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2011 Opteron Logo
Charlie Demerjian
Aug 26, 2012
11

AMD pitches Opterons as a VM TCO play

A little less performance for a lot less money

AMD hasn’t been doing all that well in the server arena of late, so how do they pitch their CPUs to that market?
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 26, 2012
9

AMD adds a server GPU lineup to the mix

FirePro -W +S = Server part

AMD has two new server GPUs out, please welcome the new FirePro S7000 and S9000 cards to the mix.
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Thomas Ryan
Aug 17, 2012
29

Pandora: The Handheld Console for Linux Tweakers

The story of an online community bringing a product to market…

It took a long time to get all of the pieces into place (read: 4 years of hardship and delays), but the Pandora has finally matured into the handheld console that its steadfast supporters have always hoped it would.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 9, 2012
6

Pretec has some really innovative SSDs and flash devices

Computex 2012: Just when you thought you had seen it all

In a Computex that was full of minor steps, Pretec was a standout with several new ideas, and a few new takes on older ones.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 9, 2012
116

Valve puts apps on Steam, Microsoft still lacks a Windows 8 strategy

Opinion: Microsoft management still doesn’t get their own market

Valve is giving Microsoft the single finger salute by offering apps on Steam, and users win
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 6, 2012
2

Thecus updates home and SMB NASes

Computex 2012: CPUs, touchscreens, and 10GbE NICs

Thecus was showing off two lines at Computex, the evolutionary Vision, and the more comprehensively updated Toptower.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 2, 2012
13

HP trounces Oracle in court, but Oracle decisively wins

Oracle has to smile and play nicely with Itanium, har har.

Looks like HP kicked Oracle from the courtroom to the gutter, but somehow still lost the overall war.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 31, 2012
11

SandForce updates their SSD controllers for lower power

And sells millions in the process, pun intended

LSI/SandForce has a new metal layer spin of their 2100 and 2200 controllers, optimized to save power.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 24, 2012
3

VMTurbo joins the OpenStack Community

How to do open source the right way, and make money doing it

VMTurbo, maker of cloud management software, has announced that they are joining the OpenStack Community.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 24, 2012
5

Synaptics has three new interface goodies to show

Computex 2012: NFC, active pens, and controllers

Synaptics is finally starting to emerge from their shell, and are talking about the spiffy new UI technologies they have to offer.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 19, 2012
9

Corsair shows DSP PSUs and DDR3/3000

Computex 2012: Memory, SSDs, and lots of toys

Corsair had a lot of solid evolutionary products at Computex, and one new idea to top it off.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 18, 2012
11

Calxeda lets you test drive an ARM server cloud

ARM or x86 head to head, same software stack

Ever wonder how the upcoming wave of ARM based servers will stack up against their x86 competition?
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 16, 2012
51

Desperation forces Nokia to cut Lumia price in half

Rant: An Osbourned failure is still a failure

Nokia’s Lumia line is following the corporate path in a spiral down the drain.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 3, 2012
41

Microsoft does not have a mobile strategy

Plan A, repeat what failed last time

Microsoft is lost, clueless, and stumbling in the mobile space, and the latest twist, turning on its own, shows it has no idea where to go next.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 2, 2012
81

Microsoft’s scapegoating explanation doesn’t hold water

Reactionary management incompetence to placate OEMs

When SemiAccurate broke the story about HP dumping Microsoft’s ARM tablets, we actually didn’t expect them to turn on their own quite so viciously.
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