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    got to see this!!!

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    Final Word on Larrabee

    At a group panel discussion with the Intel Fellows, essentially some of the smartest people at Intel, Intel's head graphics honcho was quizzed about Larrabee. When asked if they ever expected to see a Larrabee-based graphics part coming out at all, the entire panel looked directly at Piazza...
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    AMD Thuban (6 core desktop) for Q2

    According to Fuad... http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17006/1/ "We don’t have many details, but we can confirm that AMD plans to launch two six-core desktop CPUs next year. This should happen in Q2 2010 and if AMD holds on to this date, it might come a bit later than Intel’s Core i7...
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    AMD Dragon platform cracks 7GHz OC...video

    http://www.youtube.com/user/AMDUnprocessed Just a fun little marketing video with a decent sound track.
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    Is Intel cutting off it's nose to spite it's face?

    As most here know, (and if you don't, here's an article) Intel has effectively stopped Nvidia from producing chipsets for any of the "i" platforms (i7, i5, and i3)...BTW, this includes the Mac platforms (which are currently all Nvidia) and the Atom platforms. My question of the day is, do you...
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    EU has published some of their evidence in the Intel case

    Digital Daily Here's some of the e-mails... From a series of 2006 Lenovo e-mails: ?As you know I have been negotiating a special deal with Intel. The net is that Intel has made us a very attractive offer that we will end up taking. Our part of this deal is that we will award all business...
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    AMD to reverse pay cuts

    Register "In December, AMD will reverse these pay cuts, which means they were in fact, temporary. There is no indication that AMD will rehire employees. "Neither the economy nor our business has made a full recovery," Meyer told employees in an email, according to the American-Statesman...
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    Intel unveils major reorganization

    Marketwatch "Gelsinger is joining EMC Corp. as president and chief operating officer of information infrastructure products, the data storage company said Monday. Intel also said general counsel Bruce Sewell was leaving, a change that two analysts said was baffling, given the chip giant's...
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    Lot's of new chips from AMD this week

    The Istanbul models are now: 2423 HE 2.0 GHz 55 W (new) 2425 HE 2.1 GHz 55 W (new) 2427 2.2 GHz 75 W 2431 2.4 GHz 75 W 2435 2.6 GHz 75 W 2439 SE 2.8 GHz 105 W (new) 8425 HE 2.1 GHz 55 W (new) 8431 2.4 GHz 75 W 8435 2.6 GHz 75 W 8439 SE 2.8 GHz 105 W (new) Also, the Phenom...
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    New AM3 Opteron 1000 "Suzuka" released

    AMD Spec sheet 2.5, 2.7, and 2.9 GHz quadcores with slightly lower power than Shanghai. L1 = 512KB L2 = 2MB L3 = 6MB
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    Nvidia in negotiations with Global Foundries

    Text "NVIDIA, the graphic chip rival has confirmed its talks with AMD spin off fabrication unit Global Foundries in context of making GPU chips in the future"
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    Intel's new branding mess...

    A funny and inciteful little article... Tweaktown "Intel will simply do away with the Core brand and replace it with Core i3, i5 and i7, with Core i3 and Core i5 being ?new modifiers? joining the Core i7 family. Apparently upcoming processors like Lynnfield will ?carry the Intel Core brand...
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    AMD Phenom II TWKR

    Text "Wallace Santos, CEO of the custom PC maker Maingear received a rather mysterious Phenom II Black Edition. Nothing special so far, but the processor doesn't have a model number nor are there any details. The AMD Phenom II BE is delivered in a nice black box and on the heatspreader only...
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    Intel drops 2.5% marketshare to AMD

    Marketwatch Intel 79.1% AMD 12.8%
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    A very cool idea from Intel for chipsets

    Cnet "Intel appears ready to take another crack at flash memory-based acceleration--this time offering it with future chipsets." "Braidwood will be offered with the future "5 Series" chipset family--which is Intel's first single-chip chipset--and the future "Clarkdale" processor". The...
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    Larrabee will be massive?

    THG article "According to current known information, our source indicated that Larrabee may end up being quite a big chip--literally. In fact,we were informed that Larrabee may be close to 650mm square die, and to be produced at 45nm. "If those measurements are normalized to match Nvidia's...
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    Istanbul (6 core Opteron) to be released this week

    Softpedia "According to a recent report, the chip maker is planning the release of 'Istanbul' for later this week, which will allow it to gain more market share from its main rival, Intel. The report suggests that the company's first 6-core Opteron processors will be launched as part of the...
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    AMD's top lawyer discusses AMD Intel disputes

    Cnet "Tom McCoy, AMD's senior vice president of legal affairs, cited two critical junctures in the Intel-AMD rivalry when Intel turned up the heat and, he claims, violated the law" "They did it when we came to market in 1999 with the Athlon." "And they did it big time when we came to...
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    Nvidia Files Countersuit

    Reuters Some interesting things to note from this highly predictable act... 1. Both Intel and Nvidia (and AMD for that matter) strongly believe that a GPU/CPU combo is what's in store for the future of computing. 2. Nvidia is making the same claim that AMD is about Intel's responses...
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    Intel exploit

    Cnet "If a hacker can use this new exploit to embed a SMM rootkit (malware) they would have ultimate control over the box (computer). Additionally, it would be virtually undetectable," Heary wrote in response to an e-mail query. But he also added: "In a nutshell. This exploit is very serious...
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    Yukon and Congo Platform boards from Gigabyte

    Fudzilla Article The article is a compilation (with pics) of Gigabytes new boards for the AMD Neo. "The Yukon boards are maybe the most interesting boards, as they'll be a major Atom competitor. The 690E chipset might not be as good as AMD's 780-series, but it's still miles ahead of...
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    Is EUV Fab being pushed out again?

