Monday, February 11, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 12/02/2013


AMD roadmap: Radeon HD 7000 series to be 'stable throughout 2013' Well, this is a pretty unusual way for AMD to publicize its graphics roadmap. Just before the weekend, the following tweet showed up on the official AMD Radeon Graphics Twitter account: The link points to Japanese site 4Gamer , which apparently got some one-on-one time with AMD Desktop Graphics Product Manager Devon Nekechuk. The site also snagged a few PowerPoint roadmap slides. ... Read more... Read More ...
IBM, GlobalFoundries, and Samsung offer a glimpse of chipmaking's future The opportunity doesn't come along every day to get a detailed peek into the future of computing from the people who are building it. Last week, I had just such a chance. I attended the Common Platform Technology Forum, the annual get-together hosted by IBM, Samsung, and GlobalFoundries. These firms are the members of the Common Platform Alliance, a rather unique consortium of chipmakers. Co-opetition: IBM, Samsung, and GlobalFoundries together The Alliance member firms banded together over a decade ago in the face of growing challenges in the quest to achieve ever-higher densities in semiconductor production. Somewhat amazingly, this collaborative partnership has held together over time even though the firms involved sometimes compete directly against one another. The collaborators have ... Read more... Read More ...
Sunday Night Shortbread The Pick 6
  1. AnandTech on Samsung laptop UEFI bugs: Not just for Linux
  2. AnandTech's ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Champion and X79 Professional review: From a gamer to gamers
  3. TNW: Some iPhone users are seeing battery drain and overheating issues after upgrading to iOS 6.1
  4. The Old New Thing: Enhanced-mode Windows 3.0 didn't exactly run a copy of standard-mode Windows inside the virtual machine
  5. FOSS Force: Linux won the desktop wars a long time ago
  6. Polygon: Online resumes point to Wolfenstein game in development
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