A Long Story About Llano

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Charlie Demerjian, AMD's Llano has a breakthrough; Tale twistier than the river it is named after. SemiAccurate, Nov. 23, 2010.
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/11/23/amds-llano-has-breakthrough/

My comment:
(a) Llano River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_River

(i) Llano River. City of Llano, Texas, undated.
http://www.llanotx.com/tourism/LlanoRiver1.htm
("Llano is Spanish for 'plains,'  and the double L is pronounced as a Y. However the common pronunciation of Llano by the locals is LAN-OH. * * * draining into the Colorado River" of Texas)
(ii) The River flows through Llano County, Texas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_County,_Texas
(iii) Colorado River (Texas)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_%28Texas%29
(The Colorado River is a river that runs through the U.S. state of Texas; it should not be confused with the much longer Colorado River which flows from Colorado into the Gulf of California.)

(b) Ontario/Zacate are chips AMD entrusts TSMC to make, using 40-nm process (not HKMG).
(c) SOI stands for Silicon On Insulator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_on_insulator

Compare: SOC: System on Chip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System-on-a-chip
(d) WTF: What the fuck
(e) The CC in "Q2 CC" is short for Conference Call.
(f) DOA: dead on arrival
(g) CES: Consumer Electronics Show
(h) I had two postings on Llano, which I read again just now:

(i) TSMC to 28nm this quarter. Oct. 20, 2010.
http://www.yilubbs.com/HT/con_119_M.1287594704.A.htm?N=27766&T=0

(ii) AMD Trots Out 'Fusion.' Nov. 10, 2010.
http://www.yilubbs.com/HT/con_218_M.1289421948.A.htm?N=3243&T=0

By the time (i) was published, LLano was already slated for 2Q11.


------------------------Separately
Hsu Chih-wei and S.C. Chang, Taiwan designs low-cost collision avoidance radar system. Central News Agency, Nov. 24, 2010.
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aECO&ID=201011240024

Note:
(a) collision avoidance radar (汽車) 防撞雷達
(b) LEE Chih-yi 李 致毅
(c) The Chinese version of teh report is
許秩維, 廉價車用防撞雷達 研發成功. 中央社, Nov. 24, 2010.
http://www.cna.com.tw/ShowNews/Detail.aspx?pNewsID=201011240127&pType0=aIT&pTypeSel=0

(d) At the same time,

林嘉琪, 交大研發毫米波汽車防撞雷達 反應更快. Liberty Times, Nov. 20, 2010.
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2008/new/nov/20/today-life5.htm
(交通大學電信系教授鍾世忠: "我們的成本拉低到只要台幣二至三萬元" or less than $100)

Today's foreign exchange rate: T$30.5 to $1.

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