ANNOUNCEMENTS THAT MADE AN IMPACT
This year it’s all gaga over innovations and huge displays
It’s that time of the year again when us tech freaks get giddy with anticipation as we see what the year ahead holds in store for us in terms of all the transistor induced goodness that the companies throw at us. That’s right, it’s time for the Consumer Electronics Show ( CES) 2018. As has been the trend of years past, our favourite companies are showing off their latest wow factor goodies one after the other leaving our jaws to drag along the floor as we peruse what each of them has to offer.
Here are some of the announcements that will definitely leave you, the gamer, on the edge of your seat, unable to wait till these technological monstrosities hit the store shelves near you.
NVIDIA is no alien to innovation and has consistently managed to wow us via their partner brands year in year out with some tech or the other, this year, is definitely the year of the displays. In conjunction with Acer, ASUS and HP, NVIDIA has unveiled the new Big Format Gaming Display. The new BFGDs are 65 inch, 4K 120Hz IPS panels with a built in NVIDIA Shield. Let that sink in. You now have a display which can double as a pretty capable gaming machine in and of itself along with drive your favourite games in the glorious 4K master race provided you have beefy enough hardware.
Next up we have an exciting announcement from Team Red, a. k. a. AMD. While intel is going through the whole Meltdown debacle, and NVIDIA is going large with the BFGD, AMD is going small. They have laid down the launch map for their CPUs for the year and the most exciting bit of news is that a Ryzen refresh is coming in April 2018. Still on the AM4 socket, AMD has announced Ryzen 2.0, these CPUs are going to be on a 12 nm dye and promise on bringing more improvements to IPC along with clock speeds and thermals. This is accompanied by a new motherboard line as well, namely the X470 series of motherboards. Gigabyte teased their top- end motherboard for this series and they feature actual physical heat sinks for the VRM, something that is going to lend itself immensely to lowering temperatures on the new systems sporting these awesome motherboards.