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Three new chipsets announced at MWC by Qualcomm

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Three new chipsets have been brought to the MWC event this year by Qualcomm; the Snapdragon 801, 610 and the 615. As the name suggests, the Snapdragon 801 is only a tiny update for the already...

Nvidia Set To Steal The Cryptocurrency Mining Crown From AMD

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Buried on the 17th page of Tom’s Hardware’s GeForce GTX 750 Ti graphics card review is a simple benchmark that could dramatically disrupt the landscape of cryptocurrency mining. In fact, it’s the...

PC GPU Market Bounces Back, With Nvidia Up and AMD Down

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The PC as we know it is continues to flounder when analyzing year-over-year sales, but PC sales have increased 1.8% from Q3 2013 to Q4 2014. According to a new report from Jon Peddie Research,...

AMD Completes R7 Series Of Graphics Cards With New Radeon 265, Cuts Price On 260x

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Looking at AMD’s range of entry-level and mid-range graphics cards, there’s a noticeable gap in both performance and price between the Radeon 260x and the Radeon R9 270; a gap AMD is filling this...

The new MT6595 chips by MediaTek

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Pretty sure we all have heard of the world's first true octa-core processor consisting of eight Cortex-A7 cores which had the capacity to work simultaneously. Well, this was the innovative creation...

Rambus’ Horowitz: Talks on the Semiconductor Industry’s Future

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Attendees of the 60th annual International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) hosted by the IEEE got a real treat on Monday.  Rambus founder Mark Horowitz shared his studied view of the...

Asian Smartphone Outperforms Qualcomm-Based Rivals For Half The Price

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If you don’t yet know of the Alcatel One Touch Idol X+, I don’t blame you — the phone’s announcement at CES last month was a pretty low-key affair. On the other hand, this Chinese-made device (...

SIA: Semiconductors Finally Break $300 Billion Barrier

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The semiconductor industry finally broke through a barrier that it has been struggling to overcome since the middle 1990s: Annual revenues surpassed $300 billion. That’s the finding released today by...

Build A 4K Gaming PC For Less Than $2500

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If you approached me toward the end of 2013 and suggested I could build an entry-level 4K gaming PC for about $2500, I would have erupted into laughter. But in this post-CES 2014 world, what once...