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Micron Technology on Tuesday unveiled its new lineup of solid-state drives that are optimized for datacenters, yet are relatively affordable, are based on consumer-grade MLC NAND and use Serial ATA interface. The reliable, high-endurance M500DC SSDs are designed to achieve two drive fills per day for five years. Micron M500DC …

AMD’s Radeon R9 295X2 graphics card is among the fastest graphics solutions that money can buy nowadays. It features extreme performance and has high overclocking potential thanks to hybrid cooling solution. But what if you just want more? An ultimate graphics card that would wed extreme performance and utter quiet …

Advanced Micro Devices last week confirmed that it is developing chips that would be made using 20nm manufacturing technology. The company also re-affirmed plans to continue adopting new fabrication processes, including those with FinFET transistors. “What we have said in the past is [that] this year all of our products …

The less credible data about Nvidia Corp.’s next-generation graphics processing units is available, the more market rumours emerge. The recent set of unofficial pieces of information claims that Nvidia will tape-out its new-generation code-named GM204 (GM104) and GM206 (GM106) chips already this month, will manufacture them using 28nm process technology …

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced that starting today it would provide free video games not only with high-end and performance-mainstream graphics cards, but also with entry-level models. In addition to that, AMD will also give its customers a choice and will offer them titles from independent makers in addition …

When KitGuru Labs took the Radeon R9 295X2 apart and put it through its paces, one of the key questions that we couldn't answer with 100% precision was ‘Does it represent good value?' – no stores had stock when the review went up. With the latest leaking on to the …

Advanced Micro Devices said this week that its next-gen accelerated processing units for ultra-mobile devices were on-track for launch in calendar Q2 2014. The company's new management did not not reveal any peculiarities about the news chips. Yet, the company clearly has plans to reveal them commercially this quarter. “For …

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. this week unveiled an improved version of its 16nm FinFET process technology that will hit volume production in 2015. In addition, the company revealed some details regarding its 10nm FinFET fabrication process and said that it would start risk production using the technology in Q4 2015, …

Advanced Micro Devices this week demonstrated its next-generation AMD Opteron X-series accelerated processing unit code-named “Berlin” running Fedora Linux operating system. The new APU is projected to significantly boost performance of servers running APUs and bring heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) capabilities to servers. AMD Opteron X-series “Berlin” APU in many …

Intel Corp. has been offering application processors for smartphones and tablets for several years now, but none of those chips featured integrated baseband capabilities, which is why the company was unable to address the mass market of mobile devices. However, this is going to change in the fourth quarter of …

GlobalFoundries and Samsung Semiconductor, two leading contract makers of chips, on Thursday signed a pact under which they will be able to jointly produce chips using 14nm FinFET fabrication process. The two foundries will “synchronise” not only their general jointly-developed process technologies, but peculiarities of their manufacturing processes that are …

VisionTek, a supplier of graphics cards from the U.S., this week announced a unique AMD Radeon R9 290-based graphics card designed for extreme enthusiasts who not only want high performance, but desire maximum customisation too. The CryoVenom R290LE comes with a custom water-block developed specifically for custom liquid-cooling systems and …

Intel Corp. on Tuesday said that it had shipped around five million of application processors designed for tablet computers in the first quarter of 2014. The company hopes that it would achieve its goal of selling 40 million tablet chips this fiscal year. The firm did not reveal any additional …

Intel Corp. said this week that despite the delay that occurred to mass production of the code-named Broadwell microprocessor, the company is on-track to start manufacturing of chips based on the all-new next-generation micro-architecture known as Skylake in 2015. “We have a lot going on, the ramp of Broadwell, the …

MicroStar International is working on a new family of mainboards based on Intel Corp.’s upcoming Z97 core-logic that will support the forthcoming microprocessors for enthusiasts code-named Devil’s Canyon as well as future chips based on the Broadwell micro-architecture. All mainboards will be aimed primarily at gamers, but who said that …

