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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 27, 2012
10

ARM adds Mali support to the new DS5 suite

GPGPU on mobiles, now with less pain

A few weeks ago, ARM put out their new CPU/GPU compiler suite called Development Studio 5 (DS5).
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Mar 27, 2012
3

AFDS 2012: All the news, plus links

Updated with links as we go.

All the AFDS 2012 stuff here.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 26, 2012
15

One Kepler Later…

And we’re still not quite sure what the big one will look like…

It’s the S|A Weekly Roundup!
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 23, 2012
16

Buffer Overflow: Flushing News to Roundup

Quick hits…

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Thomas Ryan
Mar 23, 2012
12

Lucid Releases DynamiX Software

Real-time dynamic resolution scaling

Yesterday our favorite niche graphics company, Lucid Logix, released a new piece of software designed to specifically to make Skyrim playable at reasonable quality settings on Intel’s Core-i5 based Ultrabooks.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 22, 2012
23

Kyocera Honey Bee is the fastest and ugliest phone out there

GDC 2012: With great speed come great ugly

The world’s fastest phone is also the ugliest phone out there, but if I am wrong, don’t link corrections please.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 21, 2012
1

Stock in the Channel: March 2012

Now that the 7 series is all here, are their enough parts to meet demand?

Now that AMD’s full set of 7 series GPUs is out in the wild we decided to take a look and see what availability was like.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 21, 2012
40

IBM Power 7+ spotted, and it is a monster

Common Platform 2012: Mine is bigger than yours

Every once in a while, a company will do something really unexpected, like IBM’s laying down the law in packaging last week.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 20, 2012
25

Samsung shows 14nm and 20nm wafers

Common Platform 2012: Fins, no fins, and a little quiz

Samsung wasn’t going to be shown up by IBM at the wafer bragging sweepstakes, so they showed of a 14nm wafer and a 20nm wafer.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 19, 2012
15

AMD launches 1S Opteron 3200 series

Low cost hosting part for large providers

AMD is launching single socket Opteron’s today, welcome the new 3200 series.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 19, 2012
28

IBM shows off 14nm wafer

Common Platform 2012: FinFETs testing away

IBM was the first to show off 14nm wafers at Common Platform last week, and they are pretty.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 19, 2012
29

Simple Fixes and Library Updates

ATI’s first Crossfire implementations still haunt us today…

One of my favorite games is an older real time strategy game called Company of Heroes; it’s a game that I’ve purchased five copies of.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 19, 2012
9

Global Foundries shares the cost of doing business

Common Platform 2012: Upwards for both mood and costs

Of the three keynotes at the recent Common Platform conference, Global Foundries was tasked with discussing the business side of things.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 19, 2012
7

Kepler or Not

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Last week was a busy one, rumors are pouring out from almost every forum about Nvidia’s apparently soon to launch Kepler architecture.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 19, 2012
79

Samsung Exynos 5 GPU specs captured

Common Platform 2012: And the dev board too……

Running around at Common Platform, we happened to notice a little slide on Samsung’s Exynos 5 series specs.
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