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Silicon Week: What’s in store: The tech that will transform memory and storage
Introduction and 3D XPoint A few months ago, we took an aging laptop and brought it kicking and screaming into 2016. We quadrupled the RAM, swapped the hard disk for an SSD and transformed it from a...
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Silicon Week: Smaller, smarter, but maybe not much faster: The future of the CPU
Introduction and power corrupts Note: Our future CPU tech feature has been fully updated. This article was first published in November 2011. It’s easy to think that some things will be around forever,...
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These are the fastest SSDs in the world and you can buy them right now
Want a cracking fast SSD but don’t want to pay a lot of money for the privilege? Then you might want to take a look at the new 3D NAND sporting SSDs which Intel has just released onto the market. The...
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Leaked benchmarks show that speedy Kaby Lake laptops could make a splash
While Intel has been fairly tight-lipped concerning the details of its next-generation Kaby Lake CPUs thus far – although we did get a taster at IDF, where the company demonstrated that Kaby Lake...
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Silicon Week: Beyond silicon: We discover the processors of your future tech
Introduction and carbon nanotubes Note: Our beyond silicon feature has been fully updated. This article was first published in October 2007. Today’s processors are made from silicon, which itself is...
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Corsair’s latest mechanical keyboards are basically light shows with USB ports
Corsair has announced that its new Lux range of mechanical keyboards are now on sale, with three different models available. The keyboards comprise of the K70 Lux RGB (pictured above), K70 Lux, and...
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Silicon Week: MediaTek: meet the chip maker that has powered your favorite...
Who (and where) is MediaTek? When was the last time you thought about what’s inside your phone or that set-top box under your TV? Not the thousands of photos or movies you’ve downloaded, but what’s...
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Intel’s latest CPUs will only support Windows 10
Following Intel’s official unveiling of its new Kaby Lake (seventh-generation) processors, and a rash of incoming notebooks set to use the CPUs, Microsoft has confirmed what it announced earlier this...
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IFA 2016: Asus’ new ZenBook 3 gets a portable 15-inch display to go with it
Over at IFA 2016 today, Asus has been busy showing off the ZenBook 3 with an important change to the processor spec, along with a portable, super-thin 15.6-inch full HD monitor – and plenty more...
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This is the jaw-dropping CPU almost no one wants you to buy
The Xeon with a secret In the history of processing power, faster didn’t always quench the need for speed which is why multi-threading, multi-core and multi-socket solutions were introduced, first at...
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Updated: Kaby Lake Intel Core processor: 7th-gen CPU news, features and...
Introduction Kaby Lake is the next generation of CPUs from Intel. Right now we’re in the Skylake generation. You’ll still see quite a few laptops from the previous Broadwell and Haswell series on...
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AMD’s tuned-up Bristol Ridge processors come to desktop PCs this fall
AMD has just announced its 7th generation A-series processors will power new HP and Lenovo desktop systems by the second half of 2016. Formally known by its codename Bristol Ridge, the desktop CPUs...
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IFA 2016: AMD’s CTO: it’s ‘Moore’s Law Plus’ that will drive VR toward full...
AMD VR Proper virtual reality (VR) headsets have only been available for a few months to a year, and it’s already the next big thing in tech that we can’t stop hearing about. But, this has happened...
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Fresh breakthrough means way-faster CPUs are closer to reality
As you’re probably aware, chipmakers are starting to struggle with silicon these days in terms of making better-performing CPUs built on ever-smaller processes – which is why they’re looking at...
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This bolt-on monitor gives your MacBook up to two more Retina displays
We’ll hopefully see a new MacBook at Apple’s big press event tomorrow – whether that might be a fresh MacBook Pro or MacBook Air (or indeed neither) isn’t clear yet – but if you fancy a second display...
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AMD’s tuned-up Bristol Ridge processors come to desktop PCs this autumn
AMD has just announced its 7th generation A-series processors will power new HP and Lenovo desktop systems by the second half of 2016. Formally known by its codename Bristol Ridge, the desktop CPUs...
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Buying Guide: The 7 best PC cases: top cases for your next gaming machine
Introduction It’s tempting to dismiss PC cases as big black boxes, but that’s dismissing huge swathes of the market – and one of your system’s most important components. There’s a huge amount of...
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This tiny Nvidia supercomputer will power self-driving cars
Self-driving cars are the future, and Nvidia wants in. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced today at the inaugural GPU Technology Conference Europe that the company is developing a simplified supercomputer...
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AMD blasts last CPU salvo before the launch of Zen processor
AMD has unleashed a new range of processors which bring the company’s Bristol Ridge tech – previously seen on mobile CPUs – to desktop PCs. The seventh-generation AMD Pro processors are APUs...
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The 7 best PC cases: top cases for your next gaming machine
Need a high-quality PC case? Here are the best for every form factor and budget. See more here – The 7 best PC cases: top cases for your next gaming machine
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