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2015 AMD Logo
Charlie Demerjian
Nov 6, 2015

AMD and Globalfoundries announce 14nm silicon

No product just a vague comment about FinFETS working

AMD and Globalfoundries are announcing the birth of their new 14LPP process, cigars from SemiAccurate all around.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 4, 2015

Asrock Rack launches three Greenlow workstation boards

Skylake with less fuses blown and even PCI no ‘e’ slots!

Asrock Rack has three new Skylake workstation boards out or at least one board in three sizes.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 3, 2015

Continuum is Microsoft’s Alternative to the PC

PC Does Whaaat? Is Microsoft Hedging its Bets

What you may have missed, or more likely miss understood, was Continuum.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 2, 2015

AMD revamps Catalyst to Radeon Software Crimson

Now bigger, prettier, and far less useful screens

AMD is finally bringing their drivers into the current decade, partially, with the new Crimson release.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 30, 2015

Flex Logix embeds small FPGAs in designs

Updated: You can add memory and DSPs too should you need

Flex Logix, maker of embedded FPGA IP, just announced a new round of funding a few days ago.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 27, 2015

ARM out CCI-550 interconnect and Mimir GPU

Not to mention a new DMC-500 memory controller

Today ARM is announcing a new interconnect called CCI-550, a new GPU called Mimir,
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  • ARM updates CoreLink with CCN-502 and CCN-512
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 23, 2015

Fixing the PC market is easy but no one will do it

Part 2: The serious bits behind the pandering nonsense of Whaaat?!

On a serious note, what can be done to fix the PC and thus the PC market?
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 22, 2015

Microsoft, Intel, Lenovo, Dell, and HP CMOs think you are an idiot

Updated: “PC does Whaaat?!” campaign us underhanded, unethical, and well backed

Microsoft, Intel, Lenovo, Dell, and HP think their customer base are rank idiots.
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 21, 2015

AMD Launches New R-Series Embedded Processors

AMD’s Merlin Falcon is swooping in…

Today AMD is unleashing an embedded version of their ‘Carrizo’ laptop APU codenamed ‘Merlin Falcon’ as an update to the AMD R-Series of embedded processors.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 20, 2015

Qualcomm updates IPQ SoCs and outs a G.fast DSL pair

The home gateway and WAN market just got faster

semiaccurate.com/2015/04/27/qualcomm-talks-802-11ac-mu-mimo-details/
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 16, 2015

AMD Reiterates Its Confidence in Zen

It will launch before the end 2016…

The departure of legendary CPU architect Jim Keller from AMD last month after a three-year stint has stirred fears that AMD’s make-or-break Zen CPU architecture is in trouble.
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 15, 2015

AMD Announces a New Joint-Venture

Cutting CAPEX to stem the bleeding…

Just before its earnings call today AMD announced that it had signed an agreement with Nantong Fujitsu Microelectronics to create a new joint-venture.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 14, 2015

Qualcomm teams up with Xilinx and Mellanox for servers

ARM servers with connectivity and FPGAs

Last week Qualcomm, Xilinx, and Mellanox all teamed up for a server announcement.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 12, 2015

Nvidia patent licensing program devastated by ITC ruling

Analysis: It doesn’t look good

When Nvidia announced their current patent licensing program, SemiAccurate called it a “trolling scheme”.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 8, 2015

Soft Machines talks VISC architecture details

Not just what it does but more on how

When SemiAccurate last talked about Soft Machines there were some big open questions.
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