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Author Archives: Charlie Demerjian

Charlie Demerjian
Apr 13, 2011
12

Rumors of spring say Google is trialling Tilera chips

Rumor: The grebes of Mountain View speak loudly

The birds of spring are particularly active this year, and the return of the reticulated grebes to Minnesota after their yearly sojourn to Mountain View is full of news.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 11, 2011
63

Guess what taped out at AMD?

Hint: It is a city you don’t want to go to

Being the second Monday of April, we are legally obliged to keep articles about semiconductors short and sweet.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 7, 2011
32

Intel goes FinFET on 22nm – somewhat

Lots of cache to burn

There is a lot of speculation about Intel’s (INTC) upcoming 22nm process, and we finally have some hard information to share.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 6, 2011
19

Nvidia in full philosophical retreat for Tegra 3

The dreaded SIMD added to T30

Hot on the heels of the short-lived but self-described success of Tegra 2, Nvidia (NVDA) is going to launch a new core in about a year cunningly called T30 or Tegra 3.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 6, 2011
19

AMD will out the ‘Southern Islands’ GPU architecture early

Fusion Developer Summit site mining

AMD is going to out the details of it’s next generation ‘Southern Islands’ GPU family at a very unlikely place, the Fusion Developers Conference this June.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 5, 2011
10

Intel marketeers at it again with “Smart Response”

Disk caching, now with added dumb name

Those crazy marketers at Intel (INTC) are at it again, this time with a new name for Z68’s SSD disk caching.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 4, 2011
29

AMD and Global Foundries agreement not what it seems

A good deal, but not about yields

The AMD and Global Foundries Wafer Purchase Agreement (WPA) that was released yesterday made little to no sense.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 3, 2011
15

Powercolor HD6790 pops up early at etailers

Screenshots show the goodies

The second week of spring brings with it new GPUs, and this second week of spring is no exception, the AMD HD6790 just popped up on Newegg.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 3, 2011
28

AMD chides Global Foundries in a cryptic release

Something is not as it seems, or is stated

AMD just amended it’s wafer purchase agreements with Global Foundries in a way that appears to take a poke at the foundry’s yields. UPDATE SOON.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 31, 2011
21

After Intel’s Haswell comes Broadwell, Sk……

Intel CPU families until the second half of the decade (Updated)

Intel is always putting out new code names, and some that we hear we have to sit on until they leak a bit. The following four, Haswell and the next three, are good examples of that.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 29, 2011
18

What does Intel have to show at IDF?

22nm CPUs and the next Atom

With the sadly deprecated Beijing IDF looming in a fortnight or so, we at SemiAccurate central were bored, so we poked around for a list of big announcements.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 29, 2011
29

AMD’s Southern Islands tapes out

Birds bring news of new GPUs

Spring is here and the birds are flying north from their winter hiding spots, and they bring with them news from the Southern Islands. Edited 1x.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 23, 2011
11

Oracle guts HP’s high end by proxy

Opinion: Press releases, ulterior motives, and plausible deniability

It looks like Oracle (ORCL) is hell-bent on alienating all their friends and allies while protecting their own faltering hardware.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 22, 2011
116

Nvidia GTX590 can’t beat a HD6990

Silicon cherry picked, benchmarks more so

It looks like the Nvidia (NVDA) GTX590/dual GPU slides are starting to leak, and just as we said a year ago, Nvidia is bitten by their woeful power use.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 21, 2011
45

Anand Chandrasekher leaves Intel abruptly

Opinion: Atom is still dead, the exodus begins

It looks like an exodus of high level folk is starting at Intel (INTC) with Anand Chandrasekher leaving the company.
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