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Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:46 PM on October 4, 2012 Eight is Enough Fudzilla: AMD Trinity overclocked to 7.3GHz and FM2 socket motherboards available in the USA and Nvidia GTX 650 Ti... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	27
Mozilla releases preview of Firefox for Windows 8 by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:42 PM on October 4, 2012 The Windows 8 version of Firefox sure has come a long way since that early demo we saw in April. Now, Mozilla has... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	31
SSD prices continue tumbling in Q3 by Geoff Gasior — 1:25 PM on October 4, 2012 SSD prices continued their downward trajectory in the third quarter. We've crunched the numbers for nearly 40 drives to see how far the... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	78
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
Acer unveils pricey 11.6'' Win8 tablet by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:48 AM on October 4, 2012 Earlier this morning, Acer took the wraps off the Iconia W700, an Intel-powered Windows 8 tablet with a whopper of a price tag: $799.99... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	67
Lenovo to start making some PCs in America by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on October 4, 2012 American companies outsourcing manufacturing to China is a fact of life these days.... Type: News story Tags: Systems	40
AMD's A10-5800K and A8-5600K 'Trinity' APUs reviewed by Scott Wasson — 11:32 PM on October 3, 2012 AMD's second-generation desktop APU has arrived, raising the question: What the heck's an APU? Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	216
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:47 PM on October 3, 2012 7 Up Epic Gamers: Cliff Bleszinski departs Epic Fudzilla: Chip price war likely and Trinity is here, now how about some Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	24
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
WSJ: iPad Mini production is now underway by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:52 AM on October 3, 2012 There was a time when, to learn about unannounced products hitting production, we had to rely on the Far Eastern press—on stories written in shaky... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	33
Microsoft phone rumors heat up by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on October 3, 2012 Apple has the iPhone. Google has the Galaxy Nexus. Now, rumor has it... Type: News story Tags: Personal tech	69
As AMD struggles, Intel chip prices stagnate by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:47 PM on October 2, 2012 We've crunched three years of historical pricing data and made some interesting discoveries about the current state of the x86 processor market. Come take... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	103
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:30 PM on October 2, 2012 Eight is Enough Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's take on Windows 8 New AMD A-series processors officially launch CPU World: Second generation AMD APUs... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	51
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
Desktop Trinity APUs available at Newegg by Geoff Gasior — 10:59 AM on October 2, 2012 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	141
New Acer ultrabooks sport 1080p IPS panels, high prices by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:44 AM on October 2, 2012 On the heels of IHS's doom-and-gloom report on the ultrabook market, Acer has unveiled a new series of ultrabooks geared toward Windows 8.... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	29
IHS slashes ultrabook forecast for 2012, 2013 by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on October 2, 2012 Ultrabooks are supposed to help breathe new life into the PC market, but... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	57

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NeelyCam

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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mcnabney

I'm getting less and less thrilled by Haswell every day now. And AMD would likel... +38

willmore

You're right, dell paid the SEC $100 Million in fines (but admitted no wrong doi... +36

codedivine

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

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