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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...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing Personal tech

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

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Every week, we gather press releases that slipped through the net of our daily coverage, and we post them in the release roundup. Here's this...

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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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Touch interfaces are becoming increasingly prevalent, but they crucially lack tactile feedback. Haptic feedback can help by using mechanical force, usually in the form...

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

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

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Need another hint that desktop users weren't a priority for Windows 8? Check out the Wedge Touch mouse Microsoft designed to accompany the OS....

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Well, Razer definitely isn't messing around. The company's new Ouroboros wireless mouse carries a $129.99 price tag, features an 8200-DPI sensor, and is both...

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

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

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

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Networking

Google appears to have misjudged the demand for its new Nexus 7 tablet. The 16GB version is no longer being sold through the company's...

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Intel's Thunderbolt interface is pretty slick. It combines DisplayPort and PCI Express over a single cable with a staggering 40Gbps of aggregate bandwidth. ...

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