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End Of the Road for Duron
yorgasor writes: "AMD announced that their Duron processor will no longer be produced near the end of this year. They plan on focusing all of their CPU production energy on Athlons and Hammers. The Register has more about it."
Seems Duron's not as durable as it's name would suggest.
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How are they gonna own the low-end market now?
Because of the requirements of Windows XP there is no low-end market
So will they call the chip that implements DRM in hardware the 'Screw driver' ?
Do we hate AMD today?
First I decided to get a VLB mother board. Just after the purchase PCI won the market. Then I chose to buy an Aureal sound card. And just after that, the Aureal died. Then I got a Voodoo3 video card and that also died a horrible death. And now... just after purchasing an AMD Duron and a new motherboard, they claim that there will be Duron no more. Damned... Either I'm a bad decision maker or then I'm an angel of death. Too bad there is no place to bet for the loser because I'm going to buy a new monitor...
*slobber*
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Why all these stupid names for 80x86-compatible processors.
Because a chip vendor can trademark a name but can't trademark a number. Thus the move from "386", "486", etc. to the "Pentium®" line.
Did you know? Intel applied for trademark registration for "Sexium", but the CDA forced the company to sell 686 processors as "Pentium II" instead.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Where Duron's gone or how it fares
Nobody knows, and nobody cares
Hm, 64 bits is really interesting. I am by no means an electrician, so perhaps someone could tell me if this is plausible, but... would it be possible to use a 64 bit CPU as a dual 32 bit CPU? Like instead of running a 64 bit OS, you run a SMP 32 bit OS or even two 32 bit OS's in parallel. I see no reason why it wouldn't work. Just have one OS use only the first half of each address or register, and the other OS use the other half. With a little clever masking, it should work!
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... AMD has announced that it will focus it's production on high-end processors. In other news, scientists predict a record year for global warming...
"Derp de derp."
M.C. or just Mike?
Ok, bad joke, but someone had to say it.
No, wait they didn't...
Ah right i got story then.
Man gets four new tires on his car. Puts 4 old tires out on the road with a sign that says "FREE". None touches them. Few days later he puts a sign on the tires that says "$20 for all four". Someone stole them before the day was over.
Not sure of the point? Neither am I, but I am sure it's around here somewhere.