HP said to dump Microsoft over Surface
WART is no longer welcome at most OEMs
Remember when we said that Microsoft management was essentially incompetent and destroyed their partner relationships with a single WARTy Surface?
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Intel lets you manipulate encrypted data
The trick, no decryption
Research at Intel Day had a lot of cool technologies including one about manipulating encrypted images.
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New AMD FirePro graphics details
Code names pay tribute to Pixar and Dreamworks
Earlier in June AMD gave a preview of FirePro W9000 professional graphics card on their last keynote for their AFDS 2012 event.
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LSI adds PCIe3 to SAS controllers
HBAs for now, RAID cards in Q3
LSI is the first out of the gate with PCIe3 SAS-6 HBAs, and is promising a full line of PCIe3 RAID cards soon too.
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AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 Ghz Edition with benchmarking gnomes
A Review of Tahiti 2
It has been about six months since the launch of the original HD 7970 graphics card.
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AMD launches Tahiti 2 aka HD7970GHz edition
Predictions off by a few days
It looks like SemiAccurate’s moles were dead on, today AMD released their HD7970GHz edition with clocks right where we said they would be.
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Consent decree over, Microsoft goes back to monopoly forced bundling
That didn't take long now did it?
Remember that pesky monopoly verdict against Microsoft that ended in a toothless consent decree?
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Trinity to enter professional/server market?
Hunting for easter eggs in the driver INF files
Remember what we said in the earlier Friday notes?
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Broadcom shows off Gigabit WiFi devices
Computex 2012: 802.11ac is finally here
Broadcom was showing off working 802.11ac silicon at Computex, Gigabit Wi-Fi to you and me.
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Microsoft’s tablet moves make Nokia look cunning
Management incompetence and the Zuning of tablets
If you have been wondering about the competence of Microsoft management, all your questions have just been answered.
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Sapphire takes two new turns
Computex 2012: CPU coolers and video converters
The lads at Sapphire have been busy of late, the guys are stepping into not one, but two new markets.
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AMD Media SDK Announced At AFDS
Exposing fixed function hardware to the masses...
What this SDK aims to do is enable the use of AMD’s fixed function hardware blocks and GPU acceleration abilities by exposing them through APIs and code samples.
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Intel dumbs down marketing again with Xeon Phi
MIC joins Larrabee as thoughtcrime in Santa Clara
Intel has finally come up with a name for Larrabee, and it fits in to their current branding perfectly.
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AFDS-D is a good online event experience
AFDS 2012: More than a digital portal for the regular AFDS event
With the conclusion of this year’s AMD AFDS 2012 event, one would remember the number of major announcements that AMD made during the past three days….
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Even more GCN-based FirePro model numbers shows up
Covers all members of the Southern Islands GPU family
AMD just gave a sneak peek for their top-end GCN-based FirePro professional graphics cards on the closing keynote of their AFDS 2012 event.
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