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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 17, 2016

Qualcomm shows up at the Vulkan party with the 820

Snapdragons with Adreno 4xx and 5xx are in the game now

Qualcomm is a day late to the Vulkan party but today the Snapdragon 820 officially supports that API.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 17, 2016

Qualcomm shows implemeted tech at MWC

Gigabit LTE, secure frameworks, and watches all as products

MWC this year will have a host of demos from Qualcomm showing implemented technology.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 16, 2016

AMD Announces Support for the Vulkan 1.0 API

Mantle’s progeny goes cross platform…

Today AMD is announcing initial support via a new beta driver for the recently ratified 1.0 specification of the Vulkan graphics API.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 12, 2016

Arctic Cooling’s Freezer A30: A Review

Cheaper than chips, and overbuilt to boot.

There are three things that attracted me to the Arctic Freezer A30: price, direct contact heatpipes, and a replaceable 120mm fan.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 11, 2016

Qualcomm Announces its X16 Gigabit LTE Modem

Crazy fast…

Qualcomm continues to set new standards for LTE modem performance today with the announcement of its X16 Gigabit Class LTE modem.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 11, 2016

AMD brings hardware virtualization to S7150 GPUs

Welcome to the new VDI oriented trio

Last week AMD launched a new FirePro GPU aimed at VDI, say hi to the S7150 line.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 10, 2016

Amazon Launches its own Game Engine: Lumberyard

There’s a lot of bearded men in Seattle these days…

Back in April of last year SemiAccurate’s own Charlie Demerjian brought news from our moles that Amazon was making major investments into building its own video game development capabilities.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 8, 2016

ARM POPs for a new UMC process

28HPC is perfect for a large market, just not enthusiasts

Last week ARM announced a new process for it’s Artisan POP, UMC’s 28HPC.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 2, 2016

AMD Updates its Desktop Lineup For 2016

New APUs, motherboards, and coolers…

Since CES AMD and its partners have been busy rolling out new motherboards with the 990FX, 970, A88X, and A68H chipsets as a kind of greatest-hits-style compilation album.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 2, 2016

Intel and Qualcomm sync up on 802.11ad interoperability

Both singing from the same detailed spec sheet now

Intel and Qualcomm, the two big players in 802.11ad, have announced they are officially compatible.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 1, 2016

News of Nvidia’s Pascal tapeout and silicon is important

Unfortunately it tells us something bad, very bad

A few weeks ago the press was atwitter about Nvidia and Pascal along with some “incontrovertible proof”.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 29, 2016

Orbitrec 3D prints a bike in the smartest way

CES 2016: Titanium and carbon fiber used effectively

Cerevo’s Orbitrec is claimed to be the world’s first 3D printed bike, and the tech is impressive.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 27, 2016

Gigabyte shows off Cavium Thunder ARM servers

CES 2016: We can’t explain ARM servers at CES but there they were

Gigabyte’s OEM arm was showing off some Cavium servers at CES of all places.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 26, 2016

Enevate introduces a Silicon-Lithium-Ion battery

CES 2016: SiLi names for serious tech advances

Enevate was showing SemiAccurate a new battery at CES, Silicon-Lithium-Ion.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 25, 2016

Sandisk moves things forward a little at CES

CES 2016: Evolutionary and a bit larger, all in degrees

Sandisk has three new items at CES, all evolutionary, larger, or both.
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