AMD buys SeaMicro, and what a buy it is
And the new AMD server direction is......
It looks like AMD is starting the rumored acquisition spree with the impending purchase of SeaMicro.
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Samsung shows off 20nm PRAM
Outperforms NAND based SSDs and is compatible with NOR flash.
Samsung unveiled the first 20nm PRAM part at ISSCC in San Francisco last week.
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Super Talent Introduces New RDIMMs Offerings
Anybody need more RAM?
With some snappy graphics and a short press release, Super Talent is introducing some new eight and sixteen gigabyte RDIMM modules for servers.
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DDR4 shows up in the wild
And of course it is faster and better than DDR3.
The first two DDR4 chips come from South Korea.
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Intel adds two new phone Atoms, Z2000 and Z2580
High and low end bracket the middle ground Z2460
Intel’s phone chip marketers don’t get the whole Goldilocks thing because they launched the ‘just right’ version first.
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Orange announes an Intel based phone
Updated 2x: Just for your reference design, with added sticker
Orange is bringing California to Europe with the release of Santa Clara, the internal code name for their Atom based phone.
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ADATA launches DDR3L server memory
Not very exciting, but really useful
ADATA is jumping in to the fashionable world of server DIMMs with a new line of DDR3L products.
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Mixed Results for GPU sector
Better than last year, worse than Q3…
Word has just come in from everyone’s favorite market research group, Jon Peddie Research…
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VIA puts out a very odd quad-core Mini-ITX board
Need more than 11 serial ports?
There are two boards, the EPIA-M900 and EPIA-M910, both are mini-ITX boards with quad-core 1.2GHz Nano E-Series CPUs.
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SanDisk develops the world’s smallest 128Gb flash chip
The new NAND flash chip measures just 170mm².
SanDisk’s well known X3 technology giving 3 bits per flash cell…
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Intel vs phones vs ARM vs laptops
Deja vu all over again once again
The following is a modern re-interpretation of an older article on a completely different subject, call it deja vu.
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Tabula is officially an Intel foundry customer
Just like we said last year
Remember when we told you that Tabula was the second foundry customer for Intel?
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Aussies create single atom transistor with precise control
smaller, smaller, smaller...
New paper describes advances from previous stage where the control was imprecise.
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Chinese 16 core CPU uses message passing
Gone are the old days of massive shared memory architectures.
During the first day of ISSCC in San Francisco research from Fudan University…
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A closer look at Nvidia’s financial results
IGP takes a bite
On February 15th Nvidia published their results for FY2012, ended 31th January 2012 and the results were a mixed bag.
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