US prepares to sanction more Chinese chipmakers
Because previous sanctions worked so well
The US government may soon introduce a new series of sanctions affecting at least 200 domestic chip makers in China.
AMD shows off Radeon R9 Fury X2 dual-GPU at VRLA 2016
Featured in new 4-inch wide Falcon Northwest custom PC
At the Virtual Reality Los Angeles (VRLA) 2016 Winter Expo this weekend in Southern California, AMD showed off its upcoming Radeon R9 Fury X dual-GPU powered by two 28nm Fiji GPUs.
AMD Fiji GPU has 8.9 billion transistors
With HBM chips it goes over 10 billion
The Fiji GPU behind the AMD Radeon Fury line of graphics cards is definitely a one big chip with 8.9 billion transistors, but during our short chat with, Raja Koduri, Corporate Vice President and CTO, Visual Computing at AMD and we learned that the number is even higher.
AMD Fiji HBM limited to 4GB stacked memory
Cannot fit more on 2.5D interposer
In early January we heard a thing or two about an AMD card codenamed Fiji, the one that comes with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).