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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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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Mar 28, 2011
32

Latest Intel roadmap confirms PCI Express 3.0 for Ivy Bridge

Did you expect anything less?

Up until now Intel (INTC) hasn’t unveiled which PCI Express spec its upcoming LGA-1155 Ivy Bridge processors will support, but their latest roadmaps includes an update which reveals support for PCI Express 3.0, even though it’s a feature that’s not even highlighted on the slide.
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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Mar 28, 2011

Asus P8B WS C206 LGA-1155 unveiled ahead of launch

A feature rich workstation board

Intel (INTC) might not have launched its new chipsets with support for the Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-series of processors yet, nor the processors in question, but details of upcoming motherboards keep trickling out and today we can give you the full specifications of Asus’ upcoming P8B WS boards.
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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Mar 24, 2011
20

Is the 12V-only motherboard upon us?

Fujitsu leads the way to 12V

Fujitsu (FJTSY) might not be the most prolific motherboard manufacturer, but they’ve taken over the business from Siemens (SI) and are producing a range of industrial level motherboards.
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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 16, 2011
5

Crucial does BoM control on DDR3

You need it or you don’t, no middle ground

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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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 15, 2011
14

Nvidia abruptly replaces their CFO

Opinion: No reason for this, nothing to hide, really

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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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 15, 2011
23

Intel desperately tries to deflect ARM’s march into servers

Analysis: Hamstrung by their own market manipulations again

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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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 15, 2011
45

How big is Nvidia’s GF114/GTX560?

Same die, different PR spin

If you recall, Nvidia is claiming that their ‘new’ 500 series cards are new GPUs, but anyone testing the parts knows that they are mere bug fixes.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 15, 2011
32

Microsoft gutted Nokia and runs off with IP

Finns on lifesupport until MS hardware arrives

This is part 2 of 2. Part 1 can be found here, and discusses the funny money around the Nokia/Microsoft deal, and how it is nothing like what the press reported.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 14, 2011

OCZ buys Indilinx

Tinkerbell goes to the valley

OCZ Technologies has just announced that they are buying Indilinx, one of the first makers of SSD and related flash controllers.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 11, 2011
44

Nvidia’s CEO has another ‘woodscrew moment’

Opinion: This one has serious implications

Nvidia’s problem with honesty has cropped up again, and once again, Jen-Hsun Huang showed off something that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 10, 2011
61

AMD finally releases the dual-GPU HD6990

The best card you should not buy

AMD’s Antilles dual GPU card, now known as the HD6990 is finally here, and it is the fastest card money can buy, period. There is only one problem, and unfortunately it is a showstopper.
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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Mar 10, 2011
18

Upcoming AMD E-series APUs leak

Will get higher clocks and Turbo Core support

WE’RE STILL WAITING for details of AMD’s upcoming high-end APUs and CPUs to leak, but details of AMD’s upcoming E-series processors have appeared on the interweb.
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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Mar 8, 2011
1

Plugable launches $65 USB docking client

Cheap as chips, but a bit feature light

WE’VE SEEN ALL sorts of DisplayLink implementations over the past few years ranging from simple USB to display interface adapters to monitors and docking stations.
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