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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 16, 2012
21

Powercolor shows off an impressive dual HD7970 card

Computex 2012: Devil 13 upstages the fans by miles

Lately, Powercolor has been first in the ‘My card has more than yours’ sweepstakes, and Computex was no exception.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 16, 2012
51

Desperation forces Nokia to cut Lumia price in half

Rant: An Osbourned failure is still a failure

Nokia’s Lumia line is following the corporate path in a spiral down the drain.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 10, 2012
96

AMD’s revenue tanks by 11% in Q2

What caused this so late in the quarter?

AMD yesterday announced an 11% drop in expected revenue this quarter, a massive drop.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 9, 2012
17

Intel buys a large chunk of ASML

And gives them another $1 billion too

Intel is buying a large chunk of ASML, $3.1 billion to be exact, and giving them more money too.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 9, 2012
19

Haswell-EP to use the same socket, just totally different

Socket 2011, just not that socket 2011

It looks like the server variants of Haswell will have the same number of pins as their *Bridge predecessors, 2011.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 6, 2012
11

Tyan has server options at Computex

Computex 2012: 1S to 4U, and lots between

Tyan was showing off a bunch of two and four socket Romley boards and chassis at Computex, all very evolutionary.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 3, 2012
41

Microsoft does not have a mobile strategy

Plan A, repeat what failed last time

Microsoft is lost, clueless, and stumbling in the mobile space, and the latest twist, turning on its own, shows it has no idea where to go next.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 2, 2012
81

Microsoft’s scapegoating explanation doesn’t hold water

Reactionary management incompetence to placate OEMs

When SemiAccurate broke the story about HP dumping Microsoft’s ARM tablets, we actually didn’t expect them to turn on their own quite so viciously.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 29, 2012
157

HP said to dump Microsoft over Surface

WART is no longer welcome at most OEMs

Remember when we said that Microsoft management was essentially incompetent and destroyed their partner relationships with a single WARTy Surface?
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 27, 2012
24

Intel lets you manipulate encrypted data

The trick, no decryption

Research at Intel Day had a lot of cool technologies including one about manipulating encrypted images.
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Leo Yim
Jun 27, 2012
9

New AMD FirePro graphics details

Code names pay tribute to Pixar and Dreamworks

Earlier in June AMD gave a preview of FirePro W9000 professional graphics card on their last keynote for their AFDS 2012 event.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 26, 2012
8

LSI adds PCIe3 to SAS controllers

HBAs for now, RAID cards in Q3

LSI is the first out of the gate with PCIe3 SAS-6 HBAs, and is promising a full line of PCIe3 RAID cards soon too.
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Thomas Ryan
Jun 22, 2012
23

AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 Ghz Edition with benchmarking gnomes

A Review of Tahiti 2

It has been about six months since the launch of the original HD 7970 graphics card.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 21, 2012
45

AMD launches Tahiti 2 aka HD7970GHz edition

Predictions off by a few days

It looks like SemiAccurate’s moles were dead on, today AMD released their HD7970GHz edition with clocks right where we said they would be.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 21, 2012
55

Consent decree over, Microsoft goes back to monopoly forced bundling

That didn’t take long now did it?

Remember that pesky monopoly verdict against Microsoft that ended in a toothless consent decree?
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