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Dell Finally Goes for AMD
this great guy writes "You read it correctly. It had to happen one day.
According to Forbes
'Dell Inc has informed its Taiwan contract makers of plans to develop devices based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc's microprocessors, and these suppliers are awaiting orders for global shipment, the Economic Daily News reported, citing industry sources.'"
Maybe not... http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002 56F6C005C22FC482570C0002A51C7
I want my! I want my! I want my Eee PC!
How many fulltime jobs can one man have?
http://news.techwhack.com/2510/211135-dell-denies- possibilities-of-an-amd-based-pc/
Dell has clarified that any rumors of it planning to manufacture a Dell PC based on AMD processors are false. Market has reported that the company had notified Taiwanese PC contract manufacturers to ready production lines to produce Dell PC systems using microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. the statement from the company now nullifies these rumors.
Taiwanese companies like Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. and Quanta Computer Inc. were mentioned in the rumor reports. Some of these Taiwanese companies are the biggest outsourced suppliers for Dell and they are usually the first one to see some of the newer products from the tech giant.
Dell has a special business relationship with Intel, which the market analysts claim gets them huge discounts. This is also said to be the reason why Dell does not build PC products using AMD processors despite high demands for them. However, the rumors of an AMD powered Dell became stronger after Dell started selling AMD processors on their web stores sometime back.
)this was mentioned a few posts up but noone seemed to catch it)
-everphilski-
1) The Itanium
2) HT - Hyper threading - see recent articles about turning it off.
3) The P4 long pipeline used to inflate clock speed with lower performance/cycle
4) The new P4 core (preshot) - more watts, didn't come close to target of 5GHz.
5) Failure to commit to x86-64 resulting in lesser performance.
6) Late to the dual core party.
7) Continued use of the old buss making dual cores suck
8) Late to the integrated memory controller party (comming in like 2007).
9) Oh, and that whole Rambus thing.
If Intel had done what AMD did, and AMD did what Intel did, there would only be one left standing today. IMHO Intel has been living on it's brand name and huge production capacity for some time now.
>It's the width, not the length, that matters
Sexual innuendos aside, this has been true for pipelines too. Look at P4's outrageously long pipeline that got nowhere whenever you need to branch.
Whoops, pipeline_flush();