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Category Archives: Microprocessors

Charlie Demerjian
Apr 28, 2014

LSI shows off new PPC based Axxia AXE3500 chip

MWC 2014: A new old PPC product not from IBM?

You might know about the ARM based versions of the LSI Axxia line, but did you know they are still making new PPC based variants?
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 23, 2014

What console will sell more than all the rest combined in 2014?

GDC 2014: Hint – It’s one you have probably never heard of

What does SemiAccurate think will be the highest selling console of 2014? If you said it is Sony’s PS4, you would be wrong.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 22, 2014

Altera puts hard FP functions in Arria 10 and Stratix 10

Outsized performance boost if you use FP in your designs

Altera today announced a very interesting new feature on its Arria 10 and Stratix 10 FPGAs, a hard floating point unit.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 21, 2014

What kind of numbers are Intel contra-revenue funding?

Somewhere between Motorola and Joe’s Computer shack lies the answer

Intel used the term “contra-revenue” quite a lot during last week’s analyst call, but what exactly are we talking about? SemiAccurate has written some of the details up in the past but we have a couple more interesting angles to investigate.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 17, 2014

SemiAccurate was right about Apple’s foundry plans

Rant: Time to thumb our noses at the naysayers a bit.

It looks like Global Foundries and Samsung are syncing their process tech at 14nm just like SemiAccurate said a year ago.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 17, 2014

Global Foundries and Samsung sync up 14nm processes

Just like SemiAccurate said over a year ago, now it is official

It looks like Global Foundries and Samsung are syncing their processes just like SemiAccurate exclusively said last year.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 17, 2014

Analysis: How many units is Baytrail shipping and why?

Quarterly ananlyst calls provide the answer in two parts

A quick note on Intel Baytrail and tablet numbers that occurred to me during the financial analyst call yesterday.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 16, 2014

Intel finally kicks Microsoft to the curb shattering Wintel

Intel grew a pair last year but only admitted it yesterday

One of the throwaway lines from yesterday’s Intel financial analyst call was the most significant, Wintel is now no more.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 16, 2014

Broadcom’s latest 802.11ac announcement one ups the competition

No new silicon, no new features, but new tenuous marketing aplenty

The 802.11ac press releases are coming thick and fast lately, this time it is Broadcom breaking new ground in marketing rather than tech.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 15, 2014

Is ARM’s monopoly dominance of cow stomach computing about to end?

CES 2014: Well Cow Boluses show the breadth of ARM’s ownership of this embedded market

Well Cow’s Bolus shown at CES demonstrated ARM’s monopoly dominance of the cow stomach compute market.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 10, 2014

Samsung breaks Intel Xeon NDAs in a press release

Forgettable PR other than the corporate intrigue

If you want to know embargo’d Intel Xeon news, don’t wait or sign away your life, just look out for Samsung press releases.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 9, 2014

AMD’s New Athlon: The First System on a Socket

Kabini gets a socket on the desktop…

AMD’s new Athlon and Sempron APU’s are well tailored to low-cost entry level PCs.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 9, 2014

3M, Intel, and SGI immersion cool high density servers in Novec

A new generation Flourinert for modern ultra-high density data centers

3M, Intel, and SGI today showed SemiAccurate a new immersion cooling system running Novec fluids to greatly increase rack cooling efficiency.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 8, 2014

ARM bases their new Compiler 6 on Clang/LLVM

Open sourced frameworks for the mainstream is win for all

With the release of Compiler 6 today, ARM moves from a proprietary architecture to one based on open sourced Clang/LLVM.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 7, 2014

Qualcomm announces two new SoCs, the Snapdragon 810 and 808

Six cores or eight, all of ARM design under the lid

Qualcomm is announcing two new chips with lots of promise but little detail, so say hi to the ARM A57 cored Snapdragon 810 and 808.
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Hot Article AMD to differentiate cores

Hot Article Intel foundry customer bails out

Hot Article Coffee Lake is going to impact Intel’s margins

Hot Article SemiAccurate digs up Intel Coffee Lake specs

Category Archives: Microprocessors

LSI shows off new PPC based Axxia AXE3500 chip

MWC 2014: A new old PPC product not from IBM?

What console will sell more than all the rest combined in 2014?

GDC 2014: Hint – It’s one you have probably never heard of

Altera puts hard FP functions in Arria 10 and Stratix 10

Outsized performance boost if you use FP in your designs

What kind of numbers are Intel contra-revenue funding?

Somewhere between Motorola and Joe’s Computer shack lies the answer

SemiAccurate was right about Apple’s foundry plans

Rant: Time to thumb our noses at the naysayers a bit.

Global Foundries and Samsung sync up 14nm processes

Just like SemiAccurate said over a year ago, now it is official

Analysis: How many units is Baytrail shipping and why?

Quarterly ananlyst calls provide the answer in two parts

Intel finally kicks Microsoft to the curb shattering Wintel

Intel grew a pair last year but only admitted it yesterday

Broadcom’s latest 802.11ac announcement one ups the competition

No new silicon, no new features, but new tenuous marketing aplenty

Is ARM’s monopoly dominance of cow stomach computing about to end?

CES 2014: Well Cow Boluses show the breadth of ARM’s ownership of this embedded market

Samsung breaks Intel Xeon NDAs in a press release

Forgettable PR other than the corporate intrigue

AMD’s New Athlon: The First System on a Socket

Kabini gets a socket on the desktop…

3M, Intel, and SGI immersion cool high density servers in Novec

A new generation Flourinert for modern ultra-high density data centers

ARM bases their new Compiler 6 on Clang/LLVM

Open sourced frameworks for the mainstream is win for all

Qualcomm announces two new SoCs, the Snapdragon 810 and 808

Six cores or eight, all of ARM design under the lid