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Following our expose on the transistor numbers in the Llano and Trinity processors, AMD's Peter Amos came back to us with an official explanation.
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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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On the Q&A session after the morning GTC 2012 keynote, NVIDIA executives went into more detail what is the upcoming GK110 GPU, which will power the Tesla K20.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
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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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Few months ago, rumors appeared that Intel is going to delay the launch of Ivy Bridge processors to March 2012. Ultimately, the rumors of March delay came untrue: Intel pushed the launch further, to April/May 2012.
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During Paul Otellini's keynote at IDF 2011, Intel's CEO mentioned that the company has completed work on the development of Haswell, it's next generation architecture - set for launch in 2013.
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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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Last week, ARM held their TechCon 2010 technology conference. They introduced a new Mali-T604 GPU IP and accompanying CoreLink 400 IP interconnect which provides high-speed cache sharing.
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The world of the CPU is mired in silicon. Despite reduction in process and improvements in gate technology we still are hindered by the silicon we use. That is until we truly have a new material we can use.
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HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE
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Intel showed reporters a 48-core processor nicknamed the SCC [Single-Chip Cloud Computer] that consumes about the same power as today's desktop processors.
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There are a lot of rumors about the new cGPU chip from nVidia: we can exclusively reveal to you what nVidia cooked up and what is the market impact.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
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According to the information that is now leaking out from Santa Clara, it looks like G[T]300 boards are weeks before launch, not six months or even more...
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We managed to get a confirmation from three independent sources - nVidia's 2.4 billion transistor answers to RV870 and Larrabee is not just taped out, but A1 silicon is in Santa Clara.
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As GT300 takes shape, we managed to learn one tidbit more: the die size of this 2.4 billion transistor monster. We are surprised, to say the least.
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ATI claimed that 256-bit memory controller is justified with the GDDR5, doubling the bandwidth from GDDR3. But what happens if nVidia launches a 512-bit controller with GDDR5?
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Intel's soft-spoken SVP, Patrick Pat Gelsinger held a keynote presentation on small-scale IDF Beijing event, and showcased a Larrabee wafer. The time has come to unravell the mysteries...
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