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AMD Licenses Z-RAM Technology

Posted by Zonk on from the anything-is-better-with-a-z dept.

ZuperDee writes "It appears AMD has licensed Z-RAM technology from Innovative Silicon for possible use in future processors. According to the article, this could lead to caches about 5 times denser than the SRAM that is normally used right now. C|Net says they will probably make the announcement on Monday."

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  1. factorial benchmark by 80+85+83+83+89+33 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a very simple perfomance check i love to run on every computer i come across:

    put windows calculator in scientific mode (yes, mathmatica or maple will do factorials in a fraction of the time, but try to post windows scores for comparison purposes....)

    type in 100,000

    hit the n! button

    ignore the warnings that it will take a long time, don't even bother clicking on "Continue", because the calculation is still going.

    and report how long it takes to complete a factorial of 100,000

    please report what CPU you have

    (btw, Hyper-Threading might speed things up 2x sometimes)

    and i find that the calculator runs faster on win98 than XP...

    celeron 800MHz (coppermine): 333 seconds (5min 33sec)

    1.4GHz celeron (tualatin) does it in 205 seconds

    P4 3.2Ghz and Athlon 3200+ both do it in about 80 seconds....

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  2. AMD vs. Intel Brand Comparison by Navi1010 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm not that familiar with AMD - or chips for that matter. However, I'm a huge fan of Paul Graham and his brand of philosophy that glamorizes open source technologies.

    I know Slashdot attracts individuals that are very fanatical about open source technology. I'm curious to hear what the open source community thinks of AMD as a company and Intel as a company, and consequently, the culture of each and what brand do they feel like to be the most moral.

    What I'm looking for is a heady discussion about the two companies with a focus on the both AMD's and Intel's brand. What makes either company appealing for you? How do they stack up against each other, whose got an advantage and why? Most of all, I want to hear some quality rhetoric in support of either company. Let's see some ill technology prose.

    I am so far abstracted from the hardware industry that I would like people more familiar with it to help me sort out the 2 main chip brands and how I should view them.