What will Intel Xeon Phi do to the GPGPU market?
Analysis: Devastate it and leave no survivors
The most pertinent question surrounding Intel’s new Xeon Phi is not what it can do, but what it does to the competition.
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Peeking at the TACC Stampede supercomputer
6400 Xeons, 6400 Phis, and one Linux instance
To brief journalists on the new Knights Corner/MIC/Xeon Phi cards, Intel brought us to TACC to see a supercomputer based on it.
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What does it take to code for a Xeon Phi?
Not much really, you have probably already done it
Intel talked a bit about the MIC programming model at Hot Chips, but the details show how easy it is.
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A look at the Xeon Phi cards and hardware
Intel releases a little bit more but not enough
Intel is finally taking the wraps off of Knights Corner, the product now known as Xeon Phi.
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Laptop versus Desktop: AMD’s A10 APUs
What does going mobile cost you?
One of the first questions that crossed our minds was, how much slower is a 35 Watt chip than a 100 Watt chip.
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AMD launches dual GPU FirePro S10000
Think of it as an island close to New Zealand
Remember that dual Tahiti Firepro SemiAccurate wrote about in August?
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Intel launches Itanium 9500 and still no one cares
No tech, no customers, no point really
Yesterday, Intel announced the brand new Itanium 9500 series, and no one cared.
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A look at how Xilinx uses stacking on the Virtex-7 HT
Hot Chips 24: Interposers lead to heterogenous lifestyles
There is a lot of talk about the benefits of chip stacking, but only one company is doing it in volume, Xilinx.
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Why touch screen voting machines have problems
Analysis: saving democracy from stupidity
There has been a lot of talk recently about voting machine problems, especially touch screen voting machines, and it has a very easy technical explanation.
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30 Watt Introduces The GAMEMAXX!!1!
Perfect for kids and adults of all ages!
Yesterday a new gag gift was borne on to this world by a small Minneapolis based company named 30 Watt.
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AMD’s Kaveri APU slips again, 2014 now
18 months late so far with no end in sight
It looks like the ever slipping AMD Kaveri chip just got another year to ripen on the proverbial vine.
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AMD’s Bulldozer core compared with Piledriver
Core vs core vs the promised numbers
Fortunately for AMD, after reviewing both the Piledriver based A10-5800K and the Piledriver infused FX-8350 over the past few months, I can safely say that Piledriver is faster than Bulldozer.
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AMD launches 16-core Abu Dhabi Opterons
Like Vishera before it, this one underwhelms
Updated 11-5-12: What do you get if you replace the Bulldozer cores in AMD’s Interlagos CPUs with Piledriver cores?
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Nvidia Tesla K20 specs gives hints about 28nm yields
Analysis: The more things change, the more they stay the same
A few weeks ago, SemiAccurate speculated about Nvidia’s 28nm yields based on their recent roadmap changes.
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Freescale layoffs target one particular product
150-200 engineers from one team
Updated: Freescale just let go between 150 and 200 workers in their Israeli offices, but the real news is who was fired.
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