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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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AMD Financial Analyst Day 2009 GlobalFoundries showed they were serious about ARM at TechCon3. On Wednesday, Doug Grose, CEO of GlobalFoundries, and Bruce McDougall, CFO, gave an update on their progress.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
RUMORS
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Back in 2008, Intel was shopping around for AIB vendors for its Larrabee project. Things didn't went as planned and Intel went into silent mode. They're talking again...
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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AMD's next-generation GPU is taking shape. From the limited information we have, AMD is going to use 32nm process during 2010 and 2011 with Manhattan and Northern Islands.
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![INTERVIEW: Dan S. Snyder, Intel Inside[r]](/Thumb.aspx?file=/Data/2009_10_27/INTERVIEW-Dan-Snyder-Intel-Insider\INTC_Dan_Snyder_215.jpg "INTERVIEW: Dan S. Snyder, Intel Inside[r]")
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
INTERVIEWS
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A lot is said about Intel's products, but not a lot is said about the tens of thousands of people who work inside the company even for their entire career.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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ARM Techcon3 in Santa Clara The conference opened with nearly two hour session about optimizing the ARM IP for next-generation, 32/28LP [low power] mobile SoC designs.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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On IEEE SOI Conference in Foster City [CA], the company showed test results from 45nm SOI wafer featuring ARM 1176 core. Results are quite tempting...
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![AMD [finally] launches own server platform: Meet Fiorano, Kroner](/Thumb.aspx?file=/Data/2009_9_20/AMD-launch-server-platform-Fiorano-Kroner\AMD_Ferrari_Fiorano_215.jpg "AMD [finally] launches own server platform: Meet Fiorano, Kroner")
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HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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Originally scheduled for June 2009, the Fiorano platform is finally being launched in the dying days of Q3'2009. Fiorano now marks the completion of merger between AMD and ATI.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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September is a busy season for Intel: Core i5-700 and i7-800 series launch next week, while 32nm Gulftown, a sexa-core, 12-thread i9-1000 series processor will make an appearance on IDF Fall 2009.
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![Leaked Lynnfield [Core i7-870] scores appear online](/Thumb.aspx?file=/Data/2009_8_24/Leaked-Lynnfield-Core-i7-870-scores-appear-online\INTC_Core_i7_870_CPUZ_215.jpg "Leaked Lynnfield [Core i7-870] scores appear online")
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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Even though Lynnfield-based processors aren't schedule to appear online until September, Intel Taiwan and South Korea leaked the CPUs into retail. Scores are now appearing online...
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS, RUMORS
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Just as Microsoft released Zune HD information onto the Internet, we learned of great improvements coming with the next generation of Tegra, with a planned launch on February 15th, 2010.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Last week during Intel's Technology Conference, Sunit Rikhi explained their new approach to building 32nm system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS, RUMORS
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This first non-AMD customer will use 40nm half-node Low Power [bulk silicon] process in Dresden's Fab1. Expect an official announcement in next few weeks, during August...
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![Intel 32nm Core i3/i5 [finally!] kills the analog VGA port](/Thumb.aspx?file=/Data/2009_7_13/Intel-32nm-Core-i3-i5-finally-kills-the-analog-VGA-port\Intel_Clarksdale_noVGA_215.jpg "Intel 32nm Core i3/i5 [finally!] kills the analog VGA port")
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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Intel's upcoming 32nm "Fusion" CPU+GPU processor brings one major change to the display industry: good bye D-SUB.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS, RUMORS
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Intel's Core i3 and i5 aren't even out yet, but Chipzilla isn't sleeping: the company recently taped out a successor to existing Nehalem architecture.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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The chilling prospect of nVidia adding GlobalFoundries to their foundry mix and decreasing TSMC's share caused TSMC to re-focus and pushes the 28nm process forward.
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APPLE, HARDWARE
NEWS, RUMORS
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ARM launched its Cortex-A9 MPcore architecture with a very clear goal: to fight off the attack of Intel Medfield SoC [System-on-a-chip]. As we can all presume, Intel Medfield is the CPU behind next-gen BlackBerry.
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BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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There are lots of behind the scene maneuvers by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) to maintain their top ranked status in the fab world. The threat of GlobalFoundries is above their heads...
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Intel's Sean Malone and Francois Piednoel left little to be desired for: demonstrating air-cooled 5GHz Core i7 975 CPU, explaining i975 cherry picking, Core i5 Turbo modes, quad-core notebook platforms and many more.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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With ATI demonstrating DirectX 11 hardware earlier today on Computex Taipei 2009, time to draw an interesting comparison revealing who can make money off DX11: the die size.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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A rumor appeared that the Core i5 platform is delayed until September. There is just one problem with that: the rumor is not true.
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