Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Anandtech forums on trial: The corruption runs deep.

An excellent article written by SilliconWars about AnandTech forums and "unbiased" moderators who run the forums. A must read!

http://techsoda.com/anandtech-forum-moderators-biased-corrupt/

Sunday, January 5, 2014

AMD Kaveri Tech Day!

Original source:
http://www.purepc.pl/amd_kaveri_tech_day/amd_kaveri_tech_day_relacja_na_zywo#

Backup:
http://apusilicon.com/amd-tech-day-and-kaveri-details-abound/

Die shot:



IPC up to 20% better:


Kaveri's die shot from the presentation(tried to fix perspective):



Some crude module comparison with "leaked" module of unknown AMD core from 5 months back:

Image of Kaveri's module from tech day(bad quality due to low res. of orig. imae):




Leaked module of unknown core:



Now two overlapped with the 2nd image set with high opacity:





Seems it doesn't match so well. It might be that the unknown module shot is Excavator module(?).