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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 4, 2013

ARM talks tech about the 32-core CCN-508 bus

Techcon 13: CCN-504 almost doubled in every respect

ARM is launching the successor to the CCN-504 bus, say hi to the new 32-core supporting CCN-508 bus.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 4, 2013

16-core ARM A15 based LSI Axxia silicon spotted

Techcon 13: It’s real, it runs, and if you have a basestation to upgrade it is for you

That 16-core A15 Axxia communications chip LSI keeps talking about is finally here and SemiAccurate got their hands on one.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 30, 2013

TSMC shows off production 20nm and 16nm dev wafers

Techcon 13: 20nm on the market now, 16nm a ways out

TSMC was showing off two wafers at Techcon, a production 20nm SoC and a pre-production 16nm without any qualifiers.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 30, 2013

Cavium shows off Ubuntu Server running on 64-bit ARM

Techcon 13: The good news is that it works, bad news is on simulator

Cavium was showing off their 64-bit Thunder chip at Techcon but unfortunately it was only a simulator, not silicon.
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Newsdesk
Oct 30, 2013

Vivoli resignation letter

As we told you back in July 2013 Dan Vivoli is leaving Nvidia. He made it official with the following note: It was a chilly morning on December 1, 1997, when I pulled into the parking lot at 1226 Tiros …
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 29, 2013

ARM out two new GPUs, a 16-core Mali-T760 and 8-core T720

More speed, less bandwidth used, and all for less power

ARM is releasing two new GPUs today called the Mali-T720 and Mali-T760 both based on the Midgard architecture.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 29, 2013

Exclusive: Ana Hunter leaves Samsung for Global Foundries

This has a lot of interesting implications

It looks like Global Foundries just grabbed their biggest name yet by hiring Samsung’s Ana Hunter.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 28, 2013
2

Intel talks a little more about Quark

Updated: Not P54C based but still makes no sense

Intel spilled a few more details about the Quark X1000 SoC recently but sadly most of our questions went unanswered.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 28, 2013

Calxeda releases their A15 based Midway ECX-2000 SoC

A15 replaces A9, A57s to come

Calxeda is not resting much after the release of their first chip, today they are talking about their new A15 based “Midway” ECX-2000.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 23, 2013
1

A long look at AMD’s Hawaii and Volcanic Islands architecture

Start with GCN and add lots of goodies in the uncore

AMD is announcing their newest GPU called Hawaii or R9 290X today, say welcome to the Volcanic Islands (VI) Family.
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 23, 2013
1

AMD Radeon R9 290X Review

Welcome to Hawaii…

Nearly a month after the Hawaii event the launch day of AMD’s Radeon R9 290X graphics card is finally here.
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 22, 2013
2

Windows 8.1 Makes AMD’s APUs Faster

Thanks Microsoft!

AMD published a new blog post with the launch of Windows 8.1 detailing a significant performance increase for Richland-based systems running on Windows 8.1.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 21, 2013
4

AMD makes GPU compute a reality with hQ

Heterogeneous Queues make GPUs a full peer in compute

AMD is finally talking about hQ or Heterogeneous Queuing, the final step in the Fusion integration of CPU and GPUs.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 21, 2013
2

Microsoft admits their image is a net consumer negative

Realization comes hard but brings a glimer of hope with it

Microsoft has failed and while some think it is blissfully ignorant of that fact, the XBox One shows that the company is indeed aware of it’s plight.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 18, 2013
9

Sony takes a radically different approach to the PS4 lifecycle

The old way is not the new way this time around

Even before the Playstation 4 is out there are credible rumors about it’s replacement that suggest Sony is going down a radically different path this time.
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