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There's some info and speculation about Intel's upcoming Silvermont Atom architecture, on Anandtech and Engadget. Silvermont however changes everything. It is the first new redesign of the Atom architecture and it marks the beginning of Atom being on a tick-tock cadence. Say goodbye to 5 year updates, say hello to a new architecture every 2 years.
The Collins book of Official Scrabble Words has been updated to include 3,000 new words, including thang, grrl and Facebook. Urrrgghh. The additions of the terms “fiqh,” or Islamic jurisprudence, and “qin,” a Chinese musical instrument, offer new moves for players stuck with the letter Q, without having to suffer the interminable wait for a U to come along. (Until now, “qi,” the Chinese term for life force, was the accepted favourite.)
Facebook meanwhile have been caught in an alleged smear campaign against Google. The plot backfired when the blogger turned down Burson’s offer and posted the emails that Burson had sent him. It got worse when USA Today broke a story accusing Burson of spreading a “whisper campaign” about Google “on behalf of an unnamed client.”
BeHardware have an insight into component return rates - to one vendor at any rate. The first question is of course where the stats come from. They’re taken from a large French e-tailer, whose database we have had direct access to. We were, then, able to extract the stats we wanted directly. Of course they’re limited to the products sold by the retailer, but unfortunately there isn’t any other way of getting hold of reliable stats. Who would believe for example any returns rates given by the manufacturers themselves?
TomsHardware report on the world of OEM PSUs. Do you think that all power supplies are manufactured by the brand on the label? Think again. We show what makes a good PSU and reveal who builds them. You can actually find lots of quality (instead of just scrap metal) behind some of the budget labels.
Back to Intel, with some new SSD technology, covered on PCStats and LegitReviews. Intel's 311-series 20GB Larson Creek SSD is all about Smart Response technology, a hard drive caching algorithm which is part of the Intel Rapid Storage Technology v10.5! This is one of the main features of the Z68 Express Chipset and we take a closer look at this drive along with SRT on a Gigabyte Z68 motherboard.
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