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"NVIDIA surprised everyone at CES with its Project SHIELD handheld gaming console and now the chip maker released the full specs along with launch date and price. SHIELD is powered by NVIDIA?s own Tegra 4 chipset, which packs for Cortex-A15 cores" ...

We published this last night and it doesn't look like anyone has posted about the news here yet. Check out the release lineup here. Here's a preview, lots more at the link: I'm just curious what you guys think about the new design. :up:

From WSJ: Source and full story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323826804578468823595533416.html

i7-4770K was benchamrked in few test at Tomshardware. What I seen, is it about 5-10% better than i7-3770K, no more (without CL HD4xxx optimalization). SO, what do you think? :) http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-4770k-haswell-performance,3461.html

First ball out of the cannon? and fired a bit early I think. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-INTEL-RETAIL-DH87RL-MICRO-ATX-LGA1150-BOXDH87RL-/360653913390?pt=Motherboards&hash=item53f8a5fd2e

STEIGER DYNAMICS announced that it released to the DIY PC builder market its custom hand-brushed full aluminum LEET chassis. The chassis is available for sale in both black and silver on the STEIGER DYNAMICS website for 798 USD. Every LEET chassis is complemented with a one year limited warranty....

From Sweclockers : Kaveri is the first HSA-compatible product with HUMA , where both physical and virtual memory shared by the CPU and GPU. In addition, it is also possible to use GDDR5 as system memory. The latter issue in the Playstation 4 and applies in particular circuits tailored to...

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/ek_ln2_evaporation_cooler_for_memory_modules.html Ya I stole the name and link from guru3d obviously lol... Anyways :). I saw this in the morning and thought nothing of it, since I'm not interested in temporary non sustaining clocks. Besides, getting the mem...

Really pathetic showing from Intel, as they again use us enthusiasts as their Xeon reject disposal system...:rolleyes: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20130424234518_Intel_Core_i7_4960X_Ivy_Bridge_E_Is_Up_to_10_Faster_Than_Current_Generation_Extreme_Offering.html

AMD A6-1450 based on Jaguar technology is priced like an Intel Atom but performs much better than Atoms and looks like it is able to reach in many areas to the level of Ivy Bridge i3 mobile (approx $200 CPU)! http://www.umpcportal.com/2013/05/amd-temash-a6-1450-performance-acer-aspire-v5/

"BlackBerry CEO Throsten Heins announced today that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will become available this summer for Apple devices running iOS 6 and higher, as well as for Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and above. BlackBerry has been planning this expansion for some time, joining the...

http://www.unrealengine.com/news/infiltrator_demonstration_unveiled_at_gdc_2013/

You've got to read this: http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-pirates-play-a-game-development-simulator-and-then-go-bankrupt-because-of-piracy/#nnn I won't spoil the fun with comments, just read it. I'd like to say though that I'm much more prone to support indie devs...

Today we got the first "kind of" official response from Intel regarding the new C6/C7 power saving modes that are enabled in the Haswell processors. Intel is releasing the PSU Selector Tool, which enables consumers to browse through different categories and search the PSU that will fit their...

Announce AVEXIR BLITZ II ES with ASUS ROG,MSI Z77 MPOWER and ASRock OCF MB Avexir testings began the final stage for the online successor to the Core Series series, reports pointing to the sector gamer and its leds looking be among the likes of those who wants a little modding ... Avexir...

Finally... http://wccftech.com/amd-reportedly-launching-volcanic-islands-hd-8000-series-gpus-2013/ Maybe they'll just do paper launch in Q4 2013...

I hadn't seen anything posted about the latest figures so here they are for those interested. http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=476&mid=12730534&pt=msg Keep getting invalid image trying to upload an image file but its in the link. Basically the market continues to decline, ...

Source: http://fudzilla.com/ Could be low end cards, who knows... Take it as you will.

The Register has a nice article on AMD's new heterogeneous unified memory access, (hUMA), and how it will significantly improve PC performance. Interestingly it will arrive soon where you least expect to find it. Kaveri will be the first APU offering this technology and it's slated to be released...

http://www.arabpcworld.com/?p=28743 http://www.hardware.fr/news/13012/gdc-radeon-hd-7990-amd-approche.html

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Finally-Fixing-Frame-Rate-Latency-in-Games-348042.shtml Finally.

Not a Pentium or Pentium Pro based design, but completely new Out if Order, superscalar architecture. Anand's overview: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6936/intels-silvermont-architecture-revealed-getting-serious-about-mobile Silvermont architecture technical details:...

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