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Huawei’s HiSilicon Starts Shipping to External Companies

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Huawei’s HiSilicon chip design unit has launched 4G communication chips on the open market. It is the first time HiSilicon is supplying its chips to external companies, marking a change in strategy, for which it has formed the Shanghai HiSilicon wholly-owned susidiary.

HiSilicon, fully owned by Huawei, is reputed to be the largest Chinese designer of integrated circuits, but Huawei has kept is an internal unit, meaning that it would design and supply chips only for Huawei. For instance,


Samsung Galaxy Book Flex α 2-in-1 Claims up to 17 Hours of Battery Life

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Samsung announced the original Galaxy Book Flex in October, but it's back around already with the new "α," short for alpha, variant. The notebook  comes in one size, 13.3 inches, but  specifications will vary depending on how much you're willing to spend.

Starting with the display, Samsung built a QLED Full HD display into the Galaxy Flex Book α. No color space details were given other than that it is a 10-bit panel

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Alienware’s Next Gaming Monitor Has Everything Speed Addicts Need

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Ahead of CES, Alienware announced a new 25-inch gaming monitor with enough speed to satisfy even the most competitive gamers. Due out this spring for $499, the Alienware AW2521HF will be available starting March 11 and come with a 1ms response time and 240Hz refresh rate. The latter is as fast as it gets with gaming monitors as of yet, although both Asus and Acer have announced gaming laptops with 300

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Dell XPS 13 Gets 10th Gen Chips, Loses Bottom Bezel

Dell’s flagship ultraportable is getting smaller in every possible way, including its already-tiny bezel. Just ahead of CES 2020, the company has unveiled a new design that shrinks the bottom bezel around a larger 16:10 screen for a 91.5% screen-to-body ratio. It’s also adopting Intel’s 10th Genertion Ice Lake CPUs. The laptop will be available on January 7 starting at $999.99.

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Ultimate Hacking Keyboard Review: Pricey Developers' Tool

Our Verdict

The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard is aimed at developers and system admins with dough to blow. While very well-made, it's tough to justify spending the $275 price tag ($350 with wooden wrist rest ).

For

  • Solid construction
  • A wealth of key switch options
  • Nearly endless customization, thanks to open source software
  • Unique expansion modules.

Against

  • Expensive
  • Modules not yet to be released
  • Palm rest costs extra
  • No backlight

The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (UHK) is probably unlike any keyboard you've

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Intel's Frost Canyon NUC 10 Makes Its Retail Debut

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Intel's latest Next Unit of Computing (NUC) device, the NUC 10, is now available via online retailers in numerous configurations that cost between $679 and $1,295.

All of the configurations are built around the Intel Core i7-10710U processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.7GHz and Intel UHD Graphics. They feature Intel i219-V Gigabit LAN, Intel WiFi 6 AX20


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Inside Intel's Secret Overclocking Lab: The Tools and Team Pushing CPUs to New Limits

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Intel says

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Should You Buy OLOy RAM?

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While it’s hard to judge long-term reliability, the use of these ICs and modest number of user reviews that complain of actual hardware failure suggest that OLOy DIMMs should last as long as those from other brands. The only real downer we can see is that  OLOy’s weak “lifetime” warranty and short history make long-term support an uncertain proposition. However, in real life, RAM is so cheap that many people who see 3+ year old

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ProtonMail Starts Beta Testing an Encrypted Calendar

ProtonMail's new ProtonCalendar service
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ProtonMail announced Monday that it's started beta testing a new encrypted calendar service, the appropriately titled ProtonCalendar, with some of its users.

ProtonMail introduced its end-to-end encrypted email service in May 2014. In the years since it has updated the service with support for desktop clients as well as a . onion address for use with the Tor network . It released an encrypted contacts manager in November 2017, too, in an effort to keep people


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Purported Internal Intel Doc Reveals Core i9-10900K Tests: Up to 30 Percent Gain in Threaded Work

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MebiuW, a forum user at Weibo.com, posted what appears to be an internal document from Intel that showcases the performance of the unreleased ten-core Core i9-10900K. We have been expecting this part for some time, but Intel has been totally silent on their upcoming 10th-Gen Comet Lake parts. According to this purportedly leaked document, the 10900K is up to 30% faster