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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 2, 2014

Cavium is now selling 48-core ARM V8 based Thunder X CPUs

Two makes a market but not a crowd yet

Cavium is now officially selling their ARM V8 based Thunder X family of CPUs.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 1, 2014

Can Intel’s SoFIA actually end contra-revenue funding?

What is the polite term for “fat chance”?

Intel’s latest Investor Day made SemiAccurate realize how adept they had become at analyst misdirection games.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 25, 2014

Cypress’s USB 3.0 Superspeed Explorer Kit

Enabling easy USB 3.0 device development…

Back at IDF we got got a chance to talk to Cypress Semiconductor, noted maker of West Bridges, about their latest creation the SuperSpeed Explorer Kit.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 21, 2014
6

Mantle Showdown: Does Mantle outperform DirectX 11?

Yes. Yeeeessss. Yuss. Okay?

In Part 5 of this series we’ll be looking at the benefits of AMD’s Mantle API over Microsoft’s DirectX 11.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 20, 2014

Mantle Showdown: AMD’s Athlon 5350

Little chips don’t amount to much…

In Part 4 of this series we’ll be looking at the benefits of AMD’s Mantle API over Microsoft’s DirectX 11.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 19, 2014
2

What do megadatacenters pay for CPUs?

Analysis: Two thing are more surprising than the actual numbers

Exactly how much megadatacenters pay for CPUs has been one of the major debates around SemiAccurate HQ for a while now.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 19, 2014

Mantle Showdown: AMD’s R9 270X

Part 3: Mantle on mainstream hardware…

In Part 3 of this series we’ll be looking at the benefits of AMD’s Mantle API over Microsoft’s DirectX 11.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 18, 2014

Mantle Showdown: AMD’s A10-7850K

Part 2: Mantle on entry level hardware…

In Part 2 of this series we’ll be looking at the benefits of AMD’s Mantle API over Microsoft’s DirectX 11.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 17, 2014

Intel ‘talks about’ Knights Landing and Omni-Something

Rant: Another content free technical briefing to grab at headlines

Intel has a big problem and today’s Knights Something and Infiniband announcement is a glaring reminder of it.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 17, 2014

Marvell adds PXA1908 and PXA1938 64-bit LTE SOCs to the mix

Filling out the stack in time for CES

If you liked the Marvell PXA1928 SemiAccurate told you about at Computex, you will love the new PXA1908 and PXA1938 SoCs.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 17, 2014
1

Mantle Showdown: AMD’s Radeon R9 290X

Part 1: How does Mantle perform at the high-end?

In this series we’ll be looking at the benefits of AMD’s Mantle API over Microsoft’s DirectX 11.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 11, 2014

Intel adds M.2 form factors to S3500 enterprise SSDs

Updated: Smaller and larger drives at the same time

Intel just put out two new lines of data center oriented drives in the S3500 family, one M.2 and one 2.5 inch. While both are similar in function, the form factor differences point to very different use cases. First off …
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 11, 2014

A long look at the new Imagination 7-Series GPUs

The a lot like the 6-Series only different and better

It looks like Imagination is getting ready to introduce their new 7-Series GPUs in both 7TX and 7XE forms.
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Flaming Wafer
Charlie Demerjian
Nov 6, 2014

Another player jumps into the networking/SDN chip market

Word has reached SemiAccurate of a new entrant recently stepping into the networking/SDN/thosethingies market.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 4, 2014

Coil Whine is a Problem for Everyone

And not just Nvidia…

Recently there’s been quite a bit of talk about users reporting coil whine issues with retail GTX 970’s.
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