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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 12, 2012
20

AMD and ARM joined by Imagination, TI, and MediaTek

AFDS 2012: HSA foundation aims to mix, match, and code

It’s starting. At AFDS, AMD today announced the HSA Foundation, basically a governing body for the HSA/FSA architecture.
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Thomas Ryan
Jun 12, 2012
14

AMD Announces CodeXL At AFDS

AFDS 12: A Unified Debugging and Profiling Tool for Heterogeneous Applications…

The big announcement from this session was a new unified profiling and debugging tool for both AMD’s CPUs and GPUs, called CodeXL.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 12, 2012
2

Micron announces volume DDR3/2133 memory

Any guesses as to why it happened today?

Micron announced 2133MHz DDR3 in production volumes today, a good thing for the mainstream.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 12, 2012
17

What comes after Knights Landing?

From Larrabee to Sky Lake, just like we said

What comes after Intel’s Knights Corner in the Larrabee, I mean MIC, line?
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 11, 2012
9

Andrew Richards talks about OpenCL’s future

Power savings, porting to the Sega Genesis, and more useful hints

At GDC, SemiAccurate sat down with Andrew Richards of Codeplay to talk about OpenCL’s past, present, and future.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 11, 2012
5

Netronome lays out their 22nm NFP-6xxx line

Software defined networking at very high speeds

Netronome is finally announcing their first chip family built on Intel’s 22nm process, the NFP-6xxx line.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 11, 2012
15

AMD and Autodesk speed up Maya with OpenCL

Deformed by a GPU at much higher speeds

A lot of people have been wondering if OpenCL has uses in real software, and Autodesk’s Maya is about to answer that question.
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Thomas Ryan
Jun 8, 2012
81

Making An Argument For AMD’s Trinity

It’s all about Vision…

With Computex coming to a close and AMD’s Fusion Developer Summit set to being next week, it seems that we know all that there is to know about AMD’sTrinity chip.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 8, 2012
62

Computex 2012: AMD to launch Tahiti 2 next week

To 1GHz and beyond!

AMD is going to be launching Tahiti 2 in the near future, at least according to almost every board maker in Taipei.
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Thomas Ryan
Jun 7, 2012
23

Intel Updates GCC and the Linux Kernel to Better Support Knights Corner

You can’t handle all of these little cores!

This purpose of this update was to improve support for compiling the Linux kernel, and Intel’s drivers, for the new chip.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 6, 2012
25

Computex 2012: OCZ and Marvell break the SATA speed limit

Climb Kilimanjaro at record speeds

OCZ and Marvell have been working together on a new platform, and it was shown off at Computex in three different forms.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 6, 2012
35

Computex 2012: Intel talks about Thunderbolt

How to dig a hole with words

Intel’s Thunderbolt press conference at Computex was an embarrassment of riches, only without the riches.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 5, 2012
28

Computex 2012: AMD launches Brazos 2.0

A little bump

AMD is launching Brazos 2.0, basically a slightly tweaked Brazos with some new features.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 3, 2012
19

Computex 2012: Asus to announce x86 version of Transformer Prime

Computex 2012: Finally, a shipping PC without Windows

Asus didn’t invite us to their press conference to announce the x86 version of the Transformer Prime, so we don’t feel bad about telling you early.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 3, 2012
19

Computex 2012: Trinity board shown

Intel boards too.

The first Trinity board of Computex was shown off by Gigabyte, but that wasn’t it.
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