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The Near Future of Intel
wh0pper wrote to mention a Design Technica story about the near-term future of Intel. They've been getting beaten in the press pretty soundly by AMD of late, and at the Intel Developer's Forum they did their best to convince attendees they were on the comeback trail. From the article: "It wouldn't be IDF if there wasn't a solid performance message. This time, Intel clearly had AMD in their sights. By a series of their products' massive performance improvements, Intel hit the ball back into AMD's court. With Microsoft's Vista operating system coming out at the same time, Intel showed how they have the higher performing solution. Clearly, we won't know until final systems ship. But Intel presented their case strongly, suggesting they can match AMD, if not beat them."
Think of putting that network up for a hacking challenge on the web and having it totally violated in even less time than it took you to setup... Phew!! Good thing Intel isnt inside an Apple... ohhh shit. [ducks]
Don't anthropomorphize computers: they hate that.
Intel intel, he's our man
if he cant do it, I BET AMD CAN!
How is this news? Intel's BRAND NEW processor can outperform a 1+ year old AMD X2?
Hey did you know that I can slap a buncha logic chips together and create a faster processor than ENIAC? DEAR GOD SOMEONE GIVE ME A MEDAL!
I can't help but wonder if Vista won't be making any mysterious and unnecessary getCPUid() calls....
"To lead the people, you must walk behind them"
Arbitrary thoughts and unfounded speculation is how we roll :-)
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Competition => Innovation
Innovation => Faster/Better Chips
Faster/Better Chips => Faster/Better Comps
Faster/Better Comps => Giant Robots
And I for one want a giant robot.
Let me guess - they demonstrated how Intel's top end chips can handle 10 way conference calls with Skype, while AMD's only handle 5?
So if you have not RTFA then don't worry your[sic] not missing anything!
/. crowd that they don't have to RTFA? You must be new here! 8D
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Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie!" until you can find a rock.
last i checked, physics hasn't changed too much
Maybe you need to check more often then every 350 years. Fortunately, the Journal of Applied Physics has some RSS feeds.
Finally modding someone offtopic when they rant about what "Begging the Question" means: priceless.
Independent lab testing proves Pirate Monkeys will beat Robot Ninjas 97.6 % of the time.
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