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AMD's third-quarter financial results are in, and they've arrived with a side order of pink slips. The firm recorded a net loss of $157 million...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

Origin's Eon laptops are the first to offer Lucid's Virtu MVP Mobile virtualization scheme. We've taken the 11.6" representative of that lineup for a spin...

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Mobile computing

As Battlefield 3's one-year anniversary approaches, developer DICE is readying the game's penultimate expansion pack. To whet your appetite for the upcoming Aftermath DLC,...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Valve's Steam distribution-cum-social-gaming platform receives adulation from most PC gamers, but its security...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

The holiday season approaches, and you know what that means: there's a new chapter in the Call of Duty franchise. Black Ops II is...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

With a week and a half to go until launch, Microsoft is keen to generate buzz around its upcoming Surface tablet. The first TV ad...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Personal tech

A couple of weeks ago, we caught wind of a rumor suggesting AMD was preparing to cut its work force to less than 10,000...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

OCZ seems to be suffering the effects of its overly aggressive SSD pricing strategy, but for now, the getting's good—so long as you're a...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Gaming Operating systems Windows

Alas, poor AMD. We already knew PC shipment forecasts for the third quarter weren't looking too good. Now, AMD has announced that its third-quarter...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

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

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

Everyone's busy fawning over Borderlands 2 and Dishonored this month, but there are some exciting games still to come. One of those is Crysis 3,...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Nvidia's new GeForce GTX 650 Ti fills the last great gap in the 600-series lineup, offering Kepler goodness between $149 and 179 or so....

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics

Windows 8 is coming, and it's bringing a wave of tablets and hybrid...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing

Razer has unveiled portable gaming concept systems at the last couple of Consumer Electronics Shows. Two years ago, it was a netbook-like device...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Gaming

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

We have, perhaps, posted too many Dishonored trailers in the past few months. This should be the last one, if only because the game...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Ever wanted to build a house and raise a family, all while in the comfort of your squalid studio apartment? Then boy, does Bethesda have...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming