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We have a winner in our Adata storage giveaway by Geoff Gasior — 12:25 PM on June 18, 2013 We have a winner in our Adata storage giveaway. Congratulations, Timothy Laughrey, you've won a DashDrive Durable HD710 1TB and DashDrive Elite UE700... Type: News story Tags: Storage	18
Samsung adds ultrabook PCIe SSD with 1400MB/s read speed by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:13 AM on June 17, 2013 The next wave of ultrabooks won't just get a performance and battery life boost from Intel's Haswell processors. They may also have substantially quicker storage,... Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing	40
Demo'ing the future at WWDC by Jason Fox — 12:59 PM on June 14, 2013 If there's one thing I learned from Monday's (June 10, 2013) keynote at... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac	20
Don't forget to enter our Adata USB 3.0 storage giveaway by Geoff Gasior — 12:35 PM on June 14, 2013 Next week, we're giving away a couple of USB 3.0 storage products from... Type: News story Tags: Storage	25
Noise-canceling Noctua CPU cooler coming in 2014 by Geoff Gasior — 12:00 PM on June 12, 2013 Noctua and RotoSub are working on a CPU cooler that employs active noise cancellation in its pursuit of silence. We saw an early prototype... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Cooling	31
At WWDC 2013, Apple showed its new soul by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:59 PM on June 11, 2013 There was something different about Apple during yesterday's WWDC keynote. I couldn't put my finger on it at first. Part of it was the glitchy... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac Personal tech	90
Enter here to win a waterproof USB 3.0 hard drive and a speedy USB 3.0 thumb drive by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:54 PM on June 11, 2013 We've already parted with a fair amount of loot this month: first a 1kW XFX power supply and an AMD FX-8350 CPU, and then... Type: News story Tags: Storage	26
Seagate releases NAS-specific 4TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:12 AM on June 11, 2013 Seagate has introduced a family of 3.5" hard drives designed for network-attached storage.... Type: News story Tags: Storage	35
Intel targets servers with affordable DC S3500 solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 10:03 AM on June 11, 2013 Last November, Intel introduced a new enterprise-oriented SSD based on proprietary controller technology. The DC S3700 uses 25-nm MLC NAND and is aimed at... Type: News story Tags: Storage	10
Apple shows cylindrical Mac Pro, Haswell MacBook Air line, OS X Mavericks by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:13 PM on June 10, 2013 iOS 7 was definitely the main attraction at today's Worldwide Developer Conference, but it wasn't the only one. Apple also lifted the curtain on... Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Mac	144
Release roundup: Computex edition by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:54 PM on June 7, 2013 We've already spent all week covering product releases from Computex, but... well, it's Computex. That means we still have plenty of fodder left for our... Type: News story Tags: Cooling Storage Systems Memory	13
Random gigabits for the week of June 3, 2013 by Jason Fox — 10:53 AM on June 7, 2013 'Tis the week before Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference MMXIII: Borg vs. Cylon, and SPOILER ALERT we already know what spoilers have already spoiled the already-expected-anyway... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac	7
Intel shows Thunderbolt thumb drive at Computex by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:50 AM on June 6, 2013 Ah, now there's something we haven't seen before. According to the folks at PC World, Intel showed off what it called the "world's fastest... Type: News story Tags: Storage	47
20Gbps Thunderbolt gets a name: Thunderbolt 2 by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:07 AM on June 5, 2013 In April, we learned all about Intel's next-generation Thunderbolt controller, dubbed Falcon Ridge. This controller combines the dual 10Gbps channels of existing Thunderbolt implementations... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage Displays	77
SandForce improves SSD encryption, power management by Geoff Gasior — 8:01 PM on June 3, 2013 LSI's SandForce division doesn't have a new SSD controller to show off at the Computex trade show this year. It does, however, have a... Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing	19
SanDisk Extreme II SSD combines NAND storage, built-in flash cache by Geoff Gasior — 2:01 PM on June 3, 2013 We've seen SSDs used as standalone drives. We've also seen them employed as solid-state caches. Now, SanDisk has combined those two roles in... Type: News story Tags: Storage	23
WD introduces world's slimmest 1TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:10 AM on June 3, 2013 Mobile hard drives are slimming down to fit into the next generation of notebooks. We've already seen WD introduce several 500GB models that are... Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing	8
Deal of the week: A Radeon HD 7870 for $187.49, and other bargains by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:15 PM on May 31, 2013 This week for our deal post, we've got a trio of hardware deals and a trifecta of game bargains. Let's start with the hardware: ... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Power Storage Gaming	14

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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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