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  • AMD Completes Transition to TSMC With 7nm, Goodbye GlobalFoundries

    AMD Completes Transition to TSMC With 7nm, Goodbye GlobalFoundries

    If you’re a fan of AMD and don’t know what to make of this news, you should be ecstatic!  TSMC has been the sole manufacturer of all NVidia GPUs, the highest performing on the market.  Now it seems AMD is free to use them exclusively, escaping their obligations to GlobalFoundries.

    September 2, 2018
  • Denise Grimsley and Amy Lockhart’s Illegal SMS Campaign

    Denise Grimsley and Amy Lockhart’s Illegal SMS Campaign

    Denise Grimsley and Amy Lockhart are illegally sending bulk political SMS messages in violation of the TCPA with penalties of over $16,000 per text (pdf).  These campaigns have sent out thousands of messages to cell phone subscribers.   

    August 26, 2018
  • Nvidia RTX 2080 Looking Fast and Expensive

    Nvidia RTX 2080 Looking Fast and Expensive

    It’s been over two years since Nvidia introduced the GTX 1080 making the 10xx series the longest lived in recent memory.  Will we get two generations of performance improvements?  Did Nvidia milk the 1000 series?

    August 20, 2018
  • AMD IPC Finally Caught Up After Six Slow Years

    AMD IPC Finally Caught Up After Six Slow Years

    We know this story.  Intel got in it’s tick-tock groove with alternating process/architecture generations of CPUs.  AMD managed to get stuck in a low performance rut.

    August 19, 2018
  • Current Intel CPUs Finally Double Speed of Nehalem

    Current Intel CPUs Finally Double Speed of Nehalem

    When I built my current PC, an Intel Core i7-920 Nehalem based system, it was a significant upgrade from the AMD Athlon XP based system I had before.  On a single threaded workload, it was almost three times faster.  With a multi-threaded workload it was 13 times faster.

    August 18, 2018

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