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In case anyone else read that article and wondered "what's all this gate-last vs. gate-first business?" http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20111114-gat
by feralchimp 15y ago
In case anyone else read that article and wondered "what's all this gate-last vs. gate-first business?"
http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20111114-gate/ http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20111114-gate/
- CamperBob 15y agoI'm not even sure what an "APU" is, frankly. Lots of undefined buzzwords in that article.
- zokier 15y agoAPU is exactly that, a marketing buzzword for GPU+CPU combination-chip.
- r00fus 15y agohttp://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/apu/Pages/apu.aspx http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/apu/Pages/apu.aspx tl;dr - AMD's new GPU+CPU combined chipset... the logical extension of their purchase of ATI.
- niels_olson 15y agoAuxillary Power Unit: small electric thrusters near the pivot point of a ship used in emergencies or certain close quarters situations, such as docking. Ambulatory Procedure Unit: where surgeons do same-day procedures. Navy, medicine, computers: inside my head, acronym reuse is a real problem.
- ars 15y agoFrom this article it sounds like gate-first is the reason for the very poor yield GlobalFoundries is having. Everyone else has switched to gate-last. GlobalFoundries trumps gate-first on their website, but to me it sounds like a negative.