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Will Apple Choose AMD’s Fusion Chips Over NVIDIA?
The launch of AMD’s Fusion chip or “Llano,” which combines the central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) has been pushed to next year. Meanwhile, at the recent Intel Developer Forum Intel announced a new multi-function chip, Sandy Bridge, that integrates graphics and video processing. Will such hybrid chips render graphics chips obsolete
AMD and Nvidia Beat Estimates
Last week, Intel entered into an agreement with AMD and also agreed to pay $1.25 billion to the former for dropping its antitrust lawsuits. According to the latest report from IDC, PC processor unit shipments in 3Q09 rose 23% q-o-q, and Intel increased its share by 2.2% to 81.1% while AMD had a share of
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 6)
SM: You have market potential to build a pretty big business. Is that what you want to do? FW: I want to build a profitable and sustainable business. We do not want to grow too fast. Our strategy is to have the right technology, the right architecture and the right product mix in the right
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 5)
SM: You have been doing this for two years, where are you in terms of products? FW: We don’t produce the DIMM, we produce controller chips. We sell controller chips to DIMM makers. Our partners today are Smart Modular Technologies and Hynix. They take their DRAM, put it on a board with our chips to
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 4)
SM: How does MetaRam fit your golden rules? FW: I often say the main rule golden rule is “CPUs should talk directly to DRAMs is because that is how God intended it to be, and you should not get in the middle of it”! That is why it can be surprising when you look at
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 3)
SM: Chip design does not have to be a labor intensive process. FW: No it doesn’t, but it can be. You can very easily apply too many people. You need a lot of people for complex chips, so there is always a temptation to use too many people. The problem is you then run into
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 2)
SM: What was significant about your time at AMD for both yourself and the industry? FW: It was a time that brought about the absolute consolidation and predominance of microprocessors. In the 1980’s the RISC processors and single chip processors where gaining importance but there were still mainframes in multiple architectures. By the mid 90’s
Pioneering Change in the Memory Market: MetaRam Visionary Fred Weber (Part 1)
One trend occurring over the past decade is a reduction in the overall innovation by entrepreneurs in the semiconductor space. With the roll out of multi-core processors it is obvious that chokepoints in processing speed are going to lie in places like the bus and memory. That is where MetaRam comes into play. A small
