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August 20, 2007 4:55 PM PDT

This is the fourth in a series of posts from the Hot Chips conference at Stanford. The previous installments looked at IBM's Power 6 efforts, Vernor Vinge's keynote address, and Nvidia. Other CNET coverage may be found here. This is sort of an experiment for me; I usually prefer to have time to review my work before I publish it. If you see anything wrong, please leave a comment!

The first talk in session 3 is from Advanced Micro Devices, describing the ATI Radeon HD 2900. (I checked, and AMD does still use the ATI brand name for some of its products; this is one of them.)

This is another chip I described briefly in one of my Siggraph 2007 pieces (here). The 2900 has 320 cores (which AMD calls "stream ... Read more

Topics:: News Analysis,; Graphics,; Networking,; Research,; Processors

Tags:: Hot Chips,; AMD,; Radeon,; NVIDIA,; Intel,; Tera-scale,; TRIPS,; Tilera

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