Global Foundries talks about TSVs on 20nm
Wafers fully baked and work just fine
Global Foundries has taken a huge step toward mass-market TSVs with their first 20nm wafer with that technology.
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IBM adds .5 dimensions to chip stacks in one year
Common Platform 2013: 2.5D at the 2012 show, 3D in 2013, next year...
IBM had two packaging goodies on display at Common Platform including one that SemiAccurate has shown you before.
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A look at how Xilinx uses stacking on the Virtex-7 HT
Hot Chips 24: Interposers lead to heterogenous lifestyles
There is a lot of talk about the benefits of chip stacking, but only one company is doing it in volume, Xilinx.
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Haswell’s GPU prowess is due to Crystalwell
The key to the story is memory
Remember when we said that Haswell’s shader count was only the beginning of the performance story? The real reason behind the performance isn’t shader count, it is memory. When we wrote that Haswell was a graphics monster a few months …
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IBM Power 7+ spotted, and it is a monster
Common Platform 2012: Mine is bigger than yours
Every once in a while, a company will do something really unexpected, like IBM’s laying down the law in packaging last week.
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Sony Playstation 4 will be an x86 CPU with an AMD GPU
But that is only the beginning of the story
With the current wave of Playstation 4 leaks, it is time to spill some of the beans on what we know about the console.
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Intel’s 22nm Knights Corner
A special spot on the other end of the Sandy Bridge…
What Intel’s Rajeeb Hazra held up in the air was one of the largest chips I’ve ever seen.
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Exclusive: AMD far future prototype GPU pictured
Full of surprises that no one else has shown
AMD has some top secret prototype GPUs floating, and SemiAccurate managed to get a picture of one.
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Analysis: Intel shows off Haswell, minus the important bits
IDF 2011: Why not show it all?
At IDF last week, Intel’s Mooly Eden held up a Haswell chip, or part of one from the look of things.
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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.
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