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Apple Updates MacBook Air With Retina and More
Apple Update Ends 8 Years Of Neglect Every so often, Apple updates their Mac lineup to a new standard generation. Sometimes, the gap can be quite long between updates. One of the longest is for the MacBook Air, with the 2nd generation launching back in 2010. While the company has…
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AMD Might Be Cutting Ryzen CPU Prices
AMD CPU Pricing Date Indicates Minor Price Cuts Earlier in the month, Intel launched their new Coffee Lake Refresh processors. After a year of just 6 cores CPUs to pit against 8 core AMD chips, Intel has struck back. With the new lineup, the company now has 8 cores mainstream…
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AMD Zen May Still Support FMA4 Instructions
AMD Still Backing FMA4 Secretly Last year, AMD released their new Zen architecture. In almost every aspect, it was superior to the previous Bulldozer based designs. Due to the improved IPC, and efficiency, the Red team is now competitive with Intel. Along with good pricing, they have managed to seize…
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Intel Splits Manufacturing Division Into 3 Groups
Intel Shakes Up Manufacturing Group Over the past couple of months, things have not been going that well at Intel. The main problems are coming in from their manufacturing group, with delays to 10nm and shortages of 14nm chips. Despite the issues, the company has been chugging along financially. However, the…
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AMD Releases Radeon Software 18.10.2 Drivers
AMD Releases Adrenalin Edition 18.10.2 Beta AMD has been on a march with their GPU drivers over the past couple of years. Keeping with their consistency update strategy, we’ve been getting new drivers every month. Following the new 18.10.1 Beta release, we now have the new Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition…
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DRAM Prices Expected to Fall Well Into 2019
DRAM Prices Expected To Continue Downward Trend Over the past couple of weeks, a number of reports have come out about DRAM prices. In the past number of years, prices have slowly been climbing up. However, that may soon change. Due to a combination of low demand and steady supply, prices…
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TSMC May Be Sole Apple A13 SoC Supplier
TSMC Secures Greater Dominance With Apple Win Taiwanese firm TSMC is shaping up to be the dominant third-party foundry solution for the next while. With Intel and GlobalFoundries slowing down, the only real competition left is Samsung. After an early start to their 7nm process, TSMC is continuing to score more…
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TSMC 7nm+ Designs Taped Out, 5nm Starts Early 2019
TSMC Already Looking to 5nm Node After holding the lead for quite a while, Intel has largely lost their manufacturing lead. Taking the lead, both Samsung and TSMC have moved along with their 7nm process plans. The first to the punch has been TSMC, with 7nm products already shipping in…
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Intel Denies Rumour About Cancellation of 10nm Process
Intel Claims 10nm is “Making Good Progress” Once upon a time, Intel was the undisputed leader in the silicon foundry business. With the tick-tock strategy, a new process node rolled out every 2 years. However, since the start of 14nm, things have slowed down dramatically. 10nm has been even worse,…
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Revised Benchmarks Show AMD In Much Better Light
Principled Technologies Reruns Intel Core i9 9900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Benchmarks Earlier in the month, Intel launched their new return to the consumer market. The new lineup of chips included the new Core i9 9900K, the Intel response to AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X. With 8 cores and 16…
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Microsoft Quietly Increases Windows 10 Price
Microsoft Tweaks Pricing $20 For Home Retail Version Over the life of Windows, the price of the OS has widely fluctuated. One thing that has been consistent is that there is always a cost. With Windows 10, Microsoft broke the trend, offering an upgrade free to Windows users. At the…
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Google Project Stream May Bring Game Streaming Mainstream
Google Chrome Latest Game Streaming Platform Earlier in the month, Google launched a new game streaming service. Game streaming isn’t something new as Nvidia, Sony and others have already tried their hand at the market. The new feature this time around is the Google Chrome integration. To kick things off, Google…
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Google’s YouTube Goes Down For Over An Hour
YouTube Down Globally Since it started back in 2005, YouTube has been a staple part of the internet. As the largest video sharing website, it holds a special place in the minds of internet denizens. Forming one of the pillars of the massive Google presence, it may be the most notable service…
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Intel Will Update Graphics With Gen 11 For Ice Lake
Intel Gen 11 Brings 5K and 8K Support Staring with the new Core “i” series in 2010, the company has been steadily improving their integrated graphics solutions. Over time, the performance has gotten to the point where they are quite usable for basic tasks. Intel is also planning to enter…
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WiFi Alliance Rebrands WiFi Naming Scheme With WiFi 6
WiFi Alliance Debuts 802.11ax As WiFi 6 Every now and then, the WiFi Alliance will announce new WiFi standards. Over time, they’ve gotten ever more complicated names for the new standards. Often, the names are exotic with things like 802.11b or such. In order to simplify things, the WiFi alliance…
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