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About Assumptions and Acquisitions

Oct. 23, 2012, 11:31 a.m.

The PC market is in a tailspin and many companies have to announce very poor results – and yet, we also have some winners. AMD is definitely not among them, a mass layoff looms on the horizon. And, again, take-over rumors are circulating.

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About Memristors and Other Cannibals

Oct. 12, 2012, 4:47 a.m.

The back to school season starts with many new processors, although IBM's large server chips probably don't have much to do with the end of the holidays. And there are going to be a few delays – maybe with AMD's Steamroller and for sure with HP's memristor.

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About a Golden October and Autumn Leaves

Sept. 26, 2012, 4:58 a.m.

It's an old tradition: Where Intel shows off its products and roadmaps, AMD is not far off. At the IDF, Intel could boast the new Haswell processor – but its launch is still nine months away. AMD intends to crank it up right away.

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TOP10 November 2012

1 Titan - Cray XK7 , Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x
2 Sequoia - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60 GHz, Custom
3 K computer, SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz, Tofu interconnect
4 Mira - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
5 JUQUEEN - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.600GHz, Custom Interconnect
6 SuperMUC - iDataPlex DX360M4, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.70GHz, Infiniband FDR
7 Stampede - PowerEdge C8220, Xeon E5-2680 8C 2.700GHz, Infiniband FDR, Intel Xeon Phi
8 Tianhe-1A - NUDT YH MPP, Xeon X5670 6C 2.93 GHz, NVIDIA 2050
9 Fermi - BlueGene/Q, Power BQC 16C 1.60GHz, Custom
10 DARPA Trial Subset - Power 775, POWER7 8C 3.836GHz, Custom Interconnect

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