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Thomas Ryan
Oct 31, 2011
7

Thermaltake’s making Contac-t

Bigger, thicker pipes

Taiwanese cooling and gaming peripheral company, Thermaltake announced two new coolers today.
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Mads Ølholm
Oct 31, 2011
17

ARM does 64 bit

Preparation for invasion of the server market continues

Not much happened at the ARM (LON:ARM) TechCon in Santa Clara last week, but on the final day ARM announced its latest architecture change called ARMJ8 that includes a brand new 64 bit instruction set.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 31, 2011
21

Sandy-E gets a final launch date and time

Less than two weeks now

Intel has finally narrowed down the Sandy Bridge-E launch date to a single day.
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 27, 2011
23

Colorful’s New GTX 560 Ti

Probably not what you’re expecting…

This particular card uses a custom designed PCB that deviates in a number of key ways from Nvidia’s reference design.
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Mads Ølholm
Oct 27, 2011
13

Quantum dots to revolutionize flat panel displays

Many more colors using standard LED backlighting

While LED is very popular because of its low energy consumption combined with its longevity it also has one major drawback.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 27, 2011
52

Exclusive: AMD far future prototype GPU pictured

Full of surprises that no one else has shown

AMD has some top secret prototype GPUs floating, and SemiAccurate managed to get a picture of one.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 27, 2011
1

NXP has USB video chips too

TFE 2011: Lots of video dongles and video converters

At TFE/Fusion 2011, the usual list of component makers were out in force, and the first one to catch our eye was NXP.
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Mads Ølholm
Oct 26, 2011
30

HP to do ARM based servers

Major blow to Intel with Lenovo doing MIPS servers…

According to a report from Bloomberg News Service HP (NYSE:HPQ) will start manufacturing servers based on the ARM architecture in a sharp departure from its previous Intel-only design philosophy.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 26, 2011
59

Did Nvidia have to spin their 28nm GPU shrinks?

New process not going as well as promised

Did Nvidia have to do a spin on their shrink of GF11x from 40nm to 28nm?
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Mads Ølholm
Oct 25, 2011
9

Xilinx sets new FPGA record

Virtex-7 2000T contains 6.8 billion transistors…

Want to roll your own processor, but can’t afford the fabbing of an ASIC?
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 25, 2011
7

Thermaltake’s Cooling Off with a New Frio

And they’ve got a new mouse to boot…

Things have been busy lately at Thermaltake’s Taipei offices; or so it would seem with a new CPU cooler, the Frio Advanced, and a new gaming mouse, the Saphira, being announced today.
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Mads Ølholm
Oct 24, 2011
6

HP moves networking research to China

Projects include advanced topics such as global load balancing.

HP has a little know research lab in Beijing and the focus of this lab has just shifted to networking.
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 24, 2011
23

A Box Review

Check Out Newegg’s Sweet Packaging…

We here at S|A enjoy a good odd ball story or review on occasion.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 20, 2011
78

Ultrabooks – Shiny things for the stupid

Part 2: Still not a Macbook, but less functional than you might think

Moving on to the CPU, there is one big dark secret that Intel is using to con the press into thinking the CPU and GPU power of the Ultrabooks are adequate.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 20, 2011
18

Hands on with the Acer and Asus Ultrabooks

Part 1: Nice execution on a fatally flawed concept

You know a product is a dog when it is available widely in stores long before reviewers get sent some.
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