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• 11 June 2013

• News: AMD announces a 5GHz microprocessor, but few will care

  On Tuesday, Advanced Micro Devices announced the AMD FX-9590, the first 5GHz microprocessor for the PC--at a time, unfortunately, when even PC enthusiasts care little about the processor's clock speed.

• News: Apple's Mac move could spur PCIe flash flurry in other notebooks, desktops

  With Apple's announcement that it'll bypass a SATA SSD in its Mac Pro and MacBook Air and go straight for the stratosphere of flash with a PCIe card, some pundits are speculating other laptops and desktop vendors may not be far behind.

• News: HP adds purpose-built all-flash array to 3Par lineup

  Hewlett-Packard will extend its 3Par enterprise storage line into flash-only territory this week, promising to combine higher speed with familiar software.

• News: By definition: How EMC defined software-defined storage at EMC World 2013

  There may have been a few people who spat out their coffee the morning they read that EMC had unveiled what it called the "world's first" software-defined storage platform, EMC ViPR.

• 08 June 2013

• News: Analyst: Intel's smartphone chip offers significant power savings vs. ARM

  So far, Intel's Clover Trail+ Atom processor has only found a design win or two within Asian smartphones. But if ABI Research's report is accurate, smartphone makers and consumers alike should start clamoring for it.

• 07 June 2013

• News: Remains of the Day: By the book

  The ebook negotiations game, in case you were wondering, is hardball. Meanwhile, Apple may start trading places (for your iPhone) and your MacBook Air may become even more magical. The remainders for Thursday, June 6, 2013 just had two weeks left before retirement.

• News: External server disk storage sales drop for first time since 2009, says IDC

  Global sales of external server storage have dropped for the first time since 2009, according to data from research firm IDC.

• News: Intel exec says Silvermont trumps ARM in power, performance

  A top Intel executive said the power and performance battle with ARM is over, because Intel's upcoming chips based on its Silvermont architecture are ahead on key metrics required to deliver strong performance and battery life on smartphones and tablets.

• 06 June 2013

• News: Intel's fourth-generation Core series delivers significantly better graphics performance

  Intel is clearly tired of Nvidia and AMD kicking sand in its face when it comes to graphics performance. The company has had a talented GPU engineering team for many years. With the fourth generation of Intel's Core CPU line those engineers finally get to strut their stuff. And Intel has launched a new brand to mark the occasion: Iris.

• News: Wintel under siege as mobile and Android ascend at Computex

  Surging tablet sales and the muted response to Windows 8 have opened the door for Android at this year's Computex and exposed deeper cracks in the Wintel powerhouse of Windows software and Intel chips.

• News: Intel shows 'world's fastest thumb drive'

  Intel is showing off what it called the "world's fastest thumb drive," which uses Thunderbolt technology to provide breakthrough data transfer speeds compared to flash drives that plug into USB ports.

• 05 June 2013

• News: Dell combines faster and cheaper SSDs in one box, with automatic tiering

  Many enterprise storage systems include two or more types of hard disk drives, with data automatically moved between those two tiers of storage. The same concept has now been applied to two types of SSDs.

• News: UDOO is quad-core computer-on-a-stick that also does everything Arduino

  Arduino microcontrollers are great for anything from little DIY hardware projects to full-on robots. Meanwhile, ARM-based developer boards and mini PCs like the Raspberry Pi have let us created all sorts of awesome compact computer-on-a-stick mods, including ones that can turn every monitor into a [

• News: Smash smartphone. Throw it in the ocean. Hope DriveSavers doesn't get it.

  A Northern California man being pursued by police smashes his own smartphone and throws it into the ocean. The evidence is gone, right? But wait: The police retrieve the phone. Where it goes next, and what happens to it there, is like the geekiest possible CSI episode you've ever seen--and a window into the everyday tedium and triumph at the biggest name in data recovery.

• News: Some 4th-generation Core processor features wouldn't be possible without Intel's all-new Series 8 chipset

  Intel has developed a new chipset to support the advanced features in its fourth-generation Core-series CPUs. The biggest changes are related to input/output--the various pathways through which data enters and exits the PC. Intel has also jettisoned support for some old technology; namely, the PCI bus. There are several chipsets in the 8 series, but we'll focus on the high-end Z87.

• News: AMD breaks from Windows exclusivity, adopts Android and Chrome OS

  After years of Windows OS exclusivity, Advanced Micro Devices is opening the door to design chips to run Google's Android and Chrome OS in PCs and tablets.

• News: AMD fires back at Intel's Haswell with its A-Series desktop processors

  On Saturday, Intel fired a salvo of "Haswell" microprocessors across AMD's bow. Now, Intel's chief rival has responded in kind, with five new desktop processors that combine midrange microprocessor power with AMD's powerful graphics technology.

• News: Intel says tablets with Bay Trail processors will start at under $199

  Intel expects tablets containing its upcoming Atom processor code-named Bay Trail will cost under US$200, a company executive said Wednesday.

• News: AMD hopes to bridge gap between Xbox, PlayStation and PCs

  Advanced Micro Devices has announced a new strategy that could lead to games that run in the future across PCs and games consoles like the Xbox and PlayStation.

• News: Dell, Oracle form strategic partnership for integrated systems

  Dell and Oracle will integrate hardware and software for customers through a strategic partnership, the companies announced on Tuesday.

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