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Earlier this month, rumors started floating around about a USB 3.0 bug in next-gen Haswell systems. Hardware.Info, which broke the story, said the bug...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets

Traditional hard drive makers like Western Digital have largely stayed out of the SSD market. The company's solid-state SiliconDrive lineup is pretty sparse; it's...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers

Just about 14 months have passed since Intel launched its Sandy Bridge-E processors for high-end desktops. Their Ivy Bridge-E replacements are due out...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets

This story has been making the rounds over the weekend, and it's a little disconcerting. According to Hardware.info, which cites both a "reliable source" and...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets

Last month, Micron introduced its P400m solid-state drive for enterprise customers. The P400m has a desktop-style Serial ATA interface, and today, it's being...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

Remote graphics seems to be all the rage these days. You have Nvidia touting local game streaming with Project Shield and Sony promising something...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Servers Workstations

The words "Apple" and "price cut" are seldom found together in the same sentence. They're cohabiting nicely today, though, because Apple has cut the...

Type: News story Tags: Mac

With the broad success of ARM-based devices in the mobile market and the introduction of a 64-bit version of the ARM instruction set, a host...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers

In case you missed it, Entertainment Weekly posted a teaser clip of the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher yesterday. The clip shows...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous Mac

Once again, Apple has posted substantial quarterly growth—and once again, it's disappointed Wall Street analysts. This time, Apple says its revenue, profits, and iPad unit...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Mobile computing Mac Personal tech

Micron has a new SSD for the enterprise crowd. The P400m combines familiar technologies with a few new twists to provide a high-endurance drive...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

Last week, we heard all about AMD's plans for mobile and desktop hardware. This week, the company has switched gears and unveiled something...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Servers

During Nvidia's pre-CES press conference last night, company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took to the stage and unveiled a trifecta of new products. The most notable...

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

We've clocked the latest 2.5" SSDs at nearly 550MB/s in sequential transfer rate tests. That speed isn't far off the peak theoretical transfer...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

Last week, we learned that Apple plans to sink $100 million into U.S. manufacturing. Some of the company's new iMacs are already being...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Mac Personal tech

Bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. was a hot topic during the presidential campaign earlier this year. Now, it seems, the world's highest-valued firm is...

Type: News story Tags: Mac

AMD has released a fresh batch of Opteron processors with Piledriver inside. These chips are based on the same "Abu Dhabi" microarchitecture as the Opteron...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers

Well, this is interesting. In its teardown of the freshly released 2012 Apple iMac, iFixit found an unexpected detail: the words "Assembled in USA"...

Type: News story Tags: Mac