There is no doubt that AMD gamers have been spoilt for choice this year when shopping for a new graphics card. Sapphire have been at the forefront of the new GPU revolution, thanks in no small part to their remarkable, class leading Tri-X cooling system. Over the last week, I …

Intel Corp. on Monday quietly added numerous microprocessors that belong to the so-called “Haswell Refresh” family into the price-list. The addition of certain chips into the list indicates that the world’s largest chipmaker has begun to sell and ship them to customers. At present the lineup of “HSR” chips lacks …

In a bid to boost its share on the market of media tablets, Intel Corp. has aggressively lowered the price on some of its system-on-chips designed for media tablets. While the chips are most probably outdated, it looks like Intel is extremely serious about winning designs in the tablet space, …

The gaming and enthusiast audiences love their big, quick, expensive powerhouse machines – there's no denying that. But the reality is that many users – about 38% of the market, in fact – in a wide span of geographical regions simply cannot afford or justify the latest-and-greatest in both CPU …

Many sources from the GPU industry indicated last month that neither Advanced Micro Devices, nor Nvidia Corp. plan to make major GPU introductions at least till late in 2014, or maybe even early 2015. However, a Czech web-site this week not only revealed what it claims to be the specs …

While it was pretty obvious that Intel Corp. plans to start selling its new code-named “Haswell Refresh” central processing units sometimes in April or May, the actual launch date was not completely clear. Apparently, that will happen in exactly one month time. Intel plans to start selling its improved Core …

Kingston on Thursday introduced its new family of affordable memory modules for enthusiasts who demand higher performance, but cannot afford to buy truly extreme solutions for overclocking. The new HyperX Fury series replaces the HyperX blu lineup and brings in more efficient cooling and advanced overclocking capabilities. The Kingston HyperX …

Intel Corp. this week announced that it would relocate its test assembly and test operation to Asia from Costa Rica. As a result, it would fire about 1500 of its employees in the country. Still, Intel's engineering and design center and shared services operations will remain in Costa Rica. Intel …

Micron Technology, one of the world’s leading maker of DRAM and NAND flash memory, said that late this year the company would offer triple-level cell NAND flash made using 16nm process technology. Such memory could enable very cost-efficient flash-based storage devices, including solid-state drives in 2015. “Our 16nm NAND yields …

One of the more surprising things about the way the world has changed since the advent of the network and tablet PC revolutions, is the way that desktops are holding their own. Sure, it's more of a gentle decline that the rampant growth we experienced in the past, but it …

Antec's high end power supplies have earned a good reputation over the years and today we look at the latest addition to their High Current Pro Platinum range – a powerful 1,300 watt rated model. High capacity power supplies are currently selling out everywhere, due to the expanding user base …

Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it had begun mass production of DDR4 memory modules and chips in anticipation of Intel’s launch of next-generation high-end desktop and server platforms that rely on the new-gen memory technology. Samsung’s DDR4 memory modules are based on the company’s 4Gb DDR4 chips produced using 20nm …

Memoright, a small maker of solid-state drives from Taiwan, on Tuesday unveiled its first SSDs based on triple-level-cell NAND flash memory. The TLC NAND is more cost-efficient than traditional multi-level cell NAND flash used in the vast majority of solid-state drives, but it also requires advanced firmware and a number …

Nvidia, ATI. Nvidia, AMD. The battle for top graphics card billing seems to have been around since time immemorial. We announce a new performance king, then another card is released and the position switches. While it may sound purely diplomatic, we genuinely feel that the last year has been very …

Qualcomm on Monday announced two new high-end application processors for smartphones and tablets. The new chips integrate 64-bit general-purpose cores, new-generation Adreno graphics engines, 2K/4K video processing as well as 4G/LTE Advanced modem that supports 3*20MHz carrier aggregation, enabling speeds of up to 300Mb/s. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 and …