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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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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The AMD and Global Foundries Wafer Purchase Agreement (WPA) that was released yesterday made little to no sense.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It looks like an exodus of high level folk is starting at Intel (INTC) with Anand Chandrasekher leaving the company.
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If you are annoyed at Facebook’s repeated trampling on your rights, barely skirting legality, and selling you out to any sketchy third party that hands them cash, you can fight back.
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Tyan (TSE: 2315) has an interesting little not-a-blade-really micro-server called the FM65-B5511. It packs 18 servers into a 4U rack node, and a 1GbE or 10GbE switch module.
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Crucial is dropping a BoM on enterprise server memory customers with their new BoM-controlled RDIMM line. It may not seem like much if you don’t need it, but to those that do, it is worth more than gold.
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It looks like Nvidia (NVDA)just abruptly ended the term of their CFO for reasons that they don’t want public. The official explanation on why David White is going is for ‘personal reasons’, nothing to worry about there, really.
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Intel (INTC) is desperately trying to stem the tides of defection among server vendors moving to ARM (ARMH), but they are hamstrung by the company’s own market manipulation. The exclusion of competitors not only meant tepid chips that no one wants, it is now excluding the very partners that Intel wants.
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