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Samsung Ends Intel's 2-decade-plus Reign in Microchips (ap.org)
Intel has lost its long-held title as the world's top computer chip makerâ"at least by one important yardstick. From an Associated Press report: Intel's more than two decade reign as king of the silicon-based semiconductor ended Thursday when Samsung Electronics surpassed the U.S. manufacturer to become the leading maker of the computer chips that are a 21st century staple much as oil was in the past. Samsung reported record-high profit and sales in its earnings report for the April-June quarter, and while Intel's reported earnings beat forecasts, the U.S. company's entire revenue was smaller than sales from Samsung's chip division. Samsung said its semiconductor business recorded 8 trillion ($7.2 billion) in operating income on revenue of 17.6 trillion won ($15.8 billion) in the quarter. Intel said it earned $2.8 billion on sales of $14.8 billion.
They didn't have any actual fireworks on hand, they just turned on Note 7's and threw them in the air.
phones are not computers .. no matter how many Millennials think they are...
Jul. 28, Juche 106 (2017) Friday
National Meeting Marks War Victory Day in DPRK
A national meeting took place in the plaza of the Monument to the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War on Wednesday to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.
Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Hwang Pyong So, Pak Pong Ju, Choe Ryong Hae and other senior party, state and army officials, members of the party central leadership in Pyongyang, officials of party and armed forces organs, ministries and national institutions, men and officers of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, officials of institutions and industrial establishments in the city, persons of merit, youth and students and the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front and overseas compatriots.
Army General Pak Yong Sik, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea and minister of the People's Armed Forces, made a report at the meeting.
The reporter said that the Korean people humbled the arrogance of the U.S. imperialists who boasted of being the "strongest" in the world on July 27, Juche 42 (1953) and won a great victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. This was a historical event that guaranteed the eternal future of the country and the nation, he said, and went on:
July 27 is a proud revolutionary holiday in which the DPRK beat back the formidable U.S. imperialism for the first time in the world history of wars and recorded the first page of great victory in the history of confrontation with the U.S.
The Fatherland Liberation War was an actually hard-fought battle for the just 2-year-old DPRK as it had to beat back the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces, and it was the fiercest revolutionary war in the world history of wars.
It was something beyond common sense for the DPRK with a short history of its regular army and weapons found insufficient and weak economic potentials to fight a modern war against the U.S. imperialists which became corpulent and fatty through aggression and plunder.
When the whole world was following the developments in Korea, holding its breath, President Kim Il Sung, an ever-victorious and iron-willed brilliant commander, expressed the resolute will to show the stamina of the Koreans to the enemies and aroused the entire army and all the people to the do-or-die battle against the U.S. imperialists.
In hearty response to his speech "Every Effort for the Victory of War" aired over radio, the Korean army and people rose as one and waged a do-or-die battle to defeat the U.S. imperialist aggressors and created a legendary story about the victory in the war, going beyond the expectation of the world people.
The shining victory won by the Korean people in the war was a military miracle in the 20th century that put an end to the myth of the U.S. "mightiness" and made the beginning of final ruin of U.S. imperialism.
The feats of significance in the history of the nation and the world performed by the President, who led the war to victory and thus saved the destiny of the country and the nation and made undying contributions to the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle and the cause of human emancipation, will shine for all ages with the victorious advance of the great Paektusan nation.
The U.S. imperialists are now working hard to mount a reckless military attack on the DPRK, taken aback by its might getting stronger day by day as a world-level nuclear and rocket power.
If the enemies keep to the "theory of preemptive nuclear attack" threatening their own lifeline, misjudging the strategic position of the DPRK, the invincible Paektusan army will mount the most telling preemptive nuclear attack on the heart of the American empire without any warning or advance notice, as it had already declared, and thus eliminate the U.S. from the surface of the earth and achieve the historic cause of the country's reunification without fail.
Rodong News Team
Basically Intel is losing to ARM. But not just on mobile. They're also in trouble for tablets, and desktops are going to get real close. Bare Feats regularly does comparative synthetic benchmarks between Apple's tablets (ARM) and laptops (Intel). Last time was in June: http://barefeats.com/ipadpro20...
Below, Intel means 3.5GHz Dual-Core i7 processor + Iris Plus Graphics 650 GPU. And ARM means Apple's ARM-based 2.39GHz A10X processor. As you can see, these tablets are getting really close to laptop performance.
Single-Core (highest=fastest):
Intel: 4650
ARM: 3951
Multi-Core (highest=fastest):
Intel: 10261
ARM: 9332
GPU compute score (highest=fastest):
Intel: 26353
ARM: 27814
GFXBench Metal Manhattan (highest=fastest):
Intel: 37 FPS
ARM: 42 FPS
I for one, am really happy. Intel has needed some competition desperately. Now there's AMD, and there's ARM, and we as the consumers are getting more and better options.
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Back in 2011, an iPad 2 would have made the TOP500 list of supercomputer lists of up to 1994.
I believe the phone cpus are improving faster --in solving linear systems, the TOP500 benchmark--than the desktop CPUs that now power the current list of TOP500.
Microsoft and Intel for the past generation was king of computing, with their dominance in the x86 IBM (Compatible) Personal Computer.
Which had been people primary computing platform. This has been moved to mobile devices for most people primary computing.
Now Intel and what we call the PC isn't going to die, but be used more towards workstation and server jobs. There is plenty of business opportunity and long term growth in these markets. As long as Microsoft and Intel don't try to bring back the good old days of dominance again.
We still need faster computers and operating systems with mouse and keyboards for serious work. But email and web browsing is not longer a primary function, it will be on these workstations, just because people are using it for more important stuff.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
are just a smidge higher per chip, though.
Reign? More like niagra!
Why UNIX?
In his brain. Those crazy Russians.
Intel can't beat ARM on cost, and the difference in performance is no longer as significant as it once was. Consumers value mobility more than power now. Cheap smartphone on Google returns search results ranging from $5 to $20.
beat them to it some time ago.
What exactly did Samsung sell that helped them achieve this? Did they have the bulk of Qualcomm's fab orders? I saw somewhere that flash memory was one driver. While memories - both flash and DRAM do have volumes, they are also commodity priced, so that wouldn't exactly help them in terms of margins. Does Qualcomm's chips have higher margins than Intel's?
Intel might want to consider upping the ante on their Custom business, fabbing things for Qualcomm, Apple & others. They do have process advantages, and could bring key benefits to those chips as a result, like reduced power consumption.
The following represents the tears I have shed:
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
Samsung fabs Apple A#, as well as Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM processors in addition to their own Exynos ARM. ARM processors in general are much less expensive/lower margin than x86.
If Samsung is only making a foundry manufacturing fee on Apple and Snapdragon, how can their "operating income" be larger than Intel? Exynos can't be that profitable.
It was, after all, designed as a stripped-down MULTICS that could run on constrained hardware.
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makerawithahatdoublequote? Is that Portuguese?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
List of semiconductor fabrication plants::
computer chips that are a 21st century staple much as oil was in the past
21st century societies are still much more able to stand a shortage of chip production than an oil shortage. You can carry on using your last year's mobile, but you cannot use last year's oil.
I always welcome more competition...
Still wondering why Intel abandoned Atom though.
I know it wasn't doing particularly well, but sounds weird for them to completely step out of a market.
But will they explode?