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Last month, ARM announced a partnership with TSMC involving sub-20-nm chips with FinFET, or non-planar, transistors. That results of that partnership are expected in...

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Looks like next-generation Samsung smartphones and tablets will boast PC-class storage interfaces. Samsung's...

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The results for Nvidia's latest fiscal quarter are in. It looks like the company enjoyed modest revenue growth compared to last year, though its...

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Could AMD be on the verge of getting bought out? There's no evidence to suggest that just yet, but according to MarketWatch, that didn't stop...

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Today's a big day for AMD's workstation offerings. The company has unleashed a smorgasbord of FirePro workstation graphics cards, and it's also introduced...

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Samsung's Galaxy Note is a curious device. It's too large to be a smartphone, too small to be a tablet, and there's an old-school...

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In public, Steve Jobs dumped all over the idea of a 7" iPad. AppleInsider quoted him two years ago as saying, "The reason we...

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Apple pretty much created the market for consumer tablets with the original iPad, and it's by far the most dominant player in the space. ...

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It's no secret AMD has been struggling to repeat the success of its...

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The unending legal war between Samsung and Apple does have some upsides. We've gotten glimpses of iPad and iPhone prototypes that would have...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

Mark your calendars, folks. I suppose this should come as no surprise, but...

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It's been just a month and a half since AMD announced desktop variants of its Trinity APU, and already, we're hearing about several new...

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The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out, and it paints an interesting picture of the PC landscape—or, at least the part that...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Gaming Software

Although Apple's latest quarterly fiscal results failed to meet Wall Street expectations, the company is still in a dominant position. Nowhere is that...

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Unlike Intel, vendors of ARM-based SoCs can't yet reap the benefits of 64-bit addressing and "3D" transistors. But soon, they will. Oh, yes. TSMC and...

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A little less than a year ago, we learned that the USB Implementers Forum, the governing body behind the interface standard, was working to...

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Well, this can't be good. Yesterday evening, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that AMD's VP of Strategic Development, Bob Feldstein, has defected...

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As the first 5G Wi-Fi devices begin to break cover, the folks...

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