AMD's Lisa Su teases AMD-powered Android, Chrome OS devices
Major Android tablet makers have begun adopting Intel's Atom processors. Soon, we may see Android devices featuring AMD hardware, too. As PC World reports, AMD's Lisa Su dropped hints about the subject during an interview at Computex this week.
Su, who heads AMD's Global Business Units, apparently didn't go into much ...
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Microsoft posts Windows 8.1 video preview, preps Outlook for Windows RT
The public preview release of Windows 8.1 is about three weeks away, and to get us all hyped up, Microsoft has posted a video showing off some of the improvements awaiting us. The video mostly covers tweaks and additions to the Start screen and Modern UI interface, but as it turns out, there are plenty of those in store.
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Asus' Z87-PRO motherboard reviewed
Haswell is finally upon us, and so are droves of new motherboards designed for it. For PC enthusiasts, the most interesting ones are based on the Z87 Express platform. The Z87 is the full-fat implementation of Intel's latest chipset silicon. It offers six Serial ATA 6Gbps ports and six USB 3.0 ports alongside all the usual connectivity.
In addition to handling platform I/O, the Z87 unlocks a couple of processor-specific features. CPUs connected to the platform can split their 16-lane PCI Express 3.0 links into a pair of x8 connections for multi-GPU graphics configs or ...
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Gigabyte AM3+ motherboard confirms '5GHz FX series processors'
Remember the 5GHz AMD "Centurion" processor that was rumored to be in the works? A Gigabyte motherboard spotted at Computex appears to confirm the existence of the ultra-high-end AMD chip. According to Sweclockers,
the description accompanying Gigabyte's GA-990FXA-UD7 mentions support
for "next generation of AM3+ 5GHz FX series processors."There will apparently be more than one of these chips. Sweclockers says the top model will be dubbed FX-9000 and will clock AMD's existing ...
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NZXT adds $70 'sound-crushing' case, sub-$100 modular PSUs
NZXT has some fresh goodies on display at Computex this week. Among them is the H230, a mid-tower enclosure that, in NZXT's words, "brings similar sound crushing abilities as its predecessors into a smaller, more accessible package for all."
I'm not sure how one goes about crushing sound, ...
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Morning,
folks. As you may have seen, AMD has officially announced its Richland
APUs for the desktop. These are tweaked "Trinity" processors with higher
core and memory clocks and better power efficiency. I have a review in
the works, but frankly, I'm a little beaten up by the process of
cranking out our Haswell review,
so I'm moving a little slowly. Gearing up and initiating a whole new
round of CPU testing can be a grueling process. And I was writing for
something like 14 hours on Sunday, and it takes a toll (not just on the
writing quality, heh.)
I now have a Richland APU and three other CPUs running benchmarks in parallel here in Damage Labs.
Look
closely and you'll see that more CPUs are queued up in front of the
test rigs for another round of benchmarking after this one. Yes, that's a
tray o' Intels.
Once these two rounds are finished,
we'll compile the results and pull together the next review. Should
include the A10-6700, A10-6800K "Richland" parts and two new-ish FX
processors that haven't had enough attention, the FX-4350 and FX-6350.
Oh, and the Core i7-4950HQ with Iris Pro graphics and eDRAM has a higher
performance 55W TDP mode that I hope to test. Among other things!
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20Gbps Thunderbolt gets a name: Thunderbolt 2
In April, we learned all about Intel's next-generation Thunderbolt controller, dubbed Falcon Ridge. This controller combines the dual 10Gbps channels of existing Thunderbolt implementations into a single, 20Gbps channel, and it adds DisplayPort 1.2 support. It's supposed to be quick enough to transfer and display 4K video at the same time.
Now, Intel says it has chosen a new, more marketable name for Cactus Ridge and the next-gen Thunderbolt standard: Thunderbolt 2. The technology will retain backward compatibility with the current version ...
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Asus' VivoMouse blurs line between mouse, touchpad, and remote
Asus has scores of fresh products on display at Computex trade show in Taipei this week. We've covered a couple of them already, and I can't stop thinking about this next one. Surprisingly, it's a mouse. And a touchpad. And a remote.
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