Google has bought Nest, maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors, for 3.2 billion, and AMD released their Kaveri APUs, which give surprisingly good performance for an APU (CPU + GPU). <br /><br />Sources:<br /><br />https://nest.com/blog/2014/01/13/nest-google-and-you/<br />http://www.techpowerup.com/196841/amd-announces-4th-generation-a-series-kaveri-desktop-apus.html<br />http://www.techpowerup.com/196842/mantle-enables-significant-performance-improvement-in-battlefield-4-amd.html<br />http://www.techpowerup.com/196794/amd-catalyst-14-1-beta-to-include-mantle-and-trueaudio-runtimes.html<br />Hardware Canucks benchmarks: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/65031-amd-kaveri-a10-7850k-a8-7600-review-26.html<br /><br /><br /><br />Learn More/Where to Buy:<br />Canada: http://www.ncix.ca/<br />US: http://www.us.ncix.com/<br /><br />Join the conversation on our community:<br />Forums: http://forums.ncix.com/<br />Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NCIXdotCOM<br />Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCIXdotCOM<br />Newsletter: http://www.ncix.ca/article.php?mode=newsletter<br /><br />Download our Mobile App:<br />Android: http://tinyurl.com/blqeqaj<br />iOS: http://tinyurl.com/a49ngav<br />Windows: http://bit.ly/1guO0Pn
