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Charlie Demerjian
May 14, 2013

Why would Nvidia release an unlocked GTX680 to GTX770 BIOS?

The potential problems were far smaller than the potential AIB payouts

Thinking about flashing an Nvidia GTX680 to a GTX770 lead down some interesting paths that weren’t obvious at first glance.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 13, 2013
5

Get a Nvidia GTX770 free! Bios flash and GTX680 not included but required.

Updated: Same old renaming scam, new silicon my *ss

When SemiAccurate said that Nvidia’s GK114 was canceled and replaced with a re-fused GK104/GTX680 we were a bit off, it is exactly the same chip.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 13, 2013
1

XBox Next/720 architecture only adds to Microsoft’s problems

Analysis: How Microsoft did the hardware wrong and Sony did things right

The PS4 has turned in to the XBox, sans 360, and the XBox Next has become the PS3, Sony has already won the next war.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 10, 2013

Intel talks about their 22nm P1271 SoC process for Silvermont

Part 3: Silvermont is built on a new process variant

SemiAccurate has already talked about the Silvermont core and architecture, now it is time to take a look at the process it is built on.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 8, 2013

Intel gets a new dish for their parking garage

Direct feeds from the alien mothership

If you hang out on the rooftops of parking lots at the Intel Santa Clara campus like I do, you might have noticed something amiss.
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Thomas Ryan
May 7, 2013

AMD Introduces Gamer Series Radeon Memory

APU Owners Rejoice!

In addition to its already available value, entertainment, and performance series memory offerings AMD is rolling out another, even higher performance, tier of memory today called the gamer series.
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Thomas Ryan
May 7, 2013

AMD’s Mark Papermaster Presents At Jefferies

The ARM design is on track…

Mark Papermaster, AMD’s CTO, did a Q&A session this morning in New York where he discussed industry inflection points and AMD’s future.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 7, 2013

Silvermont has a completely new microarchitcture under the hood

Part 2: A look at the core internals at the pipeline level

In the last part of our look at Silvermont we focused on the larger scale advances of this new 22nm Atom core.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 6, 2013
3

Intel launches the 22nm Silvermont Atom core

Part 1: The core on a macro level

Intel is introducing a new 22nm Atom core, and for the first time in the history of the line it is a new microarchitecture.
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Thomas Ryan
May 6, 2013

Where Are AMD’s Z-60 Tablets?

Five months after CES we still haven’t seen one…

At CES this year AMD spent a lot time talking up how it was going to attack the tablet market with its Z-60 APU and its upcoming Temash SoC.
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May 2, 2013

SemiAccurate is now reader supported

Don’t worry, it’s not as bad as you think

Although it was a very hard decision to make, the SemiAccurate staff have made decided to change the format of the site.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 1, 2013

Intel names Haswell intgrated graphics Iris

Lots of meaningless numbers and no specs

Rather than actually fix crippling graphics problems for Haswell, Intel is going on a marketing blitz around the word Iris.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 1, 2013

What is the Sky Lake-EP platform called again?

The one that is two after Brickland or something like that

Some you might know the current 2S Sandy Bridge-EP platform called Romley and its Ivy Bridge based successor is named Brickland.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 1, 2013

Sonics licenses fabric tech to ARM

Opens up a wide world of IP blocks to ARM cores

Sonics and ARM just made an agreement to use Sonics interconnects patents and some power management tech in ARM products.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 29, 2013
2

Nvidia cancels GK11x line, rebrands the current chips as new

No good reasons to do this, lots of bad ones

It looks like Nvidia has canned the GK11x line, replacing it with simple reworking of the fusings of GK10x, something that foreshadows serious internal problems.
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