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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 9, 2012
1

Intel fakes Ivy Bridge graphics on stage at CES

Caught in the act, Intel has a woodscrew moment

Intel Ivy Bridge graphics are still so broken that company executives have to lie about it to the assembled press.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 9, 2012
29

Global Foundries Fab 8 is making chips

IBM and GloFo jointly make chips in upstate New York

Global Foundries has announced that they are finally making chips in their new Fab 8 in New York, but there is a surprise twist.
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 9, 2012
2

Spotlight: BrazosTweaker

An Under-volting Tool for AMD APUs

Today were taking a look into the tweaking niche that has enviably developed around AMD’s Fusion APUs.
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 9, 2012
2

OCZ taps Marvell for blazingly fast SSD controller

Now using native PCIe to NAND interface to avoid the SATA bottleneck

OCZ (NASDAQ:OCZ) will this week be showing off its latest enterprise SSD at CES.
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 6, 2012
5

Lenovo launches hybrid ThinkPad

Only one question remains: Do you really want one?

It sounds almost too good to be true, but Lenovo (HKG:0992) is launching an X1….
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 6, 2012
6

Marvell’s ARMADA to power next gen Google TV

Gives you almost everything on a single chip

CES is starting is Las Vegas next week, but already now the first press releases are starting to appear…
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 5, 2012
52

Commentary: FX Marketing

Trading enthusiast mind share for consumer sales

AMD’s marketing has been the center of much community ire as of late.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 5, 2012
62

Exclusive: Anyone curious about Trinity?

SemiAccurate has a cure for that craving

So what do we know about Trinity? SemiAccurate knows that it looks like this.
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 4, 2012
19

MSI’s Got a New Big Bang

And this one’s X79 flavored…

Sporting a 22 phase PWM design, dual 8-pin CPU power connectors, and 6-pin power connector…
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 3, 2012
3

Intel thinks Cedar Trail is a dog: reading between bullet points

In our words and theirs, theirs are more damning

Intel has come out with another chip to fend off ARM, and once again, it is a joke.
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 3, 2012

Toshiba rumored to take over Elpida

Acquisition could set the stage for an alliance with Micron.

There is a distinct possibility that Toshiba (TYO:6502) could take over the struggling DRAM manufacturer Elpida…
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Mads Ølholm
Jan 2, 2012
11

UMC develops 0.11 micron aluminum process

Only foundry in the world to go beyond 0.13 micron…

Many companies still prefer to use 8” wafers for products that are not exactly leading edge…
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 2, 2012
48

Exclusive: The next generation AMD GPU is NOT called Sea Islands

Rant: The real name, plagiarism, and humor (Updated)

Every once in a while, you see a story so wrong it makes your head hurt, but that is where the fun begins.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 30, 2011
62

Nvidia GPU roadmap slips a year too

Analysis: Admitting the no longer deniable in Santa Clara

It looks like Nvidia has slipped their GPU roadmap a year, but that is news to no one.
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Mads Ølholm
Dec 29, 2011
3

Elpida launches 4Gb mobile memory

Chips will be available as both standard LPDDR3 and Wide I/O chips.

Japanese memory manufacturer Elpida (TYO:6665) has just started sampling two distinct flavors of mobile DRAM
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