GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Owner Has Ideas; IPO Or Selling To Intel
In case you forgot, it was back in October of 2008 when AMD first announced it's plans to go fabless, splitting off the fabrication portion of their business as the The Foundry…
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A teaser on executive migrations and GLOFO’s refusal to shrink from their strengths
There will be a bit to talk about on tonight's podcast as we have seen two big changes in the industry this week. Most recently Jim Anderson, the GM and SVP of…
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AMD Announces Q1 2018 Results
Today AMD announced their latest financial results for Q1 2018. We expected it to be a good quarter with their guidance earlier this year, but I doubt many thought it would be…
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AMD will have Ryzen to their Pinnacle next February
DigiTimes reports today that AMD has informed motherboard makers that their new series of chips, the Pinnacle family, will in launch early 2018. They will lead with the Pinnacle 7...
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Podcast #468 – AMD Raven Ridge rumors, Intel and Global Foundries new fabrication technology!
PC Perspective Podcast #468 - 09/21/17 Join us for discussion on AMD Raven Ridge rumors, Intel and Global Foundries new fabrication technology! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still...
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Technical Conference Releases
The day after Intel had its Technology and Manufacturing expo in China, GLOBALFOUNDRIES kicks off their own version of the event and has made a significant number of announcements concerning upcoming and…
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Intel Technology and Manufacturing Day in China
Today in China Intel is holding their Technology and Manufacturing Day. Unlike previous "IDF" events this appears to be far more centered on the manufacturing aspects of Intel's latest process nodes. During…
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IBM Announces 5nm Breakthrough with Silicon Nanosheet Technology
It seems only yesterday that we saw Intel introduce their 22nm FinFET technology, and now we are going all the way down to 5nm. This is obviously an exaggeration....
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AMD Zen Architecture Overview: Focus on Ryzen
We have been exposed to details about the Zen architecture for the past several Hot Chips conventions as well as other points of information directly from...
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Zen and the Art of CPU Design
Zen is nearly upon us. AMD is releasing its next generation CPU architecture to the world this week and we saw CPU demonstrations...
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AMD Details Zen at ISSCC
Yesterday EE Times posted some interesting information that they had gleaned at ISSCC. AMD released a paper describing the design process and advances they were able to achieve with...
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GlobalFoundries to Continue FD-SOI Tech, Adds 12nm “12FDX” Node To Roadmap
In addition to the company’s efforts to get its own next generation FinFET process technology up and running, GlobalFoundries announced that will continue to pursue FD-SOI process technology with...
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AMD Exposes Zen CPU Architecture at Hot Chips 28
It is no secret that AMD has been struggling for some time. The company has had success through the years, but it seems that the last decade has…
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GlobalFoundries Will Allegedly Skip 10nm and Jump to Developing 7nm Process Technology In House (Updated)
UPDATE (August 22nd, 11:11pm ET): I reached out to GlobalFoundries over the weekend for a comment and the company had this to say: "We would like to...
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AMD Introduces 7th Generation APUs: Bristol Ridge Takes Center Stage
It is no secret that AMD has faced an uphill battle since the release of the original Core 2 processors from Intel....
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Gaming at the low end, checking out the Athlon X4 880K
Remember that FM2+ refresh which Josh informed you about back in March? The APUs have started arriving on test benches and can be benchmarked independently to see what this...
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IBM is feeling Powerful in the Core Wars, details on the Power9 architecture have arrived
IBM's Power9 processor is scheduled to appear on the scene just over a year from now and finally we have some details about what it will be. Firstly the core count is…
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AMD Refreshes FM2+ Lineup for APU and CPU
On March 1st AMD announced the availability of two new processors as well as more information on the A10 7860 APU. The two new units are the A10-7890K and the…
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