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The TR Podcast 107: Chasing Ivy and mechanical keyboards by Jordan Drake — 11:02 PM on March 4, 2012 In this episode, we answer a heaping helping of listener mail and discuss everything from Windows 8 to mechanical keyboards. Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast	20
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:13 PM on March 4, 2012 The Pick 6 Ars Technica: Who can shut down cell phone service? FCC seeks public comment 3DCenter has Radeon HD 7800 specs... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:58 PM on March 3, 2012 7 Up DigiTimes reports Intel to release Ivy Bridge processors at the end of April Ars Technica: iPad using iOS 6, high-res... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 10:36 AM on March 2, 2012 Wow. Long week here in Damage Labs, and I'm pretty shattered as a result. We were working late last night, recording the podcast,... Type: News story Tags: CPUs The Tech Report	44
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on March 2, 2012 Eight is Enough AnandTech reports Microsoft demos Windows 8 on 82" touchscreen and Microsoft shows Windows 8 CP on Tegra 3, Krait,... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	12
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:30 PM on March 1, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: AMD cuts prices by 2 to 15% across nine Phenom II CPUs and is Lucid's Virtu MVP the... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	11
SeaMicro fabric could be the glue for future AMD chips by Scott Wasson — 5:10 PM on February 29, 2012 The reasons for AMD's decision to purchase SeaMicro are coming into focus quickly. AMD's John Fruehe has written a blog post explaining what... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	43
AMD announces plans to acquire SeaMicro by Scott Wasson — 4:02 PM on February 29, 2012 Apparently, AMD's new executive team had some specifics in mind when they were talking about making some unconventional moves in the server market a... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	27
Microsoft seeding Windows 8 developers with Tegra 3 PCs by Geoff Gasior — 11:48 AM on February 29, 2012 Nvidia is serious about getting its ARM-based processors inside Windows 8 systems. The company is working with Microsoft to supply developers and device makers... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Systems Operating systems	14
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:44 AM on February 29, 2012 7 Up Dell: We're no longer a PC company - PC Pro Google's Schmidt: If Google gets it right, there will be an... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	29
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:29 AM on February 28, 2012 Three's Company X-bit labs: Roll-out of Intel "Ivy Bridge" micro- processors will take months to complete - source Bloomberg: Micron biggest winner as Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
AMD adds a pair of new FX-series chips by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:14 PM on February 27, 2012 Bad news: AMD's flagship FX-8150 processor still costs $245, and it's still relatively overpriced compared to the competition. Good news: the remainder of the FX-series... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	94
Intel details smartphone-bound Medfield Atoms by Geoff Gasior — 12:58 PM on February 27, 2012 With the Mobile World Congress in full swing across the Atlantic, Intel has announced a series of Atom processors targeted at smartphones. The... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Personal tech	39
It's official: Ivy Bridge release pushed back by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 27, 2012 And just like that, Intel has confirmed last week's rumors—well, partially so. Intel China Executive VP Sean Maloney gave the Financial Times the scoop... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	137
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on February 27, 2012 The Starting Five Bruce Schneier: Government, big data pose bigger 'Net threat than criminals - Ars Technica AnandTech reports Orange to sell co-branded... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:08 PM on February 26, 2012 The Starting Five Bloomberg: Apple to elect board by majority after investor pressure Mac Rumors: Apple seriously considered switching to AMD in 2011... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	7
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:33 PM on February 25, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: Intel's Extreme series Z77 motherboard specs revealed AnandTech's MSI Big Bang-Xpower II X79 review - a world of... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:29 PM on February 24, 2012 Eight is Enough DigiTimes: Global HDD capactiy expected to be restored to 80% in 1Q12 Jon Peddie Research: Q4 graphics shipments increased... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	41

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

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

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