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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 7, 2013
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Power your laptop with a USB cable

USB-IF shows off working Power Delivery silicon.

One of the few cool things so far at the pre-CES shows has been from the USB-IF, functional USB-PD silicon.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 4, 2013

AMD’s HD8000 might not make Q1

Sea Islands gets pushed out a little for non-technical reasons

Time for a small GPU update early in the new year, this time AMD, specifically Sea Islands, is the subject.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 2, 2013

Apple’s silicon design capabilities increase

The last remaining hole is now plugged

Apple has been upping the ante on their silicon design capabilities faster than anyone anticipated, with impressive results.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 2, 2013
1

XBox Next/720 silicon production day arrives

Exclusive: Consoles this year mean the chips went in

Remember when SemiAccurate exclusively brought you the news about the XBox Next/720’s main chip taping out?
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Newsdesk
Jan 1, 2013

Happy New Year

Hope the hangover isn’t too much.

Happy New Year
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Dec 31, 2012

Happy New Year

Cheers to you and yours.

Happy New Year!
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 28, 2012

Living with Microsoft’s Surface RT

A Tale of Mixed Impressions

At the end of last week Nvidia released a blog by Brian Burke that chronicled his use of the Nvidia powered Surface RT on a business trip.
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Leo Yim
Dec 28, 2012

AMD says goodbye to their VISION branding?

Pre-CES 2013: Time to focus on the processors again

It seems AMD has decided to say farewell to their short-lived VISION branding, but this change may not benefit the end-users.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 28, 2012

AMD does another reorg, but nothing bad this time

A little more streamlined org chart with no apparent down side, finally

AMD is going through another reorg, and this time it looks to be good news, or neutral at worst.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 26, 2012

Xilinx talks about optical backplane problems and solution

Hot Chips 24: Lots of both and little agreement on anything for the moment

At Hot Chips this year, Xilinx gave a good talk on the problems with electrical and optical backplanes, and what the options are to deal with some thorny impending problems.
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Newsdesk
Dec 25, 2012

Season’s Greetings

No reindeer allowed.

Season’s Greetings.
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Dec 24, 2012

Season’s Greetings

Tired of fruitcake?

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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 21, 2012

Intel cuts out GPUs: technical tidbits

Part 2.1: This just makes too much sense

This article is an update to the “Intel Slams the Door on GPUs” articles, expanding on one technical aspect.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 21, 2012

AMD Publicly Releases CodeXL 1.0

No more betas…

On December 4th, AMD released CodeXL to the general public after a public beta period.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 20, 2012

Intel explains Claremont, the near threshold ‘solar’ Pentium

Hot Chips 24: Luckily they talked tech this time

The question of what would happen if you built a Pentium on a modern process was answered during IDF 2011.
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