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Apple Inc.
Thomas Ryan
Mar 19, 2014
2

The Automotive Market is a Mirage for Traditional Chip Makers

High unit volume, limited revenue, and razor thin margins

There’s been a lot of buzz around the in car entertainment market lately thanks to the launch of Apple’s CarPlay.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 18, 2014
6

Microsoft adopts Mantle but calls it DX12

GDC 2014: Completely different because it is not called Mantle, just ask MS PR

Just as SemiAccurate predicted months ago, Microsoft has adopted AMD’s Mantle but are now calling it DX12.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 18, 2014

Thief becomes the first AMD TrueAudio enabled game

How can AMD make gunshots sound even cooler?

Thief is the first game to support TrueAudio. We haven’t had a chance to play it yet, but we did get a good look at a TrueAudio enabled Occulas Rift demo.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 18, 2014

AMD and Eidos launch the Mantle version Thief

And steal extra performance from the nether…

Eidos Montreal’s Thief is the second triple AAA game to add support for AMD’s Mantle graphics API and the first game to support AMD’s TrueAudio.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 18, 2014

ARM talks depth culling and 4K for mobile

Updated – GDC 2014: Two demos, two different implications for two different markets

ARM was showing off two graphical demos featuring Mali at GDC, one fairly tame the other technically interesting.
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Leo Yim
Mar 17, 2014
2

AMD Hawaii-based FirePro to launch

It’s about time

It seems Hawaii-based FirePro Graphics will finally make its debut on the stage of professional graphics. Hopefully all will be revealed in the event in…
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 17, 2014

Imagination runs 3DMark Next full shader on an iPad

MWC 2014: Is mobile there yet? If not it will be soon

Imagination had two really interesting goodies at MWC, the previously mentioned VP9 codec and 3DMark Next with full shaders on an iPad.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 13, 2014

Mellanox shows off 56Gb Ethernet cards

MWC 2014: Why? Because we can, that’s why

Mellanox was showing a very interesting networking card to SemiAccurate at MWC, one capable of 56Gb Ethernet.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 12, 2014

Ethertronics makes antennas and tuning chips

MWC 2014: Not really sexy but quite necessary for phones and radios

You probably have never heard of Ethertronics but there is a good chance you have used one of their antenna related products.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 11, 2014

Will Microsoft’s XBox One survive?

If you think that is a silly question, you don’t understand the game

Microsoft’s XBox One is in a far more dire situation than people realize. Why? In a word, demand.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 11, 2014

Ibys puts the fun back into wireless QoS testing with drones

MWC 2014: Most trade show personell drone on, Ibys put stuff on a drone

If you want to test wireless QoS in three dimensions, Ibys Technologies wants you to send in the drones.
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Apple Inc.
Charlie Demerjian
Mar 10, 2014

iOS 7.1 spotted in the wild

MWC 2014: Hidden in plain sight is the latest friuty upgrade

If you know where to look at a trade show, unreleased things like iOS 7.1 are all over the place.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 10, 2014

Gigabyte puts 10GbE on their GA-6PXSVT S2011 board

Storage servers without the piecemeal approach

Gigabyte is putting out an interesting server board, the 10GbE wielding GA-6PXSVT.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 6, 2014

Intel, Altera, TSMC, and the sad, sad state of tech reporting

Opinion: Please let the stupidity end, it is well past painful

Recent breathless reports have come out about Altera dumping Intel as a foundry and going back to TSMC.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 6, 2014

Sandisk shows off two SD cards, an embedded SSD, and a wafer

MWC 2014: Unbridled excitement in the non-volitale memory space

Sandisk had two new announcements at MWC and two items that were not press-release worthy, and yes they were all were flash based.
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