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Author Archives: Charlie Demerjian

Charlie Demerjian
Dec 6, 2010

Nvidia to launch GF119 at CES

8 ‘new’ rebranded mobile parts in all

TODAY NVIDIA LAUNCHED YET another Nvidia GeForce R-series card, short for rebrand, but that is not the only one. At CES, Nvidia will launch the GF119 along with a whole series of all new rebrands.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 3, 2010
1

ATI cuts 6950 allocation

Northern Islands goes down a bit

IT LOOKS LIKE AMD is having difficulties with their ability to supply 6950s, they just cut AIB allocations. Luckily that is not the only news about the 6900 series today.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 2, 2010

Confirmation that Intel settles with Nvidia

Two weeks after our exclusive

WORD BACKING UP our exclusive story about Intel and Nvidia settling their patent feud is finally starting to trickle out. As we said over two weeks ago, this case is settled and both sides are just waiting for the ink to dry.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 1, 2010
1

Nvidia GTX580/GF110 bigger than GTX480/GF100

Low hanging fruit in season

NORMALLY I DO not bother with preliminary numbers, but sometimes you have to go with what you have. This time, the die size of the NVidia GF110/GTX580 is such a hot topic we will sacrifice a little precision to get you the info.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 1, 2010

Ivy Bridge server code names leak

Ivy Bridge-EX is has interesting positioning

THE IVY BRIDGE server code names are starting to leak out of Intel central at long last. This one is a high end server part with some interesting connotations.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 30, 2010

CF Association moves from SATA to PCIe

For some reason, no one seems to care

IT LOOKS LIKE the CFast cards we exclusively showed you last spring are actually dead, the CF association didn’t deem 300MBps fast enough. Instead, they went with a newer spec that will hit 500MBps. Unfortunately, it is still a compact flash card, so no one really cares.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 24, 2010
1

Sandy Bridge and Bulldozer support LR-DIMMs

High density, low DIMM count memory

IF YOU ARE one of the people craving large amounts of memory in your server but wincing at the DIMM counts for Sandy Bridge and Bulldozer servers, there is hope. That hope comes in the form of an LR-DIMM.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 23, 2010

AMD’s Llano has a breakthrough

Tale twistier than the river it is named after

A LOT OF people have been wondering what is going on with AMD’s Llano chip, tipped to arrive before Ontario, now delayed until Q2/2011. The story is a bit complex, but after weeks of digging, we can bring it to you with a new surprise ending.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 22, 2010

Photofast makes a Monster 1.5GBps SSD

Four Sandforce SSDs plus an LSI SAS chip

PHOTOFAST IS ABOUT to release a high capacity and hugely fast PCIe based SSD called the GM-PowerDrive-LSI. If you are thinking it sounds like four RAIDed high speed SSDs coupled to an industrial strength RAID controller, you are on the right track.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 18, 2010

GloFo will fab AMD’s Krishna

What’s with all the rumors lately?

THERE HAS BEEN a lot of whispering lately about where AMD’s Krishna chip, the 28nm follow on to Ontario/Zacate, will be made. To anyone actually listening to the AMD analyst day conference call last week, the answer is obvious.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 15, 2010

Nvidia EOLs GTX480

6 months, zero profit

NVIDIA IS EOLING the GTX480, but not really, in a similar fashion to the GTX285 last year. This time, it makes sense though, the replacement is already out.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 12, 2010
1

Intel said to settle with Nvidia

Chipset lawsuit might not see a courtroom

THERE HAVE BEEN lots of rumblings lately about a settlement between Nvidia and Intel over the chipset lawsuit. SemiAccurate has now heard from multiple sources that a settlement has indeed been reached.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 12, 2010

SemiAccurate interviews the founder of AMD’s TFE conference

Dr. Gamal Refai-Ahmed tells all

A LOT OF people don’t understand what AMD is trying to accomplish with it’s Technical Forum and Exposition (TFE). Rather than go into a long rant, we decided to interview TFE’s founder, Dr. Gamal Refai-Ahmed.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 9, 2010

AMD confirms 6900 line

Cayman and Antilles

AMD CONFIRMED WHAT we all knew, Cayman and Antilles are going to be the 6900 series. While not in the slides, they confirmed which is which in their talks.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 9, 2010

AMD talks new mobile parts

Six more code names to out

AMD IS AT it again, this time with mobile GPU code names. Welcome the ‘Vancouver’ series of mobile GPUs, basically a mobile version of the 6800 line.
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