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Thomas Ryan
Feb 23, 2016

AMD Launches Three New Embedded G-Series SoC Families

2 New Dies and 3 New Product Lines

Today at Embedded World in Germany AMD’s embedded group is introducing three new product families as part of its G-Series of Embedded Solutions.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 22, 2016

Microchip brings MPLAB to the web with Xpress

Online IDEs come to the PIC microcontroller world

Last week Microchip stepped into the world of web IDEs with their new MPLAB Xpress tool.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 22, 2016

Synaptics shows off 3D display touch and other hacks

CES 2016: A lot of neat non-traditional touch uses

At CES Synaptics was showing off three interesting variants of their tech, all non-traditional uses.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 21, 2016

Sandisk releases a 128GB UHS-II micro-SD card

MWC 2016: If you feel the need for speed, your bus has arrived

Sandisk just announced a shipping UHS-II micro-SD card, a first as far as SemiAccurate is aware.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 20, 2016

Everspin adds two packages and a big customer

MRAM’s in the real world, products and customers

Two new bits of news from Everspin today, a new package and a new customer.
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Thomas Ryan
Feb 19, 2016

AMD’s Wraith Cooler: A Review

UPDATED: Bigger, cooler, and with LEDs…

Today we’re testing out AMD’s new Wraith cooler.
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Charlie Demerjian
Feb 17, 2016

Qualcomm updates RF360 to support X16 GbLTE modems

New RF front-ends from top to bottom, premium to emerging markets

Today’s blizzard of Qualcomm news brings us to the RF side with a new RF360 suite.
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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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