Friday, May 8, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 5/9/2015





Join me and David Kanter to talk AMD and Zen at 9:30 PM ET
Just a quick reminder: we'll be talking about the news from AMD's Analyst Day on The TR Podcast live stream tonight with special guest David Kanter of Real World Tech. The stream will start at 9:30 PM ET/6:30 PM PT. Prep is already underway...
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Latest chapter of Assassin's Creed set for May 12 reveal
It wasn't so long ago that Assassin's Creed: Unity hit store shelves, but Ubisoft is already gearing up for a new chapter in the long-running series. That game will be revealed on May 12 at 9 A.M. Pacific time. Details are frustratingly scant right now, but the company did tweet a picture of an ominous-looking pair of hands:
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In the moment with Project Cars
There's a whole process involved with playing Project Cars in my home office—a ritual, if you will. First, I pull an older X79 rig off the shelf and populate it with a couple of GeForce GTX 680 graphics cards from other test systems. Cabling comes next, followed by switching the monitors in my triple-wide cockpit to point to the freshly assembled machine.
Then the wheel and pedals come out. It takes a moment to get the Fanatec duo situated just so, with the pedals wedged up against my subwoofer and the wheel lined up perfectly. I lean my chair back a few degrees ...
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AMD trims prices across its APU lineup
In the wake of AMD's analyst day yesterday, the red team has made another round of price cuts on its A-series APUs. Here's the current lineup, along with the new suggested e-tail price for each chip:
Based on AMD's suggested prices from October of last year , the company is cutting out anywhere from $6-16 for each chip—save for the A6-7400K, which is ...
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The TR Podcast 175: The Zen of chipmaking and ARM's Cortex-A72 revealed


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Hosted by: Scott Wasson

Co-Hosts: Geoff Gasior and Jeff Kampman, with special guest Ryszard Sommefeldt

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Enter to win a limited-edition Asus GeForce GTX 980
Last month, Asus introduced a limited-edition GeForce GTX 980 to celebrate 20 years of making graphics cards. This "Gold Edition" has the highest GPU clocks we've seen from the GTX 980 to date: 1317MHz base and 1431MHz boost, up substantially from the 1126/1216MHz defaults. It also has a steep $749.99 price tag, but you could get one completely free of charge. We're giving away a GTX 980 Gold Edition to one lucky TR reader.
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Fixstars crams 6TB into a 2.5" SSD
It's common to see six-terabyte capacities in the world of mechanical hard drives, but solid-state storage usually tops out at far lower figures. Fixstars' latest SSD, the SSD-6000M, is different. This 2.5" drive packs 6TB of flash into an case that's only 9.5-mm thick. Fixstars claims this is the world's highest-capacity 2.5" SSD, and it looks like that's indeed the case for now.
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Maxwell-based GTX 965M powers Gigabyte gaming notebook
Nvidia quietly introduced the GeForce GTX 965M mobile graphics chip earlier this year, and the chip has now made its way into a new Gigabyte gaming notebook. The P55K combines the Maxwell-based GPU with a quad-core Haswell processor and 15.6" 1080p display. According to Gigabyte's press release, "the muscular yet gorgeous outlook is absolutely stunning, infusing more punches into the thrilling beast." Or something.

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