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Ten 60 GB SandForce-Based Boot Drives, Rounded-UpFeb 29, 2012 - in Reviews
What makes one SandForce-based SSD different from the others that appear to be just like it? We round up 10 models with 60 GB of capacity to explore the effects of NAND interfaces. We also stumble across some interesting data related to full drives.
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Battle At $140: Can An APU Beat An Intel CPU And Add-In Graphics?Feb 28, 2012 - in Reviews
What can you get for $140? How about AMD's top-of-the-line A8-3870K APU with four CPU cores and an integrated Radeon HD 6550D? That's also enough for a Pentium G620 and discrete Radeon HD 6670. We benchmark both to uncover the best budget-oriented option.
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Mobile World Congress 2012: Nokia, Asus, Intel, Samsung, And LGFeb 27, 2012 - in Reviews
Tom's Hardware spent its first day in Barcelona, Spain at this year's Mobile World Congress. After a long day of press conferences and private meetings, we wanted to share our experiences before hitting the show floor tomorrow.
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Intel Announces Dual-Core HyperThreaded Atom for PhonesFeb 27, 2012 - in News
During MWC 2012, Intel revealed a new dual-core Atom chip with 4 hyperthreads that will appear in smartphones next year.
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Intel Confirms Slight Delay in Ivy Bridge Core CPU LaunchFeb 27, 2012 - in News
Intel's Ivy Bridge has apparently been delayed until June.
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Intel-powered Android Smartphone Headed to OrangeFeb 27, 2012 - in News
Meet the Santa Clara, Europe's first Intel-powered Android.
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Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU Die Layout EstimatedFeb 27, 2012 - in News
With Ivy Bridge a little over a month away, Hiroshige Goto, contributor for PC Watch, has estimated the layout of Ivy Bridge silicon.
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Six $200-$260 LGA 2011 Motherboards, ReviewedFeb 26, 2012 - in Reviews
We know that Intel's X79 Express platform hosts the fastest desktop processors in the company's portfolio. But can it be made more affordable? We round up the least-expensive $200-$260 motherboards to determine how much you have to give up for cheap X79.
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Graphics Chip Shipments Down 10 Percent in Q4 2012Feb 24, 2012 - in News
The impact of the Taiwan flood reached through to graphics chips as shipments dropped from 138.5 million units in Q3 to 124 million in Q3, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reports. Shipments were up 10 million units year-over-year.
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Intel Says Moore's Law Depends on Increasing EfficiencyFeb 24, 2012 - in News
In a keynote given at ISSCC, Intel executive vice president and chief product officer Dadi Perlumtter provided a long term outlook of processor requirements as we are moving further into terascale computing, eventually hitting exascale systems in 2020.
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Intel to Manufacture 22nm FPGAs for TabulaFeb 23, 2012 - in News
Intel has sold 22 nm manufacturing capacity to Tabula.
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AMD FX Vs. Intel Core i3: Exploring Game Performance With Cheap GPUsFeb 22, 2012 - in Reviews
Following our sub-$200 gaming CPU comparison, we put Intel's Core i3-2100 and AMD's FX-4100 under the microscope. This time, we test a number of different graphics cards from AMD to see how GPUs affect perceived processor bottlenecks.
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Intel's Rosepoint Puts Wi-Fi Radio, Atom CPU on Single ChipFeb 22, 2012 - in News
A dual-core Atom CPU and a digital Wi-Fi radio on the same chip.
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Intel Readies New 313 Series Caching SSDs for Ivy BridgeFeb 22, 2012 - in News
With Ivy Bridge around the corner, Intel is set to release its new 313 SSD caching series based on 25 nm SLC NAND flash memory.
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Intel Reveals More Details of Ivy Bridge Variants at ISSCCFeb 21, 2012 - in News
Intel has revealed further details about its 22nm Ivy Bridge platform at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, which currently takes place in San Francisco.
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Overclocking: Can Sandy Bridge-E Be Made More Efficient?Feb 16, 2012 - in Reviews
Intel's six-core processors are fast, but enthusiasts almost always want to push unlocked multipliers harder. Core i7-3960X can easily exceed 4 GHz, but what happens to power efficiency when clock rates go up? Sandy Bridge-E demonstrates weaknesses there.
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Intel's Ivy Bridge Core i3 Details LeakedFeb 16, 2012 - in News
With Ivy Bridge set to launch in just a few months' time (April), we are now learning a little more about the specifications for the upcoming Core i3 processors.
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Leaked Slide details Intel's Lynx Point ChipsetFeb 16, 2012 - in News
With Haswell set to release in 2013, we continue to learn more about Intel's new platform with leaked information on the Lynx Point chipset.
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Intel Haswell iGPU to support DirectX 11.1, OpenGL 3.2Feb 14, 2012 - in News
Intel Haswell's iGPU set to support DirectX 11.1, OpenGL 3.2 and OpenCL 1.2
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Origin PC Now Also Selling Intel X79-based Gaming LaptopFeb 13, 2012 - in News
This customizable laptop packs plenty of hardware to justify its $3,159 USD starting price.
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Intel Granted Patent for Germanium Nanowire TransistorsFeb 13, 2012 - in News
Intel was granted a patent that covers the use of germanium as a material choice for compound semiconductors that promise faster processors and reduced power consumption.
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Hacker Says He Compromised Intel, Gained Private InfoFeb 10, 2012 - in News
A hacker using the alias Weedgrower claims to have breached Intel.com and acquired names, credit card numbers and more.
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Leaked Slide Shows Intel Haswell Set for March-June 2013Feb 10, 2012 - in News
Intel's tick-tock approach looks to be in full swing with Ivy Bridge in 2012 and Haswell planned for 2013.
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Intel Introduces New 520 Series Line of SSDsFeb 6, 2012 - in News
Intel has officially launched its new line of SSDs, the 520 Series.
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Intel SSD 520 Review: Taking Back The High-End With SandForceFeb 6, 2012 - in Reviews
If you thought that Intel had conceded the high-end SSD market to its competition, you were wrong. The company's new SSD 520 centers on SandForce's SF-2281 controller, incorporates top-bin IMFT NAND, and is protected by a five-year warranty.
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Intel Crowned as Nation's Largest Green Energy PurchaserFeb 6, 2012 - in News
Intel has been, once again, landed top spot on new EPA rankings
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In Pictures: 16 Of The PC Industry's Most Epic FailuresFeb 2, 2012 - in Picture Story
We've endured a great many annoyances in the 16 years since Tom's Hardware first appeared online. What follows is a list of 16 of them. Although it's by no means all-inclusive, it represents one seasoned reviewer's worst experiences in technology.
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Upgrade Advice: Does Your Fast SSD Really Need SATA 6Gb/s?Jan 31, 2012 - in Reviews
Are you mulling the potential benefit of an SSD upgrade on a system without 6 Gb/s SATA connectivity? We run the benchmarks on several different solid-state storage architectures in order to determine how much performance you give up on an older machine.
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Intel Adds Seven New Sandy Bridge ProcessorsJan 30, 2012 - in News
Intel has quietly added seven new Sandy Bridge processors in the i5 and Celeron M series.
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Picking A Sub-$200 Gaming CPU: FX, An APU, Or A Pentium?Jan 29, 2012 - in Reviews
We really like to hunt down great values in the processor space. Since our last round-up of affordable CPUs, AMD released its Llano-based APUs and Bulldozer-based FX family. Also, Intel introduced a handful of Sandy Bridge-based Pentium chips.