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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 9, 2013
3

Intel shows off Rack Scale Architecture and Rack Disaggregation plans

Current leads to Emerging, then to Future once again

Intel is re-imagining the what servers are, and the result looks nothing like what you think of as a server.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 9, 2013

Intel talks about Briarwood, Avoton, Rangley, and Centerton Atoms

All look interesting but have no chance to succeed

Intel is going code name crazy during IDF Beijing and is teasing three Atom code names.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 9, 2013

Intel talks up three new Xeon families at IDF

By talk we mean nothing other than names, did you expect real info?

IDF didn’t neglect the bigger CPUs for Atoms, there were no less than three families of big Xeons teased too.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 9, 2013

Calxeda jumps aboard HP’s Pathfinder Innovation Ecosystem

Thankless tasks but someone has to do it

The lucky among you missed the HP Moonshot webcast yesterday, but we can sum it up in a paragraph.
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Leo Yim
Apr 9, 2013
1

MiiPC beats Xbox 360 on parental controls

Rant: Parental controls? Hell yeah.

So Forbes is comparing the MiiPC to the Xbox 360 on the parental control front, they announced the winner goes to MiiPC. But we beg to differ.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 8, 2013
14

LSI puts 1TB of SSDs on a SAS RAID card for caching

Intel has two new enterprise parts that take RAID to the extreme

LSI and Intel have just announced a new caching SAS RAID controller called the Nytro MegaRAID with a twist, two SSD.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 5, 2013
20

Microsoft Windows RT price cuts don’t stop the death spiral

Analysis: Drain circling picks up speed, flush inevitable

SemiAccurate went in to detail about why Microsoft’s Surface could not compete against real tablets, and the new price cuts are not going to help.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 4, 2013

Why is Intel so secretive about Phi’s die?

Pictures can reveal more than you think

Ever noticed that Intel is deathly afraid to talk specifics about not-Larrabee Xeon Phi, especially die size?
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Leo Yim
Apr 3, 2013
7

A look at Intel’s Latest PC Game Developer Relations Strategy

GDC Watch: We are still in the game, come optimize for us.

GDC, an annual conference on latest trends and software techniques to game developers, held their 2013 event last week.
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Apple Inc.
Charlie Demerjian
Apr 3, 2013

Apple naysayers seem technically illiterate

Analysis: Apple looks good from here

The world, at least the financial one, seems to be obsessed with trashing Apple for no discernible reason, but they are wrong.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 2, 2013
1

Global Foundries talks about TSVs on 20nm

Wafers fully baked and work just fine

Global Foundries has taken a huge step toward mass-market TSVs with their first 20nm wafer with that technology.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 2, 2013
1

ARM and TSMC tape out 20nm FinFET Coretex-A57 CPU

History is made at night, character is what you are in the dark. – Lord John Whorfin

It looks like TSMC and ARM are getting serious about 64-bit CPUs, they just taped out a Coretex-A57 CPU on 20nm.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 1, 2013

Matterport makes 3D area scanning affordable

GDC 2013: Consumer tech brings sci-fi to normal wallet sizes

A startup called Matterport is cratering the price of 3D area scans by using consumer depth cameras like the Kinect in novel ways.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 28, 2013
2

Havok brings Anarchy to GDC

GDC 2013: Project Anarchy that is, but it isn’t that impressive

SemiAccurate, GDC, Havok, Intel, Prokect Anarchy, Public Enemy, game dev platform, iOS, Android
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 27, 2013

AMD announces SKY, the new cloud gaming line

GDC 2013: Shock of the year, AMD nails marketing

Yesterday at GDC, AMD pulled a surprise move that absolutely floored the entire assembled press in a way that hasn’t been done in a long time.
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