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Monthly Archives: May 2014

Thomas Ryan
May 20, 2014

AMD launches Bald Eagle the 2nd generation of R-Series embedded APUs

Does this mean that America’s bird is getting embedded?

Today AMD is announcing the 2nd generation of its R-Series of APUs and CPUs which were previously codenamed Bald Eagle.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 20, 2014

Analysis: Nvidia wants how much for a Kepler license?

Hint: You are low by at least a digit

Remember when SemiAccurate called Nvidia’s Kepler “license” plan a sham, nothing more than a patent trolling exercise?
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Thomas Ryan
May 16, 2014

AMD Trumpets the Return of List Pricing to R9 Series GPUs

The pricing gouging is finally over?

AMD has been hard at work increasing the supply of Radeon R9 Series GPUs to the point where their current pricing matches up with AMD’s MSRP pricing.
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Thomas Ryan
May 15, 2014

Nvidia’s Tegra K1 Makes it into Xiaomi’s MiPad tablet

Tegra K1 one is coming to a real tablet, maybe….

Today in Beijing Chinese OEM Xiaomi launched their first tablet the MiPad which is the first tablet powered by Nvidia’s Tegra K1 SoC.
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Thomas Ryan
May 15, 2014

Cooler Master launches its V-series of PSUs

Cooler Master’s refreshing its mid-range game…

At the beginning of the week Cooler Master announced that it was launching three new power supplies as part of the release of its V-series of semi-modular PSUs.
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Thomas Ryan
May 15, 2014

Let’s Build: A Kabini HTPC

Isn’t Mini-ITX great?

I’m sure you all remember our desktop Kabini review from back in April. We were given a mini-ITX version of the AM1 platform to review.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 15, 2014
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Microsoft is now irrelevant to computing, and they want you to know it

Opinion: Two recent cave-ins leave no doubt they are done for

With two major cave-ins in the past few weeks, Microsoft is screaming at the top of it’s lungs about how irrelevant it is.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 14, 2014
5

AMD Core Day lays out their ARM vs x86 strategy

Updated: Not one vs the other, swappable components from top to bottom

Last week AMD held Core Day where they finally explained to the public what their strategy going forward is.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 13, 2014

A new Red Hat Linux branch pops up in a demo

Unannounced, unmentioned, given away by a cat

SemiAccurate just spotted a new, unannounced, unreleased version of Red Hat Linux during a recent event.
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Thomas Ryan
May 12, 2014

Intel Officially Releases its 9 Series Chipsets

H and Z, but where’s the X?

Multiple review sites have already looked at Intel’s Z97-based motherboards and Intel is officially releasing the 9 series of chipsets today.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 12, 2014
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The first ever SemiAccurate t-shirt ends a year long joke

ARM Tech Day 2014: It all started with a picture of Anand taken almost a year ago

It started out as most good practical jokes do, with something that caught my eye, then became annoying, and then became a photo op.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 12, 2014
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Adata ups the SD speed ante to UHS-1 Speed Class 3

Updated: Up to 95MBps read, 85MBps write for 4K video

Adata just upped the SD card ante with three UHS-1 Speed Class 3 (U3) offerings across two lines.
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Thomas Ryan
May 9, 2014

Biostar Introduces the Intel Z97-based Hi-Fi Z97WE Motherboard

Everyone’s getting ready for Devil’s Canyon…

Today Taiwanese motherboard maker Biostar is introducing their Hi-Fi Z97WE a socket LGA1150 motherboard based on Intel’s Z97 chipset.
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Thomas Ryan
May 8, 2014

Intel Goes After VDI with Crystalwell Xeons

Everyone’s getting a piece of Moohshot to go after VDI…

At Citrx’s Synergy conference a few days ago Intel announced that it would begin offering new SKUs in its Xeon E3 lineup that incorporate its Crystalwell technology.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 8, 2014
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One more tidbit about the AMD ARM core bubbles up

Updated: Not much more than a name, what’s in a name again?

On Monday, AMD finally announced they have an ARM architectural license and are making their own v8A core.
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