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GPU context switching and interruptability are HSA hardware features, and are indeed lacking in Kaveri, along with hardware micro-task priority queues and dispatch. Of course, they are also lacking in every other chip made, and their absence has not been particularly "sore" thus far. The...

While this may not be the best place for a defense of the company, such comments deserve a response: The Maxwell launch was yet another leapfrog in a long list of leapfrogs. Is the older tech less competitive when newer tech comes out? Sure, less competitive, although beyond power usage, the...

Since wafer fab takes about 3mo., AMD probably does take orders 3mo. in advance. But in most cases, parts are billed when tested and shipped, not imagined. So if AMD does start volume shipments Q2, we may see a bump in Q2 financials, but that would be just the start of the ramp-up. The real...

"Vanishing" may be a possibility, but perhaps more likely is "loose lips sink chips." Still, that would be an "unforced error" in PR for a company which has not been doing well, because investors naturally want to see the management vision of a better future. For the most part, we are...

Our first priority should be to cool the CPU, and GPU (if any), and only then the rest of the stuff on the motherboard and in slots. The classic method is to generate a howling hurricane of airflow, front to back: the faster the air moves, the more we approach having cold outside air inside a...