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Flaming Wafer
Thomas Ryan
Oct 7, 2014

Analyzing the Week: October 3rd

AMD, Microsoft, and HP…

This week we saw the release of a new set of WHQL drivers from AMD.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 6, 2014

SemiAccurate gets word of the first Google silicon

Forget what you have heard, this one was not expected

SemiAccurate has finally dug up some actual info on Google’s top secret silicon projects, or at least one of them.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 1, 2014

ARM releases mbed Device Server IoT software

Techcon 14: The other side of mbed is now here

ARM is taking the next logical step from their mbed platform with the release of mbed Device Server
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Thomas Ryan
Sep 30, 2014

AMD Demos Hadoop running on “Seattle” at JavaOne

It’s alive!

Today at Oracle’s JavaOne conference AMD will be showing its first demonstration of Apache Hadoop running on their 64-bit ARM based Opteron A-series chip.
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Thomas Ryan
Sep 30, 2014

A Look At Corsair’s Vengeance LPX DDR4

A quad channel 16 GB 2.6 GHz DDR4 kit…

As RAM goes Corsair’s Vengeance line certainly has one of the more handsome heatsink designs on the market.
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Flaming Wafer
Thomas Ryan
Sep 29, 2014

Analyzing the Week: September 26th

iPhones, Maxwell, and Intel in mobile…

This week we saw a number of interesting product launches, announcements, and events including a little iPhone bending problem more reviews of Nvidia’s GTX 970 and Intel’s 1.5 Billion dollar investment into a Chinese wireless modem company.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 26, 2014
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iPhones bend and PCs are awful for the same reason

Rant: marketing over engineering well past the point of stupidity

Bent iPhones, unusably awful PCs, and electronics that all cost more and do less have the same root cause.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 25, 2014

Intel buys into Spreadtrum

Now three LTE players under its wing

t looks like Intel is taking a chunk of another company in the wireless space according to multiple SemiAccurate sources.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 23, 2014

ARM ups the embedded contoller game with the new M7 core

Count with me now, 0, 0+, 3, 4, 7….

ARM is introducing a new M-series CPU core called the Cortex-M7, successor to the older Cortex-M4 line.
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Thomas Ryan
Sep 23, 2014

A Look at Avago’s ExpressFabric

Using PCI-E to ditch NICs…

Back at IDF we got to see another really neat technology from Avago called ExpressFabric.
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Thomas Ryan
Sep 23, 2014

Intel’s Core i7-5960X Versus the i7-4790K

Are workstation chips really that much better?

It’s the week after IDF now and we’ve finally managed to complete our Haswell-E testing with Intel’s Core i7-5690K.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 23, 2014

Analysis: Intel Contra-Revenue league battles heating up

What does the game tell us about the players?

The more you hear about Intel’s contra-revenue numbers, the more you shake your head in disbelief.
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Charlie Demerjian
Sep 22, 2014
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VESA puts Displayport1.3 into USB-C

Updated: Alt Mode is what we told you about in January

Remember when SemiAccurate said we had a picture and specs for the new USB-C connector last January?
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Thomas Ryan
Sep 19, 2014

Nvidia’s GTX 980 Takes the Triple Crown

Just like SemiAccurate predicted in August…

Today’s the day and Nvidia’s GM204 in the guise of the GTX 980 and GTX 970 is finally here.
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Thomas Ryan
Sep 19, 2014

Avago Shows Off DataON’s CiB-9224

A 2 million IOPS file server…

Last week at IDF we got to stop by the Avago booth and check out their new file server platform the DataON CiB-9224.
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