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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Intel talks about their 22nm P1271 SoC process for Silvermont
Part 3: Silvermont is built on a new process variant
SemiAccurate has already talked about the Silvermont core and architecture, now it is time to take a look at the process it is built on.
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Silvermont has a completely new microarchitcture under the hood
Part 2: A look at the core internals at the pipeline level
In the last part of our look at Silvermont we focused on the larger scale advances of this new 22nm Atom core.
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Intel launches the 22nm Silvermont Atom core
Part 1: The core on a macro level
Intel is introducing a new 22nm Atom core, and for the first time in the history of the line it is a new microarchitecture.
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Intel names Haswell intgrated graphics Iris
Lots of meaningless numbers and no specs
Rather than actually fix crippling graphics problems for Haswell, Intel is going on a marketing blitz around the word Iris.
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Archos shakes up cell phones with three new models
Platinum 50 and 53, Carbon 35 are the future, really
It looks like Archos just shook up the cell phone market with three new Android entries, the 35 Carbon, 50 Platinum, and 53 Platinum.
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Havok brings Anarchy to GDC
GDC 2013: Project Anarchy that is, but it isn't that impressive
SemiAccurate, GDC, Havok, Intel, Prokect Anarchy, Public Enemy, game dev platform, iOS, Android
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Moga makes gamepads for your phone
GDC 2013: Android tablets too, but pretend you don't know that part
One more device SemiAccurate saw at GDC is called the Moga, a bluetooth game controller for Android phones.
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Canopy makes Sensus, a capacitive touch iPhone case
GDC 2013: The back is now the front, or the other way around
Canopy has an iPhone case with a twist, but this time it is a really useful twist, not just more of the same with a new patina.
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The Backstory: Samsung chose Qualcomm chips for the Galaxy S4
Analysis: The plot deepens a bit, as do some bank accounts
One possible reason that Samsung chose a Qualcomm SoC for their Galaxy S4 phone was brought to our attention a few days ago and SemiAccurate looked in to it
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ST-Ericsson shows off VOLTE calling and carrier aggregation
MWC 2013: Not to mention SOI vs bulk NovaThor SoCs
Remember the ST-Ericsson 3GHz NovaThor A9 from MWC?
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Geeksphone puts out two Firefox OS devices
MWC 2013: Spain steps in to the cell phone business for real
Quick, can you name the largest cell phone maker in Spain?
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OpenCL performance of next-gen low-power APUs
OpenCL performance preview part 2: Temash-2C and Kabini-4C
Besides the OpenCL performance preview going live for Saturn (or Bonaire) GPUs, there are a few gems that were left in the corner.
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Truphone makes a reprogrammable SIM
MWC 2013: All calls are local because all SIMs are local
You know all those things that annoy you about mobile phones and roaming, especially internationally?
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NEC has two useful phone concepts at MWC
MWC 2013: Folding tablets and outdoorsy cellular products
At MWC, NEC was showing off two phones that were actually quite useful, not the usual gimmick laden toys.
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