While a smartphone’s performance is often judged based on its processing prowess, storage speed can have an equally large impact on overall usability as well. So when Samsung Semiconductor announced ...

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The recently announced iPhone 4S comes with Bluetooth 4.0, which is a first for mobile phones. What exactly does Bluetooth 4.0 mean, and what advantages does that give the iPhone? CNET answers these ...

PCIe 4.0 sounds exciting—it’s the first big change to the interface since 2010. But as always, the questions of who can get it (and who can’t), and who really needs it, are more nuanced than you’d ...

What is Industry 4.0 and the fourth industrial revolution? Industry 4.0 refers to the fourth industrial revolution and the cyber-physical transformation of manufacturing. The name is inspired by ...

Industrial revolutions are momentous events. By most reckonings, there have been only three. The first was triggered in the 1700s by the commercial steam engine and the mechanical loom. The harnessing ...

Recent computing equipment typically supports the 16Gbps PCIe 4.0 protocol as its baseline data transfer/SSD storage technology. While Gen 4 is slowly being supplanted by 32Gbps PCIe 5.0 (most ...