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Charlie Demerjian
May 8, 2014
5

One more tidbit about the AMD ARM core bubbles up

Updated: Not much more than a name, what’s in a name again?

On Monday, AMD finally announced they have an ARM architectural license and are making their own v8A core.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 7, 2014

Analysis: How is Nvidia going to beat their numbers this quarter?

Updated: SemiAccurate told you weeks ago, but lets connect the dots anyway

There has been a lot of talk lately about Nvidia and beating their numbers, it came as a shock to some but not SemiAccurate readers.
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Thomas Ryan
May 7, 2014

Intel Touts Dominance in Chromebooks

If not Wintel then perhaps Inoogle?

Today Intel and its partners rolled out a series of new Bay Trail-M Chromebooks that run Google’s maligned Chrome OS.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 5, 2014

Does Bigcommerce actually have a working product?

An ecommerce tale with a personal ending

For me, Bigcommerce crossed the line from incompetence to scam in the way many once promising startups do, in dealing with customers and money.
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Thomas Ryan
May 5, 2014

AMD’s A10-7700K: The other K

Taking a step down the pricing ladder…

The first is the A10-7850K and second is the A10-7700K which is the chip we’re reviewing today.
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Thomas Ryan
May 1, 2014

AMD begins Private Mantle SDK Beta

Opening the flood gates to developers willing to apply…

Today AMD is launching a beta program for its Mantle API software development kit.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 30, 2014
4

Intel launches a new Atom-based NUC

Lower the power, and the cost.

Today Intel in announcing the availability of its first Atom-based barebones NUC kit, the DE3815TYKHE.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 30, 2014

Nvidia silently delays the irrelevant Titan Z

Spring is warming up; but the GPU wars are cooling down…

The internet echo chamber is at full volume regarding the curious lack of availability of Nvidia’s Titan Z dual GPU monster graphics card.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 29, 2014

Why we benchmark with Vertcoin

Crypto-currencies are a messy business…

Using Vertcoin as a measure of OpenCL-based GPU compute performance in our benchmarking suite is the result of all that work.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 28, 2014

Intel Champions Micro Servers at World Hosting Day 2014

Intel’s finally interested in selling lots of little chips…

Intel offers two lines of chips to choose from in the micro server space, low power Xeons and Atom SoCs.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 28, 2014

LSI shows off new PPC based Axxia AXE3500 chip

MWC 2014: A new old PPC product not from IBM?

You might know about the ARM based versions of the LSI Axxia line, but did you know they are still making new PPC based variants?
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 24, 2014

Checking out Kingston’s HyperX FURY RAM

So… Much… FURY RAM

We recently had a chance to play with an 8 Gigabyte (2 x 4 GB) HyperX FURY memory kit sent to us by Kingston.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 23, 2014
14

What console will sell more than all the rest combined in 2014?

GDC 2014: Hint – It’s one you have probably never heard of

What does SemiAccurate think will be the highest selling console of 2014? If you said it is Sony’s PS4, you would be wrong.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 22, 2014

Altera puts hard FP functions in Arria 10 and Stratix 10

Outsized performance boost if you use FP in your designs

Altera today announced a very interesting new feature on its Arria 10 and Stratix 10 FPGAs, a hard floating point unit.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 22, 2014
2

Samsung lays down the design law to Apple

By their own words, Samsung is a design powerhouse

A new wrinkle just showed up in the endless Samsung vs Apple legal stupidity and it may put the entire matter to rest.
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