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Last week, EETimes.com reported that TSMC executives reached a concensus that this recession would be U-shaped, with a rapid rebound in the coming quarters. But Morris Chang, the founder and Chairman of TSMC, seems to have a very different opinion of what's going on.
For a long time, SiS has hinted that they'd refocus on the SoC market, and their latest announcement finally shows one example of what they meant by that: HDTVs. However, they have recently hinted that they'd remain in the southbridge market, and that likely means a focus on Intel's DMI…
It's frequent to see people claim this or that power number is too high to be used in a mobile phone, or so low it'll result in amazingly long battery life. A recent document from Texas Instruments gives detailed numbers for OMAP3 and implicitly PowerVR's SGX, and so might help…
NVIDIA just concluded their quarterly conference call, and the results weren't pretty. Sequentially, revenue was down 47% for GPUs, 44% for Quadro, and 51% for MCPs, for a total of only $481M. Further inventory write-offs and a one-time charge related to the cancellation of a campus construction ...
We reported recently on the launch of the GeForce GTX 295, a single board SLI product created using GT200b, NVIDIA's 55nm shrink of GT200. NVIDIA have quietly shoehorned the chip into a single-chip board too, creating the world's fastest single-chip product to date.
AMD have taken the wraps off their 45nm Phenom II processor in the last day or so, to mostly positive reviews when analysed properly.
NVIDIA have pre-empted the release of GeForce GTX 295 in January at CES, with a set of sanctioned previews by some of the usual hardware-analysing suspects around the 'net.
ATI have released new Catalyst drivers for their Radeon graphics products, bringing fan speed control where possible, and fixing a number of niggling bugs, especially on Windows Vista.
In a move that has been worked on for more than a year, AMD has now divested its foundry operations as a separate company. It will be owned 55.6% by ATIC, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi government. In total, AMD's liquidity position will improve by $2.4B while massively reducing…
Rage3D's Alex Voicu has taken a game-performance-led look at ATI's Radeon HD 4870 X2. The analysis confirms that the product is the fastest single-slot graphics product ever made, and goes into good detail to tell you why.
Qualcomm has announced new chips that integrate their proprietary Scorpion CPU (ala Cortex-A8) and ATI's OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU (which they now own). They're on TSMC's 45nm process, but unlike some of their other chips they do not integrate RF. That is, if the other ones did in the first place.
Back in 2008, we talked a few times about AMD's Propus chip - basically a Deneb with no L3 cache and 5-10% lower performance in desktop applications - and how important it is to AMD's prospects in desktops. Now Fudzilla claims a 45W EE SKU is slated for early Q2 and others for early Q3.
ClearSpeed, a parallel computing company based in the UK and a direct competitor to GPGPU, seems to be giving up on its current strategy: following revenue of only £0.5M in 2008 and losses of £10.4M, the CEO has resigned and our info tells us that nearly all remaining staff are being laid off
Following similar rumours from other sources, Fudo now claims that Intel is replacing the Havendale (the 45nm CPU+GPU MCM) by Clarkdale, which keeps the same IGP but replaces the CPU by a 32nm dual-core chip. It is slated to still be on time for the 2010 Notebook refresh cycle in Q1 2010.
For several years now Toshiba has been performing technology demonstrations at industry events highlighting the applicability of the Cell BE architecture to the consumer electronics space, with the promise of a future Cell-powered television a frequent refrain.
Yesterday, at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, a team of researchers presented their report documenting a successful attack on known vulnerabilities within the MD5 cryptographic hash function...
For the longest time it was known simply as Nehalem, a brand new microarchitecture and the next tick of Intel's release cadence for x86. Now it has officially broken cover as Core i7, the successor to the massively popular Core 2 products that took the world by storm 2 years ago in June 2006.
Yesterday saw the launch of a new round of Macbooks, and with them a new GeForce 9-series IGP from NVIDIA. The chip is brand new silicon, and is also showing up in Intel-based mainboards from a few vendors.
Want good graphics performance but don't have the hundreds of dollars required to grab the fastest solutions from ATI and NVIDIA? Tech Report have just the article for you.
Sony today made available their "Life with Playstation" service, developed in partnership with Google for the Playstation 3 to serve as an overlay/replacement to the existing Folding@Home user interface.