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Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 W Notebooks: Up to 5.3 GHz* Two of the big announcements out of CES this year were both mobile related: Intel and AMD announced they would be launching new gaming laptop processors into the market... 128 by Dr. Ian Cutress yesterday Best Motherboards: Q1 2020 36 comments by Gavin Bonshor Catching up on the state of motherboards for the quarter, the first part of 2020 has been very quiet. Overall, only a handful of... Best Motherboards: Q1 2020 Catching up on the state of motherboards for the quarter, the first part of 2020 has been very quiet. Overall, only a handful of new motherboards have been released... 36 by Gavin Bonshor 3 days ago Huawei Announces P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro+: A New Generation of Cameras 88 comments by Andrei Frumusanu Today, Huawei is doubling down on its efforts to regain western market share, revealing brand-new hardware as well as expanding the company’s AppGallery app... Huawei Announces P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro+: A New Generation of Cameras Today, Huawei is doubling down on its efforts to regain western market share, revealing brand-new hardware as well as expanding the company’s AppGallery app store, introducing the new P40... 88 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/26/2020 MORE PIPELINE STORIES PIPELINE STORIES SK Hynix: We're Planning for DDR5-8400 at 1.1 Volts Comments (27) Folding@Home Coronavirus Race, AnandTech vs. Tom’s Hardware: Two Week Check-In Comments (15) Razer Refreshes Blade 15 Series With Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake Comments (8) ASUS Launches ROG Strix XG27WQ Curved 165Hz Monitor: FreeSync Premium Pro Certified Comments (28) NVIDIA Details Dynamic Boost Tech & Advanced Optimus (G-Sync & Optimus At Last) Comments (10) NVIDIA’s 2020 Laptop Refresh: Launches GeForce RTX 2080 Super, 2070 Super, & GTX 1650 Ti Comments (16) MSI Launches New 10th Gen Core Laptops With NVIDIA RTX Super And Mini LED Comments (10) Lenovo Legion Laptop Launch: 10th Gen Intel Core And RTX Super Updates Comments (2) Intel H81 Chipset EOL'd: Long Lived Haswell Chipset to be Retired Comments (3) Intel Updates ISA Manual: New Instructions for Alder Lake, also BF16 for Sapphire Rapids Comments (27) Samsung to Cease Traditional LCD Production, Move To Quantum Dot OLEDs Comments (43) AKiTiO Launches Node Titan eGFX Thunderbolt 3 Enclosure Comments (13) Maingear Releases New RUSH System With Extremely High-End Specs Comments (11) Ryzen Roundup: A Quick Overview of Ryzen Mobile 4000 Laptops From Acer, ASUS, Dell, & MSI Comments (36) Transcend Launches microSD Cards with SLC Caching Comments (20) TUF Goes FreeSync Premium: ASUS TUF Gaming VG27VH1B 27-Inch 165Hz DCI-P3 Monitor Comments (25) Best Consumer Hard Drives: Q1 2020 Comments (32) Dell & HPE Issue Updates to Fix 40K Hour Runtime Flaw in Enterprise SSDs Comments (46) Richard Yu Press Interview: Huawei's CEO on COVID-19 and Huawei Apps Today Huawei launched its latest generation of photography focused smartphone: the P40 series. This series consists of the P40, the P40 Pro, and the P40 Pro+, starting at €799... 17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/26/2020 The GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0 Motherboard Review: EPYC with Dual 10G The workstation and server markets are big business for not only chip manufacturers such as Intel and AMD, but for motherboard vendors too. Since AMD's introduction of its Zen-based... 34 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/25/2020 Samsung Galaxy S20+ & Ultra (Snapdragon & Exynos) Battery Life Preview Last week we brought you a quick performance preview of the Snapdragon 865-based Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, showcasing that the phone has some outstandingly good performance and power efficiency... 106 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/23/2020 On The Wings of an Eagle: GIGABYTE's X570 I Aorus Pro WIFI Motherboard Tested The mini-ITX form factor is an interesting one as it allows users to create a small form factor system with the ability to integrate some of the top-performing hardware... 62 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/19/2020 Help Fight COVID-19 and Tom's Hardware: Join The Great Folding@Home Coronavirus Race Stuck at home for the foreseeable future, we here at AnandTech are doing the only thing that we can do: getting into trouble and picking fights. And we want... 56 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2020 Intel’s Cooper Lake Plans: The Chip That Wasn’t Meant to Exist, Fades Away Following an exclusive report from SemiAccurate, and confirmed by Intel through ServeTheHome, the news on the wire is that Intel is set to can wide-spread general availability to its... 45 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/17/2020 AMD Details Renoir: The Ryzen Mobile 4000 Series 7nm APU Uncovered The notebook market has not been kind to AMD over the last decade – for a long, long time the company was only ever seen as the discount option... 94 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/16/2020 Marvell Announces ThunderX3: 96 Cores & 384 Thread 3rd Gen Arm Server Processor The Arm server ecosystem is well alive and thriving, finally getting into serious motion after several years of false-start attempts. Among the original pioneers in this space was Cavium... 45 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/16/2020 Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra (Snapdragon 865) Quick Performance Preview: Impressive Samsung's Galaxy S20 series phones have been available since last Friday in markets such as the US. And earlier this week we also finally received a unit, in the... 114 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/13/2020 The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard Review: A Truly Unique, Truly Expensive Keyboard for Pros Today we are having a look at the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, the most overconfident and expensive mechanical keyboard that has ever found its way into our labs. Developed with... 63 by E. Fylladitakis on 3/12/2020 Amazon's Arm-based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute It’s been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called 'A1' instances. While the processor... 91 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/10/2020 How Good (or Bad) is a $100 Laptop? The Coda Spirit Review Back in late 2014, I remember Brett reviewing the HP Stream 11-inch laptop for $200. At the time, it was a great little machine, offering all you need to... 103 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/9/2020 AMD Financial Analyst Day 2020 Round-Up: Laying A Path For Bigger & Better Things AMD’s first Financial Analyst Day since 2017 has just wrapped up. In the last three years AMD has undergone a dramatic change, launching its Zen CPU architecture, and greatly... 54 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/202...