Jim Keller was not a big fan of K12
Exclusive: Zen drive more important
Legendary, now ex AMD chief engineer Jim Keller was not a fan of the ARM-based K12 and sidelined it in favour of Zen development.
Darren Grasby is EMEA AMD President
Stepping up
AMD has decided that its Corporate Vice President Worldwide Component Channel manager Darren Grasby needs a promotion. Grasby is now President of EMEA AMD which is a promotion even if the job title is not as long..
Huawei's Kirin 950 faster than Exynos 7420
First mobile A72 to launch tomorrow
There is a big chance that Huawei is going to officially launch Kirin 950 tomorrow and the first Geekbench benchmarks have already leaked.
AMD Zen silicon might be in good shape
At least a bloke who knows ex AMD chap claims
A website based its article on one forum post claims that AMD Zen meets all expectations because he knows someone who works in AMD. So it must be true.
Intel’s Denverton has 16 next-generation CPU cores
Arm wrestling
Intel has been talking about its plans for low-power, highly integrated system-on-a-chip designs aimed at the server market for years now, it even released Avoton which was not bad but did not really go far. Now it looks like the second generation is getting close to release.