A look at the new AMD names
A few new ones, and some oldies too
A lot of people are familiar with some of the new AMD (NYSE:AMD) naming systems, more specifically E and C series for Brazos chips, but there are a few more.
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Apple Builds Defective Time Machine
Time Lords Complain on Eve of New Doctor Who Season
Apple’s (AAPL) endless quest to make computing easier for the masses has included thousands of innovations over the years.
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IBM and Intel put analysts to shame
Payday is here
IBM (IBM) and Intel (INTC) both beat analyst’s estimates yesterday when they published their quarterly results, but the real question is if the results can sustained over the long term.
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Apple suing Samsung is incredibly stupid
A broken system used badly
Apple (AAPL) suing Samsung over, well, who really cares anymore, is probably the dumbest thing that Apple could do.
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Seagate picks up Samsung’s HDD division
SSDs thrown in for good measure
seagateThe number of players in the disk drive market has again been reduced.
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Flash chips get even smaller, but not for much longer
How low can we go?
Intel (INTC) and Micron (MU) now holds the record thanks to 20 nm lithography IMFT (IM Flash Technologies) have just introduced a 64 Gb part based on 20 nm process technology.
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Intel picks up a second foundry customer, Tabula
Not just making chips for customers
Intel LogoIt looks like Intel (INTC) is getting in to the foundry business, SemiAccurate has just found out that they are making chips for a second startup.
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Real Ipad competitors finally appearing
Ready to buy
Contrary to popular belief, Apple’s pricing is in no higher than the competition for most products.
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Intel pulls in Z68 launch date
Same chip, different fuse, more money
It looks like Intel is pulling the launch of the ‘all new’ Z68 chipset.
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China to fab its own microprocessors
Fab to be built using locally designed and manufactured tools.
You may have heard of godson, the magical Chinese microprocessor that people talk a lot about.
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USB-design allows for 25 Gbps
It is just a question of when they will turn the speed dial.
During IDF here in Beijing we sat down with Jeff Ravencraft the president of USB-IF (Universal Serial Bus – Implementer’s Forum)
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Almost on Target…
Another week, and another runner up...
This week was packed with hardware reviews, yet more slide leaks, and an a couple of odd ball product launches. Things will probably start to quiet down in the next couple weeks as everyone gets ready to release their quarterly results. But whatever the case, the unicorns at S|A are acting mighty feisty.
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AMD takes a major step in enabling GPGPU coding
CodeAnalyst 3.2 allows heterogenous profiling of code
AMD just took, and then retracted, a major step forward in the whole ‘fusion’ concept, enabling profiling across heterogeneous cores.
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Rumors of spring say Google is trialling Tilera chips
Rumor: The grebes of Mountain View speak loudly
The birds of spring are particularly active this year, and the return of the reticulated grebes to Minnesota after their yearly sojourn to Mountain View is full of news.
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Guess what taped out at AMD?
Hint: It is a city you don't want to go to
Being the second Monday of April, we are legally obliged to keep articles about semiconductors short and sweet.
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