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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

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

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

Want to buy one of AMD's new Trinity desktop APUs? Good news. Newegg has four different models in stock, and they all come...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

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

AMD has added two new models to its lineup of low-voltage notebook APUs. The most intriguing of these Trinity-based processors may be the A8-4555M....

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

In case you hadn't heard, a whole bunch of Windows 8 tablets and...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

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

I guess Intel wasn't so happy about all those reports saying its CEO, Paul Otellini, characterized Windows 8 as "half-baked." The chipmaker went so...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

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

The more data we have, the more of it we want to preserve—and the longer we want it to endure. Hitachi may have created...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Chrome 22 came out yesterday. Along with minor cosmetic changes and bug fixes, the latest Google browser update adds something that ought to please PC...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Software

There's nothing trendier—or faster—than an external SSD or USB 3.0 thumb drive for lugging data around. Mechanical drives are still the kings of capacity per...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Samsung's 830 Series is currently our favorite SSD. It's well-priced, has relatively low power consumption, and offers the most well-rounded performance of any...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Testing Windows 8 RTM? Great news! You won't have to live with an...

Type: News story Tags: Software Windows

If you haven't already blown all your money on a new iPhone 5 (then immediately regretted it because of the broken Maps app), then good...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Gaming

At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2011, Nvidia unveiled Project Denver, a custom CPU compatible with the ARM instruction set. This processor was...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers

The popularity of flash memory has risen dramatically in recent years. First, there were MP3 players and thumb drives. Then along came smartphones...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory Mobile computing