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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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On Tuesday evening AMD reported the quarterly results for the fourth quarter of 2011 as well as the whole calendar year. We dig a little bit deeper to find the numbers and see where AMD sees a guiding light for 2012.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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On Wednesday, AMD announced preliminary third quarter results which significantly lowered the expectations for the third quarter ending on October 1st.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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Even before the start of GlobalFoundries Technolgoy Conference 2011, which is being held here, in Santa Clara Convention Center, we learned what’s been bugging AMD of late…
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Late last night, we received an e-mail containing 29 questions for nVidia in regards to GF100 and nVidia in general. These are biased questions, but we decided to run them anyways - with a few comments of our own.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS, RUMORS
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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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HARDWARE
NEWS
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GlobalFoundries announced that the company reached a double-digit yield with 24Mbit SRAM chips in their 32nm process, on track for 50% yield by year's end.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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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
NEWS
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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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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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nVidia reports $777 Million revenue, almost 17% more than Q1'09, and finally reported a profit of $38M after taxes. Big winners: desktop GeForce cards, ION chipset.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS, RUMORS
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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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BUSINESS
NEWS
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After reading a story on ATI-Forum, we wondered could there be any truth to the alleged claim that 40nm yields are still screwed up. We asked our sources and...
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