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Intel Releases Long-Overdue Broadwell Desktop CPUs – Computex 2015 Update

While the first products featuring Intel’s Broadwell micro-architecture were released last fall, problems with yields for their latest 14nm manufacturing process lead to long delays in the release of some products, which forced Intel to delay the full Broadwell rollout. Today, marks the latest, and presumably final phase in their Broadwell cycle, with the release of five new higher-performance quad-core processors, …

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AMD’s Zen-based CPUs to be released in 2016 on Socket FM3

In recent reports it appears that we can expect the first of AMD’s “Zen” microarchitecture based CPUs and APUs to be released in 2016. These new processors will mark the first major desktop-market release for AMD since 2012 with the launch of the Piledriver based FX CPUs. The news comes courtesy of a series of screenshots taken from an investor presentation, …

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Lenovo Shows Off New Yoga Series – CES 2015 Update

During our time at CES 2015, we walked through Lenovo’s private suite and saw some of the new ThinkPads, as well as their tablets and their new Yoga series. LENOVO THINKPAD X1 CARBON The Lenovo Thinkpad X1 carbon is aptly named, as it is incredibly light  at 2.9 pounds and 17.7mm thick, and is equipped with an i7 and can get almost …

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