Living with Microsoft’s Surface RT
A Tale of Mixed Impressions
At the end of last week Nvidia released a blog by Brian Burke that chronicled his use of the Nvidia powered Surface RT on a business trip.
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AMD says goodbye to their VISION branding?
Pre-CES 2013: Time to focus on the processors again
It seems AMD has decided to say farewell to their short-lived VISION branding, but this change may not benefit the end-users.
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AMD does another reorg, but nothing bad this time
A little more streamlined org chart with no apparent down side, finally
AMD is going through another reorg, and this time it looks to be good news, or neutral at worst.
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Xilinx talks about optical backplane problems and solution
Hot Chips 24: Lots of both and little agreement on anything for the moment
At Hot Chips this year, Xilinx gave a good talk on the problems with electrical and optical backplanes, and what the options are to deal with some thorny impending problems.
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Intel cuts out GPUs: technical tidbits
Part 2.1: This just makes too much sense
This article is an update to the “Intel Slams the Door on GPUs” articles, expanding on one technical aspect.
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AMD Publicly Releases CodeXL 1.0
No more betas...
On December 4th, AMD released CodeXL to the general public after a public beta period.
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Intel explains Claremont, the near threshold ‘solar’ Pentium
Hot Chips 24: Luckily they talked tech this time
The question of what would happen if you built a Pentium on a modern process was answered during IDF 2011.
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With Surface tanking, Microsoft digs faster
Clueless management masterclass, OEMs not laughing
Microsoft just doesn’t know when to stop doing itself severe damage, and it’s latest desperate move is no exception.
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Acer’s Iconia W510: Taking a Look
An overbuilt netbook...
With the launch of Windows 8 a slew of new tablets hit the market and the W510 was no exception.
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How Intel can slam the door on GPUs
Part 2: The games we play, and the words we choose
Editor’s note: This is second part of the story, “Intel slams the door on discrete GPUs”. This second half looks examines how Intel will navigate the maze of technical and real world issues, restrictions, and options for what Intel is doing. It also goes in to how those who will presumably object to the changes are hamstrung by their own actions. -Ed.
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Atom Versus Tegra 3 In Windows 8 Tablets
x86 Versus ARM in a Battleroyal...
One of the questions we’ve been dying to answer the past few years is who will win in the matchup between x86 and ARM.
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Intel slams the door on discrete GPUs
Part 1: This is how the games end
Remember the days when you could buy a GPU as a discrete component because it wasn’t part of your CPU?
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