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| Feb 5 2012 4:12am | Micron CEO Steve Appleton Dies in a Plane Crash |
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| Micron's long time CEO, Steve Appleton, has died in a plane crash at the age of 51 at the Boise Airport on Friday morning. He was reportedly flying a single-engine Lancair plane, which stalled and then nosedived shortly after take-off. App... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 6:49pm | AMD: The Flexibility is in the Fabric |
| A theme of the new AMD is modularity. We've of course heard this before as it has always been a goal of AMD's to bring to market more modular, configurable designs, however this time the rhetoric is a lot more serious. In our earlier covera... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 3:24pm | Motorola Droid RAZR, RAZR MAXX Update Enables CDRX for Better LTE Battery Life |
| While we don't usually cover every software update on every platform, I thought it worth noting something special about the new update which will begin going out shortly to the Motorola Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX. Among the features included in &... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 9:16am | Understanding AMD's Roadmap & New Direction |
| We've been providing live coverage of AMD's 2012 Financial Analyst Day from Santa Clara today, but if you want a summary of the company's strategy under new CEO Rory Read you've come to the right place. Below you'll find links to... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 5:06am | AMD's Tablet Architectures: Hondo at 4.5W, Future Sub-2W SoC |
| In its client roadmap AMD revealed Hondo, a 4.5W APU with 1 - 2 low voltage Bobcat cores and an on-die DX11 GPU built on a 40nm process. Hondo will fit into Windows 8 tablets starting later this year. Going forward, AMD wants to get into the sub-2W... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 5:00am | Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter Now Available |
| A few weeks ago at CES 2012, Seagate showcased their GoFlex Thunderbolt adapters. They come in two flavors: the GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter takes 3.5" drives, requires an external power supply, and has two Thunderbolt ports; the GoFlex Thun... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:59am | AMD is Ambidextrous, Not Married to Any One Architecture, ARM in the Datacenter? |
| We've been hammering this point home all day, but AMD just mentioned it again. The company wants to be a solutions provider, one that's ambidextrous and not married to any one architecture. AMD is likely talking about ARM here and seems wil... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:54am | AMD's 2012 - 2013 Server Roadmap: Abu Dhabi, Seoul & Delhi CPUs |
| We've got a server roadmap update from AMD courtesy of its Financial Analyst Day here in Santa Clara, California. The changes to the 2012 - 2013 roadmap aren't all that startling. Obviously this year AMD delivers top to bottom Bulldozer bas... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:51am | AMD's 2012 - 2013 Client CPU/GPU/APU Roadmap Revealed |
| AMD gave us a quick update on its 2012 - 2013 client roadmap, mostly focusing on new CPU/APU releases although there's a brief mention of Sea Islands - the follow-on to Southern Islands due out in 2013. AMD wasn't specific with what Sea Isl... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:51am | AMD & Compal Show Off 18mm Trinity Notebook |
| AMD's Trinity APU, due out near the middle of the year, will combine two Piledriver modules (four "cores") with an even beefier GPU. We've already laid out the general performance expectations for Trinity here, but today AMD showed ... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:33am | What AMD Views as Important: Tablets, Servers, Notebooks & GPUs |
| The slide above really puts AMD's focus into perspective. AMD is mostly interested in markets that have high annual growth rates. Looking above you can see that pretty much all of those categories with the exception of the client desktop are in... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:32am | AMD Nods at Shorter Design Cycles, More Synthesized Designs |
| The presentations we've seen from AMD thus far today haven't been very specific in terms of numbers, but there's a lot of reading between the lines that we can do here. AMD already mentioned that it's no longer interested in pursuin... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:10am | AMD: Flexible Around ISA |
| The slide above gives an example of the new agile/flexible AMD as it applies to the datacenter. Again, we're not seeing ARM, but we are seeing that AMD is willing to be flexible around ISA. In other words, AMD won't be married to ... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:10am | AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2012 - Mark Papermaster, SVP & CTO Presentation |
| If you want to follow the CTO presentation we've been quoting from a lot today, check it out in the gallery below. Gallery: AMD Financial Analyst Day 2012 - Mark Papermaster, SVP & CTO Presentation ... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 3:50am | AMD is Open to Integrating 3rd Party IP in Future SoCs |
| Don't expect AMD to go into much detail on this here at the Financial Analyst Day, but the slide above shows a definite step towards becoming a modern SoC company. Looking at TI, Qualcomm, NVIDIA and even Intel, integrating 3rd party IP into an... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 3:44am | AMD Outlines HSA Roadmap: Unified Memory for CPU/GPU in 2013, HSA GPUs in 2014 |
| AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster just put up this slide that shows its HSA (Heterogeneous Systems Architecture) roadmap through 2014. This year we got Graphics Core Next, but next year we'll see a unified address space that both AMD CPUs and GPUs... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 3:43am | AMD's Rory Read Outlines AMD's Future Strategy |
| AMD's Financial Analyst Day is under way and we're currently hearing from Rory Read about the future of the company. Specifics and roadmaps will follow, but the fundamental shift is outlined below: AMD used to focus on PC clients and... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 10:30pm | Qualcomm and Ericsson Demonstrate SR-VCC Voice Handover from LTE to WCDMA on MSM8960 |
| Until now, the way voice has worked on handsets with a 4G LTE air interface has been, well, interesting. That is to say, thus far all voice calls haven't been over 4G LTE but conventional circuit-switched (as opposed to packet-switched) 2G or 3... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 9:30am | Apple Releases OS X 10.7.3, Safari 5.1.3 |
| Apple today released the OS X 10.7.3 update for the client and server versions of Lion - unlike 10.7.2, which introduced a major feature in iCloud, the 10.7.3 update consists mostly of smaller feature and security bugfixes. The updates are currentl... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 4:04am | US Cellular Announces Initial 4G LTE Markets, Devices |
| Not to be left in the dust by their big national counterparts, regional carriers are also moving onward to 4G LTE, and US Cellular today announced its initial 4G LTE markets and two devices. US Cellular has made a coverage map tool visible wit... more |


