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Roccat app turns smartphone into PC gaming accessory by Geoff Gasior — 3:26 PM on March 6, 2012 Want to use your smartphone to monitor and control your PC while gaming? There's an app for that—multiple ones, actually. Roccat's new Type: News story Tags: Input devices Software Personal tech	5
Intel unveils the Xeon E5-2600 series by Scott Wasson — 11:00 AM on March 6, 2012 Although the Sandy Bridge CPU microarchitecture has been available in laptops and desktops for over a year,... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers Workstations	46
Prototype controller adds haptic feedback to analog sticks by Geoff Gasior — 10:50 AM on March 6, 2012 You can have my keyboard and mouse when you pry them from my cold, dead hands, but I can't deny the popularity of game controllers... Type: News story Tags: Input devices Gaming	12
BSD distro creator finds erratum in AMD processors by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on March 6, 2012 Looks like AMD might have another CPU erratum on its hands. DragonFly BSD creator Matthew Dillon wrote about the problem (and outlined his debugging efforts)... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	44
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on March 6, 2012 The Pick 6 Expreview: Nvidia Kepler GK104 cards to come out on March 23rd and retail Ivy Bridge processor may feature E1... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	12
Leaked slide dates Ivy Bridge launches by Geoff Gasior — 12:00 PM on March 5, 2012 As Ivy Bridge draws near, the rumor mill is slowly honing in on the official release date—or dates. We've seen multiple claims that the... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	45
GloFo buys out AMD's stake, becomes fully independent by Scott Wasson — 10:01 AM on March 5, 2012 The company that was created when AMD spun off its manufacturing arm, GlobalFoundries, will soon become a fully independent chip foundry. The firm's parent... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	29
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:55 AM on March 5, 2012 Radeon HD 7870 and 7870 reviews Guru3D, Hardware Canucks, Hardware Heaven, Hexus.net, HotHardware, KitGuru, Neoseeker, PC... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	26
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
Thermaltake's Meka G1 and G-Unit keyboards by Geoff Gasior — 10:21 PM on February 28, 2012 Cherry MX switches and extra perks dominate Thermaltake's mechanical keyboards. We take a closer look at the Meka G1 and G-Unit to see... Type: Feature article Tags: Input devices	24

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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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