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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 30, 2012

AMD’s Thomas Seifert tips up in a CFO position

Don’t worry, it isn’t a long read

It looks like Thomas Seifert, ex-CFO of AMD, has got a new job, but it is only a CFO position, not CEO.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 30, 2012

Windows 8 hard sales numbers are finally out

Analysis: What rhymes with

“Wait for the hard numbers”, otherwise known as the mating call of the Lesser Skulking Microsoft Shill, Redmondus petardsmoochii was heard far and wide this week.
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  • IDC shows Windows 8 is actively destroying PC sales
  • AMD drops support for Microsoft’s Windows 8
  • Valve puts apps on Steam, Microsoft still lacks a Windows 8 strategy
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 29, 2012

Intel’s Broadwell CPU; more details leak

Renames, rebrands, and GPUs

A few details about Intel’s Broadwell chip are now leaking, and the biggest bang is surrounding the GPU.
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Leo Yim
Nov 28, 2012

AMD to launch Radeon-branded SSDs

Fulfilling the all-AMD systems VISION?

Watch out world, AMD is going to launch solid state drives (SSDs) with their own branding soon.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 28, 2012

How does LSI envision the next generation of ARM networking SoCs?

LSI AIS 2012: Think about legos instead of speed grades.

LSI had a talk on the Next Generation MultiCore ARM Architectures in networking devices, and it had some very interesting reasoning for their architecture
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 27, 2012

LSI talks about future flash and it’s problems

LSI AIS 2012: Shrinks are a big problem in this space.

During AIS, LSI gave an interesting talk about the trends in shrinking flash memory, and the problems it creates.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 27, 2012

Microsoft’s problems: Another data point

Analysis: It doesn’t look like much without perspective

A lot of people do not see the dire straights that Microsoft is in, Microsoft has failed and they don’t understand why.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 26, 2012

Intel kills off the desktop, PCs go with it

Analysis: Broadwell has no socket, PCs have no relevance

Updated: Intel is killing the desktop, but not quite as soon as people expect it to, there will be one last gasp, but that is irrelevant.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 20, 2012

Overclocking AMD’s FX-8350

Stock versus aftermarket…

When we reviewed AMD’s FX-8350 we weren’t able to find the time to really explore it’s overclocking capabilities.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 19, 2012

AMD kills off big cores, Kaveri, Steamroller, and Excavator

Analysis: No good words to describe this latest debacle

Updated: Remember when SemiAccurate said that Kaveri was going to be ‘reevaluated’ and slipped to 2014?
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 19, 2012

Amkor’s FCmBGA packaging

LSI AIS 2012: Wire bond package + Flip Chip die = FCmBGA

Amkor was showing off a package type I hadn’t seen before called FCmBGA at LSI’s AIS.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 18, 2012

Netronome and Argon crater network testing prices with Blaster

Two orders of magnitude cheaper than yesterday

Netronome and Argon are putting out a very unique network flow simulator device that should change the market.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 16, 2012

Everspin makes ST-MRAM a reality

LSI AIS 2012: Non-volatile memory with DDR3 speeds

Everspin has introduced a production ST-MRAM memory that combines high speeds, high density, and non-volatile storage.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 15, 2012

LSI has a new family of products, meet Syncro

CS and MX for server reliability

LSI has a new name for the HA-DAS shown at IDF, plus a family to go with it.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 14, 2012

Microsoft has failed

Their actions erase any lingering doubt

Microsoft is in deep trouble, their two main product lines are failing, and the blame game is intensifying.
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  • IDC shows Windows 8 is actively destroying PC sales
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