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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Nov 19, 2010

The tale of the backwards computer display market

Sometimes logic doesn’t prevail

IF YOU’VE BEEN using computers for a few years, then you’ll most likely know that we’ve moved from 4:3 or 5:4 aspect ratio CRTs to 4:3 LCDs to 16:10 LCDs to finally end up with 16:9 LCDs being the most common type of LCD screen available. That in itself might not be an issue for many, but why in the name of all things unholy have we ended up with lower screen resolutions today than what we had a decade ago?
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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 12, 2010

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
Oct 30, 2010

Nvidia to paper launch GTX580 in a week

No chips, no hope, just spin

THE DESPERATION AT Nvidia has reached silly proportions, with the paper launch of the GTX580 pulled in from ‘Cayman Day’ to ‘Investor Conference Call Day’, both holidays in November. I wonder how many reviewers will overlook the fact that there won’t be cards this year?
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 24, 2010

AMD breaks it’s own naming scheme with the 6870

Good chip, bad naming

AMD TOOK THE worst possible route in naming their new 68×0 cards, and the explanations for it only make things worse. No, scratch that, it isn’t the worst possible route, but it does destroy a long standing and well thought out convention.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 21, 2010

AMD’s 6800 brings lots of goodies to the table

A clean kill for performance and price

TODAY, AMD IS launching two new cards from it’s Northern Islands family of GPUs, the HD6850 and HD6870. These cards, based on the ‘Barts’ chip are both mid-range players that will redefine mainstream performance and devastate Nvidia’s margins.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 10, 2010

The tech community lost two of it’s best this week

Losses at Intel and MSI will be felt for a long time

THE TECH WORLD lost two of their better people this week, both at far too young an age. It is our sad duty to inform you about the passing of Intel’s Greg Wagnon and MSI’s Cyril Pelupessy.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 5, 2010

Why Nvidia is killing their partners with branded cards

Short term gain, long term pain

WHY IS NVIDIA screwing it’s partners by cutting them out and directly competing against them? That one is easy, they are circling the wagons and grabbing a bigger share of a shrinking pie because plans A and B didn’t work out.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 23, 2010

Nvidia blames TSMC for Fermi’s Failures

Once again, NVDA can’t do anything wrong

JUST WHEN YOU thought things could not get any worse, Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang gets in front of the press and blames TSMC for Fermi’s problems. Yes, you heard it right, Fermi’s delays, performance misses, and problems were all the fault of TSMC.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 23, 2010

Nvidia’s Kepler and Maxwell barely beat Moore’s law

GTC looking more like last year, snowy

NVIDIA’S JEN-HSUN WANG gave a masterclass in how to snow the trusting last Tuesday during the keynote of their GTC conference. He bent statistics well past the breaking point, and the tame press lapped it up, parroted it back, and didn’t check a single stat. Mission accomplished.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 22, 2010

Tim Sweeney and Andrew Richards talk about the future of graphics

The whole debate – Who eats the peeps?

Tim Sweeney and Andrew Richards were kind enough to put up with Charlie’s questioning, interrupting, and, in general, badgering about the future of gaming and coding at GDC 2010. As requested, shall we say, demanded, by our paying readers, this includes all six parts in one go.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 21, 2010

Intel fails at Internet 101: Don’t be an idiot

Master class in how to be impotent and annoying

INTEL HAS JUST failed at Internet 101, basically how to make yourself not look stupid and impotent while failing to accomplish anything at the same time. Luckily, while stupidly thrashing, they are pissing off the very geeks who are likely to be their best customers.
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Newsdesk
Sep 20, 2010

Northern Islands Barts

benefits to moar, bigger?

WE’VE SPENT A fair bit of time over the last month pondering the upcoming Radeon series from AMD. Specifically, the card which is rumored to be the 6770 is of interest. Sure the bigger cards get the crowns and bigger fanfare but this should be a card that most of us are more likely to buy given the price ranges.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 15, 2010

In Soviet IDF, your badge watches you

IDF 2010: RFID on the fly

ONE SCARY THING about IDF is the RFID tracking, and how people tacitly accept it. The badges each have an RFID chip in them, and you can be tracked wherever you go, and wherever Intel wants to watch you.
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