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Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:40 PM on October 5, 2012 Eight is Enough Intel's Haswell architecture analyzed at AnandTech: Building a new PC and a new Intel Fudzilla: Intel Z87 Haswell chipset... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	23
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
AMD teases next ultra-low-power product by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:55 AM on October 5, 2012 Something's brewing at AMD, and the company is trying to drum up publicity with a spooky viral video. Take a look: Type: News story Tags: CPUs	53
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
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
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
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
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:13 PM on October 1, 2012 Eight is Enough IHS iSuppli: 2012 forecast for Ultrabooks is slashed as pricing and marketing disappoint X-bit labs: AMD teams up with Oracle... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	37
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
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:07 PM on September 30, 2012 7 Up Microsoft Enterprise Insights: Deploying Windows 8 within Microsoft Who's watching? 3D TV no hit with viewers - USA Today CENS.com: SSD... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	22
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:18 PM on September 29, 2012 7 Up X-bit labs: Despite PC market slowdown, shipments of hard drives set to be record - analysts VR-Zone's exclusive update - Ivy Bridge-E... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	41
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:18 PM on September 28, 2012 7 Up ZDNet: BlueStacks and AMD bring Android apps to Windows 8 Fudzilla: Desktop Trinity coming next week in OEM flavor DigiTimes:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	44
AMD expands lineup of low-voltage Trinity notebook APUs by Geoff Gasior — 11:45 AM on September 28, 2012 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	19
Intel unwraps Clover Trail-based Atom Z2760 by Geoff Gasior — 2:30 PM on September 27, 2012 In case you hadn't heard, a whole bunch of Windows 8 tablets and... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing	53
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
Intel officially addresses ''half-baked'' Windows 8 claims by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:46 AM on September 27, 2012 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	23
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on September 27, 2012 Eight is Enough We really do think Windows 8 is great, Intel says - C\|Net AllThingsD: Apple-Google Maps talks crashed over voice-guided... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34

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tipoo

It's not a benchmark suggestion, but a benchmark*ing* suggestion, I've always wanted to see more older CPUs thrown into what benchmarks they can to sh...

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lilbuddhaman

Obligatory "what about Higher resolution desktop monitors" post. +26

chuckula

Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +24

Alexko

"Quark, drunk on money, power, and an estimated 90% market share, started behavi... +24

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