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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 8, 2012
4

Haswell is a graphics monster

Don’t believe the rumors of mediocrity

There has been a lot of talk about Haswell and its lack of graphics prowess.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 7, 2012
15

Intel admits Haswell uses transactional memory

Pretend you didn’t know, they will feel better

Intel is finally admitting what Andreas Stiller has been saying for some time now, Haswell uses transactional memory.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 7, 2012
22

Fabless Works for AMD

Deep partnerships with both Global Foundries and TSMC keep things humming…

There have been a lot of stories lately about AMD’s future. One rather overlooked story is how AMD is moving forward with its fabless supply chain strategy.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 7, 2012
57

GK110 tapes out at last

Big Kepler is big, long cat is longer

With the size of GK104 now pretty settled, what about the big one?
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 6, 2012
1

Why did AMD drop two cores from server chips?

FAD 2012: it’s all in the slides

A lot of people are in a tizzy because AMD has changed the upcoming Seoul CPU from 10 to 8 cores.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 6, 2012
82

How big is the Kepler/GK104 die?

Bigger than we thought, smaller than Tahiti

There are a bunch of rumors floating about GK104/Kepler, but nothing concrete on the physical chip.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 3, 2012
107

Is Intel about to lose in the Ultrabook market?

To AMD no less…

Much has been said about Intel’s new Ultrabook form factor.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 2, 2012
33

More details about some new AMD cores

AMD FAD 2012: Details, details, details

In case you haven’t been paying attention, it is roadmap season at AMD, and now it is Desktop CPU time.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 2, 2012
4

Three new Piledriver server code names surface

AMD FAD 2012: Abu Dhabi, Seoul, and Delhi are Piledrivers

AMD is now talking server roadmaps, and another crop of new names is revealed.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 2, 2012

AMD outs new client code names

AMD FAD 2012: Temash is for tablets

AMD is talking about client and graphics now, with a few new code names outed.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 2, 2012
28

AMD opens up Bobcat to 3rd party IP

Financial Analayst Day 2012: Just like we said

Updated: Mark Papermaster just confirmed what SemiAccurate has been saying for years, AMD is opening up Bobcat to 3rd party IP.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 1, 2012
1

Physics hardware makes Kepler/GK104 fast

That is the marketing claim anyway

Nvidia’s Kepler/GK104 chip has an interesting secret, a claimed Ageia PhysX hardware block that really isn’t.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 31, 2012
6

SeaMicro packs 2TB of DRAM into a 10U

Not to mention 64 Xeons, drives, and 10GbE

SeaMicro, Intel, and Samsung have teamed up to bring you something very dense and powerful.
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 30, 2012
21

Chinese CPU shines in $89 tablet

It’s not quite an iPad, but the price is right for an awful lot of customers.

Last month Chinese manufacturer Ainol launched a 7” tablet based on the Chinese microprocessor JZ4770 developed by Ingenic in Beijing.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 29, 2012
13

Tilera releases 16 and 36-core TILE-Gx chips

Two out, two to go too

Tilera is finally shipping their 3rd generation TILE-Gx processor in volume, or at least half of the Gx family.
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