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AMD had a banner year in 2017, with the successful ramp and launch of its Ryzen CPU and APUs in desktop (CPUs) and mobile (APUs). Meanwhile, the company’s new Vega GPU also gave AMD competitive silicon in higher-end desktop graphics and machine learning — both fields it had all but …

Intel has refreshed its Alpine Ridge line of Thunderbolt 3 controllers with a new pair of products, codenamed Titan Ridge. The JHL7540, 7440, and 7340 are drop-in replacements for the JHL6x40 family and offer a single low-bandwidth Thunderbolt 3 port, a single high-bandwidth TB3 port, or a pair of Thunderbolt …

One of the major questions associated with the Spectre and Meltdown CPU bugs we’ve been tracking is how much performance loss might be incurred from Microsoft’s fix. Early tests suggested the drop-off could be high — while artificial benchmarks specifically designed to hammer the issue could show drop-offs of up …

Consumers in search of gigantic 4K TVs usually have to settle for something in the 75 to 85-inch range. There are a handful of special-order 4K TVs that are 120-inches or larger, but those are priced well over $100,000. LG says it can offer a 150-inch 4K viewing experience for …

A team of former Tinder employees, led by Tinder’s original CTO Ryan Ogle, are today launching a new app aimed at professional networking. The app, called Ripple, aims to be a sort of mobile-first alternative to LinkedIn that addresses some of the problems common to the aging, now Microsoft-owned business …

It’s been roughly a decade since the first SSDs started to hit the consumer market, and about seven years since they began arriving at price points that could broadly be called “consumer friendly.” It’s only been in the past few years that SSDs have gotten inexpensive enough that buying a …

The Spectre and Meltdown security stories were the major focus of the week. While both flaws are serious, Spectre hits everyone, while Intel is the company principally exposed by Meltdown. Meltdown is also the flaw associated with early reports of performance losses in some web servers and virtualization workloads, though …

Global app revenue climbed 35 percent in 2017 to reach nearly $60 billion, according to a new report today from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, which measured paid apps, subscriptions, and in-app purchases across both Apple’s App Store and Google Play. However, Apple is the one pulling in the most …

Ever since AMD teamed up with Razer and Intel to create the XConnect concept, we’ve seen more companies tiptoeing into the external graphics market. The basic idea is simple: Slap an external GPU into a chassis, hook it to a laptop (or even a small desktop, with proper Thunderbolt 3 …