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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
ANALYSIS
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Recently, we exclusively unveiled that Kaveri, successor to the current "Trinity" high-end APU (Fusion A8 and A10 family) features a GDDR5 memory interface. This time, we'll talk about the architectural enhancements.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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According to documents we saw, AMD’s upcoming Kaveri APU will include a GDDR5 memory interface. Currently Kaveri is scheduled to be released at the end of 2013. Kaveri is the successor to the upcoming Richland APU.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
ANALYSIS
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On 12/11, Intel announced the Atom S1200 series, (codename: Centerton). Immediately, the problem is obvious: ULV Xeon E3 part based on the 22nm "Ivy Bridge" at 17W has a very significant performance-per-watt advantage.
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CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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Following the lead from its wholly-owned subsidiary SeaMicro, AMD blasted Intel today for launching the "Atom for microservers" processor, formerly known under the codename "Centerton".
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
RUMORS
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According to our sources, it looks like AMD is not done with acquisitions in 2012, and their second potential acquisition might be the most important they made in 20 years. The question is...
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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As various media reports, Intel will introduce the desktop and notebook versions of Ivy Bridge on April 2nd with the retail availability coming on April 8th.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Patrick "Pat" Moorhead recently gave an insightful video for G+, a social network for the Gerson Lehrman Group of independent financial analysts.
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GRAPHICS, ENTERPRISE, SOFTWARE
NEWS
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Tamas Miklos informed us about a new release of AIDA64, which has been updated to version 2.20. As usual, the update includes support for new CPUs, GPUs and some new features.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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This week at ARM TechCon, AppliedMicro announced "X-Gene" the world's first 64-bit ARM architecture compliant processor on an FPGA SoC (effectively a Server on a Chip, instead of System on Chip).
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HARDWARE, SOFTWARE
REVIEWS
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In this in-depth analysis, we will discuss the emerging competition between ARM and x86 microprocessors. Led by the Intel Atom, x86 chips are quickly migrating downwards, while ARM CPUs are beginning to flood upwards.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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MIPS Technologies announced that the compay developed a 64-bit IP processor architecture that supports simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) tech as well.
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ENTERPRISE, SECURITY
NEWS
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It is no secret that Intel Itanic fail to lit the high end market. Thus, we were not surprised to see Oracle releasing a rather short press release stating that they are done with developing for Intels Itanium CPU architecture.
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