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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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Faster graphics card production has slowed down and memory is to blame
There’s some bad news when it comes to the performance of future-generation graphics cards, thanks to the announcement of a delay in the arrival of faster GDDR6 memory. GDDR6 video RAM is the next...
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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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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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LG offering up huge 21:9 curved gaming monitor
LG has announced two new 21:9 monitors, including a 34-inch curved 144 Hz gaming monitor and a 38-inch behemoth built for designers. On the gaming front, the LG 34UC79G has what LG describes as a...
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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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Buying Guide: The 10 best graphics cards in the world
Best graphics cards As PC gamers, we know the importance of a capable graphics card. Sure, your monitor and even your mouse matter. But nothing determines how far you can push your visual settings up...
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Updated: The best hard drive and SSD deals in September 2016
best hard drive deals There has never been more content available to fill your hard drive space on your laptop or desktop PC. Movies, music, and those many Steam games you bought in the sale that you...
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Leaked GTX 1050 specs unveil a Pascal card primed for 1080p
Nvidia’s line-up of Pascal-based desktop graphics cards will soon be complete with the release of the GeForce GTX 1050, and the specs of this low-end model have just been leaked. It’ll be based on the...
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Buying Guide: 6 tips for buying business printers
Introduction Think acquiring a business printer is an easy task? Think again. While a printer’s primary feature is to print, there are so many permutations on the market that it would be foolish to...
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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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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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Updated: The best keyboard 2016: top 10 keyboards compared
Introduction Keyboards matter more than you might think. Sure, they are among the most prosaic of peripherals, so we tend to take them for granted. But given the sheer percentage of our lives that we...
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SteelSeries’ new MOBA mouse turns your thumb into a tactical weapon
SteelSeries has released a new mouse pitched at the MOBA/MMO genres which the company claims ‘reinvents’ the mousing experience for players of these highly competitive games. With the Rival 500, the...
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Samsung’s nippy new SSD is just around the corner
Apparently Samsung is ready to push out a new SSD, and the company is set to launch the 960 EVO next month, according to the rumour mill. Samsung’s 960 EVO is an M.2 SSD which will use the firm’s new...
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