Early Cherry Trail Benchmarks Disappoint

Cherry Trail shows only marginal improvement over predecessor in leaked benchmarks Intel began shipping its new Cherry Trail Atom chips to its partners in the first week of January and now we have got our first benchmark scores. If you were expecting the 5th generation Atom chips to be a huge improvement over current-generation tablet…

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HTC Enters VR Fray with SteamVR-powered Vive Headset

Finished product to debut by year-end Valve just made good on its promise of unveiling a SteamVR hardware system at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Meet Vive, a virtual reality headset powered by Valve’s SteamVR platform and manufactured by Taiwanese company HTC. Born out of what HTC says is a “strategic partnership…

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GDC 2015: What to Expect

VR is going to be big The Game Developers Conference is taking place just around the corner between March 2-6 and we’ll be in San Francisco covering it. There will, of course, be a bunch of game discussions and demos as usual, but we wanted to approach it from a hardware/PC perspective. Having said that,…

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