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Monthly Archives: April 2011

Thomas Ryan
Apr 29, 2011
25

Low Yielding Wafers

Not the bottom bin, nor the bottom of the bin.

Linux, AMD, and Nvidia have been hogging most of the headlines this week. But that’s okay because Intel and ARM managed to work their way in a little bit, and then there’s always next week to look forward to…
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 28, 2011
3

Elpida drops some 30nm DDR3 info

Things going well, bits between the lines

Elpida just announced that their 30nm DRAM process is ramping up, and the release has a bunch of goodies buried in it.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 28, 2011
12

Crucial releases 2nd gen SATA6 SSDs

Available at last

With the release of the Crucial (NASDAQ:MU) M4 the other day, we are now in to the second generation of SATA6 SSDs.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 28, 2011
16

Dell pulls three workstations out of the box

Two laptops one rack, all serious

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) just released three new workstations, one rack mount and two laptops, and they all pack a bunch of interesting features.
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Wayne Borean
Apr 28, 2011
55

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.

What do you get when you put Steve Jobs in a Roman Toga?

You see interesting things when you go over numbers, and re-read old press releases. Things that didn’t seem significant at the time. Things that didn’t appear connected.
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Mads Ølholm
Apr 28, 2011
13

Guess what is ready for tape out

It has a MIPS core and a GPU from Vivante…

Yes, you are absolutely right. We are talking about Longson 2H – formerly known as Godson 2H.
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Newsdesk
Apr 28, 2011
3

Patents and Intellectual Property

Want to make your voices heard?

S|A stumbled across a couple of polls this morning, while using a crowbar to pry our eyelids open.
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Mads Ølholm
Apr 27, 2011
10

China develops and manufacturers phase change memory

Processors are not enough for the new world

China has developed and manufactured its first phase change memory that has a capacity of 8 Mb according to a report by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.
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Mads Ølholm
Apr 26, 2011
17

LG to design own Cortex processors

Watch the CPU war with Samsung heat up

LG Electronics (SE:066570) of Korea is the latest company to license the ARM Cortex A15 architecture, which will allow it to design processors based on ARM’s IP.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 26, 2011
19

ARM jumps in to OpenCL with both CPU and GPUs

Fusion Developer Summit keynotes cover all bases now

It looks like ARM (NASDAQ: ARMH) is jumping aboard the OpenCL train, meaning all the major players are now behind the standard.
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Wayne Borean
Apr 25, 2011
15

Open Office and Libre Office duel over versioning

When 3.4 does not equal 3.4

During all of the fuss over Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) announcement that it intends to move OpenOffice to a community based project, the release of OpenOffice 3.4 Beta 1 flew under most people’s radar.
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Wayne Borean
Apr 25, 2011
24

Patent Wars: Oracle v. Google

Deep Background - From Before the Republic

Everyone was excited when Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) sued Google(NASDAQ: GOOG) over the use of the Java programming language in the Android operating system, using a series of obscure patents that no one had ever heard of before.
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Mads Ølholm
Apr 25, 2011
3

Amazon Web Services are down – ever heard about second sourcing?

The Easter Bunny was right.

Don’t put all of your precious eggs in one basket. Your mother and the Easter Bunny should have told you this.
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Wayne Borean
Apr 25, 2011
6

Finnish Consumer Complaints Board Recommends EUR 100 Rebate for Removal of ‘Other OS Functionality’ From PS3

George Hotz should have done his hacking in Finland

Sony (NYSE: SNE ) cannot be a very happy company right now. In fact their recent signing of a peace treaty with George Hotz is starting to look like total capitulation.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 22, 2011
11

Hot Lots II

Smoked bits and bad bumps. Oh, and maybe some bacon...

Quite a bit happened this week, from interviews with Intel’s CEO, to a tour of GlobalFoundries Fab 8, the tech world has been moving quickly.
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