[citation needed] 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.
In 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.
[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.
[10] Softpedia,[11] VR-Zone,[12] TweakTown,[13] and the Tom's Hardware Forum all credited SemiAccurate for leaking these specifications.