By as early as the second half of 2018, Microsoft Corporation has plans to release a line of low-cost Surface tablets. The goal of this new line is to provide a cheaper device than Apple Inc.’s iPad. This is no new effort by Microsoft. In 2012, the software company launched its consumer-oriented hardware promotion, with the introduction of the original Surface RT. At the time, the starting price for the device was $499. After receiving sub-par reviews by both consumers and product reviewers, Microsoft moved on to the much pricier Surface Pro.

This line of tablets was well received and most likely contributed to the demand of Apple’s “Pro” iPad, which launched in 2015.

The new tablets will be equipped with 10-inch screens, which is smaller than the standard 12-inch screen of the Surface Pro laptop line, but about equal to the standard iPad. The new Surface tablet will have a price point of around $400 and will feature round edges like the iPad. USB-C connectivity will be used, which is a first for the Surface line tablets, along with a new charging and syncing standard that is used by latest smartphones.

The tablets are anticipated to be almost twenty percent lighter than the higher end models but will have around four hours left of battery life. The current Surface Pro model has around thirteen and a half hours of battery for one single charge. It has been speculated that Intel Corporation will provide the main processor and graphic cards for the new tablets, although representatives at both companies have declined to comment or confirm.
               
Apple has sold almost 44 million iPads which has generated almost $20 billion in revenue just these past 4 quarters. The entire Surface hardware business for Microsoft has generated $4.4 billion in the same period. Market research shows that Microsoft has sold almost 725,000 tablets in the first quarter of 2018, which is an increase of 1.8 percent in comparison to early last year. Apple has sold 9.1 million iPads in the same period. Microsoft has plans to release multiple Surface models, include a 64 and 128 gigabyte version that connects to LTE networks and running Windows 10 Pro.
               
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Jim Keller is a widely known name in the tech world. He is known as the man who brought AMD, Advanced Micro Devices, to the forefront of the industry. He is the man who crafted some of the best known central processing units ever used. He made the choice to leave all of that behind and took a job over at Tesla, to help them build up their artificial intelligence programs, but now, he’s decided to come back to his roots by taking a job at Intel.

This is such huge news because his contributions at AMD allowed them to dominate the market in the early 2000’s. No matter what CPU you were looking at, the K7 designs or the k8 designs, you could see how important of a product they were to the tech industry in the early 2000’s. Both CPU’s made huge strides in the tech world by finally providing a central processing unit that could actually reach 1GHz, which was ground breaking at the time.

Keller did decide to take a break at AMD and took a job at Apple, in order to help them out on the cellular side. After he built up a flawless team at Apple, he decided to head back to AMD where he worked until 2015 where he moved to Tesla.

Jim Keller joining Intel shows how dedicated Intel is to change. A company that used to be afraid to shake things up is choosing to add new members to its community. These additions are sure to add dimension to a company longing for change.
 

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The release of Netgear’s Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR500 Wi-Fi router is said to be the next big thing for the online gaming community.  The XR500 takes wireless routers to the next level, boasting many innovative features­­­ – all of which should increase speed and reduce interference and lag time.  Some of the key features making that possible include: four external high-performance antennas; 15 added channels in 5GHz; incredibly fast 802.11ac Wi-Fi; and a dual-core 1.7GHz processor. Netgear has also added a gaming dashboard that is customizable with real-time bandwidth utilization and the ability to stabilize pings.

Netgear’s addition of the DumaOS operating system is sure to optimize user performance, giving its users a serious advantage over their opponents. DumaOS offers its users a solution to bufferfloat (latency that comes from a router having to buffer too much data at once), allowing multiple users in one household the ability to surf the internet without causing the speed to suffer.  Users can also control the amount of bandwidth going to each connected device, allowing your high priority devices to receive as much bandwidth as they may need.

An additional benefit to this new OS is that it comes with a gaming VPN (virtual private network) client.  VPNs act like a firewall, protecting your personal data while you’re online from any unauthorized user access; this means any data you are transmitting will be encrypted and protected.  Today, when hacking and identity theft have become so commonplace, Netgear’s innovative technology is sure to be an asset to the online gaming community.

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