "Best of CES" type...

2 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/11/2013

Qualcomm MPQ8064 Reference Design Shown Off at CES 2013

The Avenger MPQ8064 Reference Design Tucked away in the Qualcomm both were a few reference designs intended to show off the potential of the Snapdragon S4 Prime SoC (MPQ8064), a...

5 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/10/2013

Mushkin Announces 960GB 2.5" Chronos SSD

Continuing our CES coverage, Mushkin has announced a 960GB model of their popular Chronos SSD. Details are very scarce at this point but I was able to find out...

4 by Kristian Vättö on 1/9/2013

Qualcomm and DTS Team-up For Mobile Surround Solution

Qualcomm’s already made waves here at CEs with their announcement of the new Snapdragon line-up, and to emphasize the point that Snapdragon 800 is more than just Krait 400...

3 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/9/2013

Tactus Gives Touchscreen Users Something To Touch

One of the hardest leaps to make in entering this modern era of mobile phones was the idea of using a touchscreen keyboard. Losing our beloved keys was anathema...

5 by Jason Inofuentes on 1/9/2013

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