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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 23, 2012
60

Intel launches Ivy Bridge amid crushing marketing buzzwords

Good hardware, awful messaging, possible remote exploits

Intel is launching their Ivy Bridge CPU family today with a lot of fanfare, and in many ways the chip deserves every bit.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 23, 2012
3

Overclocking Intel’s HD 4000

Lots of extra voltage for just a little extra performance…

After playing around with Intel’s HD 4000 in our previous reviews and recording some pretty impressive performance, I decided to try and find the limit of the HD 4000’s graphics performance.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 23, 2012
1

Comparing the Ends of the Spectrum

The old HD 2000 versus the new HD 4000…

Intel sent us two chips for review in the lead up to its Ivy Bridge launch.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 23, 2012
13

Par for the Course: Part 2

A Look at Intel’s HD 4000 Graphics Continued

In this half of the review we will be continuing our testing of the graphical capabilities of Intel’s HD 4000.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 23, 2012
14

Par for the Course: Part 1

A Look at Intel’s HD 4000 Graphics

Today we are taking a look at Intel’s new Ivy Bridge chip, the Core i7-3770K.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 23, 2012
1

Atom takes the process lead on 14nm

What Otellini meant by beating Moore’s law

During their Q1 conference call, Intel stated that Atom was going to move faster than Moore’s law.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 20, 2012
1

Qualcomm moves majority of production to Global Foundries

Just like we said over a month ago

Recently, Qualcomm has been the subject of many rumors on fabbing and capacity.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 20, 2012
1

Where will AMD make 28nm APUs?

Question answered in the Q1 conference call

AMD solved a mystery about where the next gen parts are going to be fabbed in yesterday’s conference call.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 19, 2012
1

What good are benchmarks when a PC is ‘good enough’?

Modern problems for modern systems

With each new chip that comes out, benchmarks become less and less relevant, and are now almost pointless.
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Leo Yim
Apr 19, 2012
9

ADATA launches 512 GB 2.5-inch SSD with SF-2281 controller

Largest, greatest, and Windows-friendly

Taiwanese company ADATA launched their latest XPG (Xtreme Performance Gear) SX900 line of 2.5-inch SSDs on April 17, 2012.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 19, 2012
9

Imagination shows off Caustic tech

GDC 2012: Plugins for just about everything

When we last looked at Caustic, they were just purchased by Imagination Technologies, and their direction was unclear.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 17, 2012
3

Windows on ARM RT = WART

I can’t think of a more fitting description

Windows on ARM RT is WART, can you think of a more fitting name?
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 16, 2012
3

Godfrey Cheng turns up at Synaptics

That didn’t take long

It didn’t take long for Godfrey Cheng, recently ex-AMDer, to surface at Synaptics.
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Samuel Reed
Apr 16, 2012
6

GeChic 1302 Portable Monitor Review

Improved is an understatement

You might remember our review of the GeChic 1301 “On-Lap” monitor from about three months ago. Since then, GeChic says they have been working tirelessly to produce an improved product. We concluded from the 1301 that while the idea was …
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 16, 2012

Two new keynotes announced for AFDS

Gaikai, Penguin, but probably not an earthworm, Jim.

AMD just announced two more keynotes for this year’s AFDS conference, Gaikai and Penguin Computing.
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