More Details Emerge on AMD's Hammer

Diabolus writes "Anandtech have more information on AMD's upcoming Hammer processors. " Talking with several engineers who are in the know about it, the Hammer looks pretty frickin' amazing. Itanium will have a run for its money, I suspect.

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Corporate monopolies stopping progress

[euroderf]

Many may think that the Hammer is a quantum leap in microprocessor technology. Indeed, prima facie, it seems that this is the case.

But, in actual fact, this technology would have been with us many years ago were it not for corporate domination of high technology. I have been around for many years, and I remember in the late 50's and the 1960's, when computing technologies were dominated by the Universities and the public ethos was uppermost. Freedom of information reigned, and thousands of little computing groups competed to bring the new era. Unix, Multics, CP/M, Hard Drives, the Mouse, CRT displays, all these and more were made during this time.

As soon as computing became dominated by corporate interests though, a money making formula was cracked - Computer, simplistic OS, mouse, CRT, keyboard, box and sell and improve and refine. The days of real paradigm shifts stopped. The Corps controlled all, and were not interested in innovation except in as much as it forces a new upgrade cycle.

if we want computing to have a new dawn, a new time of real change, then we need to ensure that the computing industry is overthrown and controlled instead by the people. The socialist control of the means of production of hardware will allow for innovation in that realm, just as the socialist control of the means of production in software has i thanks to the GNU liscence.

I urge everyone to think of these issues, and ask themselves, do I want the same as now, but twice faster, or a genuine revolution? Constant revolution, not improvement, is the way forward.