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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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Mads Ølholm
Dec 29, 2011
1

Britain to launch $25 desktop

Add your own display, mouse, storage and keyboard

The British not-for-profit foundation Raspberry Pi is planning to launch its Raspberry Pi board next month.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 29, 2011
8

Exclusive: Samsung to make a Tizen phone

Linux for the masses?

After spending some time on the east coast, it is clear that the migratory moles there have a great deal of information…
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Mads Ølholm
Dec 28, 2011
16

Intel releases Cedar Trail

Performance figures for the complete Medfield platforms are very promising.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has been so kind as to send us a press release to let us know the Cedar Trail version of the Atom-processor has just been released.
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Mads Ølholm
Dec 27, 2011
7

Samsung in aggressive SSD push

Delivers light weight mSATA drives for ultrabooks.

Samsung Electronics (SEO:005930) have just launched their new mSATA SSD drive…
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Mads Ølholm
Dec 22, 2011
13

Ice Cream Sandwich available on MIPS

Moar options…

Just days after the first MIPS (NASDAQ:MIPS) based tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich was released in China…
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Mads Ølholm
Dec 21, 2011
12

Broadcom does 40G in CMOS

New chipsets dramatically reduces power consumption.

The chipsets from Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM) are the first production units fabbed….
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Mads Ølholm
Dec 20, 2011
14

VMware to support Linux, Mac and Kindle

Never leave your virtual desktop behind

VMware (NYSE:VMW) has released a technology preview of clients supporting Linux, Mac and Kindle Fire
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Mads Ølholm
Dec 20, 2011
5

SD Cards to get hardware encryption

Move your media, maybe

Five companies team up to introduce standard for content protection on SD Cards
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 20, 2011
47

AMD puts out 12 new Llanos, maybe

And shoot off their remaining foot in the process

AMD does it again, they put out a good product, shoot themselves in the foot with messaging it, and manage to leave a bad taste in everyones mouth.
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Leo Yim
Dec 19, 2011

SuperTalent launches “ultra-portable” USB 3.0 SSD

Plus questions to ask before purchase

SuperTalent today announced the launch of the Storage POD Mini, a miniature version of the current Storage POD USB 3.0 external SSD offering.
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Leo Yim
Dec 19, 2011
10

Exclusive: A sneek peek at the AMD VISION 2012 offerings

Fun game inside!

So here is the AMD VISION 2012 lineup, basically what’s new?
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