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[http://www.pcmag.com] Reviews News & Opinions Downloads Business Daily Deals Login Register Subscribe Top Categories See all » Trending Tags See all » Follow About Michael J. Miller Michael J. Miller is chief information officer at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private investment firm. Miller, who was editor-in-chief of PC Magazine from 1991 to 2005, authors this blog for PC Magazine to share his thoughts on PC-related products. No investment advice is offered in this blog. All duties are disclaimed. Miller works separately for a private investment firm which may at any time invest in companies whose products are discussed in this blog, and no disclosure of securities transactions will be made. Read full bio » More Blogs AppScout 'Lord of the Rings: Legends' Begins Its Quest on iOS, Android Security Watch Shut Down the Dark Web? Survey Says ...Yes, Please Remembering Andy Grove Mar 23, 2016 12:30 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller I was saddened to hear of the passing of Andy Grove, best known as the CEO of Intel during the boom years of the personal computer. Read More » Categories: Chips Tags: Intel Ivytown, Steamroller, 14 and 16nm Process Highlight ISSCC Feb 14, 2014 12:24 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller The latest International Solid State Circuits Conference included a slew of new chip details. Read More » Categories: Chips Tags: Intel, AMD Intel's New Roadmap Emphasizes Tablets, 14nm Process Nov 25, 2013 3:23 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller Last week, Intel announced a series of updates to its strategy and roadmap that signal the biggest change in direction the chip maker has made in years. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said the company is now taking more of a "market-driven" view of the industry and is committed to bringing innovation to the market more quickly. Read More » Categories: Chips Tags: Intel, chips, tablets, core processors AMD Updates Roadmaps, Plans "Beema" APU Nov 14, 2013 1:00 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller As part of its APU13 conference yesterday, AMD announced a new roadmap for its lower-power accelerated processing units (APUs), including two new chips known as "Beema" and "Mullins." These chips are in addition to the more mainstream Kaveri processor AMD previously said would be released in a desktop version in early 2014. The new processors sound interesting, but even more interesting is what is not currently on the roadmap. Read More » Categories: Show Reports, Chips Tags: chips, AMD, microprocessor, roadmap AMD Unveils Kaveri, Focuses on Heterogeneous Computing Nov 12, 2013 3:16 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller At its APU 13 conference last night, AMD announced its next generation processor, code-named Kaveri, will be shipping in desktops starting on January 14, and released a lot of new information about the chip. As the name of the conference suggests, AMD is calling this an "accelerated processing unit" (APU), its term for a processor that has both CPU and graphics capabilities built into a single chip. The company has been talking about Kaveri for some time, but now we have a lot more details. Read More » Categories: Computing, Chips Tags: Intel, chips, AMD, core processors IDF 2013: Power, Not Performance, Now Reigns in Chipmaking Sep 17, 2013 1:19 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller Performance matters, but power matters more. That's the big impression I took away from last week's Intel Developer Forum. While the emphasis on power efficiency has always been true for the makers of mobile processors, it's a relatively new direction for Intel, but it is evident in just about every product category. Read More » Categories: Show Reports, Chips Tags: Intel, chips, power, IDF, mobile processors, benchmarks 55 Years of Integrated Circuits: The Chip Changed Everything Sep 12, 2013 2:11 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller It's not an anniversary that often gets notice, but today marks 55 years since the creation of the first integrated circuit by Jack St. Clair Kilby of Texas Instruments. In the time since, the chip has revolutionized electronics, underpinning all of modern information technology and consumer electronics from PCs to televisions, from radios to smartphones. Read More » Categories: Chips Tags: chips, circuit, Texas Instruments Inc AMD and Intel Discuss Processor Changes, But Big Moves Still to Come Sep 03, 2013 4:15 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller While server chips get most of the attention at the annual Hot Chips conference, AMD and Intel used the occasion to talk about the chips they released earlier in the year while giving little more than teasers about the processors yet to come. Read More » Categories: Show Reports, Chips Tags: chips, AMD, processors, Qualcomm, heterogenous computing, Hot Chips What's Next for Server Chips? Aug 28, 2013 11:36 AM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller At this week's Hot Chips conference, the most interesting announcements were about high-end processors. These are designed for big Unix-based systems, but they show just how much power today's high-end chips can deliver. They aren't the kinds of systems that most of us run in our corporate server racks or that you see in big scale-out data centers, but rather are the ones that run mission-critical applications in large enterprises, or perhaps in high-performance computing situations. Read More » Categories: Computing, Chips Tags: IBM, chips, Hot Chips How Chip Customization, Core Licensing Could Change the Processor Business Aug 09, 2013 4:09 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller In this round of surprising developments in processor technology, we learn Nvidia and IBM are deciding to license their processors cores—Kepler GPU and Power CPU cores respectively—allowing other companies to include these cores within their own products. Read More » Categories: Chips Tags: chips, AMD, processors, ARM, Nvidia AMD Pivots to ARM on Servers Jun 19, 2013 2:50 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller AMD has been hinting at major changes to its server strategy for a while now, but with its announcements of new server chips yesterday it has firmly pivoted away from a focus on the traditional two-processor and four-processor servers that drive most enterprise servers and toward lower-power, single-processor servers typically used in Web servers and cloud applications. More interestingly, it plans to take this even further next year, replacing the x86 cores in its extreme low-power server chips with new ARM-based cores. This represents an enormous shift in direction. Read More » Categories: Architecture, Chips Tags: Intel, architecture, AMD, processors, ARM Computex: Will Less Powerful Chips Soon Start to Dominate? Jun 05, 2013 5:17 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller New chips and systems announced at the big Computex show in Taiwan this week should set the stage for laptops, desktops, and a host of other form factors for PCs for the rest of the year. While I wasn't able to make the show this year, I'm following the announcements quite closely. Read More » Categories: Show Reports, Chips Tags: Intel, AMD, Computex Will Intel's New Haswell Chip Really Boost Battery Performance by 50 Percent? Jun 04, 2013 2:49 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller After months of discussion, Intel today formally announced its fourth-generation Core family known as Haswell. This is the second version of the company's main desktop and laptop chips that will be produced on its 22nm Tri-Gate process, following the current Ivy Bridge chips introduced last year at this time. Read More » Categories: Chips Tags: Intel, AMD, Haswell Can AMD's Temash and Kabini Compete? May 28, 2013 4:42 PM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller AMD last week formally launched its low-power accelerated processing units (APUs) for 2013, 28 nm chips known as Temash and Kabini, as well as some new versions of its more powerful processor known as Richland, which also uses less power than previous versions. Read More » Categories: Chips Tags: chips, AMD, APUs, Temash, Kabini AMD and Intel Open Up Graphics Front in Processor Battle May 08, 2013 10:53 AM EST Comments By Michael J. Miller In a series of recent announcements, Intel and AMD have separately unveiled several important changes in the architectures of their x86 processors, which promise to transform the way that x86 processors will be used over the next few years. Read More » Categories: Architecture, Chips Tags: Intel, architecture, AMD, Haswell, x86 Older Posts Subscribe // Most Popular Articles 17 Secret Gems Inside Facebook Messenger The Eerie World of Abandoned Arcade Games 5 Reasons to Play Quantum Break Everything Coming to Netflix in April Black Markets and Secret Thumb Drives: How Cubans Get Online Tax Tips for Last-Minute E-Filers » See More // Discover... Hotspots and Secret Drives: How Cubans Get Online 12 Things You Can Replace With a $38 Tablet How Close Are Robots to Making Humans Unnecessary? 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