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While in San Francisco for AMD’s Zen Tech Day, I had a chance to catch up with a good friend by the name of Patrick Kennedy, who runs the tech news website ServeTheHome. We frequently battle STH here at AnandTech to be the first to break news on new server platforms, but it is a friendly rivalry where often we end up picking each other’s brains for information or to bounce ideas off of each other. To that end I managed to convince Patrick to be a guest on our podcast, to talk about the recent issue with Avoton and Rangeley C2000 CPUs as well as the launch of C3000 and discuss what the upcoming Naples platform can do for AMD.

The annual CES show is always a mélange of announcements and sneak peeks for what is to come through the year. At the show we had most of our regular editors on foot, meeting with manufacturers to find out what exactly is going on under the hood. Despite some technical hiccups trying to record the podcast on site, I was able to track down some of our editors for a short burst into their main highlights from CES and thoughts on the year ahead.

Here’s the second part of AnandTech’s smartphone podcast, post the Apple event where the iPhone 7 was launched. On the Podcast are Ian, Josh and Matt (apologies for his microphone) discussing a number of other devices and reviews that were launched around the same time as the iPhone. First up is a recap of Josh’s review of the Samsung Galaxy Note7, which has since been recalled due to issues with the battery - the team discuss some of the other features of the Note7 as well. Next is a discussion on the launch event of the Honor 8, a step up from previous Honor devices and uses HiSilicon’s top smartphone SoC, the Kirin 950, and also comes with dual cameras. Finally the team covers the LG V20 smartphone launch, with the Josh having a good hands on with the dual display technology as well as some time on the new Android 7/N.

With the launch of the iPhone today, Josh, Matt and I got together to record some of our thoughts on the launch of the latest Apple devices, as well as the new Apple Watch Series 2. There has been some discussion online regarding the new A10 Fusion SoC, and what exactly those smaller cores are (or how they are being used), as well as new modems and how the company has removed the 3.5mm audio jack.

Today’s podcast covers the show known as the Intel Developer Forum, or IDF for short. IDF is an annual event focusing on new Intel technologies and product visions, showcasing what is new from small maker-like ‘Internet of Things’ devices all the way up to server platforms and everything in-between. Ian and Ryan were at the show, with plenty of meetings on tap. We found some time to put our thoughts on the announcements in a microphone.

The annual smartphone extravaganza known as Mobile World Congress has come and gone. We clocked up 45.4km on foot during the week, averaging around five hours sleep and one meal a day to be able to see everyone of interest. Because so many interesting things were presented, from LG, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi and others, just before we left Barcelona Andrei and I put together a podcast of details, experience and analysis of the new devices. There are plenty of talking points with each of them, from a modular design to heatpipes to new silicon microarchitectures, and we recorded our initial impressions in a podcast.

AnandTech Podcast #35: The summer season has been busier than usual. Microsoft released Windows 10, it’s latest operating system, as a free upgrade to current Windows 7 and Windows 8 users, promising it to be the latest and greatest from Microsoft, but also why it might be the last full release of an operating system from them. Brett’s indepth review of Windows 10’s features is now available on the AnandTech website, with a link below. Hot on the heels of Windows 10 was Intel’s launch of its new Skylake processor microarchitecture, which came in two desktop processors only to begin with. This was followed up by a more in-depth discussion of what Skylake actually does at Intel’s Developer Forum, and in this podcast we discuss what Skylake brings to the table as well as the performance and our interpretation of how Intel’s vision is set to develop in the coming years.

AnandTech Podcast #34 - In this special edition podcast, we spoke with Dr Genevieve Bell at Intel's Developer Forum. Dr Bell is Intel's Senior Anthropologist, as well as a futurist in Intel's Corporate Strategy Office. Dr Bell's main presentation at the event revolved around the maker community, and as a result our discussion we focused on that intersection of makers and the maker community, the altruistic intentions of the designers competing with corporate interests in this space and how the perception of the maker community is currently in a large state of flux from both the perspective of end-users and regulatory insights. Someone also had to bring up the recent cricket scoreline as well, in classic Aussie vs Brit style.

