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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
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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
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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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Following up on their 10 billion USD commitment, TSMC announced the details of their investment plan: 6B USD investment, two Fabs to fight GlobalFoundries.
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HARDWARE
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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
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
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Despite recent rumors of troubles for NVIDIA's GT300 the company says 40nm yields are fine and Q4 2009 is still the launch time.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
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We learned that the initial batches of 5800 cards are very limited. We learned why and why Europeans got some very good news.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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The majority owner of GlobalFoundries [ATIC] announced that the group wants to acquire Chartered Semiconductor, Singaporean chipmaker. This move has more ramifications that one might think.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS, RUMORS
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Next week, AMD will reveal its top-to-bottom DirectX 11 lineup, with the top three parts heading out to the stores. And as expected, the details have started to leak from everywhere…
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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
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The date is set. GlobalFoundries will officially start constructing $4.2 billion foundry in NY State on July 24, 2009.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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nVidia's Back-to-School attack began today with first deliveries to its partners, but don't expect EVGA, Palit and others to ship the cards...
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APPLE, GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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Next-gen integrated graphics based on GT218 architecture, new manufacturing process and hot on new features.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
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When we ran the TSMC yield story, we left owning you an explanation. Time to clear that… why TSMC has "f***** up" yields? Because the chip "some say it doesn't exist" currently has disastrous yields.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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We listened to Intel and Nokia's announcement and could not stop wondering - this was a verbatim copy from the Intel-TSMC announcement couple of months ago. Much talk, but low on substance.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
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YABMC - Yet Another Big Memory Card. And certainly an abbreviation to take heed of provided that you are in the mood for purchasing one or more video cards for all your game-craving needs.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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nVidia has made a statement that they are in talks with GlobalFoundries for future GPU production. But are they really moving? Or just giving TSMC a good scare...
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
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nVidia new GT300 chip isn't new just in the architecture. According to our sources, the GT300 chip is also very aggressive on the power saving side, enabling GT285-like power configuration.
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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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