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OCZ warns of 'significant' Q2 net loss by Geoff Gasior — 3:21 PM on October 11, 2012 OCZ's aggressive discounting of SSDs may have gone too far. The drive maker has lowered its revenue estimate for the second quarter due to the... Type: News story Tags: Storage	22
SSD shipments continue dramatic growth by Geoff Gasior — 12:21 PM on October 11, 2012 As SSD prices continue to tumble, consumers and businesses are snatching up an increasing number of drives. According to market research firm IHS,... Type: News story Tags: Storage	50
ARM links SoC components with terabit interconnect by Geoff Gasior — 11:49 AM on October 11, 2012 ARM has its eyes set on the high-performance computing market. To help with that mission, it's developed a new interconnect to link multiple cores... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers	21
Latest GeForce drivers have full Win8 WHQL support by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:13 PM on October 10, 2012 I should set a keyboard macro so I don't keep having to type "Windows 8" again and again this month. I guess you can't fault... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	10
Pocketable Thunderbolt drive promises 750MB/s transfer rates by Geoff Gasior — 12:19 PM on October 9, 2012 Most of the Thunderbolt-equipped storage devices on the market employ arrays of mechanical hard drives. Not Promise's Pegasus J2, which is being billed... Type: News story Tags: Storage	43
AMD aims Z-60 APU at Win8 tablets, hybrids by Geoff Gasior — 11:01 PM on October 8, 2012 Windows 8 is coming, and it's bringing a wave of tablets and hybrid... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing	66
Deal of the week: solid-state storage at 59 cents/GB by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:26 PM on October 5, 2012 Our own Geoff Gasior wrote a pretty interesting story about declining solid-state storage prices yesterday. One of the highlights was a graph that ranked... Type: News story Tags: Storage Gaming	26
Intel intros Atom platform for NAS devices by Geoff Gasior — 11:20 AM on October 5, 2012 Network-attached storage devices seem to be getting more and more popular these days, not only in the home, but also in small businesses that may... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Storage Networking	29
Nvidia program ties GPU warranty support to voltage limits by Geoff Gasior — 11:37 AM on October 4, 2012 EVGA's GeForce GTX 680 Classified is a beast. The card combines a hot-clocked GK104 GPU with 4GB of RAM on a custom circuit board... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	25
AMD teams with Oracle on Java acceleration, Qualcomm on HSA by Geoff Gasior — 1:30 PM on October 3, 2012 AMD has teamed up with Oracle to work on Project Sumatra, a bid by the OpenJDK community to explore how Java can be accelerated by... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Software	50
TDK tech could bring 10TB hard drives in 2014 by Geoff Gasior — 11:15 AM on October 3, 2012 A little more than six months after Seagate demoed a hard drive platter with an areal density of one terabit per square inch, TDK... Type: News story Tags: Storage	62
HDD shipments rebound, exceed pre-flood levels by Geoff Gasior — 12:50 PM on October 2, 2012 A little less than a year ago, devastating flooding in Thailand decimated the hard drive industry. Entire factory floors were submerged under several feet of... Type: News story Tags: Storage	50
Are more layoffs in the cards for AMD? by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:36 AM on October 1, 2012 A year on from AMD's last round of mass layoffs, the rumor mill suggests AMD's staff could face further downsizing. News comes from the... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics	67
Deal of the week: Gaming graphics and clicky keyboards by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:36 PM on September 28, 2012 It seems Radeon HD 7850 prices have taken a nosedive since the GeForce GTX 660 rolled out earlier this month. Lower prices may be bad... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	23
Release roundup: Platinum PSUs, an amped-up GTX 660, and more by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:57 PM on September 28, 2012 This week on the roundup, we've got fresh gear from Cooler Master, Thermaltake, and Zotac to discuss: Cooler Master intros Scout... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Power	6
AMD explains its reasons for staged info release by Scott Wasson — 11:05 AM on September 27, 2012 We've taken issue with AMD's attempt to shape reviews of its desktop Trinity APUs by dictating which test results independent labs can publish when.... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics The Tech Report	305
WD's new RE drives come in 4TB capacities, SAS and SATA flavors by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on September 27, 2012 For quite some time now, 4TB hard drives have been conspicuously absent from Western Digital's lineup. That changes today with the introduction of a... Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers	27
Catalyst 12.9 beta drivers now available by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:20 PM on September 26, 2012 Have a Radeon? Don't mind bleeding-edge software that may or may not have a few bugs? Then you'll be glad to know the latest beta... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	13

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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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