SemiAccurate (S|A in short) is a U.S.-based technology-news and -opinion web site, founded in 2009 by Charlie Demerjian after his departure from The Inquirer. The site lists as its contributors: Charlie Demerjian (the site's founder), Thomas Ryan and Leo Yim.[citation needed]
Type of site | Blog |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Stone Arch Networking Services, Inc. |
| Created by | Charlie Demerjian |
| Revenue | Unknown |
| URL | SemiAccurate.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Launched | 2009 |
| Current status | Active |
As of 2017[update] the site operates under a partial paywall model, making the majority of its content publicly available at no cost to readers - but subscribers to the "Student-" and "Professional-"level tiers receive access to special analysis articles and reports on industry trends similar to white papers.
Notable stories
editIn February 2010, SemiAccurate ran a story on the yet to be released, "Fermi", microprocessor from Nvidia, which called the chip, "Hot, Slow, Late and Unmanufacturable."[1]
In August 2010, a tip off from a reader helped SemiAccurate to cover Sony admitting to defective graphics chips in some of its laptops.[2] News organization IDG credited SemiAccurate for first reporting the story.[3]
In May 2011, SemiAccurate published a story on Apple dropping Intel from its laptop line within a few years.[4] This story was covered by a large number of U.S.-based as well as international news organizations. ZDNet and Barron's both weighed in on the validity of the story.[5][6]
In June 2011, SemiAccurate published a story detailing the scandal that led AMD, Nvidia, and VIA to leave Intel as the lone semiconductor design company in the BAPCo consortium.[7] In response, Nigel Dessau, Chief Marketing Officer of AMD, published a blog titled "Voting for Openness" shortly after this story went up, and explained AMD's side of the story.[8]
In August 2011, SemiAccurate published two stories, one covering the specifications of Nvidia's unreleased mobile graphics line up,[9] and another covering the specifications of AMD's (one of Nvidia's direct competitors) unreleased mobile graphics line up.[10] Softpedia,[11] VR-Zone,[12] TweakTown,[13] and the Tom's Hardware Forum all credited SemiAccurate for leaking these specifications.[14]
Reader supported
editOn December 4, 2012, SemiAccurate moved from an ad revenue supported business model to a paywall business model.[15] This paywall model had three tiers, Curious (free), Member ($200 per year), and Professional ($1000 per year).
On May 5, 2013, SemiAccurate amended this model to reduce the number of subscription tiers from three, down to two.[16] Under the revised pay wall model the Curious and Member levels were replaced by the Student level membership ($100 per year), while the Professional level membership remained at the same.
References
edit- ^ "Nvidia's Fermi GTX480 is broken and unfixable". SemiAccurate. February 17, 2010.
- ^ "Sony admits to 14 defective Nvidia notebooks". SemiAccurate. August 10, 2009.
- ^ "Sony warns of laptops with faulty Nvidia chips". Smarter News, Analysis & Research Communities. 2009-08-12. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
- ^ "Apple dumps Intel from laptop lines". SemiAccurate. May 5, 2011.
- ^ Dignan, Larry (2011-05-06). "Apple dumping Intel for ARM? Pros, cons and a lot of questions". ZDNET. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
- ^ Barrons blog on the article, retrieved August 26, 2011.
- ^ "Nvidia, AMD, and VIA quit BAPCO over SYSmark 2012". SemiAccurate. 2011-06-20. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
- ^ Voting for Openness - AMD Blogs, retrieved August 25, 2011.
- ^ "Nvidia's 28nm mobile lineup leaked". SemiAccurate. August 23, 2011.
- ^ "AMD's 28nm mobile lineup leaked too". SemiAccurate. August 24, 2011.
- ^ Pop, Sebastian (August 24, 2011). "Leak Reveals Upcoming NVIDIA 28nm GPU Lineup". softpedia.
- ^ "VR-Zone Mobile Graphics Story".
- ^ "Details on NVIDIA's upcoming 28nm mobile lineup leaked". TweakTown. August 24, 2011.
- ^ "News : Nvidia's 28nm mobile lineup leaked". Tom's Hardware Forum. August 24, 2011.
- ^ "SemiAccurate is now reader supported | SemiAccurate". semiaccurate.com. Archived from the original on 2012-12-06.
- ^ "SemiAccurate Forums - View Single Post - Semiaccurate goes partly subscription based". semiaccurate.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.