Episode 95: 95: Black Friday Hypercritical

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the upcoming end of this show, more on Intel vs. ARM, Apple's CPU/GPU needs, and the newly revealed internals of the Wii U console and GamePad.


Links for this episode:
Advanced Vector Extensions - Wikipedia
5by5 Specials #10: State of the Union for 2012
Intel to fab ARM chips for Apple? It’s possible… - Ars Technica
Intel's Tick Tock strategy (image)
Silicon - Wikipedia
Silicone - Wikipedia
Intel set to expand its Hillsboro research fab, D1X - OregonLive.com
Haswell’s GPU prowess is due to Crystalwell - SemiAccurate
Crystalwell is very wide memory for Haswell GT3 - SemiAccurate
Nintendo Wii U Teardown - iFixit
Rayman developer: Wii U GamePad latency is 1/60th of a second - Ars Technica
Hands-On with Wii U (GamePad lag video) - Digital Foundry
Iwata Asks : Wii U: The Console : Hardware as Stagehand
Wii U GamePad battery compartment - iFixIt
Skylanders
CrashPlan's Black Friday sale
State of the Union Address for 2012 - 5by5 Blog
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