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Author Archives: Leo Yim

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Leo Yim
Mar 27, 2014
1

AMD announces FirePro W9100 and new branding program

No word on price and availability, not even a press release (yet)…

The AMD FirePro family of professional workstation graphics is getting a new member on March 26, as AMD announces the new FirePro W9100 in their “AMD Professional Graphics Showcase” webcast, for those of you who missed the livestream, the webcast can still be watched on-demand here.
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Leo Yim
Mar 17, 2014
2

AMD Hawaii-based FirePro to launch

It’s about time

It seems Hawaii-based FirePro Graphics will finally make its debut on the stage of professional graphics. Hopefully all will be revealed in the event in…
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Leo Yim
Oct 16, 2013

Microsoft officially turns down Mantle

Opinion: Let the hostility begin

Microsoft, on October 14, released a blog post to further push Direct3D, while officially turns down Mantle. This blog post comes as a follow-up to AMD’s announcement of Mantle, a “console-like” low-level API for PC game development, during AMD’s GPU14 …
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Leo Yim
Sep 20, 2013

AMD to livestream GPU ’14 Product Showcase

A large move forward with the social media marketing for AMD

AMD yesterday announced a video livestream for their GPU 2014 Product Showcase event [Author’s note: Read “‘Hawaii‘ launch event”] at 3 p.m. EDT on September 25, to show off some of their 2014 GPU products. The livestream can be accessed …
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Leo Yim
Aug 16, 2013
1

The Microsoft Xbox One backpedaling chronicled

Outsider opinion: Just a hair away from being completely hopeless

Since the reveal event on May 21, the Xbox One has been subject to a lot of criticism and negative first impressions. Even more damage was done because to the presumptuous Microsoft Xbox management team responding slowly to serious customer …
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Leo Yim
Aug 16, 2013

NVIDIA tries to paint a rosy outlook for Tegra

NVIDIA Earning: We expected that and… Oh look, the bright future!

NVIDIA announced quarterly earnings for the company’s second quarter of Fiscal Year 2014 last week. Their Tegra business slumped while the official spotlight is on “record margins”. For the conference call transcript, it’s accessible here on Seeking Alpha (registration required). …
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Leo Yim
Jul 17, 2013

Keynotes for AMD Developer Summit 2013 announced

APU13: Oracle, DICE, Unity3D and the HSA foundation

The keynote lineup for the upcoming AMD Developer Summit was announced, and the lineup is nothing short of interesting. AMD Developer Summit 2013 – Event details: The AMD Developer Summit (APU13 in short for this year), is an annual event …
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Leo Yim
Jul 2, 2013

Thunderbolt is sparse at Computex 2013

WWDC 2013: So Intel+Apple introduced Thunderbolt 2.0 just a few days later

During Computex 2013, we came across a Taiwanese company, showing their latest Thunderbolt devices, next to them were some Intel Thunderbolt leaflets, one particular tri-fold “Thunderbolt Technology Product Showcase” leaflet caught our eyes.
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Leo Yim
Jun 27, 2013

An encounter with NVIDIA Shield

Computex 2013: Initial thoughts and expectations unmet. (Part 2)

Continuing our walk on the showfloor, we encountered an NVIDIA showgirl standing in front of a partner booth, with NVIDIA Shield on her hands. Surprisingly, there are no NVIDIA (or partners) PR around, which probably is a sign of confidence …
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Leo Yim
Jun 21, 2013
4

A look at NVIDIA Computex 2013 marketing strategy

Computex 2013: How not to be low-profile in a trade show.

The usually high-profile NVIDIA surprisingly took the low-profile route of marketing during Computex 2013. So basically what they do is to rely on their partners’ booths, each provided a corner as a showcase of “collaborated” products between NVIDIA and the …
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AMD Radeon Logo 2013
Leo Yim
Jun 18, 2013
1

A glimpse of future AMD graphics offerings

Driver Watch: ABC stands for ‘A Bunch of Codenames’

As far as preliminary AMD graphics drivers go, the INF files are always interesting reads. Yes, these INF files are interesting because they provide some tidbits of information on the products that are supported with the driver.
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Leo Yim
Jun 18, 2013

Sapphire shows multi-display board at Computex

Computex 2013: Proof-of-concept motherboard for digital signage market

Sapphire had a little gem hidden in their show room during Computex. It’s a specially designed motherboard for multi-display applications, especially digital signage markets, with a layout that’s quite different from a normal desktop board. The motherboard specifications are not …
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Leo Yim
Jun 13, 2013

Sapphire shows 18-screen demo in Computex

Computex 2013: It’s more than just the awe in the setup.

Sapphire was showing off their latest and greatest in Computex this year, in a room on the fifth floor of the TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall, just outside the media center.
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Leo Yim
May 22, 2013
2

Microsoft admits they lost the console war with Xbox One

Gamers ignored

Xbox One is just announced, while Microsoft just admits they have lost the war against Sony PlayStation 4 in the most subtle way in the reveal event.
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Leo Yim
Apr 9, 2013
1

MiiPC beats Xbox 360 on parental controls

Rant: Parental controls? Hell yeah.

So Forbes is comparing the MiiPC to the Xbox 360 on the parental control front, they announced the winner goes to MiiPC. But we beg to differ.
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