Nvidia’s Kepler license has no chance of success
Distractions, sideshows, and other press tricks
Nvidia licensing it’s Kepler architecture is nothing more than a last-ditch play to keep the stock price from tanking.
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Gigabyte’s Brix is a useful Intel NUC
Computex 2013: Three interesting variants, one killer app
Gigabyte may have finally found the fix for Intel’s moribund NUC concept with their Brix device, an AMD CPU
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Apple pushes performance boundaries with the new MacBook
There are a lot of performance secrets hiding in this sleek laptop
SemiAccurate was the first to reveal the GPU in the upcoming Macbook Pro but there is a bigger secret lucking under it’s sleek covers.
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AMCC X-Gene 64-bit silicon spotted in the wild
Computex 2013: The server world just changed
SemiAccurate has been waiting for one big thing before declaring ARM servers real and AMCC has just delivered that.
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Calxeda changes their cards and adds OEMs
Computex 2013: Gigabyte, Aaeon, and Foxcon plus two new cards
Calxeda has two big pieces of news at Computex, three new ODMs and a new card format.
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Haswell upgrades focus on power management
Graphics gets the headlines, power management makes it all happen
Intel has finally released the next big thing in CPUs but what does Haswell bring to the table?
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AMD’s Richland is hiding a big secret
The mystery behind the power savings is finally solved
One nice thing about having really smart readers is that they notice things about chips that companies don’t tend to want out.
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How does the Nvidia GTX 770 do against the AMD HD7970 GHz?
16 games benchmarked for your pleasure
Running around Taipei leads one to run in to very interesting people with interesting numbers like the upcoming GTX 770 benchmarks.
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AMD finally puts Dock Port on a device
Exit Lightning Bolt, enter the new Dock Port
AMD’s Lightning Bolt technology is finally out in a product and it could be a very good thing for end users.
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AMD talks up Kabini digital power management
No new tech but a lot of new visuals
One interesting part of the recent Kabini briefings was on power management, and AMD had some very nice illustrations to go with the presentation.
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Nvidia’s Tegra roadmap slip is now official
Analysis: Denver is indeed Tegra 6 after all
Going over the GTC presentation about Tegra, it is clear that the roadmap has massively slipped just as SemiAccurate stated.
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Sean Pelletier leaves Nvidia for AMD
The tide has definitely shifted the other way
Of late, the tide of people leaving AMD and going to Nvidia has been turning the other way and the latest defection involves a very key person.
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Redhat put Calxeda based ARM servers in to production
Fedora lends a helping ARM to..... OK, awful pun there, sorry.
Calxeda is now officially part of the Redhat Fedora project with the migration of the ARM build servers to a Calxeda cluster.
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Why would Nvidia release an unlocked GTX680 to GTX770 BIOS?
The potential problems were far smaller than the potential AIB payouts
Thinking about flashing an Nvidia GTX680 to a GTX770 lead down some interesting paths that weren’t obvious at first glance.
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XBox Next/720 architecture only adds to Microsoft’s problems
Analysis: How Microsoft did the hardware wrong and Sony did things right
The PS4 has turned in to the XBox, sans 360, and the XBox Next has become the PS3, Sony has already won the next war.
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