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Bloomberg: Apple eyes homebrewed chips for Macs by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:49 PM on November 5, 2012 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	180
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:05 PM on November 5, 2012 The Pick 6 X-bit labs: AMD's roadmap slide does not predict Steamroller in 2013 The Guardian: Google sources thinks maps app might... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	30
Piledriver goes Opteron in 6300 series by Scott Wasson — 12:06 PM on November 5, 2012 As expected, AMD has rolled out a new lineup of Opteron processors based on its eight-way Piledriver chip. This is the same basic 32-nm silicon... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers	25
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on November 4, 2012 The Pick 6 Windows Phone Blog has the story behind the Windows Phone 8 Start screen AnandTech's Google Nexus 4 and Nexus 10... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	106
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:03 PM on November 3, 2012 7 Up TNW: Microsoft's security team is killing it: Not one product on Kaspersky's top 10 vulnerabilities list The Register: Windows 8 'penetrated"... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:58 PM on November 2, 2012 7 Up BBC News: Facebook flaw bypasses password protections Fudzilla: Nvidia GeForce forum is back from the dead X-bit labs: Financial analysts have... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	74
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on November 1, 2012 Eight is Enough TechHive: Comcast offers free Wi-Fi in the wake of Sandy AllThingsD: AT&T and T-Mobile team up for free roaming... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	86
ARM intros 64-bit Cortex-A50, to be used by AMD by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:46 AM on October 31, 2012 Yesterday, we reported that AMD's ARM-compatible processors will include pre-fab 64-bit ARM cores, not compatible cores designed by AMD itself. Now, we have some... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing Personal tech	39
Halloween Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on October 31, 2012 7 Up Reuters: Disney to buy "Star Wars" producer for $4.05 billion VR-Zone: ARM introduces its 64-bit processors: Meet the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 X-bit... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	48
AMD's ARM core will be licensed, not AMD's own creation by Scott Wasson — 10:31 AM on October 30, 2012 Yesterday's announcement from AMD about its plans to build ARM-compatible Opteron processors is very big news, but it shouldn't come as a shock, since... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers	72
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on October 30, 2012 7 Up The NY Times keeps an eye out for Hurricane Sandy Ars Technica: Why Sandy's storm surge will pack an unusually... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	30
AMD to build ARM-compatible 64-bit processors by Scott Wasson — 4:37 PM on October 29, 2012 Well, this changes some things. AMD has just announced its intention to build 64-bit CPUs compatible with the ARM instruction set, starting with a multi-core... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers	109
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:48 AM on October 29, 2012 The Starting Five Ars Technica goes under the hood of Windows 8 and music and video in Windows 8 The making of the... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:47 PM on October 28, 2012 The Pick 6 Neowin: Google Now used to alert Android users of Hurricane Sandy and tsunami threats LWN.net: An update on the ext4... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	40
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:22 PM on October 27, 2012 7 Up AllThingsD: Steven Sinofsky on how Windows 8 PCs deliver better value than Apple Benchmark Reviews on OCZ Technology: From SSDs to... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	37
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:05 PM on October 26, 2012 Eight is Enough Ballmer: Windows 8 PCs are "the best PCs ever." The experience is "truly magical" Business Wire: Windows 8 has... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	54
Updated: AMD claims between six and 10 Hondo design wins by Geoff Gasior — 10:54 AM on October 26, 2012 When AMD unveiled its tablet-optimized Z-60 APU earlier this month, it didn't get specific about design wins but did claim the chip would show... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing	49
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:48 PM on October 25, 2012 Eight is Enough PCWorld: Microsoft launches Windows 8 with great fanfare, few surprises VR-Zone: Windows 8 is tricky, according to sample of... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	53

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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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