Tag Archive for "atom"

May 11, 2012 analysis
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Intel outs Merrifield and 6331

22nm phone phocused Atoms

Intel has two new 22nm phone chips to talk about, and one platform gets pushed out to 2014.

Apr 23, 2012 analysis
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Atom takes the process lead on 14nm

What Otellini meant by beating Moore's law

During their Q1 conference call, Intel stated that Atom was going to move faster than Moore’s law.

Apr 5, 2012 analysis
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Intel and Nissan team up to advance IT in cars

Atoms, phones, and many buzzwords all meet in a concept car

Intel and Nissan are teaming up to bring Atom in to car infotainment systems,

Mar 2, 2012 analysis
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Fusion based SeaMicro box to tip up really soon

Hugely coincidental timing, isn't it?

SeaMicro will have an AMD based server out in the very near future, almost as if they timed it with the company’s sale.

Mar 1, 2012 Channel
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Intel isn’t ready to announce Centerton, yet

Luckily, we are ready to announce Centerton

Intel isn’t ready to announce the name Centerton yet, but SemiAccurate is.

Feb 27, 2012 Channel
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Intel adds two new phone Atoms, Z2000 and Z2580

High and low end bracket the middle ground Z2460

Intel’s phone chip marketers don’t get the whole Goldilocks thing because they launched the ‘just right’ version first.

Feb 26, 2012 analysis
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Orange announes an Intel based phone

Updated 2x: Just for your reference design, with added sticker

Orange is bringing California to Europe with the release of Santa Clara, the internal code name for their Atom based phone.

Jan 25, 2012 analysis

How will Intel do in the phone market?

The good, the bad, and the ugly in phone form

With all the pieces of Medfield now known, including the phone itself, the question now is, will it succeed?

Jan 17, 2012 analysis

Intel’s phone reference design is what it needed to be

Solid hardware, competitive with current chips

We have looked at the silicon for Intel’s new phone offerings in the last two articles, but what about the rest?

Jan 11, 2012 analysis

Intel’s phone ambitions are more than core deep

SoCs, not cores, are where the market is now

In the last part of the Intel phone/Medfield article, we looked at the package and the core, now it is time for the good stuff.

Jan 10, 2012 analysis

Intel finally gets a phone!

A look at Medfield, Penwell, and Saltwell

Intel is launching a new baby Atom today called Medfield, and the hardware looks really good.

Jan 6, 2012 Chips

Marvell’s ARMADA to power next gen Google TV

Gives you almost everything on a single chip

CES is starting is Las Vegas next week, but already now the first press releases are starting to appear…

Jan 3, 2012 analysis

Intel thinks Cedar Trail is a dog: reading between bullet points

In our words and theirs, theirs are more damning

Intel has come out with another chip to fend off ARM, and once again, it is a joke.

Dec 28, 2011 Chips

Intel releases Cedar Trail

Performance figures for the complete Medfield platforms are very promising.

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has been so kind as to send us a press release to let us know the Cedar Trail version of the Atom-processor has just been released.

Nov 22, 2011 Chips

Intel’s analog shrink is for real

MOAR smaller

We have previously reported that Intel ….

Nov 1, 2011 analysis

Exclusive: Intel 8-core server Atom gets a name and date

Trees fall in the valley, no one cares

Word is leaking out about how Intel plans to counter ARM’s march in to the server side, including the new 8-core CPU.

Sep 28, 2011 analysis

Intel knifes Meego, points the reaper at Tizen

Rant: How not to do software right while destroying your future

Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) software division has gone from a running joke to inexplicably bad, it is almost pitiable now.

Jul 28, 2011 Microprocessors

Intel accelerates Atom development

Wants to play a bigger role in the embedded space.

Traditionally most of the embedded space has belonged to ARM, MIPS and the good old PowerPC, but Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) is starting to get more active in this space.

Jul 21, 2011 Channel

Thecus fills in their business NAS offerings

Computex 2011: Top, bottom, and now mid-range offerings

At CeBIT, Thecus went upmarket, and Computex saw more of the same.

Jul 18, 2011 Chips

SeaMicro ups core count to 768 per server

Just when you thought 512 cores was enough......

SeaMicro has upped the core counts of their servers from silly to stupidly high.

May 26, 2011 Microprocessors

Microsoft under siege

Day late, dollar short is not usually a good business strategy

It is no secret in the market that Microsoft (MSFT) stock is underperforming. From a peak of 37 USD in 2007, the stock has passed the 25 USD floor and nobody is bullish about the stock.

May 13, 2011 Desktop

Intel talks up 2013 Atoms

No meat, no parts, lots of spin

This week CNET reported that Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) will develop another Atom architecture, one built on Intel’s upcoming 22nm process.

Apr 18, 2011 Chips

Intel picks up a second foundry customer, Tabula

Not just making chips for customers

Intel LogoIt looks like Intel (INTC) is getting in to the foundry business, SemiAccurate has just found out that they are making chips for a second startup.

Mar 29, 2011 Chips

What does Intel have to show at IDF?

22nm CPUs and the next Atom

With the sadly deprecated Beijing IDF looming in a fortnight or so, we at SemiAccurate central were bored, so we poked around for a list of big announcements.

Mar 29, 2011 Servers

QNAP upgrades NAS boxes with SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 support

Atom powered

QNAP has announced three new NAS boxes in the TS-x56 Pro II series which have gained DDR3 memory, SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 support which should make them some of the most feature rich NAS boxes on the market.

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