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Why AMD Is Still In The Race
Steve Kerrison writes "Despite a woeful inability to provide some of its most loyal customers with stock, and a range of CPUs that, currently, loses out to Intel's Core 2 processors in both price and performance (and who would I be not to mention the diminishing AMD fanboy numbers?), AMD's still got enough tricks up its sleeve to retaliate against Intel in due course. HEXUS.net has an opinion piece on why AMD isn't up the creek. From the article: AMD has been showing off its 65nm wafers for a few months now, which means the Rev G core is on its way. Even if the DDR2 memory controller which arrived with the Rev F only had a small performance benefit, Rev G has a few more improvements than just the die shrink. The latter will enable higher clock speeds and a lower price, plus allow AMD to compete on an equal playing field to Intel, which has been manufacturing 65nm processors since the Pentium XE 955 at the end of 2005."
You think that now -- check out this: Terra Soft, Sony to Build World's First Cell Cluster, powered by YDL and a stack of PS3's! (Submission rejected in favor of more Debian hairsplitting and inane Ask Slashdot's...)
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Did they actually do anything, or is somebody mad that they have too much market share?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
That's a funny belief in a world in which the currently-most-powerful country in the so-called "free world" has a president who is currently serving his second term without ever actually getting the popular vote. (Arguably he didn't get enough votes to win either election, either, but illegally terminating recounts has made sure we're never going to find out.)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"