SeaMicro ups core count to 768 per server
Just when you thought 512 cores was enough......
SeaMicro has upped the core counts of their servers from silly to stupidly high.
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Hynix and Toshiba join MRAM-forces
Say it 10 times, fast!
Toshiba Corporation (TYO:6502) and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (SEO:000660) have agreed to pool their efforts in the development of Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetoresistance Random Access Memory (MRAM) according to a joint press release.
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Samsung tapes out first 20nm processor
First 20nm chip is a test processor based on ARM’s architecture
Samsung Foundry, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (SEO:005930) is currently testing its entire 20nm process flow and has just taped out a complete test processor.
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Global Foundries moves tools into New York
A lot bigger deal than it sounds
Global Foundries just announced that they are moving equipment in to Fab 8 and the new parts of Fab 1.
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World’s fastest mobile GPU released, again
Last week it was Nvidia – this week it is AMD…
AMD has just released the Radeon HD 6990M that, according to the press release, is the world’s fastest mobile graphics processor.
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TSMC issues press release touting their own inabilities
Takes Intel's mistakes and lowers the bar further
Every once in a while, you see a press release that is so spectacularly misguided that it can’t be by chance.
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Rotating cooling fins to save the world
Could ultimately save 7% of electricity use
A scientist at Sandia National Laboratories has come up with a brand new way of designing the heat sink for a processor.
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Flashback Friday
A bit dusty today.
Into the future we go with the dust of yesteryear hanging on our Flashback Friday.
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Exclusive: Mike Hara said to be leaving Nvidia
Rumor of the day
Word has hit SemiAccurate that Mike Hara, Nvidia’s Senior VP of Investor relations is leaving the company. UPDATED
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VIA launches dual core Mini-ITX board
First Mini-ITX board to feature the Nano X2 E-Series processor.
VIA Technologies has just launched the EPIA-M900 Mini-ITX board in the well-known 17 x 17cm form factor, according to a press release from VIA.
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Supermicro goes 8x server crazy
Computex 2011: Atoms to Becktons, take your pick
Supermicro had a bunch of cool new form factors to show off at Computex, including 8-way servers from Atom to Westmere-EX.
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Lasers go ultraviolet
Shorter waves means more information
Researchers at University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have managed to design a usable ultraviolet laser.
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Nvidia’s Kepler comes in to focus
Late and compute oriented at the cost of graphics
When SemiAccurate announced that AMD (NYSE:AMD) was aiming for September with Southern Islands (SI), you could almost set your watch to the Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) response.
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TSV shrinks memory footprint
Elpida first to sample DDR3 TSV modules
Japanese memory manufacturer Elpida Memory, Inc. (TYO: 6665) has just started sampling some very advanced memory modules.
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GlobalFoundries testing 28nm
Competition heats up
GlobalFoundries in Dresden has already started the first production of 300mm test wafers with 28nm process technology.
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