Intel avoided talking tech at IDF
IDF 2012: Two keynotes, one conference, zero excitement
Although it is a hard thing to say, IDF 2012 was probably the worst SemiAccurate has ever attended.
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AMD and Sapphire Announce AMD Austin Fan Day
Uniting the AMD faithful under one roof...
AMD’s Fan Day is taking place in, guess where? Austin, Texas at AMD’s Lone Star Campus on October 6th from 1 to 6 PM.
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AMD’s GPU code names finally leak
Old news really, just in an indirect way
News is finally echoing about the next three code names for AMD graphics cards.
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Adaptec ups the bar for 12Gbps SAS cards
IDF 2012: 24 is the new 8, Mini-SAS or not
Adaptec has been really quiet of late, falling behind LSI in just about every turn and milestone.
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Intel updates height field rendering algorithms
IDF 2012: Better and faster than the old way
Working with some academic researchers, Intel has come up with a new and better way of doing height field rendering.
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AMD Confirms Wii U Design Win
Just as we thought…
Today on its Game Blog, AMD released a short blog post confirming that it is supplying the GPU for the Wii U.
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Kingston has a SATA based USB SSD
IDF 2012: And a few capacitor backed SSDs for good measure
Kingston had two worthy goodies at IDF, a USB stick and an SSD.
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Gigabyte shows off half-height ITX boards
IDF 2012: New standard form factors for all-in-one PCs
Gigabyte is showing off a new and actually useful form factor at IDF, half-height miniITX.
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LSI shows 12Gbps SAS cards running at speed
IDF 2012: And finally a multipathing SAS concept that works
LSI had some SASsy goodies to show at IDF including the first production 12Gbps controller SemiAccurate has seen.
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Backup capacitors come to Sandforce drives
IDF 2012: Price drops by orders of magnitude
One really neat trend at the Sandforce/LSI IDF booth was large capacitors on SSDs.
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AMD’s CFO Thomas Seifert is out
Another in a long line of executive exits
It looks like another high profile CxO is out at AMD, this time it is Thomas Seifert.
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Rambus shows a best of both worlds memory tech
IDF 2012: Speed and power, not to mention sockets
Rambus was showing off a new high speed memory technology at IDF this last week, and it looks interesting.
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Hynix shows off DDR4 DIMMs and 1xnm flash
IDF 2012: Speed, density, and SSDs that use it
The first thing that caught our eye at Hynix were the SSDs, nothing amazing to look at, but they use a Sandforce controller.
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Hard numbers for Knights Corner leak out
IDF 2012: Lots of Watts per core, many cores
Intel has talked about the MIC/Phi architecture, but what are the specs?
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Technicolor and Portrait Displays Team Up to Certify Displays
Another sticker on your new IPS panel…
Yesterday at Intel’s annual developer forum, or IDF, Technicolor and Portrait Displays launched a certification program for OEMs and display manufactures.
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