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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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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 22, 2016

AMD’s Wraith cooler is as silent as they claim

CES 2016: Not much hype overdelivered upon

AMD outed their Wraith cooler at CES and SemiAccurate can say that it really quiet.
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 21, 2016

AMD Updates Its Roadmap for 2016 and 2017

UPDATED: Summit Ridge, Bristol Ridge, and Server APUs…

Yesterday AMD released a new roadmap during its Q4 2015 conference call.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 20, 2016

Intel puts out ‘secure’ CPUs based on insecurity

Opinion: Triple factor authentication and other marketing schemes

Intel is doing a dog and pony show about vPro Security but their CPUs are fundamentally insecure.
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 20, 2016

Synaptics Brings Fingerprint Sensors to Gaming Mice with IronVeil

Can gaming mice bring Fingerprint readers to PCs?

Today Synaptics is introducing a new fingerprint sensor aimed at desktop PCs.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 20, 2016

MediaTek brings HDR video to the set top box

CES 2016: Video and wearables are the new silicon toys

MediaTek had three new chips to show off at CES, an SoC and two wearable controllers.
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Flaming Wafer
Charlie Demerjian
Jan 18, 2016

Guess which vendor is going to hit 12-cores for phones?

Core count wars rage on in some places

Guess who is going to be the first SoC maker to hit the 12-core mark for a mobile device part?
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 18, 2016

Kensington goes wireless and makes luggage too

CES 2016: If you were expecting the expected, they have that too

Kensington had two desktop devices and one bit of luggage to show off at CES.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 15, 2016

WiFithing is an IoT platform for the user, not the developer

CES 2016: Promises of no code may actually be true

WiFithing is making an IoT development platform with a twist, low power radios and a back end.
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