Friday, June 21, 2013

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 6/22/2013

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3 GB Graphics Card Review: +30% Everywhere
The flagship graphics accelerator from Nvidia's new line-up was introduced quite unexpectedly. It raised not only the performance bar, but also the price maximum. Our today's review will unveil how big of an increase occurred on all fronts.

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Former Intel Executive Joins Chinese Contract Semiconductor Maker's Board
Sean Maloney Becomes Non-Executive Director of SMIC

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Microsoft "Prepared" to Lower Xbox One Price in 2014 - Analyst
Opinions About Sales of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Are Mixed

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LG Electronics to Use Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 for Next-Gen Flagship Smartphone
LG Selects World's Most Powerful App Processor for Upcoming Smartphone

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Samsung Introduces Ativ Q Convertible PC with Microsoft Windows 8 and Google Android
Samsung Unveils 13.3" Hybrid PC with 3200*1800 Display Resolution

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Nvidia Cuts Pricing of Shield Game Console Ahead of Commercial Release
Nvidia Reduces Pricing of Shield to $299

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MIT Develops Inexpensive Technologies for Hologram TVs
Hologram TVs May Be Closer to Market with New Technology

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SanDisk Ultra Plus Solid State Drive Review
SanDisk Ultra Plus is a solid state drive with a platform that we are not yet familiar with: it is built on a four-channel Marvell SS889175 controller with 19 nm eX2 ABL MLC NAND manufactured by SanDisk. Will this combination prove to be a winner especially considering it very attractive price?

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Intel Discontinues Solid-State Drives Based on 25nm NAND Flash
Intel EOLs SSDs Based on Previous-Gen Memory

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Researchers Deploy GPUs to Build World's Largest Artificial Neural Network
Nvidia and Stanford University Model Human Brain Using GPUs

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Qualcomm Aims Inexpensive Smartphones with Snapdragon 200 Processors
Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 Aims at Emerging Regions

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Nvidia Kepler Licensing May Help Company to Bring Its Tech to Apple, Samsung SoCs
Financial Analysts Applaud Nvidia's Decision to License Kepler Cores to Chip Developers

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Intel Joins Samsung, Qualcomm in Alliance for Wireless Power
Intel Teams Up with Samsung and Qualcomm for Wireless Power Technology

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Sony to Consider Spinning Off Entertainment Division - Chief Executive
Sony May Partly Spin-Off Entertainment Business Unit

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Toshiba Reveals 7mm Solid-State Hybrid Drives
Toshiba Announces Slim SSHDs

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Asus P8Z77-V Mainboard Review: Mainstream LGA 1155 Mainboard from Asus
The functionality and features of this mainboard could have been fit for a flagship board of the past, but today it is just enough to place this product in the very mainstream segment, making it the junior model from Asus on Intel Z77 Express chipset. And it is probably the first time that we see wireless support implemented in a far not the top mainboard model like that.

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Zotac GeForce GTX TITAN AMP! Edition 6 GB Graphics Card and TITAN in 2-Way SLI Configuration Review
Today we are going to talk about the fastest mass production GeForce GTX TITAN graphics accelerator with air cooling as well as the results of a pair of TITAN cards in a 2-way SLI configuration.

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Choice of Champions: Asus ROG MATRIX 7970 3 GB Graphics Card Review
New Asus graphics accelerator can be called a true apogee of the Radeon HD 7970 evolution. It is hard to believe that there could ever be any faster or more advanced graphics accelerators before the HD 7000-series epoch comes to its logical end.

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Samsung 840 Pro and Samsung 840 Solid State Drives Review
Samsung currently offers very interesting solid state drives. Some boast outstanding performance, others - are built with inexpensive TLC NAND and come with a very appealing price tag. And our tests prove all of this: we are ready to discuss what we saw when we got our hands on a Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB and Samsung 840 250 GB drives.

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AMD A10-6800K Review: Richland - Desktop APUs from 2013
AMD decided to refresh their Socket FM2 platform and release a new generation of hybrid processors for it based on Richland design. This is exactly the one that earned the "Elite Performance APU Platform" title in the mobile segment.

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Intel Core i7-4770K CPU Review. Intel Haswell for Desktops: Ruin of Our Hopes?
After a very long and anxious wait we can finally take a close look at one of the fourth generation Core processors for desktops, which is based on the new Haswell microarchitecture. Significantly higher performance, better energy-efficiency, excellent overclocking - all this isn't the case. What happened?

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GELID The Black Edition CPU Cooler Review: Man in Black
As many as seven heatpipes, dual-array heatsink, two fans - will the new GELID cooler become a super-cooler today? Let's find out.

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Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Mainboard Review: Not So Complex LGA 1155 Mainboard
There are a lot of mainboards out there with a variety of onboard controllers and an extensive list of functions. Of course, there are simpler and even more affordable mainboards, but perfection like Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H is a very rare occurrence among them.

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Thermalright Archon SB-E X2 Super-Cooler Review: Evolution Apogee
Let's take a closer look at the most efficient single-array tower cooler out there designed for six-core Intel processors.

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OCZ Vertex 3.20 Solid State Drive Review: Version 2, Revised.
OCZ decided to re-release their previous hit - Vertex 3 solid state drive. The new SSD revision uses the same LSI SF-2281 controller, but different flash-memory manufactured using more advanced 20 nm production technology. Have they managed to create yet another eye-catcher? Let's find out from our new review.

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Asus P8Z77-V LK Mainboard Review: One of Asus' Simplest Designs
This mainboard will suit perfectly for a contemporary system, it doesn't boast anything extraordinary, but also doesn't have any functionality limitations of any kind. There are more complex and more expensive, as well as simpler and more affordable products out there, while Asus P8Z77-V LK is a regular mainboard, most optional solution, the so-called "golden medium".

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Kingston SSDNow V300 Solid State Drive Review: SandForce with New Fixings
You may have the impression that solid state drives on LSI SF-2281 controller have already been studied and tested inside out. However, Kingston managed to come up with a product that turned out genuinely surprising in the most positive way.

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NZXT Kraken X60 Review: The Best Liquid-Cooling System
Finally! A mass production liquid cooling system with realistic price tag outperformed not only the best air cooler, but also some of the best of its predecessors.

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AMD Unlikely to Follow Nvidia with Licensing of Graphics Technologies
AMD Not Likely to Follow Nvidia, ARM, Imagination with Graphics IP Licensing

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Intel to Launch Core i7 "Ivy Bridge-E" in Early September
Intel to Release New Extreme-Series Products in September

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