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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 29, 2016

AMD’s Polaris 10 becomes the Radeon RX 480

Lots of details change and one new unit

AMD’s Polaris is finally here and SemiAccurate brings you the details of this upgrade.
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Thomas Ryan
Jun 29, 2016

AMD’s Radeon RX 480: A Review

Basically an R9 290X, but better.

Today we’re reviewing AMD’s Radeon RX 480 graphics card. Based on AMD’s Polaris 10 chip the RX 480 is the first 14nm FinFET graphics chip bought to market by the company.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 28, 2016

Shuttle has two interesting SFF offerings

Computex 2016: Still around and still making small PCs

Shuttle was showing off two interesting PCs at Computex, one old and one new.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 28, 2016

What is happening to Nvidia’s GP106 Pascals?

Computex 2016: A tale of two chips in one market

What has become of the imminent Nvidia GP106 Pascal that was mentioned at Computex?
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 27, 2016

VIA Labs shows working audio over USB silicon

Computex 2016: No more headphone jacks with this chip

VIA Labs showed SemiAccurate working audio over USB silicon at Computex.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 24, 2016

Serious problem hits Nvidia’s consumer Pascal GPUs

This one is really bad folks

SemiAccurate is hearing of a serious problem affecting Nvidia’s GPU supply.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 21, 2016

Chenbro breaks the 1PB in a 4U chassis barrier

Computex 2016: Angled drives in 1U for a second innovation

Chenbro had two cases at Computex that took SemiAccurate by surprise.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 20, 2016

Intel launches Knights Landing Phi and other goodies

Supercomputing made into Legos, sort of

Intel is talking about three things this ISC, Phi, SSF, and machine learning.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 20, 2016

ARM completes their block updates with Egil video unit

Mali-Vsomething is now official

The one block missing from the latest ARM updates was the video unit so meet Egil.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 16, 2016

AMD’s Naples is not quite what it seems

This is a good but technical thing, see details for more

A few days ago Fudzilla outed some info about the new AMD Zen based Naples chip.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 14, 2016

How is Nvidia’s channel handling the GTX1080/1070 launch?

Computex 2016: we will be polite

At Computex 2016 we met with a number of the OEMs, partners and AIBs for both AMD and Nvidia to see how sales are doing. This is especially important as Nvidia just launched the new GTX1080/1070 chips.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 13, 2016

AMD releases the RX460 and RX470 names

That’s it, the entire story contains no more useful information

Today AMD is releasing the names of two new cards, the RX470 and RX480.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 13, 2016

Intel’s Broadwell-E should not have been released

Computex 2016: Minor gains, major spin, and no real tech

At Computex Intel launched Broadwell-E to no fanfare for a good reason.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 8, 2016

Nvidia P100 GPU update – Steppings step out

Computex 2016: Somewhere between Bumpgate and OK

If you remember SemiAccurate’s exclusive news about Nvidia’s P100 GPU problems, there is an update.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 7, 2016

Qualcomm announces a few radios, DSL, and Wear 1100

Computex 2016: No big bangs but a lot of advances

Qualcomm had four new releases at Computex ranging from watches to DSL not to mention radios.
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