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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 7, 2011
32

Intel goes FinFET on 22nm – somewhat

Lots of cache to burn

There is a lot of speculation about Intel’s (INTC) upcoming 22nm process, and we finally have some hard information to share.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 6, 2011
19

AMD will out the ‘Southern Islands’ GPU architecture early

Fusion Developer Summit site mining

AMD is going to out the details of it’s next generation ‘Southern Islands’ GPU family at a very unlikely place, the Fusion Developers Conference this June.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 4, 2011
29

AMD and Global Foundries agreement not what it seems

A good deal, but not about yields

The AMD and Global Foundries Wafer Purchase Agreement (WPA) that was released yesterday made little to no sense.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 31, 2011
21

After Intel’s Haswell comes Broadwell, Sk……

Intel CPU families until the second half of the decade (Updated)

Intel is always putting out new code names, and some that we hear we have to sit on until they leak a bit. The following four, Haswell and the next three, are good examples of that.
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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Mar 29, 2011
8

Intel’s Core i5-2540M tested

Review: A look at mobile Sandy Bridge

The launch of Intel’s new Sandy Bridge platform lost its momentum thanks to Intel’s chipset bug, but with that behind us, it’s time to take a look at what Intel’s new mobile platform has to offer.
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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Mar 28, 2011
32

Latest Intel roadmap confirms PCI Express 3.0 for Ivy Bridge

Did you expect anything less?

Up until now Intel (INTC) hasn’t unveiled which PCI Express spec its upcoming LGA-1155 Ivy Bridge processors will support, but their latest roadmaps includes an update which reveals support for PCI Express 3.0, even though it’s a feature that’s not even highlighted on the slide.
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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Mar 24, 2011
20

Is the 12V-only motherboard upon us?

Fujitsu leads the way to 12V

Fujitsu (FJTSY) might not be the most prolific motherboard manufacturer, but they’ve taken over the business from Siemens (SI) and are producing a range of industrial level motherboards.
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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Mar 21, 2011
18

Intel’s Sandy Bridge Celerons video features fused off

Lower cost means fewer features

In as much as we appreciate that Intel (INTC) is selling a range of CPUs and some of them have had certain functions fused off in the manufacturing process to create a range of models, something that has been done for years, we’re none too impressed by Intel’s latest move.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 17, 2011
12

Does Facebook have a poison tooth?

Opinion: You can fight back against privacy abuses

If you are annoyed at Facebook’s repeated trampling on your rights, barely skirting legality, and selling you out to any sketchy third party that hands them cash, you can fight back.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 15, 2011
23

Intel desperately tries to deflect ARM’s march into servers

Analysis: Hamstrung by their own market manipulations again

Intel (INTC) is desperately trying to stem the tides of defection among server vendors moving to ARM (ARMH), but they are hamstrung by the company’s own market manipulation. The exclusion of competitors not only meant tepid chips that no one wants, it is now excluding the very partners that Intel wants.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 15, 2011
32

Microsoft gutted Nokia and runs off with IP

Finns on lifesupport until MS hardware arrives

This is part 2 of 2. Part 1 can be found here, and discusses the funny money around the Nokia/Microsoft deal, and how it is nothing like what the press reported.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 14, 2011
29

Microsoft gutted Nokia and left them without a chance

The Manchurian CEO did his job as ordered

In one of the most brazen corporate raids in history, Microsoft took everything of value from Nokia, and has left a wounded beast to die in the cold.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 14, 2011
2

Elpida fabs unharmed by the Japanese earthquake

One fab up, the other shut by blackouts

In a bit of good news from the Japanese earthquake, the DRAM maker Elpida seems to have escaped damage with only power loss related shutdowns. Given the overwhelming scope of the tragedy, this is about as good an outcome as you could hope for.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 10, 2011
61

AMD finally releases the dual-GPU HD6990

The best card you should not buy

AMD’s Antilles dual GPU card, now known as the HD6990 is finally here, and it is the fastest card money can buy, period. There is only one problem, and unfortunately it is a showstopper.
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Lars-Göran Nilsson
Mar 10, 2011

VLI to launch more USB 3.0 solutions this year

Might arrive before its host controllers

VLI DIDN’T TELL us too much about future products in our Q&A with them last year, but now we’ve gotten our hands on some details covering three upcoming products from the company of which all are rather interesting.
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