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Charlie Demerjian
May 10, 2016

Time for an ARM code name blizzard

Four plus one equals four for some reason

It’s that time of year again, SemiAccurate’sARM code name blizzard season.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 9, 2016

What does ARM v8.2A add to the mix?

We can shed light on at least on interesting change

So what does ARM v8.2A ISA bring to the table?
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Thomas Ryan
May 5, 2016

AMD’s A10-7890K: Socket FM2+’s Final Flagship

AMD Breaks through the Teraflop barrier…

In this review we’ll be comparing AMD’s new 95W APU flagship the A10-7890K to the first socket FM2+ flagship the A10-7850K and its replacement the 65W A10-7860K.
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Thomas Ryan
May 4, 2016

When Vapor Chambers Fail

Looking a little bloated in the middle…

How do you know it’s time to replace your old graphics card? Back in the day they would just quit working.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 3, 2016

Thing go bump(gate) in the night for Nvidia’s GP100 Pascal GPU

No working samples at GTC for a good reason

It looks like the bane of Nvidia, metal problems, are back on the Pascal GPU.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 2, 2016

Cavium’s Octeon TX blends compute and packet moving

Take an Octeon III and add Thunder to please providers

What do you get if you add ARM cores to a Cavium Octeon CPU? An Octeon TX SoC.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 2, 2016

Qualcomm releases Zeroth API to developers

Hardware optimized machine learning is a good thing

Qualcomm’s Zeroth AI API is finally here in SDK form for developers to hack at.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 27, 2016

Another detail about Qualcomm server SoCs revealed

This one explains more than the numbers

Another important detail about Qualcomm’s upcoming server chips has leaked to SemiAccurate.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 26, 2016

AMD finally really honestly launches the dual Fury

Now called Radeon Pro Duo and aimed at creators

Today AMD re-re-re-released the Dual Fury card now called the Radeon Pro Duo.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 25, 2016

AppliedMicro’s X-Gene 3 Aims for Intel’s E5 Xeons

Taking ARM into performance oriented servers…

Last week Applied Micro (APM) and the Linley Group released a white paper detailing the performance goals of APM’s X-Gene 3 server chips that are due for release in H2 2017.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 22, 2016

AMD’s Chinese JV is like the other and different

If you look at it the right way, all is clear

AMD’s’ joint venture with Chinese firm THATIC is like the other JVs and different too.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 21, 2016

AMD’s Athlon X4 880K: A Review

The GPU-less socket FM2+ flahship…

In this review we’ll be comparing AMD’s new 95W Athlon X4 880K CPU to two of AMD’s latest APUs the new mainstream A10-7860K and the updated APU flagship A10-7890K.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 20, 2016

Intel delays yet another LTE product

Someday they will have working silicon, just not soon

Intel has massively delayed another LTE product, the broken record keeps repeating.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 19, 2016

Nvidia’s Pascal reveal held some interesting details

What was said and what wasn’t are quite important

Nvidia finally showed off Pascal a few weeks ago and there was a lot of interesting detail.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 14, 2016

AMD get to 32GB GPUs first with the FirePro W9100

Old card with new memory makes creative types swoon

AMD today hits the 32GB GPU mark with their FirePro W9100 card.
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