    Semi Int article "The idea, Wood said, is for EUV to be put to work at the 15 nm scale sometime around 2013-2014, with serious process development taking place about two years before that. Although EUV lithography had been originally slated for 65 nm half-pitch, its production entry has...
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    6Gb Sata from Seagate and AMD

    Press Release "Seagate and AMD are the first to demonstrate a complete implementation of 6 Gb SATA today in New Orleans. 3 Gb/sec SATA is standard today. 6 Gb/sec interfaces will ship on products in late 2009, none too soon for industry needs" Interesting...I didn't know that Seagate and...
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    AMD Officially launches 40nm Graphics

    The first 2 40nm graphic chips are the Mobility Radeon? HD 4860 and Mobility Radeon? HD 4830. Press Release Product specs are here. Some nice features too... Embedded 7.1 audio with HDMI 832 GFlops on the 4860 UVD 2 There's already an ongoing discussion about this press release...
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    AM3 mobos being announced

    MSI Press Release "MSI Unveils the AM3 790GX-GD70 & 790GX-G65 Gaming Series Mainboards Comes with OC Dial & MAX FSB Advanced Overclocking Technology" "MSI AM3 mainboard fully supports AMD latest 45nm Phenom? II processor and DDR3 memory. In addition, it comes with the AM3 processor which...
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    AMD announces petaflop supercomputer

    "when frames take a day or more to render, that puts a big crimp on the usefulness of any technology. With GPGPU acceleration, companies are now able to manipulate that data in nearly real time instead of days" Keep in mind that while this is the same GPGPU tech that AMD released for desktop...
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    Just a thought

    I've been reading some of the reports on Obama's upcoming stimulus package, and all of the different guesses the pudits are making about it. Some points I'd like to make here... 1. Almost every pundit states that Obama will be focusing the stimulus on infrastructure as much as possible. This...
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    Carl Icahn begins investing in AMD

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    Palin pre-announces for 2012 if they lose

    http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=jMwv74rIGDU
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    CA GOP signature gathering head arrested

    In a supreme effort of one-upmanship, the YPM republican signers decided that (unlike ACORN) they would actually get arrested rather than just have rumours spread about them...:) Article link "Jacoby faces four felony charges: two counts of voter registration fraud and two counts of perjury...
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    Actual plumbers to set the record straight

    Article As if further evidence was needed of the phenomenon that is "Joe the Plumber" (however brief it may be), there comes this e-mail advisory: Real Toledo Area Plumbers to Hold Press Conference to Express Their Grave Concerns with Senator McCain?s Economic Policies The message goes...
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    AMD Blows past expectations...

    Q3 results * Q3 non-GAAP profit 13 cts/shr vs expected loss * Net revenue of $1.78 bln, well ahead of forecasts * Shares rise 10 pct after hours
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    Shanghai now shipping

    eWeek "AMD, which struggled to correct the problems associated with its quad-core Opteron processors known as Barcelona, is now starting to ship its new 45-nanometer Shanghai processor to partners. In interviews, AMD executives say it was important to get Shanghai into the hands of its...
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    Civil Rights leader compares McCain to Wallace

    Article John McCain ? who has often praised civil rights icon John Lewis ? called a statement by the Georgia congressman Saturday comparing the outbursts at recent Republican rallies to the rhetoric of segregationist George Wallace ?a brazen and baseless attack? that is ?shocking and beyond...
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    AMD Financial News

    Webcast announcement Oct 7 8AM Eastern Two Abu Dhabi state-owned venture capital companies are backing the move. One will put up at least $5.7 billion into the spun off factories and the other will buy more than $300 million in AMD stock and warrants.
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    Kuma (dual core Phenom) benches

    From expreview, so it's not exactly a solid article...:roll: Article Conclusion: "From our test result, you can see lots of improvements have been done compare to Brisbane core. Take benchmark tool PCMark Vantage as an example, we?ve experienced about 8% in total score increase. You can...
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    Benchmark skullduggery

    Arstechnica Not, it's not an Intel conspiracy... It's PCMark 2005... They tested the Atom and the Nano on PC Mark, and then they changed the CPUID just to see if the test was fair. "Swap CentaurHauls for AuthenticAMD, and Nano's performance magically jumps about 10 percent. Swap for...
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    Slightly OT: Intel says no to Vista

    "This blog has found no shortage of evidence that Microsoft?s Windows Vista is not taking the world by storm. Buyers of new PCs don?t have much choice?they?re going to get the operating system by default. But companies are dragging their feet, concluding that the benefits of Vista don?t...
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    Intel's legal woes...

    I'm sure that everyone knows about Intel's antitrust suits by now... 1. The Japan FTC found them guilty (actually, they plead nolo contendo, but legally theu are the same) 2. Now, the Korean FTC has found them guilty 3. There are numerous rumours this last week about the EU being ready...
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    Ranger

    Presentation This is a nice little flash presentation that is geared towards novices in supercomputers.