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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 19, 2012

Nvidia Kepler vs AMD GCN has a clear winner

Guess who wins this round?

A lot of people have been asking about Kepler/GK104, and we finally have some hard information.
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Samuel Reed
Jan 18, 2012
8

The GeChic On-Lap USB-Powered Monitor

The refresh will be a contender

The GeChic On-Lap 1301 is a curious product. When I received it in the mail, I didn’t know what to make of it.
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 18, 2012
6

IEEE 802.11ac devices start shipping

Buffalo first with range of products delivering up to 1.5Gbps.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 18, 2012
12

Exclusive: XBox Next/Xbox 720 chips in production

Dev kit silicon is moving through the fabs now

If you crave more info about the upcoming XBox 720/Next, there is finally some concrete info.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 17, 2012

Intel’s phone reference design is what it needed to be

Solid hardware, competitive with current chips

We have looked at the silicon for Intel’s new phone offerings in the last two articles, but what about the rest?
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 17, 2012
21

Stock In The Channel: January 2012

The HD 7970’s are out of stock, and the GTX 590’s is MIA

With the recent launch of AMD’s new single GPU flagship, the HD 7970, in mind we decided to check back in at the popular US online retailer Newegg.com…
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 16, 2012
7

Baolab does MEMS in CMOS

Will allow integration in traditional CMOS chips

Baolab Nanosystems out of Barcelona, Spain has developed a way to design and manufacture MEMS devices in plain vanilla CMOS ….
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 16, 2012
2

VIA’s Powering New USB 3.0 Active Optical Cables

These cables can be over a football field long…

A large producer of USB 3.0 controller chips, VIA, announced that its subsidiary, VIA Labs, was demoing its new USB 3.0 Optical Transceiver chip at CES 2012.
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 12, 2012
19

Gigabytes New 7 Series Intel Motherboards

Gigabyte 3D’s all the things!

Maker of multi-colored motherboards, Gigabyte, is showing off its new designs based on Intel’s 7x series chipsets.
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Newsdesk
Jan 12, 2012
20

IBM does it in 12, atoms that is

Efficiency is fun

Today IBM announced its ability to store information in as few as 12 atoms.
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 12, 2012
11

LucidLogix does GPU virtualization

Virtualization can improve performance by up to 200 percent, the company claims.

Israeli graphics company LucidLogix is showing off its GPU virtualization software XLR8 at CES this week.
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 11, 2012
25

Imagination releases new graphics cores

New cores are the first in the Series 6 family formerly known as Rogue

Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG) may not be a name that is immediately familiar to you…
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 11, 2012
10

Intel’s phone ambitions are more than core deep

SoCs, not cores, are where the market is now

In the last part of the Intel phone/Medfield article, we looked at the package and the core, now it is time for the good stuff.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 10, 2012
1

Intel finally gets a phone!

A look at Medfield, Penwell, and Saltwell

Intel is launching a new baby Atom today called Medfield, and the hardware looks really good.
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 10, 2012
11

Memory cards get faster and bigger

The race is on for ever larger capacities and faster speeds.

XDHC reaches 128GB and super fast XQD card from Sony shows up for the first time.
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