Glory Days are Over for Intel
Intel’s fourth-quarter 2015 financial results have been released recently. The company reported revenue of US$14.9 billion (bn) for the quarter, up 1% compared to Q4 2014 and operating income of US$4.3bn, down 3% from the same time last year. Gross margin shrank 1.1% to 64.3%. The company’s Client Computing Group took in US$8.8bn, a 1% […]
Qualcomm Switches to Samsung for Future Production
Samsung Electronics seems to have grabbed all of Qualcomm’s business with a second-generation version of its 14nm FinFET process. This is a major blow to Qualcomm’s previous partner, TSMC. Samsung has launched commercial production of advanced logic using its 14nm Low-Power Plus (LPP) process, the latest generation of the 14nm process technology, the company said […]
Fujitsu to Split Up
Fujitsu announced that it would spin off its personal computer and smartphone operations into separate wholly-owned subsidiaries. Fujitsu will continue to own the aforementioned business entities, but wants management of the new companies to be fully responsible for their business results. While the move may make sense from financial point of view, it has the […]
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge vs Galaxy S6 Edge
Many of you would already know by now that Samsung Malaysia will on be only importing the 32GB Galaxy S7 Edge to the country which we thing is a good choice because from what we have seen the S7 Edge looks and feels much sleeker than its non-identical twin sister. First debuted in 2015, the […]
Review: MSI Phantom GS406QE
MSI had been very busy in 2015 with a slew of PC gaming focused product releases, particularly in the premium laptop segment. As regular readers would have noticed, there MSI offerings provided some of the highest benchmark scores in the portable segment. GOOD DESIGN This month we have another gaming focused laptop from MSI in […]
Review: Asus Strix Raid Pro 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card
Asus had unveiled three new game-oriented sound cards to its owl-themed Strix family at Computex last year. They are the Strix Raid DLX, Strix Raid Pro and Strix Soar. Recently I got to review the Strix Raid Pro. According to Asus, Strix Raid Pro is a premium sound card built with audiophile-grade components to satisfy […]
