Microsoft Surface Head Taking Charge of Windows Client

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Microsoft is going through a reorganization that will heavily impact the company's Experiences and Devices unit, according to a ZDNet report today. It will lead to both the hardware and Windows client teams reporting to chief product officer Panos Panay.

The Windows Experience and hardware teams will be combined into one team called "Devices + Windows" and reporting to Panay (all under the umbrella of executive vice president Rajesh Jha). ZDNet's sources claim that this will begin on


MSI's 4K P65 Mobile Workstation Is $100 Off

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If you're looking for a powerful Windows laptop to use for video production, photo editing or 3D animation, MSI's P65 Creator fits the bill. This 15.6-inch workstation packs extremely-powerful components and a 4K display into a super-svelte, lightweight chassis. With one of the best tech deals , you can now grab one at Amazon for just $1,752 with coupon code 100CREATOR, $1

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AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share Q4 2019: EPYC and Ryzen Growth Decelerate, Mobile Ryzen Up

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Mercury Research, the premiere CPU market share analyst firm used by the likes of AMD and Intel, released its fourth quarter 2019 market share numbers today, highlighting the ninth consecutive quarter of share gains for AMD across the desktop, mobile, and data center lineups.

However, quarterly unit share gains were surprisingly muted for both the desktop and the data center segments. Meanwhile, the company made strong progress in the mobility market, which is an encouraging sign given that laptops comprise roughly

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AMD Confirms Move From Ferrari, Backs Mercedes-AMG Formula One Team

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AMD has picked its horse for the upcoming 2020 Formula One Season. It announced Tuesday that it's sponsoring the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team. Through this partnership it will offer the team, which represents Mercedes' high-end performance AMG line, with AMD hardware. AMD confirmed to Tom's Hardware that it's no longer sponsoring Ferrari, and Ferrari no longer lists AMD on its website.

The partnership between AMD and Mercedes-AMG is


EVGA Adds Deliver Us the Moon Game for Free With RTX 20-Series Graphics Cards

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Great gear makes gamers very happy, but what makes everyone even happier is free stuff. EVGA knows this and is throwing in one of the latest games supporting Nvidia RTX graphics features with all of its RTX 20-series graphics cards.

In Deliver Us The Moon , Earth's resources are depleted, and the World Space Agency has been created to gather energy from the moon. Years later, you're sent to the Moon to find out what happened and save humanity.

Deliver


Xbox Head Sees Amazon, Google as New Rivals

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Phil Spencer, head of Xbox and Microsoft's gaming arm of the business, no longer deems Nintendo and Sony as its main rivals. After years of console wars, he sees Amazon and Google as the biggest competitors going forward, he said in an interview with Protocol . That's because neither Sony nor Nintendo have a cloud infrastructure that could rival Microsoft Azure.

"When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a ton of respect for them, but


MSI Prestige 14 Review: Think Pink

Our Verdict

The MSI Prestige 14 is a slim laptop with discrete graphics and above-average battery life, but the keyboard gets warm when the computer is under load and the display needs to be brighter. And yes, it comes in pink.

For

  • Slim
  • Pink color option
  • Above-average battery life

Against

  • Keyboard is too warm under load
  • Display dimmer than average
  • Single-channel RAM
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India Nearly Matches US Quantum Computing Research Budget

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The Indian government has allocated a budget of 80 billion rupees (~$1.12 billion) to quantum computing, communications and cryptography over the next five years, Nature reported today. The budget roughly matches that of the EU ($1.13 billion) and the U.S. ($1.2 billion).

The Indian government essentially increased the budget for quantum computing research by 40x from a previous budget of $27


Adata Expects Memory Prices to Rise After Coronavirus Is Contained

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Adata is looking forward to Coronavirus being contained and not just for the obvious reasons. Chairman Simon Chen is apparently optimistic that prices for DRAM and NAND flash technologies will grow this year once the virus is under control, according to a DigiTimes report Monday.

Chen hopes that growing demand for memory products will resume by June if the latest health scare is contained. That's despite concerns about Coronavirus impacting Q1 demand. According to DigiTimes, Chen said that although he expects the outbreak to hurt


Asus Lists 4 Unannounced AMD Epyc CPUs: 8-64 Cores

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Asus recently ushered in new firmware for the RS700A-E9-RS12V2 1U server that adds support for a couple of previously unknown Epyc (codenamed Rome) processors. Twitter user @momomo_us first spotted the document.

Just like any other chip that belongs to the Epyc 7002 Series family , codenamed Rome, these processors use the latest Zen 2 microarchitecture and are manufactured at TSMC under the 7nm FinFET process node. They

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