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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 5, 2013

Calxeda changes their cards and adds OEMs

Computex 2013: Gigabyte, Aaeon, and Foxcon plus two new cards

Calxeda has two big pieces of news at Computex, three new ODMs and a new card format.
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Thomas Ryan
Jun 4, 2013
2

AMD Brings Richland to the Desktop: The A10-6800K

It’s amazing what a bit of fine-tuning can produce…

The A10-6800k is the top chip in AMD’s updated APU product stack and that’s the chip we will be reviewing today.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 3, 2013
1

Sandforce adds TCG Opal compliance and DevSleep to contollers

Computex 2013: Security and low power plus all the older goodies

LSI has some new features to talk about on their Sandforce drive controllers, TCG Opal compatibility and a new sleep mode.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 3, 2013

Thecus revamps 2 and 4 bay NAS line

Computex 2013: N2520 and N4520 look a better, add features

Thecus has revamped their lower end NAS line once again, but this time the new N2560 is quite different from before.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 3, 2013

Gigabyte revamps BIOS and software stack

Computex 2013: Both far better than their predecessors

In a really welcome move Gigabyte has revamped their software offerings and the result is a good thing.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 3, 2013

Haswell upgrades focus on power management

Graphics gets the headlines, power management makes it all happen

Intel has finally released the next big thing in CPUs but what does Haswell bring to the table?
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Thomas Ryan
Jun 3, 2013
2

Intel’s Core i7-4770K: Desktop Haswell

Holding the line on CPU performance while upping their GPU prowess…

Today we bring you our testing of Intel’s 4th Generation Core Processors, codenamed “Haswell”. The chip that Intel sampled us with was the Core i7-4770K.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 3, 2013

Gigabyte puts swappable op-amps on the G1.Sniper 5 board

New, different, and unlike most it is actually useful

Gigabyte did something quite novel with their new G1.Sniper 5 motherboard and unlike most novel things in tech this one is quite useful.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 2, 2013

ARM announces an new core called the A12

Not to mention a the new Mali T622 GPU and Mali V500 video unit

ARM is announcing a curious new core called the A12 today, a new 32-bit part for a 64-bit world.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 1, 2013
2

Intel outs quad-core Haswell CPUs

Good chips, awful marketing

Intel has decided to release some Haswell information early on a Saturday morning for no logical reason mirroring the SKUing strategy.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 31, 2013
4

AMD’s Richland is hiding a big secret

The mystery behind the power savings is finally solved

One nice thing about having really smart readers is that they notice things about chips that companies don’t tend to want out.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 29, 2013
1

How does the Nvidia GTX 770 do against the AMD HD7970 GHz?

16 games benchmarked for your pleasure

Running around Taipei leads one to run in to very interesting people with interesting numbers like the upcoming GTX 770 benchmarks.
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Thomas Ryan
May 28, 2013
2

Kyoto Becomes the AMD Opteron X-Series

AMD Unleashes Jaguar onto the Micro-server Market

Today we’re seeing the fruition of that announcement as AMD launches its Jaguar-powered “Kyoto” chip, which will be branded as the AMD Opteron X-Series.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 28, 2013

Samsung talks about their 14nm FinFET process

14nm BEOL plus 20nm FEOL equals what again?

Samsung is talking a bit about their upcoming 14nm FinFET process, and they cleared up a few grey areas about the hybrid nature of this process.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 28, 2013

Intel finally fixes their graphics problems

It took way too many years but the impossible is now here

Intel has done something that I never thought they would do, they fixed the root of their graphics problems.
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