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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 8, 2013

How ARM licenses it’s IP for production

Updated 2x – Part 2: Royalties and Physical IP make for a complex brew

The up front licensing costs are actually the simplest part of the story, from here it gets a little tricky.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 7, 2013
3

AMD to launch Hawaii in Hawaii

Updated: Say aloha to a new GPU generation in September

It looks like new GPUs are coming this fall with AMD’s Hawaii now set for late September.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 7, 2013

A long look at how ARM licenses chips

Part 1: 7 License types to rule them all, one company to bind them

People routinely ask SemiAccurate about ARM CPUs which is an odd question because ARM makes absolutely no silicon.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 5, 2013

TI comes out with DockPort silicon

Cheap and useful docking stations kill Intel’s Thunderbolt

Texas Instruments just put a chip through the heart of Intel’s Thunderbolt folly with their new HD3SS2521 DockPort controller.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 5, 2013

Coolermaster makes a better blank keyboard

Enthusiasts count

Coolermaster had four things of note at Computex, three of which were entirely new to SemiAccurate.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 5, 2013

Spectec shows off 14-band LTE modem

Computex 2013: Generic LTE and Wi-Fi microSD too

There were two really interesting devices on display at the Spectec booth at Computex, one was unusual the other was a portent.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 1, 2013

Displaylink has new generation USB video silicon

Computex 2013: Two wireless spectrums and 7W monitors too

Displaylink had some new goodies in Taiwan from silicon to demos, nothing amazingly new but all could be quite useful.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 1, 2013

Adata has the first NVMe 2.5″ SSD and unique materials too

Computex 2013: From flash to DDR4, Adata has almost everything

Adata had a bunch of cool things at Computex including some that were based on emerging standards too.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 30, 2013

Inhon 870g Blade 13 Carbon notebook looks great

Computex 2013: Best PC of the show bar none, and innovative too

The PC market is moribund and withering because of Microsoft and Intel’s mandates, but that didn’t stop Inhon from actually innovating.
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Newsdesk
Jul 30, 2013
1

New in the Professional Portal

Nvidia’s New IP-based Business Model: An Analysis

Nvidia’s New IP-based Business Model: An Analysis

We cover the various avenues for growth from Nvidia’s announcement of their new GPU licensing options.
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Thomas Ryan
Jul 30, 2013
1

Leadwerks Is Bringing Game Development To Linux

Thanks to Kickstarter…

There’s an ongoing Kickstarter drive for a small game engine company named Leadworks to port its development environment to the Linux platform.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 30, 2013
4

Google’s Chromecast blows Microsoft’s Xbox One away

Analysis: Trapped between rocks and incompetent leadership

The most likely victim of Google’s new Chromecast dongle is something most people don’t consider to be a competitor, the Xbox One.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 29, 2013

Synology shows off new designs for disassembly

Computex 2013: NAS boxes from big to small

Synology had a few new updates at Computex along side a few new products that we weren’t expecting.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 25, 2013
7

Intel keeps up the unethical SDP scam with “new” 4.5W parts

Same BS, new snow job for the public

Intel is back to their normal unethical PR ways with another set of disingenuously fake ‘low power’ SDP numbers.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jul 25, 2013
3

Apple gets a special Haswell for the Macbook Pro

Better yet no one else can get it either

Apple has somehow convinced Intel to give them a unique part for the next MacBook Pro, something that no one else will get.
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