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With higher clock speeds, lower power consumption, more cache, and a multitude of tweaks, the "Shanghai" Opterons aim to restore AMD's competitiveness in the...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

After finally receiving one of Apple's new aluminum MacBooks last week, I've been doing some testing and working on my review of the machine....

Type: Blog post Tags: Mac The Tech Report

Core i7 processors have secretly been shattering records in Damage Labs for the past few weeks. Now we can tell all. Read...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

Can it really be the end of October already?  Unbelievable.  Happy Republic Day to our Turkish fans (yes, we do have several).  

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous The Tech Report

A PC enthusiast with a repressed penchant for Macs, Matt Butrovich joins TR as a guest blogger. He'll be sharing his thoughts on all things...

Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report

In case you haven't already noticed, we've made some changes to TR's navigation bar. After transitioning to a text-based navbar a few weeks ago, we've...

Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report

In the cargo hold of a plane bound for east Africa sometime this weekend is a computer lab in a box. ...

Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report

Peek in on us as we peek in on Intel's research and development horizons—live from IDF San Francisco.

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

We're coming to you live from the Pat Gelsinger-Dadi Perlmutter keynote, where we're expecting to learn more about Nehalem and upcoming Intel tech. Listen...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

Read along as we type live from Craig Barrett's IDF keynote.

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

They're small, low-power, and cheap. The Atom from Intel and Nano from Via are both all-new CPU architectures, and they both push the frontiers...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

Every so often I get to introduce people or features here in the Inkwell, which is always fun.  This post isn't exactly an introduction, as...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous The Tech Report

We've worked hard to build an informative and reliable publication with the best reviews and latest news from...

Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous The Tech Report

I've been giddily experimenting with high-dynamic-range photography over the past few days. Unfortunately, I don't own any professional photography equipment, and my best camera...

Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia

Join us for take two of our look at processor value—this time with tri- and quad-core Phenoms, 45nm Core 2 Quads, and more.

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs

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Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report

Several of you have been asking for an update on our progress with the TR Tech Share initiative we kicked off this past Christmas. ...

Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report

Good things often come in powers of two, especially in computers. Two, four, eight, or sixteen copies of a common resource—rendering pipelines, megabytes of memory,...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs