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Microsoft results better than expected across all segments

27 April 2018, 12:31

CEO Nadella dwelled on the cloud, as usual, but Surface revenue surged by 32 per cent.

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Intel Q1 2018: breaks revenue records off data centric growth

27 April 2018, 10:01

But delays in 10nm production mean no such parts will ship in volume until 2019.

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Belgium decides video game loot boxes are illegal gambling

26 April 2018, 11:11

Decision follows a similar one taken by the Netherlands last week.

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AMD stock climbs 11 per cent as it beats Q1 estimates

26 April 2018, 10:01

Its Computing and Graphics Business Segment revenue was up 95pc at $1.12bn.

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Major graphic card makers to see shipments decline by 40 per cent

25 April 2018, 15:11

April saw a steep drop-off in cryptocurrency miner demand, says industry journal.

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AMD readies Combat Crates: CPU, mobo and GPU

24 April 2018, 10:11

‘All you need to game’ pack: a Ryzen 5 1600, MSI B350 Tomahawk, and Radeon RX 580.

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Google and Microsoft promote password-less web logins

23 April 2018, 16:01

Both these members of the Fast Identity Online Alliance demoed their tech at RSA 2018.

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Intel boasts of an FPGA chip capable of 10 TFLOPS

19 April 2018, 13:30

The Stratix 10 FPGA can perform 10 trillion floating point operations per second it says.

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WD launches Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB HelioSeal hard drive

19 April 2018, 12:01

No other CMR (conventional magnetic recording) hard drive offers a higher capacity.

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AMD EPYC processors added to Cray CS500 product line

19 April 2018, 10:01

Supercomputer maker’s CS500 cluster system packs four dual-socket nodes in a 2U chassis.

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Google Chrome 66 has autoplay elements muted by default

18 April 2018, 11:01

Version 66 released to the stable channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS.

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MSI intros Intel 8th Gen gaming desktops with G.A.M.E.

18 April 2018, 10:01

Upgraded Aegis 3 and Ti3, Infinite A, Trident 3/Arctic, and Nightblade MI3 PCs launched.

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Asus officially announces Arez branded AMD graphics cards

17 April 2018, 17:31

Says this signals “a bold new identity” and underlines the bond between Asus and AMD.

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UK and US governments warn against using ZTE hardware

17 April 2018, 14:01

UK clampdown is largely due to potential risks to national security.

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Netflix passes 125 million subscriber milestone

17 April 2018, 12:01

Despite price rises, the streaming service added 7.4m new subscribers worldwide in Q1 2018.

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Asus launches quintet of AMD X470 Series motherboards

13 April 2018, 14:11

Enhance your AMD Ryzen 2000 CPU with a ROG Crosshair, Strix, Prime, or TUF board.

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Worldwide PC shipments decline for 14th consecutive quarter

12 April 2018, 13:01

There were 61.7 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2018.

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Graphics and computing veteran Chris Hook leaves AMD

12 April 2018, 12:01

After 17 years service he will start a new position elsewhere at the end of this month.

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HP Intel 8th gen Pavilion gaming laptops and desktops launched

11 April 2018, 15:11

There's an attractive new HP Pavilion Gaming 32 HDR QHD FreeSync display too.

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'Warranty Void if Removed' stickers illegal warns FTC

11 April 2018, 13:31

Meanwhile an Apple iOS update is disabling the iPhone 8/Plus with third party screen repairs.

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Investigation finds Intel Kaby Lake-G is more Polaris than Vega

10 April 2018, 10:11

However the only major feature found to be found lacking so far is Rapid Packed Math.

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Asus ROG intros Zephyrus M laptop and Huracan desktop

6 April 2018, 11:31

Both are 8th Generation Intel Core-powered products with Aura Sync RGB lighting tech.

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Ofcom announces results of recent UK spectrum auction

6 April 2018, 10:11

Vodafone grabbed 50MHz of 3.4GHz spectrum for £378m, as the largest spender.

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Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 cards using DDR4 RAM spotted

5 April 2018, 13:31

Memory bandwidth greatly reduced, but the cards come in at 20W rather than 30W TDP.

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Far Cry 5 raises US$310 million during its first week

5 April 2018, 12:16

Better than any previous franchise release, and generating more cash than Black Panther (US).

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AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G get prices cut

5 April 2018, 10:15

This pair of APUs had already won HEXUS Good Value awards when launched in Feb.

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Samsung Notebook Odyssey Z boasts GTX 1060 Max-P graphics

4 April 2018, 15:11

A Max-P is 10 per cent faster than a Max-Q GPU. Uses an 8th gen Intel Core i7 CPU too.

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Dell and Alienware release their most powerful laptops ever

4 April 2018, 10:02

The Dell XPS 15 and Alienware 17, with 8th Gen Intel CPUs, sit on those thrones.

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Tech titans hope to save money using RISC-V rather than Arm

3 April 2018, 14:11

Samsung, Nvidia and Google consider open source RISC-V for future product development.

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Cloudflare announces 1.1.1.1 'privacy-first' consumer DNS

3 April 2018, 12:51

Service usage could improve responsiveness when you are using the internet.

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Apple Mac computers will use own brand CPUs from 2020

3 April 2018, 10:31

Report says that the first computers to kick Intel outside will be Apple's laptop range.

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Microsoft splitting up its Windows and Devices Group

30 March 2018, 10:11

As a result, company veteran of 21-years Terry Myerson is leaving the company.

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Grainger Games situation worsens: all stores told to close

29 March 2018, 12:41

Northern retailer's 400 employees across 67 UK stores will get paid up until 31st March.

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