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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Where Are AMD’s Z-60 Tablets?
Five months after CES we still haven’t seen one…
At CES this year AMD spent a lot time talking up how it was going to attack the tablet market with its Z-60 APU and its upcoming Temash SoC.
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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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What is the Sky Lake-EP platform called again?
The one that is two after Brickland or something like that
Some you might know the current 2S Sandy Bridge-EP platform called Romley and its Ivy Bridge based successor is named Brickland.
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Sonics licenses fabric tech to ARM
Opens up a wide world of IP blocks to ARM cores
Sonics and ARM just made an agreement to use Sonics interconnects patents and some power management tech in ARM products.
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Nvidia cancels GK11x line, rebrands the current chips as new
No good reasons to do this, lots of bad ones
It looks like Nvidia has canned the GK11x line, replacing it with simple reworking of the fusings of GK10x, something that foreshadows serious internal problems.
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A Look At Intel’s OpenCL Performance
It's not what you might expect...
Intel recently introduced OpenCL 1.2 compatibility with a series of updates to their OpenCL SDK and their graphics drivers.
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And the GPU in the Haswell MacBook Pro is…….
A lot of people laughed when SemiAccurate called the last round of Apple notebooks as going to Nvidia but we were dead on. This time we tell you what GPUs are going in to the MacBook Pros. No peeking in …
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AMD Renames its Developer Summit to APU13
Goodbye Fusion, Hello APU
Yesterday, AMD announced that it was changing the name of its annual developer event from the AMD Fusion Developer Summit to the AMD Developer Summit.
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Why Microsoft no longer cares about gaming on the XBox
Analysis: Gaming last among the development priorities for XBox Next/720
A lot of people were questioning our premise that Microsoft doesn’t care about gamers for the next XBox, but there is a very good reason why they don’t.
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Microsoft cedes consoles to Sony, gives up on gaming
XBox 720 loses badly because Microsoft didn't try
GDC this year made one thing clear, Sony wins the next generation console race, period.
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AMD’s HD 7790 Versus Intel’s HD 4000
What do you gain from adding discrete graphics to your system?
“What do you gain by dropping an extra $150 on discrete graphics?”. It’s from this perspective that we’ll be reviewing AMD’s HD 7790.
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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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Jak makes DLNA adapters cute again
MWC 2013: By far the cutest USB stick SemiAccurate has ever seen
DLNA and Miricast dongles were a dime a dozen at MWC, but one of the nicest was the Jak from a little Korean company called bCoda.
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