OCZ's RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB solid-state drive
Ivy Bridge is coming, and with it, a wave of new motherboards based on Intel's latest platform hub. The Benchmarking Sweatshop has been preparing for the deluge by tweaking the mix of peripheral tests we use to punish I/O ports. Real-world file transfers have been added to the mix thanks to some clever coding by our resident developer. To remove potential bottlenecks for those tests, we've had to source a very fast solid-state drive.
The lab is already brimming with the latest and greatest 2.5" SSDs, providing no shortage of candidates to plug into 6Gbps Serial ATA ports and the docking station we have primed for USB 3.0 testing. These 2.5-inchers may not be quite fast enough to saturate the latest SATA and USB ...
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AMD completes SeaMicro buyout
Well, that was a quickie—as far as corporate mergers go, at least. Less than a month after going public with its plan to acquire high-density server maker SeaMicro, AMD has closed the deal.
The acquisition cost AMD a cool $334 million (including $293 million in cash). Now that the deal is done, what used to be SeaMicro will become AMD's Data Center Server ...
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Rumors suggest two new Xbox consoles on the way
Although Microsoft has confirmed that we won't see a new Xbox this year, rumors of future consoles continue to swirl. That's right: consoles, plural. The latest snippets of information leaked by sources supposedly in the know point to a pair of new Xbox consoles, one of which is due out next year.
The Xbox Lite will reportedly arrive in time for the 2013 holiday season. With an expected price tag of just $100, it seems likely to be a popular item. This won't be a discounted version of the current Xbox hardware, though. VR-Zone claims the Lite will use an ARM-based chip rather than ...
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XBMC 11.0 now ready for your HTPC
Almost exactly three months after its first public beta release, XBMC 11 has gone gold. Dubbed Eden, this first major release in over a year is now available in a multitude of flavors, including Windows, Linux, OS X, and iOS. There's also a standalone XBMCbuntu version that runs off a bootable thumb drive. Unlike previous standalone versions of the OS, XBMCbuntu includes a full Linux desktop environment with a package manager and a Flash-enabled Chromium web browser. XBMC still runs by default, but users now have access to the underlying OS.
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IHS: Intel's semiconductor revenue share on the rise
With all of those iPads and ARM-powered handsets flooding the market, you might think Intel's slice of global semiconductor sales is on a downward trend. Not so, according to the latest figures from IHS, which say Intel actually raked in a greater percentage of semiconductor revenue in 2011 than in 2010. Take a look:
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Prey 2 may have been canceled
Oh, well, that's a shame. Human Head Studios' Prey 2 has been canceled, according to the latest chatter from around the web. Dutch website PSFocus broke the news a couple days ago, saying an official announcement from publisher Zenimax will follow some time this week. And other evidence seems somewhat damning.
Last month, Human Head's Lead Graphics Programmer, Brian Karis, complained about having to "pull all Prey2 related talks from GDC" at Zenimax's request. The Game Developers Conference took ...
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