A very smart man at Intel once told me that when designing a microprocessor you can either build a new architecture, or move to a smaller manufacturing process, but you don’t do both at the same time. The reason you don’t do both is because it significantly complicates the design, validation and manufacturing processes - [...]

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The AMD Radeon HD 4000-series of GPUs is one of those company “secrets” that no one actually tries to hide.  AMD has gone out of their way to discuss these products without exactly disclose all the details - just this week we were at a “Cinema 2.0″ event AMD hosted that described the architecture without [...]

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