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AMD Could Add ARM Faster Than Intel

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com April 4, 2011. This morning, AMD gave a press conference to discuss a renegotiated wafer supply agreement with Globalfoundries, which spun off from AMD into a separate entity in March 2009 and acquired Charter Semiconductor to broaden its supply capabilities in September 2009.  Wafers are the silicon disks on [...]

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Is The PC Dead?

by Roger Kay on March 27, 2011 in Personal Computing

Smart Devices Will Lap PCs in 2011 This post first appeared in Forbes.com Feb. 28, 2011. Smartphones are upon us, and so are tablets, and some other new ways individuals can get on the Internet are likely to arrive in the next few years as well.  So, will the PC remain central, play some sort [...]

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This Ain’t Yer Grandpaw’s nVidia

by Roger Kay on March 27, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post first appeared on Forbes.com March 14, 2011. Jen-Hsun Huang held forth in his usual manner last week before an audience of industry analysts at nVidia headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. He was a bit chagrined because the day before he had given the same lecture to a group of financial analysts, and the [...]

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