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Micron Declares GDDR5X Right on Track
Engineers at the Micron Development Center in Munich have announced that they have gotten their first samples of GDDR5X back from their fab before schedule and have started testing. In addition to that, Micron is expecting to ramp up volume production of GDDR5X on their 20nm memory process sometime in…
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Intel SSD 750 PCIe 1.2TB NVMe Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Once in a while we see a new generation of products being released that completely change how we view the area and make what we used to think was good into something rather mediocre. Such a time is upon us right now thanks to Intel and their brand new…
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G.SKILL Announced World’s Fastest DDR4 128GB Memory Kit at 2800MHz
G.Skill has introduced their newest memory modules and this time we get a new RipJaws4 kit. The new kit isn’t a small one as it comes with a total memory of 128GB distributed across eight 16GB modules. The new kit is the first DDR4 128GB kit with a speed of 2800MHz and…
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AMD Greenland GPUs Might Go Straight to 14nm Process
AMD is putting the final touches on everything and preparing to launch their new Radeon R300 series graphics cards very soon, but before it even hits the market we already get information about the next generation of AMD graphics cards. The R9 300 series is set to launch in June…
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Samsung Has Started Mass Producing 8 Gigabit LPDDR4 Mobile DRAM
Samsung announced that they have started the mass production of the industries first 8 gigabit Low Power Double Data Rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile DRAM based on 20nm process technology. The new memory is faster than most desktop and server memory and at the same time it consumes less power. This…
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AMD CEO Claims “We do not Live in the Shadow of Intel”
The battle will be raging until the end of time, Intel vs AMD, who’s better? Who’s faster? Who’s more affordable? Recently, AMD CEO Rory Read announced that his chief operating officer, Lisa Su, would become the new top dog – effective immediately. In one of her first statements, she made…
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New 20nm AMD Graphics Cards Not Expected Until 2015
The new Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 and 970 have blown us away with their mixture of high performance and low power consumption; so where are the AMD cards to compete with them? We have the R9 285, but with AMD shooting down rumours about the R9 285X, we may now…
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Corsair Force LX 256GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Corsair is known to provide us with a wide spectrum of Solid State Drives and we have already tested many of them in the past. Now the time has come for their newest entry level and budget drive in the Force family; the Corsair Force LX 256GB Solid State…
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Rumour: AMD’s Future 20nm GPU Architecture Called “Faraway”
While all the attention with regards to AMD graphics has been around the release of the new Tonga GPU it appears that some new information has emerged and gone fairly unnoticed. One source is reporting that the codename for a future AMD GPU architecture has been revealed. The naming for that future GPU architecture is…
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Angelbird SSD wrk 256GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction I was pretty excited when I got this Solid State Drive (SSD) in the mail, since it is the first chance I’m getting to get hands-on with one of Angelbirds drives. Being a new player, Angelbird needs their products to stand out from the rest. This doesn’t seem to…
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HGST Announces New Ultrastar 12Gb/S SAS SSD Sized up to 1.6TB
HGST, a Western Digital company, announced its next generation of Ultrastar 12GB/s SAS solid-state drives today. Building upon the award-winning first generation, the new Ultrastar SSDs come in up to 1.6 TB size. The new Ultrastar SSD800MH.B, Ultrastar SSD1600MM and Ultrastar SSD1600MR are using Intel 20nm high endurance enterprise-grade MLC…
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AMD Confirms 20nm in 2015, 16nm in 2016 Likely
Will we see AMD’s next-generation graphics cards arrive this year? If so, will they be based on the next-gen 20nm process shrink? Those are questions we’ve been pondering for a while now and if AMD’s most recent conference call for its Q2 financial performance is anything to go by then we…
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Nvidia GM204 Maxwell GPUs May Jump From 28nm to 16nm, Skip 20nm
The launch of Nvidia’s GM204 Maxwell-based video cards is expected to be fairly close. We should see the GTX 800 series based on the new architecture by the end of the year for sure, current rumours are touting the third quarter which means by the end of September. There will…
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Nvidia GTX 870MX Spotted In ASUS Gaming Laptop – Could Be High-End Maxwell
A new Nvidia GTX 800 series mobile GPU has shown up in the retail channel in Thailand hinting at the potential for a high-end Maxwell part. The news is really exciting because it would be the first high-end Maxwell part we have seen, the GTX 750 Ti is all we’ve…
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TSMC To Boost 20nm Production During Rest of 2014 – Good News For AMD/Nvidia
There’s good news for AMD, Nvidia and graphics card enthusiasts because the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is announcing increased capacity for the second half of this year. TSMC claim 20nm production will ramp up in Q3 to account for 10% of their revenues and by Q4 that will be…
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