Danish researchers invent 2nm components
2nm!
So far a diode has been constructed, and the next step is a transistor.
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Nvidia comes somewhat clean on their quarterly conference call
Some might call the news grim
Nvidia seems to be so far ahead of the curve that they are experiencing problems that are unique in the industry.
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AMD HD7770 Cape Verde with “Verdetrol 1GHz”
You don’t need pills for “extra performance”, just overclock it
AMD is launching its Radeon HD 7700 series discrete GPU today as the world’s first one GHz GPU for the $99 to $199 mainstream market segment.
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Whispers say Eric Demers out at AMD
Is there anyone left?
Word has it that there is another high level casualty at AMD, once again on the graphics side of the house.
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Two interesting demos at AMD FAD 2012
Nothing new, but still neat
At Financial Analyst Day 2012, AMD had the usual bunch of demos out, two of which were really interesting.
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GK104 pops up in the wild
Kepler is in the hands of the AIBs
GK104/Kepler cards are now floating outside of NV’s orbiting headquarters, and have been landing all over recently.
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There are two GK104/Kepler variants
Not much between them this time
Sources are now telling SemiAccurate that Nvidia has two variants of the GK104 in the pipe.
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Haswell is a graphics monster
Don't believe the rumors of mediocrity
There has been a lot of talk about Haswell and its lack of graphics prowess.
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Intel admits Haswell uses transactional memory
Pretend you didn't know, they will feel better
Intel is finally admitting what Andreas Stiller has been saying for some time now, Haswell uses transactional memory.
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Fabless Works for AMD
Deep partnerships with both Global Foundries and TSMC keep things humming...
There have been a lot of stories lately about AMD’s future. One rather overlooked story is how AMD is moving forward with its fabless supply chain strategy.
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GK110 tapes out at last
Big Kepler is big, long cat is longer
With the size of GK104 now pretty settled, what about the big one?
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Why did AMD drop two cores from server chips?
FAD 2012: it's all in the slides
A lot of people are in a tizzy because AMD has changed the upcoming Seoul CPU from 10 to 8 cores.
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How big is the Kepler/GK104 die?
Bigger than we thought, smaller than Tahiti
There are a bunch of rumors floating about GK104/Kepler, but nothing concrete on the physical chip.
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Is Intel about to lose in the Ultrabook market?
To AMD no less…
Much has been said about Intel’s new Ultrabook form factor.
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More details about some new AMD cores
AMD FAD 2012: Details, details, details
In case you haven’t been paying attention, it is roadmap season at AMD, and now it is Desktop CPU time.
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