Good Friday Shortbread
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- DigiTimes: TSMC looks to post 21-23% sequential revenue gains in 2Q14
- VR-Zone: Consoles can't keep AMD a profitable company
- Reuters: Samsung executive says Galaxy S5 to outsell S4,
sees second quarter rollout for Tizen phone
- Microsoft: I gave Cortana her personality—meet Susan, the PM behind Cortana
- VR-Zone: Asus announces ROG GTX 760 'Striker' graphics card
- Ars Technica: Why the Windows 8.1 Update probably
means no more Service Packs for Windows
- PCPer: AMD Mantle and Nvidia 337.50 scaling
demonstrated with Star Swarm on AM1
- Newegg's weekend deals
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Friday night topic: where are the good ultraportables?
If I don't upgrade before October, my primary laptop will soon celebrate its fifth birthday. I didn't mean for things to turn out this way. I liked my Acer 1810TZ when I bought it for $550 way back when, but I never had any intention of keeping it this long.
In fact, shortly before the release of Windows 8, I honestly expected convertible tablets based on x86 processors to capture a ton of market share, as people embraced the concept of a single device that could excel at both productivity and media consumption. I was ...
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Deal of the week: Radeon R9 290X cards for... more than list?
Yeah, so maybe this isn't the greatest deal in the history of the world, but it's still good news that Radeon R9 290 cards are now selling at Newegg for something approaching the initial suggested price of $399.99.
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Release roundup: Bits, pieces, and whole PCs
Almost no week passes without some new PC hardware products being announced. This week, we have a handful of newcomers that may be worthy of note.
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Happy Good Friday, folks. Today is officially a TR holiday, so news may be a little bit thin. Then again, I'm probably going to work most of the day, so we'll see.
Speaking of news, thanks to Ronald and Bruno for pitching in earlier this week with some news items. Ronald in ...
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AMD posts another loss but beats Wall Street forecast
AMD's first-quarter numbers are in, and the chipmaker is back in the red—although Wall Street still seems upbeat about the numbers.
For the first quarter of 2014, AMD has posted revenue of $1.40 billion, a 28% increase from last year, and a net loss of $20 ...
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Samsung's 28'' display serves up single-tile 4K at 60Hz for $800
Jeez. 4K displays are coming down in price like crazy lately. One of the latest introductions, Samsung's U28D590D, is now available through the Newegg marketplace for just $799.99. Yes, that's technically $100 over Samsung's MSRP, but it's still peanuts for a 28" monitor with a 3840x2160 panel. Amazon also has the monitor listed for $698.99, but it's not yet in stock. According to AMD's Robert Hallock, this new monitor supports 4K resolutions via DisplayPort at 60Hz using single-stream transport.
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GlobalFoundries licenses Samsung process tech, grants AMD access to FinFETs
As you may know, AMD's former manufacturing arm is now a part of GlobalFoundries, which manufactures chips on contract for multiple customers while remaining the source for AMD's highest-performance CPUs. Like AMD before it, GlobalFoundries is part of the Common Platform Alliance along with Samsung and IBM. The three firms share R&D costs and implement similar techniques for building chips.
Today, the relationship between a couple of those partners shifted ...
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MSI shows next-gen Intel motherboards
Motherboards based on Intel's next-gen desktop chipsets are almost upon us. We've known they were coming for some time, but this is the first glimpse we've been able to share. MSI has released pictures of five boards from its upcoming family of enthusiast-oriented Gaming models. Although the images have been Photoshopped to mask the full product names, the boards are otherwise not obscured.
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Micro-bots are spooky cool, could be used in manufacturing
A company called SRI International, working as part of the Darpa-funded Open Manufacturing Program, is developing a series of miniature robots that can move around on circuit boards in order to perform various sorts of tasks. There's really no point in attempting to explain what the video illustrates best, though. Have a look for yourself.
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Nvidia GeForce 337.61 beta hotfix display driver released
Nvidia just released a new display driver for its family of graphic cards. Bear in mind that this is meant as a hotfix, so caveat emptor.
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AMD earnings previewed
With AMD set to report its first-quarter earnings results tomorrow, NASDAQ.com and The Motley Fool have each written previews of what to expect from AMD on Thursday. The Motley Fool had this to say: Advanced Micro Devices has a reputation for playing second-fiddle to other companies in the tech space. In the PC processor segment, AMD has long lagged behind Intel's dominance of the sector. Yet even as Intel has been slow to realize the value of the mobile-chip segment, NVIDIA and other comp
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Ars Technica reviews Windows Phone 8.1
Ars Technica's Peter Bright has written quite a treatise on Windows Phone 8.1. With the addition of a slew of new features including Cortana, a Siri-like assistant, and Universal Apps, Mr. Bright concludes that Windows Phone 8.1 has matured into a worthy and capable mobile platform to rival Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
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Wait, we're giving away $1500 in PC hardware?
Man, I keep my head down for a few days, slaving away on a video card review, and the strangest things happen. This time, while I was preoccupied, the guys decided it would be a good idea to give away $1500 in computer hardware in exchange for dirty pictures. Err, pictures of dirty computers.
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Steam usage patterns reveal shameful number of unplayed games
Raise your hand if you have a ton of unplayed games in your Steam library. If you're anything like me, you're probably mired in a bog of sale and bundle acquisitions that you'd never be able to play in three or four lifetimes.
If that's your fate, you are not alone.
Ars Technica has quantified a number of traits of the Steam gaming ecosystem using a new tool, the aptly named Steam Gauge
. Their analysis mashes up a broad range of data, ferreting out obvious
things like the most-owned and most-played games to some really nifty
stuff, like crossing "owned" versus "played" numbers to reveal the
extent of unplayed "freebie" games. There's a chart detailing the games
with the most hours put into them, which brings up a lot of strategy
titles one might not have guessed were so popular. For those games that
offer both single- and multi-player components, they compare the time
spent in each mode. The icing on the cake? Median number of hours per
user and game, just so you can compare your own shame to everyone
else's. Let's say that I don't fare all that well, especially when it comes to the sheer number of hours sunk into Civilization V while a host of other games in my library remain virtually untouched.
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