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Island in the tech stream
— 4:16 PM on December 19, 2011

It's been over a year since the second-generation Apple TV emerged from the Cupertino location of Hobbytown USA, yet the black, minier-than-a-mini set-top box remains...

Type: Blog post Tags: Mac

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Update: MS releases, yanks Win7 hotfix for Bulldozer scheduling
— 10:25 AM on December 16, 2011

Some weeks ago, we took a look at the issue of thread scheduling and performance on AMD's Bulldozer-based FX processors. Since current versions...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Operating systems

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AMD replaces Rick Bergman with former Freescale, IBM exec
— 9:26 AM on December 16, 2011

A little over a month before AMD announced its dramatic layoffs, Rick Bergman, head of the company's Products Group, resigned and became CEO...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

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Release roundup: Fresh memory and gaming peripherals
— 5:03 PM on December 15, 2011

Yeah, so, at this point, I think most hardware firms are saving their big launches for CES. That's become apparent in the dearth of new...

Type: News story Tags: Memory Input devices

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AMD's Read opens door to collaboration with ARM
— 3:04 PM on December 15, 2011

This spring, AMD categorically denied a rumor that it would partner with ARM, saying it had "made a big bet on APUs, which are...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

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Analyst blames other factors for Intel revenue warning
— 6:00 AM on December 15, 2011

As we noted yesterday, Intel says recent shortages in the hard-drive market will cause it to miss its previous revenue estimate, but AMD's CEO...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

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GlobalFoundries tapes out 20-nm ARM test chip
— 5:07 PM on December 14, 2011

When it's not busy cranking AMD processor silicon out of its fabs, GlobalFoundries is getting busy with its other customers and partners—and that includes ARM....

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Personal tech

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AMD CEO plays down hard-drive shortage concerns
— 3:35 PM on December 14, 2011

The recent shortages in the hard-drive market have led Intel to revise its guidance, and analysts expect AMD and Nvidia to follow suit...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

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Hard-drive shortages may hurt AMD, Nvidia, too
— 9:29 AM on December 13, 2011

Yesterday, Intel revised its guidance for the ongoing quarter, saying revenue would be below expectations because of the hard-drive shortages plaguing the industry. What...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

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Intel: Hard-drive shortages will affect our revenue
— 9:21 AM on December 12, 2011

Even Intel, a company often unshaken by unfavorable market conditions, is being hit hard by the current hard-drive shortages. The chipmaker announced today that its...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Storage

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Luxury mouse rings in at $320
— 10:56 AM on December 9, 2011

You've gotta have pretty big balls to charge $320 for a mouse—balls as big as the Sphere 2 wired mouse being hawked by the...

Type: News story Tags: Input devices

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MSI X79 and GTX 580 giveaway: we have our winners
— 6:20 PM on December 8, 2011

The next step in our MSI Thanksgiving giveaway has begun. We've just selected our three winners in a random draw from the pool of...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards

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Release roundup: Storage, RAM, and USB 3.0 headers
— 3:27 PM on December 8, 2011

The flow of press releases is winding down as the holidays draw near. We've still got enough miscellaneous announcements for another edition of the release...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Storage Memory

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Ivy Bridge mobile CPU specifications exposed
— 10:52 AM on December 6, 2011

More details have leaked out on Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs. We learned about the desktop side of Sandy Bridge's successor last week,...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

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Leaked slides tease Ivy Bridge performance improvements
— 11:05 AM on December 5, 2011

According to the latest round of leaked Intel roadmaps, Ivy Bridge is due in the second quarter of next year. We've already discussed...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

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Release roundup: Cases, power, cooling, and SO-DIMMs
— 3:01 PM on December 2, 2011

We've got a packed roundup this week. No fewer than three announcements from NZXT have hit our inbox, and we have news from Cooler Master,...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Power Cooling Memory

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AMD corrects muffed Bulldozer transistor count
— 2:24 PM on December 2, 2011

In our review of AMD's "Bulldozer" desktop processors, we relayed a bit of information from AMD that wasn't quite right. The company initially told...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

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Don't forget to enter our MSI giveaway
— 2:22 PM on November 30, 2011

While some of you were plotting an early escape for the Thanksgiving holiday last week, we put together a rather enticing giveaway with a...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards

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