AnandTech Podcast #33 - Along with CES in Vegas in January, one of the two biggest PC hardware shows in the world is held every year is Computex in Taipei, usually in the first week of June. After the show Ian and Kristian recorded a podcast about the releases at the show as well as some of the esoteric elements on display.

AnandTech Podcast #32 - Ian and Brett are talking about laptops. It's been an exciting few weeks for laptops, as we discuss some of our more detailed findings related to Core M and the problem surrounding the material construction of low powered devices and how this relates to performance. Brett is also on hand to discuss the wheelings and dealings of Microsoft's BUILD conference which he attended, including discussions regarding Windows 10 updates, Android App support, Objective C support and Hololens. To wrap it all up, we discuss the Surface 3, both in terms of the technical specifications, our review, and how it positions Microsoft in a competitive market against a number of their partners.

The AnandTech podcast is back once more, this time with Ian and Andrei recapping their time at Mobile World Congress 2015. We kick things off with a look at the flagship smartphones to come out of the show, Samsung's Galaxy S6 and HTC's One M9. We follow this up with a look at some of the photography-centric products to come out of the show, including the Lenovo Vibe Shot and Panasonic Lumix CM1. Of course no MWC would be complete without SoCs, and MWC has Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820, ARM's forthcoming Cortex-A72 CPU, and Intel's new Atom x3/x5/x7 brands. Then we switch gears to peripherals, including Qualcomm's new ultrasonic fingerprint scanning tech, Sandisk's hybrid eMMC tech, and modem tech from Broadcom and Altair. Finally we close things out with SteamVR and the first supporting headset, the HTC Vive.

All the news, recorded live from CES 2015. We kick things off with Intel's just-launched Broadwell-U family of CPUs before switching sides to AMD and looking at their FreeSync adaptive-synchronization technology and forthcoming Carrizo APUs. Then it’s all about vendors, including Asus and their new ZenFones and Windows 8 Chi 2-in-1s, MSI and their latest GT80 and GS30 laptops, and Lenovo with the shockingly light Lavie laptop. Not to be outdone, Dell also has their new XPS 13 and Alienware machines on display, all the while Occulus once again steals the show with their impressive “Crescent Bay” headset prototype. Finally in the home stretch we take a look at all things mobile, including Microsoft’s latest Lumia devices, the Snapdragon 810 powered LG Flex 2, and NVIDIA’s Tegra X1.

Recorded live from Computex 2014, on this episode Anand Shimpi & Ian Cutress discuss recent developments at WWDC, Computex, and in the mobile market. Anand & Ian kick things off with a discussion of LG's new G3 phone, along with side discussions on ideal phone sizes and finishes. Then on to Intel's recent Baytail tablet announcements and Rockchip partnership. This is followed with an in-depth discussion of various WWDC happenings, including iOS 8, OS X Yosemite, Apple's Metal API, Continuity, and mobile gaming in general. Wrapping things up is a look at the mobile market in general, along with Intel's Computex announcement, the Core-M.

Recorded live from Mobile World Congress 2014, on this episode Anand Shimpi & Brian Klug discuss all things mobile. Anand & Brian kick things off with a discussion recapping our recent expose on Imagination's PowerVR Rogue architecture, before segueing with a discussion of SoC core counts and core wars on both the CPU and GPU side. Anand and Brian then get into the ARM Coretex-A53 and its adoption in high core count designs, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600 series, and then what Intel is up to at MWC, including their Merrifield SoC announcements. Anand and Brian then wrap things up with a discussion of Samsung's just-announced flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, and their brief impressions on various aspects of it, including the sensors, UI, and the use of both Qualcomm and in-house Exynos SoCs in various S5 models.

Recorded live from CES 2014, on this episode Anand Shimpi & Brian Klug discuss Intel's mobile product launch with the VP & GM of Mobile Comm. group, Hermann Eul. Anand & Brian also discuss the recently launched Mac Pro, Qualcomm's Toq and other smartwatches, Asus's ZenFone smartphones, Brian's switch from AT&T to T-Mobile, Sony's latest smartphones, NVIDIA's Tegra K1, and the fluctuating CPU core counts in CPUs.