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Thomas Ryan
Apr 29, 2013

A Look At Intel’s OpenCL Performance

It’s not what you might expect…

Intel recently introduced OpenCL 1.2 compatibility with a series of updates to their OpenCL SDK and their graphics drivers.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 28, 2013

And the GPU in the Haswell MacBook Pro is…….

A lot of people laughed when SemiAccurate called the last round of Apple notebooks as going to Nvidia but we were dead on. This time we tell you what GPUs are going in to the MacBook Pros. No peeking in …
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 25, 2013

AMD Renames its Developer Summit to APU13

Goodbye Fusion, Hello APU

Yesterday, AMD announced that it was changing the name of its annual developer event from the AMD Fusion Developer Summit to the AMD Developer Summit.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 24, 2013

Why Microsoft no longer cares about gaming on the XBox

Analysis: Gaming last among the development priorities for XBox Next/720

A lot of people were questioning our premise that Microsoft doesn’t care about gamers for the next XBox, but there is a very good reason why they don’t.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 23, 2013
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Microsoft cedes consoles to Sony, gives up on gaming

XBox 720 loses badly because Microsoft didn’t try

GDC this year made one thing clear, Sony wins the next generation console race, period.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 22, 2013

AMD’s HD 7790 Versus Intel’s HD 4000

What do you gain from adding discrete graphics to your system?

“What do you gain by dropping an extra $150 on discrete graphics?”. It’s from this perspective that we’ll be reviewing AMD’s HD 7790.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 19, 2013

Archos shakes up cell phones with three new models

Platinum 50 and 53, Carbon 35 are the future, really

It looks like Archos just shook up the cell phone market with three new Android entries, the 35 Carbon, 50 Platinum, and 53 Platinum.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 18, 2013
1

Jak makes DLNA adapters cute again

MWC 2013: By far the cutest USB stick SemiAccurate has ever seen

DLNA and Miricast dongles were a dime a dozen at MWC, but one of the nicest was the Jak from a little Korean company called bCoda.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 17, 2013
1

Intel outs two Open Networking reference designs

A switch and a server to meet every need

Intel is taking the whole Software Defined Networking paradigm serious with the release of two new platforms today.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 17, 2013

HiAlgoBoost For Far Cry 3

A real-time dynamic resolution and texture quality scaling app…

About this time last year we looked at an app called DynamiX from LucidLogix.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 16, 2013
2

Microsoft tries a new Windows 8 damage control message

Analysis: Unleash the astroturfers to blacken the forums ASAP

If you have never seen how a large company does damage control from the inside, the somewhat surreal proceedings are a bit hard to understand.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 15, 2013

Cisco has to fab chips at an Intel foundry

Analysis: It isn’t a choice as much as a requirement

Cisco is going to make chips with Intel as a foundry for one simple reason, they have to.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 15, 2013
1

Putting Intel’s New HD 4000 Driver to the Test

Can it live up to our expectations?

Back at GDC Intel spent a considerable amount of time talking up their latest driver release.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 11, 2013
2

IDC shows Windows 8 is actively destroying PC sales

Just like we told you would happen, just a bit worse

Remember when SemiAccurate said Microsoft had failed?
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 10, 2013

Thunderbolt: Still broken but new parts talked up

Garbage in, garbage out, but still anti-user garbage

Intel is still trying to pretend Thunderbolt is not dead, but two new chips don’t do much to change the underlying problems.
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