The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today announced its approval of AMD’s plan to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction worth roughly $35 billion. The CMA didn’t offer many details about its decision at time of writing. “The CMA has cleared the anticipated acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. of Xilinx, Inc.,” it said…
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Back in September of 2020, Corsair introduced its 4000X and 4000D cases, offering up two pretty case designs that in a way, set the benchmark for simplistic, modern, but classic ATX tower design. Then, in January the company dropped the 5000X and 5000D (full review of the 5000X here), growing the case in dimensions –…
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A new nine-second teaser from EVGA suggests that an X570 motherboard is in the works. The news comes as a shock to the hardware world as EVGA has never produced a motherboard with an AMD chipset before. It’s common knowledge that EVGA has strong ties with Nvidia and Intel, which explains why you never see…
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Had portable computers not coalesced around the familiar laptop form factor, they might have looked like this, and indeed they did for a brief period in the 1980s. This wonderful ‘luggable’ build by PCPartPicker user Ragnar84, and noticed by Hackaday, harks back to those more innocent times, when things like being able to run on…
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Intel users will soon trade performance for security once again. Phoronix reported that recent microcode updates would disable Intel Transactional Synchronization Extension (TSX) by default on the company’s 6th, 7th, and 8th Gen processors. Disabling the feature is supposed to make those CPUs more secure, but it’s also expected to result in worse performance in…
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The best gaming monitors blend a sharp picture with fast refresh rates, to give you both a competitive edge and something gorgeous to look at. The Monoprice Zero-G achieves this with 1440p and 144Hz, but do you know what makes it better? A $144 price cut at Target. Monoprice Zero-G 27-inch curved gaming monitor: was…
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Words like “Ultra,” “Hyper,” and “Super” are pretty common in the tech world, but the products bearing those adjectives don’t always live up to those kinds of expectations. The Dell Ultrasharp webcam is an easy exception to that rule. Even though this is Dell’s first external camera, this 4K, HDR, 60 fps-capable shooter has the…
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The best ultraportable laptops are now getting to be so small that they’re sometimes easier to carry than traditional pen and paper notebooks. HP’s new Pavilion Aero is bringing that concept to HP’s budget computers with AMD processors. With that name and less than a kilogram of heft, it’s clear that the goal here is…
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Intel announced via a blog post this morning that Sapphire Rapids will enter production in the first quarter of 2022, with the volume ramp beginning in the second quarter of 2022. The revised production timeline represents a three-month slip from the last Sapphire Rapids roadmap, which projected that production would begin at the end of…
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It’s finally here! Microsoft has just released its first official Windows 11 preview build to Windows Insiders (the leaked build from a couple of weeks ago doesn’t count). I’m in the Dev ring of the Insider program via my laptop — a ThinkPad X1 Carbon with 8th Gen Core i7, 16GB and 512GB SSD that…
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