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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 7, 2013

IBM adds .5 dimensions to chip stacks in one year

Common Platform 2013: 2.5D at the 2012 show, 3D in 2013, next year…

IBM had two packaging goodies on display at Common Platform including one that SemiAccurate has shown you before.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 6, 2013
1

Intel takes swift action to correct NUC problems

An object lesson in making the unpalatable less palatable

In the last part, we took a look at Intel’s NUC new mini-PC form factor, what it got you for the money, and how it stacked up to the competition.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 6, 2013

AMD Moves AFDS13

From Washington to California…

Through a blog post on its website, AMD has revealed that it’s moving its yearly Developer Summit from Bellevue, Washington to San Jose, California.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 5, 2013
1

IBM shows off 14nm wafers and flexible 28nm ones

Common Platform 2013: Flexy FD-SOI, FinFETs, fun fun fun

At the Common Platform conference today, IBM showed off a bunch of goodies including two new types of wafers.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 5, 2013
2

Intel’s NUC illustrates why the company struggles in a post-PC world

What starts as a rant ends as a serious margin problem

When Intel first put out the NUC FFRD, SemiAccurate thought that it was not only a bad idea, it illustrated all that was wrong with modern Intel.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 4, 2013
1

Adata shows of evolutionary and revolutionary devices

CES 2013: NGFF SSDs, enterprise, and really big litle cards

Adata had the usual display of bigger, faster, and cheaper memory products on display at CES along with a new product category entirely.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 4, 2013

A Little Known Documentary on Xeon Phi

Ah, the wonders of Youtube…

Back in November Intel published a surprisingly good documentary on the development of its Xeon Phi chip.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 1, 2013

Ingenic Semiconductor powers two of the most innovative devices at CES

CES 2013: Really neat things from unexpected players save a dull show

There were so few interesting things at CES the show was almost painful, but CPU maker Ingenic had two of them at their booth.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 31, 2013
1

E-Fun makes inexpensive Android tablets with IPS screens

CES 2013: Nextbook 7GP and 8GP were a pleasant surprise

You have probably never heard of a tablet maker called E-Fun before, but CES showed that they are worth a look next time you are tablet shopping.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 30, 2013

A few CES bits from SanDisk, Ricoh/Pentax, Moneual, and OCZ

CES 2013: Odd bits with no common thread other than sarcastic writing

Every large trade show has a bunch of cool things that aren’t worth doing a full article on but are too interesting to not share.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 29, 2013

Why Intel’s Tick-Tock model had to die

The reason most cite is wrong

Intel looks to be abandoning their “tick-tock” strategy with a more dynamic flow new process tech, but the real question is why?
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 29, 2013

Analogix shows off MyDP based cell phone to HDTV adapters

CES 2013: SlimPort based MyDP silicon could be very useful

Analogix was at the Displayport booth during CES showing off their MyDP silicon and adapters.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 28, 2013

Seagate jumps in to flash storage with the help of Virident

Virigate or Seadent, neither is a good name

Seagate finally bit the bullet and has released a line of flash storage devices for the enterprise market.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 28, 2013

Lian-Li does something new and innovative in PC cases

CES 2013: Solid and cool, at least as far as airflow is concerned

Lian-Li had a lot of very nice cases at CES, but one really stood out for being, well, innovative.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 25, 2013
12

AMD puts out a cheap embedded APU development board

GizmoSphere is a cheap little board that packs a punch

AMD has released a novel little embedded dev board in to the niche Rasberry Pi created, time to hack away.
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