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posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 28 2015, @04:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the chip-manufacturer-manufactures-chips dept.

It's amazing the sources some journalists use to find leads. Oftentimes it's a LinkedIn profile where an engineer reveals an undisclosed product. But in this case, it's a shipping company.

The eagle-eyed folks at WCCFTech spotted something strange in the shipping manifests for Zauba, an Indian shipping firm. The entry is an AMD product codenamed "Magnum," with references to FPGA and DTV, two acronyms that don't usually go together.

The entry in question reads "PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY-AMD MAGNUM FPGA PROTOTYPEBOARD FOR DTV P/N .102-B25432-00 (FOC)."

Another clue from the manifest is that it originated in Canada. ATI Technologies, the GPU maker AMD acquired in 2006, was a Canadian firm and a great deal of GPU research and development is still done at the Markham, Ontario office. So this product was led by the GPU team, not the CPU team.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @04:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @04:56PM (#255692)

    Maybe related to this Magnum? [wikipedia.org]

    From the Wikipedia article:

    The company has an engineering branch at Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday October 28 2015, @07:49PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday October 28 2015, @07:49PM (#255741) Journal

    Maybe it's not even an AMD project, but Magnum just ordered a board with AMD chips on it.

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