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Cracking Open the HP Z820 Workstation

December 7, 2012 12:35pm PST

Bill Detwiler cracks open the HP Z820 Workstation, which packs two Intel Xeon CPUs and up to 512GB of RAM and 14TB of storage in a near tool-less case.

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Superoverclocker takes the stage at CeBIT (photos)

March 8, 2012 1:10pm PST

Nick Shih shows his technique for supercooling chips to run them far beyond their rated clock speed. It used to be for better videogaming, but now overclocking is a competition in and of itself.

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IBM's Holey Optochip moves terabit of info per second (images)

March 7, 2012 10:00pm PST

Big Blue's new chip architecture is capable of transferring 500 HD movies a second, or the entire Web archive of the U.S. Library of Congress in an hour. And it can be produced today.

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Motorola Droid 4 (photos)

February 8, 2012 4:00pm PST

With dual-core processing and 4G LTE, the long-awaited Motorola Droid 4 could be the answer to the prayers of Android keyboard addicts on Verizon.

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Intel gets touchy as it touts future of ultrabooks (photos)

January 9, 2012 12:00pm PST

Vice President Mooly Eden leads a CES press conference this morning, during which the chipmaker highlights its ultrabook efforts, including a touch interface, NFC, and gesture-based recognition.

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Intel celebrates 40 years of chipmaking (photos)

November 17, 2011 12:04pm PST

Intel celebrates its 40th anniversary with a look at the chips that made it famous.

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Samsung Exhibit II 4G (photos)

November 8, 2011 6:00pm PST

Dive into an Android Gingerbread smartphone with a budget price that's still packed with 4G speeds, a front-facing camera, and a trusty processor.

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A visit to Qualcomm (photos)

October 25, 2011 2:00pm PDT

From augmented reality to the next generation of super application processors, Qualcomm has a lot brewing. CNET visits the company's headquarters see how it makes more than wireless radio chips.

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Cracking Open the Apple iPhone 4S

October 14, 2011 2:19pm PDT

Bill Detwiler cracks open the Apple iPhone 4S. Inside the smartphone are the A5 processor and hardware from Toshiba, Qualcomm, Avago, and TriQuint.

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Pantech Jest 2 (photos)

October 13, 2011 4:00am PDT

The Pantech Jest 2 is not much of an upgrade over the Pantech Jest messaging phone except for a new dual-mode chipset that gives it world roaming capability. CNET gets a hands-on with the Jest 2.

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LG Optimus Slider (photos)

October 12, 2011 6:00pm PDT

The LG Optimus Slider is one of Virgin Mobile's latest Android handsets meant for the entry-level crowd. It has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 3.2-megapixel camera, and a...

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HTC Titan hands-on (photos)

September 1, 2011 12:00pm PDT

Armed with a faster processor, front-facing camera, and Windows Phone Mango, the HTC Titan will hit Europe this fall, hopefully followed by the U.S. CNET offers you an early hands-on look here.

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Samsung Galaxy R (photos)

August 10, 2011 6:10am PDT

The Samsung Galaxy R is the company's first Galaxy smartphone to feature Nvidia's dual-core processor. See the photos here.

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T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide (photos)

July 15, 2011 5:00pm PDT

This 4G, dual-core smartphone is decked out with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and some sweet multimedia extras, including a fancy camera.

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Acer Chromebook (photos)

May 11, 2011 2:00pm PDT

Acer's Chrome OS ultraportable has a small profile and a dual-core Atom processor.

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Gallery: Intel goes 3D with Tri-Gate transistors

May 5, 2011 6:54am PDT

Intel reveals what will power its next-generation of chips, the 3D Tri-Gate transistor.

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Intel's 3D Tri-Gate transistors get smaller, faster, more energy efficient (photos)

May 4, 2011 3:00pm PDT

Intel's Tri-Gate transistors usher in the next era of Moore's Law and open the door to a new generation of innovation.

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Windows 8 build 7959 - First 64-bit leak

May 4, 2011 5:20am PDT

A few days ago a 64-bit Windows Server 8 build was leaked onto the internet and a number of you have been firing questions at me regarding this build.

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Hands-on with the T-Mobile G2x dual-core Android smartphone

April 19, 2011 5:09am PDT

The T-Mobile G2x is the first dual-core Android smartphone for T-Mobile and has impressive hardware. Some people may also like the plain Google Android experience on the device as well.

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Motorola Atrix photos: The docking smartphone

April 12, 2011 9:52pm PDT

The Motorola Atrix is one of the most innovative smartphones of 2011. It broke new ground with a dual core processor and 1.0GB of RAM, but it's best known feature is its ability to dock and turn...

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