We're eventually gonna end up like in the book The Time Machine. On the one hand, we'll have many hybrid owners with a 100 MPG utopia above ground...until the enormous and select few 3 MPG gas guzzlers come from underneath the Earth to eat all of them!!!
Isn't that new AMD Spider platform supposed to be scalable up to a Teraflop?
If so, I'm singlehandedly planning on outdoing the Iranians sometime next year.
Hooray for me! Do I get a Congressional Medal or something?:)
How are AMD and Intel not at each other's throat RIGHT NOW? AMD is grasping for a breath of air with the Spider platform--their stock prices have been slammed. The only thing AMD is able to do right now is to position themselves in the "midrange market" until their investment in ATI begins to pay off by giving them another radical design edge (with Fusion, etc.). Let's face it--any buy in the CPU market at the moment is a good deal. Spider isn't all about the CPU anyhow: if you want high performance games, it would be better to have 4 high end GPUs than the best Intel CPU and 2 similar GPUs. It's pretty funny that people once thought AMDs acquisition of ATI was foolish--its really the only thing they have going for them at the moment in my opinion. (Disclaimer: I own stock in AMD).
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We're eventually gonna end up like in the book The Time Machine. On the one hand, we'll have many hybrid owners with a 100 MPG utopia above ground...until the enormous and select few 3 MPG gas guzzlers come from underneath the Earth to eat all of them!!!
Isn't that new AMD Spider platform supposed to be scalable up to a Teraflop? If so, I'm singlehandedly planning on outdoing the Iranians sometime next year. Hooray for me! Do I get a Congressional Medal or something? :)
How are AMD and Intel not at each other's throat RIGHT NOW? AMD is grasping for a breath of air with the Spider platform--their stock prices have been slammed. The only thing AMD is able to do right now is to position themselves in the "midrange market" until their investment in ATI begins to pay off by giving them another radical design edge (with Fusion, etc.). Let's face it--any buy in the CPU market at the moment is a good deal. Spider isn't all about the CPU anyhow: if you want high performance games, it would be better to have 4 high end GPUs than the best Intel CPU and 2 similar GPUs. It's pretty funny that people once thought AMDs acquisition of ATI was foolish--its really the only thing they have going for them at the moment in my opinion. (Disclaimer: I own stock in AMD).