Imagination has announced that it will release the “Warrior” MIPS-based CPU core later this year, with compatibility for both 32 and 64 bit. This isn’t as exciting as it may sound, however, because it seems like ... Read More »
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Crystalwell, Intel’s Great Equalizer
Crystalwell is a level 4 eDRAM cache of 128MB, it is packaged in a MCM format with the Haswell silicon and is connected via an impressively narrow, double-pumped serial interface. Intel’s Haswell normally only supports ... Read More »
AMD Temash – The New Low Power APU For Tablets. Is it a Boom or a Bust?
It seems the quad-core AMD Temash A6-1450 APU doesn’t quite fit the tablet profile it was marketed for. Upon initial review it was discovered that the APU has decent performance at the cost of abnormally high power consumption. ... Read More »
Intel Changes Its CEO, As It Suffers a Chip Commoditization Crisis
About a week from now, Intel is going to have a new CEO, Brian Krzanich, which was their former COO, to replace the current CEO Paul Otellini. It seems to me Otellini is getting out ... Read More »
TSMC’s 28nm Process Technology Helps It Captures 50% of the Foundry Market
Thanks to TSMC’s 28nm process technology, the company has captured almost 50% of the foundry market, according to Gartner. Since efficiency is the name of the game in the mobile market, it’s critical to have ... Read More »
Why Intel’s Decline Is Now Imminent
Intel earnings have just been published for the last quarter, and they are not looking too good. Their profit declined. The worst part about it is that it will continue to decline, because Intel faces ... Read More »
AMD Sees the End of Moore’s Law
Moore’s Law may soon be coming to an end, according to AMD. It’s already been slowing down for the past few years, and it’s getting increasingly more difficult to move to new process shrinks, and ... Read More »
ARM and TSMC Make the First 20nm FinFET Cortex A57 Chip
ARM and TSMC has collaborated on making the first 20nm FinFET Cortex A57 chip, even though the first time we were supposed to see FinFET chips from TSMC was at the 16nm process. FinFET This ... Read More »