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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 28, 2020

How did AMD take the lead in GPU performance

Steps, missteps, architecture, process, and culture

So AMD just took the lead in GPU performance with their Radeon 6000 series, how did they do it?
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 28, 2020

AMD Radeon 6000 series takes the GPU crown

Radeon 6800, 6800XT, 6900XT announced today

Today AMD jumps back into graphics performance leadership with their Radeon 6900XT GPU.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 28, 2020

The AMD/Xilinx merger is a really smart deal

Confusion at first until the light bulb went on

AMD finally made their bid for Xilinx official yesterday to the confusion of the financial world.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 26, 2020

Guess who is looking for a new CEO?

Lots of possibilities on this one

SemiAccurate has gotten word of impending changes to a high level position of a silicon valley company.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 22, 2020

Intel is close to honest on Ice Lake server dates

Stunning change of messaging strategies from Santa Clara

Intel has been promising Ice Lake server chips in volume by the end of year 2020 while SemiAccurate has been saying there was no chance.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 21, 2020

A key market shifts away from Intel

Marketshare changes are picking up pace

SemiAccurate doesn’t usually talk about non-technical matters but this time the news was too interesting to ignore.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 20, 2020

Intel force bundles flash divisions

SK hynix gets a deal and some scraps

Intel is pawning off their moribund flash business on SK hynix todayfor $9 billion.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 20, 2020

Qualcomm may be launching infrastructre silicon today

Two half briefs do not add to a whole

Today Qualcomm might be launching an important new infrastructure platform but we can’t be sure.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 14, 2020

Intel talks about Ice Lake security

A step forward in most areas

Today Intel is talking about the security features in their upcoming Ice Lake CPUs as a teaser.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 8, 2020
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AMD somewhat discloses the Ryzen 5000 series

The best got better in a vague way

Today AMD is teasing their Ryzen 5000 line of CPUs which should beat Intel at everything all the time.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 8, 2020

AMD teases Radeon 6000 performance

Big grain of salt due to disclosure problems

Today AMD is teasing their upcoming Radeon 6000 GPU performance with a single picture.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 2, 2020

Top ARM licensee goes RISC-V with multiple projects

What they are using the cores for is key

With the recent acquisition of ARM by Nvidia, pending, one has to ask how the partners are taking it.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 29, 2020

ARM introduces a trio of automotive cores

A CPU, GPU, and ISP walk into an functional safety bar…

ARM is releasing a trio of automotive and safety modified IP cores today, each significantly changed from their vanilla namesakes.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 24, 2020

Nuvia closes Series B funding

Good to go until silicon release

Nuvia just closed their Series B funding round which should take them through to silicon release.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 23, 2020

A long look at Nuvia’s core performance claims

ARM vs x86 in performance per Watt

A few weeks ago, Nuvia announced their new Phoenix ARM CPU core and Orion SoC with some interesting numbers.
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