Report: Hard drive makers slimming notebook models down to 5 mm Most notebook hard drives conform to the 2.5" form factor. The standard, which calls for platters 2.5" in diameter, comes in multiple thicknesses. ... Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing |
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ARM, GlobalFoundries join forces on 20 nm and FinFET devices 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 |
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Deal of the week: Storage and memory coupons This week's deal post is all about getting the most gigs for your buck, whether you're looking at memory, solid-state drives, or good old-fashioned mechanical... Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory |
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Next-gen Samsung SoC has USB 3.0, WQXGA display support Looks like next-generation Samsung smartphones and tablets will boast PC-class storage interfaces. Samsung's... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Storage Mobile computing |
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Buyout chatter sends AMD shares shooting up 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... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics |
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AMD adds new FirePro GPUs, first FirePro APUs 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... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics |
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Seagate posts 2012 financials, possibly eyeing OCZ acquisition Seagate's 2012 fiscal year has ended, and the company made a tidy profit. Over the last 12 months, the hard drive maker raked in... Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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AMD lures K8 architect Jim Keller away from Apple It's no secret AMD has been struggling to repeat the success of its... Type: News story Tags: CPUs |
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SSDs with next-gen NAND approach At the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan earlier this year, the folks at SandForce told us to expect drives based on next-generation NAND in... Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Budget Crucial v4 SSD targets 3Gbps SATA upgrades Adding a solid-state drive is often the best way to boost the performance of an aging system, especially if it's a laptop. Now, Crucial has... Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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![]() The market is rife with hardware video transcoders and software that can take advantage of them. However, making sense of that jungle of disparate offerings... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Multimedia |
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Deal of the week: a 7850 for $200, a 128GB SSD for $85, and more We've got a trifecta of hardware deals for you all this week, starting with a nice discount on OCZ's new 128GB Agility 4 solid-state drive. Newegg... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Memory Gaming |
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Rumor: Trinity-based Athlon II X4 chips on the way 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... Type: News story Tags: CPUs |
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Western Digital doubles last year's profits Western Digital has released the financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2012, and it seems the hard drive maker has rebounded quite nicely... Type: News story Tags: Storage |
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Intel, Nvidia top Steam Hardware Survey 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 |
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Gabe Newell calls Win8 a 'catastrophe,' wants Linux to thrive Ah, so that's why Valve is busy porting Steam and Left 4... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Linux-Unix |
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Croteam to bring Serious Sam 3 to Steam on Linux Well, this is encouraging news. Barely over a week after Valve's announcement that both Steam and Left 4 Dead 2 are headed to Ubuntu... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Linux-Unix |
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TSMC, ARM team up on 64-bit chips with non-planar transistors 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... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Personal tech |
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I got up this morning and retested the Intel system with DDR4-2666 memory. I'm not going to type up all the results here, but I will note that there i... | +20 |