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Charlie Demerjian
May 19, 2015

AMD finally talks about HBM memory

Stacks, TSVs, interposers, but not Fiji yet

AMD is finally talking about HBM today, and SemiAccurate thinks there is a lot of good in the details.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 18, 2015

Disco makes hexagonal and non-regular chips possible

SemiCon: Stealth Dicing and backgrinding make great demos

Disco makes devices to process wafers such as saws, grinders, and processing tools but the results are quite exceptional.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 14, 2015

Qualcomm refreshes it’s IoT device lines

Welcome a new generation on the low end and a new class on high

Qualcomm is launching two new IoT chips today, one is an evolution and the other a new line.
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Thomas Ryan
May 13, 2015

BIOSTAR launches AMD’s Godavari APUs

The partners are ready to roll…

This morning we received an email from Biostar stating that it was now offering official support for AMD’s new Godavari APUs.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 12, 2015

Avago’s PEX9700 turns the PLX PCIe3 switch into a fabric

On die, low latency, and plays games too

PLX, now part of Avago, is finally coming out with their PEX9700 PCIe switching family.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 11, 2015

Nvidia’s Q1/2016 analyst call had three unusual themes

Icera, patent suits, and OEMs all with curious twists

Nvidia’s Q1/2016 analyst call had three interesting themes that caught SemiAccurat’s ear, Icera modems, OEM business, and the Qualcomm/Samsung IP suit.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 8, 2015

Qualcomm’s Zeroth is much more than a few demos

MWC 2015: A full set of mobile machine learning APIs for programmers

Qualcomm talked about it’s new Zeroth platform at MWC and most people didn’t understand the full significance.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 6, 2015

AMD puts out two APU lines and two GPU lines

FAD 2015: Two are mobile, two are desktop, all are vague

AMD just announced two new GPU lines and two APU lines a their Financial Analyst Day.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 6, 2015

AMD puts out a few goodies amid vague terms

2015 FAD: x86, ARM, GPUs, CPUs, and APUs ahoy

AMD is talking quite a bit about it’s future prospects, but aside from a few details it is only in vague terms.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 6, 2015

More details about Microsoft’s self-Palming

Opinion: Technical details explain the song and dance

It seems that Microsoft’s self-Palming is uglier than we thought, some new information makes things a bit clearer.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 5, 2015

Intel launches Haswell-EX now called Xeon E7v3

Lots of goodies and RAS for the 4+ socket set

Today Intel finally fills out their Haswell line with the new 4+ Socket Haswell-EX now called Xeon E7v3.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 5, 2015

Intel releases 12 new Xeon E7v3 models

Speeds, feeds, and a shocking marketing move

Just exactly what is Intel launching today with the new Xeon E7v3 line of CPUs?
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Charlie Demerjian
May 4, 2015

Microsoft just Palmed itself out of the mobile market

Opinion: Please don’t do to us what we did to you for 2+ decades

Microsoft has just Palmed itself, ending any hope of a mobile comeback.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 1, 2015

How well do ARM server work for Paypal?

Pretty good it seems but there are mitigating circumstances.

ARM gave out some interesting server data the other day including some hard numbers from Paypal.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 30, 2015

ARM goes into great detail about the M7 core

The big dog in a world of small cores

SemiAccurate told you about ARM’s new M7 core last year, now we can go much deeper.
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