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Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:05 AM on January 8, 2012 7 Up hp Spectre teaser: part 2 Netbooknews.com: Asus confirms Win8 ARM tablet, 3G Transformer in March & new 10" tablet OMG Ubuntu reports... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	12
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:11 AM on January 7, 2012 7 Up The NY Times: Hackers threaten to post source code for Symantec product Things to look forward to in 2012: Branding... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	15
Deal of the week: Game pre-orders, PSUs, and notebook RAM by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:22 PM on January 6, 2012 Let's start this week's post with a few game pre-order deals. We're all excited about some of the releases coming this year, and Amazon... Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Memory Gaming	26
BSOD bug hits Crucial m4 SSDs by Geoff Gasior — 4:07 PM on January 6, 2012 As I said in our last big SSD round-up, the inconvenient truth about solid-state storage is that it still has reliability problems. Every... Type: News story Tags: Storage	101
Jobs Report Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:09 AM on January 6, 2012 7 Up DigiTimes: Apple to ship 'iPad 3' in March, 'iPad 4' in October, say Taiwan component makers Engadget: ZiiLabs debuts '100-core' ZMS-40... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Chrome 17 to check downloads for malware, preload pages by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on January 6, 2012 In light of Google's frantic browser release cycle, fresh versions of Chrome aren't always terribly noteworthy. According to the latest update on the Google... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	26
Release roundup: Cases, cooling, and solid-state caching by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:18 PM on January 5, 2012 We're kind of in limbo this week as far as new hardware releases are concerned. The holidays are just behind us, and the Consumer Electronics... Type: News story Tags: Cases Cooling Storage	23
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:04 AM on January 5, 2012 Eight is Enough Intel: One to watch at CES, says Citi - Barron's Intel: Piper CIO survey finds servers good, PCs bad... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	20
IE6's demise celebrated... by Microsoft by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:34 PM on January 4, 2012 Of all people, Microsoft is cheering Internet Explorer 6's long-awaited decline into irrelevance. In a post on the Windows Blog yesterday, the company revealed... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	56
Engineers pinched for selling Intel samples on eBay by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on January 4, 2012 It's no secret that CPU engineering samples get around; if they didn't, we wouldn't be treated to spy shots from the Far East on a... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	28
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:54 AM on January 4, 2012 Eight is Enough AllThingsD's exclusive: Yahoo! poised to name CEO—with eBay's PayPal prez as top choice EETimes reports engineers arrested for selling Intel... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:50 AM on January 3, 2012 Eight is Enough The NY Times: How Samuel Palmisano of IBM stayed a step ahead TechCrunch: This month's Apple event to focus... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	28
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:23 AM on January 2, 2012 Eight is Enough PCWorld on processors: What to expect from CPUs in 2012 Akiba PC Hotline: AMD A8-3870K overclocked to 5.88GHz (in... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	32
New Year's Day Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on January 1, 2012 Eight is Enough Phandroid: Asus Transformer Prime 32GB now available at Office Depot Android Police: Asus Transformer Prime GPS performs very poorly without... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
New Year's Eve Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:11 PM on December 31, 2011 7 Up FoxNews: Verizon bows to critics, drops plans for $2 'convenience' charge Ars Technica reports researchers publish open source tool for hacking... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	33
Deal of the week: Cheap games, bargain-priced SSDs and RAM by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:05 PM on December 30, 2011 The Christmas shopping rush is behind us now, but the holiday deals are not. There are some particularly nice bargains to be had among downloadable... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Memory Gaming	14
Could IGP-free Sandy Bridge chips be on the way? by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:51 AM on December 30, 2011 As we noted yesterday, the latest from the rumor mill tells us Intel's 22-nm Ivy Bridge processors will be out on April 8. A... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	29
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on December 30, 2011 7 Up Mac Rumors: Apple's multi-user face recognition plans for iPad revealed in patent Chips: Piper Jaffray sees rising prospects from tablets,... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34

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Continuing a long history of innovation, AMD announced today that they were the first to reach a critical CPU power envelope threshold. AMD CEO, Rory...

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Well, the 200W barrier has been broken. Now onto 500W! +35

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