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Intel Shows Off 10nm Cannon Lake Wafer
Reiterating their message from their Technology and Manufacturing Day from earlier this year, Intel held a similar event in Beijing. However, they have an actual 10nm Cannon Lake wafer on hand to show off how far they are progressing. Going from 14nm to 10nm has proven to be challenging for…
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Intel Cyclone 10 FPGA Family Launched
Aside from recently launching their highest performing and most expensive Xeon E7-8894 v4processor, Intel is also delving deeper into IoT with the launch of their Cyclone 10 FPGA line. The launch stems directly from their acquisition of Altera in 2015 and offers a lower power, cost-sensitive option to the rest…
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AMD Vega 10 May Arrive Within the Year
With every new information leak, it seems that the launch dates for new releases keeps changing. Earlier in the year, reports came out that AMD was planning to release Vega 10 in October. Since then, the Sunnyvale company has suggested we wouldn’t see any Vega GPUs till next year. Now…
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Microsoft Going All In On Reprogrammable CPUs
Microsoft is betting its future on a new range of reprogrammable computer chips, and it has been working on the initiative since 2012. The fruit of that development – Project Catapault, pitched by programmer Doug Burger to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s famously brash CEO, four years ago – is field programmable…
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Welcome the 13TB SSD Server Named Olive
When it comes to storage, SSD’s are gaining traction at an incredible speed. With SSD prices sinking closer to HDDs, there are very few reasons why people would avoid the large speed advantage that upgrading your drives can have. Fixstars wants to move that advantage to a whole new market, with…
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Intel Buys Altera for $16.7 Billion
Altera, the US-based manufacturer of programmable logic devices, has been purchased by Intel in an all-cash deal worth $16.7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled, via Engadget). “Altera is now part of Intel, and together we will make the next generation of semiconductors not only better but able…
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AMD Chip Codenamed “Magnum” Spotted on Shipping Manifest
A strange entry has appeared on a shipping manifest at Zauba, with AMD’s codename “Magnum” relating to an FPGA prototype board, as well as DTV. This is certainly a strange entry, but what does it mean? “PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY-AMD MAGNUM FPGA PROTOTYPEBOARD FOR DTV P/N .102-B25432-00 (FOC)” reads the…
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