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We're only a week from Black Friday, but by the look of things, retailers aren't saving their best deals for next week. Today's highlights include:

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Storage Gaming

Last week, a Microsoft developer stated that DirectX 11.1 would remain a Windows 8-only feature. That remark was true—but, as it turns out, only...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Software

Intel's upcoming Haswell processor is likely to be as big an advance over today's Sandy and Ivy Bridge CPUs as the "Bridge sisters" were over...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Looks like AMD might be putting itself up on the auction block. Quoting...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

The supercomputing-related announcements are coming fast and thick today, and we have one truly novel entry in the bunch, as Intel formally unveils its first...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers

When Microsoft released DirectX 11 as part of Windows 7, it back-ported the API to the previous version of the OS. That may not...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming Operating systems

Intel's next-generation Haswell CPU is due out next year, and details are trickling out about its supporting Lynx Point chipset. According to a series...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets

These next few days are going to be busy for us PC gamers. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 comes out tomorrow, and then a...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

Nvidia's big Kepler chip is finally an official product. We first got a peek at the GK110's architecture way back in May, but products...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Servers

Remember that dual-GPU monster Mark Papermaster teased at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit in June? Well, it's now official. Say hello to the FirePro...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

In August, AMD revealed the first nitty gritty details about Steamroller, the next version of its Bulldozer microarchitecture. Steamroller promises improvements in not...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Late yesterday, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang got on the phone to talk to stockholders and journalists about the company's latest quarterly results. During the...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Maybe it's the sheer popularity of the firm's Tegra 3 chips. Maybe it's...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

The third-quarter x86 processor market share numbers are in, and they're not good for AMD. According to Mercury Research data quoted by PC...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

As the holiday shopping rush looms, AMD has quietly adjusted prices for some of its lower-end Athlon II and A-series desktop processors. The company's

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

These are certainly interesting times in the tech industry, not least because of the success of chip firms who license their IP for use by...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing Personal tech

Might we see another mid-range Radeon debut in the not-too-distant future? German website HT4U.net seems to think so. The site claims to have it...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

Over the past several years, Apple has spent a sizable chunk of change to bring iDevice chip development in-house. We've long heard rumblings that...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mac