It’s been a long time coming for AMD’s FX CPU and as we close in on the rumoured launch the mood seems to be somewhere between, “How can it be worse than the 1100T X6?” and, “is this worse than the Phenom launch?”
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eSilicon has just taped out their first 28nm MIPS processor that has now started fabbing at GlobalFoundries’ Fab 1 in Dresden according to a joint press release from eSilicon and MIPS.
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Bulldozer is one of those industry legends, an architecture that has grown far beyond anything the silicon could ever be.
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OCZ announced yesterday that it was acquiring a design team, in addition to a perpetual patent license, from PLX Technologies.
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Both IBM (NYSE:IBM) and the start-up Crocus are very active in the field of MRAM (Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory)
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On October 25 SuVolta’s Chief Technology Officer is set to present at ARM’s TechCon in Santa Clara, CA. Scott Thompson will compare FinFET, SOI and bulk CMOS.
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It seems that despite the general lack of Radeon HD 6990’s on the market there are still companies designing very nice aftermarket coolers for them. One of these companies is Arctic, which released a new offering called the Accelero Twin Turbo 6990 today.
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It has gone largely unnoticed, but Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) last week started the acquisition of Telmap for an undisclosed sum, which we believe will be somewhere between $300 and $350 million.
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Samsung has a lot of cutting edge DRAM technologies to show off, and they did just that at IDF.
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Raytracing took a step forward at IDF, with Intel showing off raytraced Wolfenstein again, with a lot more twists and features.
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Every once in a while, one hand of a company bites the other hand, like Intel marketing biting Intel PR.
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Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) Sandy Bridge is a big hit, but is also helped by serious manufacturing problems at AMD’s (NYSE:AMD) manufacturing partner GlobalFoundries.
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Lenovo is finally starting to think(pad) outside of the box, and at IDF, they showed off what they have for toys.
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If you have been looking for a fanless desktop PC, Splitted Desktop was showing off a new heatsink to enable that at IDF.
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