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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