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Perhaps the biggest announcement of Common Platform Technology Forum wasn't even in the focus: we all know flexible, wearable computing is the future, and IBM has the way to make it a reality.
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A bit earlier than previously expected, AMD announced the details of their new amended Wafer Supply Agreement (WSA) for 2013 in a conference call yesterday.
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A few days ago, AMD announced their Q3 2012 earnings and they were not pretty. During the earnings call, the executives gave detailed insight as to why the company is stumbling as well as their plans for a better future.
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There is no point in hiding it, but the semiconductor industry is openly speaking about two of the biggest challenges facing chip makers come 2015 and onwards.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
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Recently one of our readers accused us of not checking the facts, when in fact it is someone else who should probably dedicate some effort to get their facts straight.
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AMD released its financial results for the first quarter of 2012. The company reported 1.59 billion dollar revenue, -6% QoQ and -2% YoY, while recording a massive loss of $590 million.
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At the Common Platform Technology Forum 2012 held in Santa Clara, CA - Common Platform members announced their intention to switch from planar to 3D transistors by 2015.
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On the conference call regarding the Wafer Supply Agreement for 2012, AMDs CFO Thomas Seifert delivered a few interesting statements that reveal some small details regarding the roadmap going forward.
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Today we learned that GlobalFoundries is finally free of AMD and can now operate fully independently of AMD.
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We learned that GlobalFoundries is planning to hire 400-500 more employees, about 350 of them will work at Fab 8. 50% of these new hires more than likely will come from New York itself.
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Recently, Intel held a 22nm Manufacturing Update event in Munich, Germany. The company proudly presented the new Tri-Gate (a.k.a. 3D) transistor which will be the base for building Ivy Bridge CPUs.
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The seemingly headless AMD yesterday announced an amendment to their Wafer Supply Agreement (WSA) with GlobalFoundries. New deal shifts AMD from "per wafer" to "per good die", protecting it from bad yields.
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Memory chip prices surged Monday, underscoring concerns that global technology firms will have to contend with higher component costs and product shortages. We take a look at Japanese disaster from an IT perspective...
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ATIC, majority owner of GlobalFoundries is moving their Abu Dhabi operations into a new building built by Aldar, property firm of Abu Dhabi gov't. The interesting bit is the shape…
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There were several categories of exhibitors at GlobalFoundries’ GTC 2010 with many similarities within the technical categories. It was somewhat like going to the Auto Mall: you can choose, but they all are cars.
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There was a lot going on at the Santa Clara Convention Center. We were there for the GlobalFoundries Tech Convention. The other activity which is probably of more interest to our readers was an eBay gathering.
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Following market closure on Wednesday, nVidia reported its fourth Quarter results as well as last year's total figures.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
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With the architectural previews hitting the wire this week, we took the time to actually look at potential cost of the GF100-based solutions and where the Fermi silicon stands right now.
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GlobalFoundries officially announced their take over of Chartered Technologies of Singapore. They have combined operations to form a semiconductor contract manufacturing powerhouse with $2.75 billion in annual revenue.
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