Neowin News Feed for: High-end

Samsung to begin selling refurbished devices similar to Apple in 2017

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 04:08:01 +0000

Samsung is allegedly planning to launch a refurbished device marketplace in early 2017 to rival competitors such as Apple. The move could help the company fend off rivals in developing nations. Read more...

LG says it's planning to introduce two new mobile flagships

Andy Weir — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:24:01 +0000

Competition at the high-end of the smartphone market is intensifying with a growing number of devices, and many more affordable options - but LG still plans to launch two new flagships this year. Read more...

Microsoft: Windows 10 phones in the "flagship, high-end segment" are coming to India

Andy Weir — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:14:01 +0000

Microsoft's recent focus on lower-end devices has worked well for it in some markets, including India, but the company says it will launch new high-end Windows 10 Mobile handsets there this year. Read more...

Details of Microsoft's next flagship Lumia start to emerge

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:48:01 +0000

We finally have some real evidence that Microsoft is no longer focused just on low-end handsets, but also working on higher-end Lumias that will ship with Windows 10. Read more...

Tim Cook: high-end smartphone market hasn't peaked

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:07:20 +0000

Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, said today that he doesn't believe that the high-end of the smartphone market is actually saturated. But he also hinted the company is addressing its absence from the low-end. Read more...

Creative Labs plans a high-end PCIe card

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:59:37 +0000

Creative Labs is in the process of designing a new high-end sound card based on an X-FI design, but this time it plans to launch a high-end card. It will launch something similar to the... Read more...

Bose Unveils High-End Desktop Speakers

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:21:27 +0000

Audio company Bose Inc. introduced new speakers as part of its new $399 Computer MusicMonitor package yesterday, designed to provide top-quality sound from a desktop and capitalize on the emergence of the computer as a... Read more...

AMD to launch new high-end desktop processor

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:55:16 +0000

AMD is preparing to launch a new high-end desktop processor, the Athlon 64 X2 6400+, which will be the last processor in the Athlon 64 X2 family, according to sources at motherboard makers. Currently, AMD's... Read more...

AMD Cuts Prices on High-end Processors

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:40:38 +0000

AMD has cut prices on its high-end dual-core desktop processors and has announced its new restructuring plans to compensate for reduced quarterly revenue. As usual, prices are in 1,000 unit quantities. The price cuts affect... Read more...

TechSpot's High-end PC Buying Guide

Julio Franco — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:10:28 +0000

The future is now! Quad-core CPUs, DirectX 10 graphics cards, Windows Vista, all the things we have been waiting for are now available for public consumption. With deals, price cuts, and the winter buying season... Read more...

High-End Chips Help Lift Intel's 4Q Profit

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:42:17 +0000

Intel posted a quarterly profit that beat the average Wall Street estimate. The top computer chip maker owes the success to new high-end processors. Intel's fourth-quarter net profit was $1.5 billion, or 26 cents per... Read more...

AMD to Partners: Produce your Own-Designed High-End products

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:22:29 +0000

ATI, a division of AMD that develops graphics processing units (GPUs) and core-logic sets, is expected to allow graphics boards makers to design and produce certain high-end graphics boards on their own manufacturing facilities. The... Read more...

Nvidia: High-End Chipset Problem Solved, End-Users Disagree

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:25:57 +0000

Nvidia Corp., a leading developer of core-logic sets and graphics processors, said that the problem with Serial ATA controller on its latest high-end core-logic sets is solved, however, some users are still reporting problems with... Read more...

Nvidia's High-End Chipset Under Fire for Problems

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:30:47 +0000

Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics processor and core-logic sets, is about to face criticism from enthusiasts for the problems that occur with the company's latest premium-class chipset. Apparently, the core-logic's I/O controller has... Read more...

ATI Trims Power Consumption of High-End Graphics Cards

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:41:41 +0000

ATI Technologies said Friday it had employed technologies originally designed to reduce energy consumption of graphics processors for notebooks to trim power hunger of high-end desktop graphics cards, such as Radeon X1800 or more advanced.... Read more...

TechSpot's High-end PC Buying guide

Julio Franco — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:08:28 +0000

Back like a bad RMA request, TechSpot’s High-end PC builders' guide takes another stab at fabricating the finest custom PC possible. The chips are fast, the hardware is sexy and the budget may be out... Read more...

Intel Says New Mobile Chip Equals High-End Pentium 4

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:04:47 +0000

Notebook PCs based on the most powerful version of Intel's Centrino mobile technology now perform just as well as desktop PCs with Intel's fastest Pentium 4 processors, according to an Intel executive. During this week's... Read more...

Next IBM-Apple chip getting high-end feature

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:39:54 +0000

In 2005, IBM plans to bring a significant feature from higher-end servers to the next generation of its PowerPC 970 processor line used in Apple Computer machines and Big Blue's own blade servers. ... Read more...

AMD sketches out new high-end, low-end chips

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 02:58:44 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices will take the high road and the low road in the chip market. Executives here at the company's annual analyst meeting on Friday outlined a strategy that will, ideally,... Read more...

IBM looks to High-end Windows solutions

Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:46:47 +0000

IBM this week relaxed stringent requirements for running the highest-end version of its Windows server software, effectively lowering the overall price 30 percent in some cases and potentially expanding the pool of interested customers. To... Read more...

Dell axes high-end server

Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:28:44 +0000

Dell once argued that an eight-processor server was powerful enough for most folks. Now, the company has backed off plans for systems even that size, canceling an Intel partnership in the process. Dell... Read more...

HP unleashes new high-end NonStop server

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:06:08 +0000

Hewlett-Packard (HP) took the wraps off a new top-of-the line NonStop server Wednesday, the NonStop S86000, that HP says offers as much as a 170 percent performance boost, according to HP's internal order-entry benchmark, over... Read more...

SGI stays with MIPS at high-end

Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:18:39 +0000

SGI has refreshed its high-end 64-bit MIPS line of high-end graphics servers, workstations and supercomputers with - a faster 64-bit MIPS line-up. The MIPS R14000A is produced by its former subsidiary in... Read more...