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Charlie Demerjian
May 28, 2011
3

Gigabyte shows off Llano and Z68/SSD boards

Llovely llittle boards, all of them

Gigabyte was showing off three mobos before Computex, two Llano based and one Z68 with a twist.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 28, 2011
9

Gigabyte 6-slot Bulldozer/990FX board spotted

Now we just need the CPUs….

It looks like Bulldozer is close, really close, and the 990FX boards for it look are mode or less done.
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Thomas Ryan
May 27, 2011
21

2nd Generation Distraction Lithography and 3rd Generation Relaxed Silicon

It’s the S|A weekly roundup!

The crew over at Xtreview spilled the beans on the clock speeds of mobile “Llano” chips this week,and NGOHQ leaked a whole bunch of Llano slides, the most impressive part of them being the 145 design wins number.
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Marcelo Tavares
May 27, 2011
13

Microsoft Under Siege, turnaround?

Two days late but at least not a dollar short.

Every time Microsoft (NADSAQ:MSFT) lost a market and woke up one or two years after they start half-hearted attempts to regain the market.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 27, 2011
6

Nvidia to talk about Synergy at Computex

Free as in not free, new as in old

Word has come to SemiAccurate that Nvidia plans to talk about ‘Synergy’ at Computex, something we are told is the new name for Optimus on the desktop.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 27, 2011
3

Intel gets in to the server game at last

Hybrid Cloud, now AppUp Small Business Service is a go

With the release of Intel Hybrid Cloud, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has gotten in to the server game for real.
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Marcelo Tavares
May 26, 2011
20

Microsoft under siege

Day late, dollar short is not usually a good business strategy

It is no secret in the market that Microsoft (MSFT) stock is underperforming. From a peak of 37 USD in 2007, the stock has passed the 25 USD floor and nobody is bullish about the stock.
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Mads Ølholm
May 26, 2011
43

Intel to Dramatically cut Atom Pricing

Desperate to go mobile

When Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)launches Cedar Trail, the latest version of the Atom-processor fabbed on 32nm process technology, we can expect to see the cost drop between 30% and 50% according to several netbook manufacturers in Taiwan that SemiAccurate has spoken with.
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Mads Ølholm
May 25, 2011
9

IBM Automates Wafer Pruning

Rids manufacturing of bad wafers.

IBM is currently testing wafer pruning on its 45 nm process.
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Mads Ølholm
May 24, 2011
48

AMD Gets Seriously Embedded

Wants to take up the fight with ARM and Intel

AMD (NYSE:AMD) has just released a new series of embedded Fusion APUs.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 24, 2011
14

AMD brings FirePro cards into the VLIW4 era

Cayman goes pro with the V5900 and V7900

AMD logoAMD (NYSE:AMD) is finally bringing their FirePro professional line into the VLIW4 era with two new cards, the V7900 and the V5900.
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Wayne Borean
May 24, 2011
25

The Mac OS X Virus That Wasn’t

Click on me, really, just install me please…

A bunch of articles have been written about a new virus that is supposedly sweeping through Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) Mac OS X operating system.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 23, 2011
67

Guess which CEO candidate was seen lurking at AMD HQ?

Be afraid, be very very afraid

Guess who’s back, and in the running for the AMD CEO job?
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Mads Ølholm
May 23, 2011
5

Kingston Feels the Need for Speed

Flash key takes advantage of USB 3.0 technology

Despite the lack of integrated USB 3.0 support from Intel the new standard is rapidly gaining momentum.
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Thomas Ryan
May 20, 2011
29

An Alarmist Title About Sillycon!

It’s the S|A weekly roundup

You can tell that Computex is closing in when all of the new motherboard photos start leaking out. Andrew Link of PC Games Hardware had a photo of a Llano motherboard from ECS. Judging by the spartan power circuitry, it’s …
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