If you read the article, you'll see that the problem isn't generating power to meet their needs. It's getting power to where it needs to go.
This cannot be emphasized enough. I remember hearing a story that when the federal government forced the states to implement the 55 mile per hour speed limit, a Texas politician complained that they had just made the state twice as large.
If AMD does sell instead of coming back or folding, don't expect the FTC, the SEC, and the DoJ to allow Intel to be the buyer. IBM, perhaps. Via, too. Freescale, TI, Sun, Siemens, Fujitsu, Sony, or HP wouldn't be out of the question. Even Apple or SGI could make a strategic move to stave off Intel price increases that would surely happen if AMD were to fold.
I am not an expert on this but doesn't AMD's cross licensing agreement with Intel preclude selling to someone without an already existing x86 license unless they are not going to continue to produce x86 processors? I have seen it said that the agreement requires them to fab at least a significant percentage (half?) of their x86 chips themselves which complicates any move to become fabless.
Intel has historically always had multiple development teams. It is very expensive to have a fabrication plant come online without anything to produce so each one has a design team for products that include simpler things like shrinks and improvements to older designs. Intel was also originally a memory company with a little sidestep into microprocessors so changing strategic objectives in a short business time frame is not exactly foreign to them.
Intel's plans for x86 at one point included no successor to the P4 and a transition to IA-64. AMD was able to take significant advantage of that until Intel redirected their efforts. nVidia had better either hope that Intel does not become serious about replacing GPUs or have a transition plan to not exclusively rely on GPU sales.
Car engines are have large reciprocating masses yielding significant dynamic stresses not to mention the difficult physical environment that they operate in, need to save weight, and consumer level construction. The stresses are great enough that significant engineering goes into attempting to balance them out using clever piston configurations and reciprocating weights at considerable cost. Large scale reciprocating diesel engines fair better but do to their application areas can more easily be overbuilt. Brushless DC motors in contrast have no reciprocating parts.
I have to question whether the added minuscule stresses caused by CLV torque changes would even measurably affect reliability in all but the most fragile DVD drive design. What are the most common failure modes for commodity CD and DVD drives anyway? The ones that come to mind include laser diode wear out for writers, dust contamination, overheating, and power semiconductor failure do to poor power supply regulation. Modern drives have balance mechanisms for handing unbalanced CDs and DVDs when operated at high speed but they are unrelated to CLV or CAV operating mode.
The slow lock time while in motion is probably not caused by the doppler change which is certainly significant but by the various forms of multipath which cause signal fading and flutter. Even after the receiver has locked onto a satellite, it has to have an updated ephemeris and repeated signal loss even with continuous lock on can make it difficult to download completely or even maintain. Patch antennas can help here somewhat in comparison to helix antennas because by restricting the field of view from the horizon, the severity of the multipath will be reduced at the cost of not being able to pick up low elevation satellites quite as well.
Don't most if not all common GPS receivers just differentiate the position updates to generate velocity anyway?
P.S. I have always found it somewhat humbling to monitor low earth orbit satellite carriers using a single sideband receiver to hear the doppler shift in real time.
This is different from regular DVD drives that spin the disc faster or slower depending on the track. The latter puts more strain on the motor, which often causes the drives to fail faster.
Puts a strain on the motor? Drive motors are almost exclusively DC brushless using electronically driven commutation and are usually phase locked to an on board frequency reference. Changes necessary to accommodate variable motor speed include an adjustable reference frequency and appropriate feedback loop compensation.
Maybe the slightly more complicated design for variable speed is significant for something built to typical consumer reliability standards?
You could also try using an inverter based generator but I suspect given your working conditions that a couple of online UPSes would be better since they could be used with any available source. A ferroresonant power conditioner would probably solve any AC power related issues at least as reliably as any UPS but would not provide any backup time.
Nehalem reportedly has a 4 cycle L1 cache latency instead of the 3 cycle L1 cache latency in Core2 so my guess is that SMT was necessary to make up for the lower IPC.
EMP protection is fairly straightforward compared to radiation hardening since you can use faraday shielding and circuit designs tolerant of EM overload although the semiconductor process itself may place some limitations on the later.
For radiation hardening, shielding is often secondary to the semiconductor process since in some cases it just makes for a larger cross sectional target. Early IC processes used junction isolation which is very susceptible to radiation induced carrier generation. Dielectric isolated processes are inherently much more radiation resistant and silicon on insulator ones should be even more so. Silicon on sapphire shares the same advantages as silicon on insulator. None of the later though with the exception of silicon on insulator are really commodity processes.
Forgive me if I got some details wrong. It has been a few years since I read my Harris Radiation Hardening handbook.:)
The 8088 processor was chosen by IBM for the IBM PC specifically to hold personal computing back. The processor series was a very poor choice for a desktop machine.
IBM required that there be a multiple sources for the CPU to which Intel agreed leading to AMD among others producing them.
I am not sure about the second sourcing for the 68000 however Motorola at the time was unwilling to produce an 8 bit external bus version which later became the 68008. Intel's 8088 was a less expensive 8 bit external bus version of the 16 bit 8086 and was supported by the existing peripheral chips (also multiple sourced) made for the earlier 8080 and 8085.
Being able to work from the CP/M code base was a consideration as well. Early on both CP/M-86 and MS-DOS were available.
That is nothing. I was running a token passing protocol over one of these cables and one end pulled out allowing the token to fall out on the floor. I still have not found it.
Just add handguns and self loading firearms to the NFA. That will give the DEA agents plenty to do and citizens hardly ever get entrapped, shot, or burned alive over NFA violations.
It was still a vacuum around the planet and star so not much antimatter was involved. Pelton and Shaeffer were in space suits with their helmets located in close proximity at Shaeffer's insistence. His pilot training included being exceedingly cautious around unexplained anomalies. Because the hull disintegrated as one piece, there were no bulkheads to get thrown into and no flying debris. The radiation hazard could be handled by the extension bubble until they moved out of range.
What they discovered was that minute flaws in the insulation caused localized arcs to the surrounding plasma. These were powered by the orbital motion relative to the earth's field and were very intense. They quickly melted through the thin tether.
That is interesting. Capacitors occasionally suffer from a similar problem where if the dielectric is not uniform, like it has a bubble or discontinuity, the extreme electric field change at the discontinuity where the dielectric constant changes will cause localized catastrophic breakdown in the dielectric even though the total breakdown voltage should be sufficient.
It seems like arcing shouldn't be a huge problem in a vacuum.
Arcing, or at least conduction, is a huge problem in a vacuum and can even be worse in a rarefied or ionized gas where the effective resistance will be much lower and negative resistance may manifest leading to sudden destructive discharge. Vacuum tubes contain a vacuum for proper operation and the only tricky requirement is a source of electron emission. The vacuum of space conveniently provides such a source in the ultraviolet radiation from the sun which will quite handily knock electrons off of the right materials and has no problem ionizing various gas atoms in the vicinity. A flame detector for safety applications can be made using a gas filled tube somewhat like a neon bulb and they work by watching for the characteristic ultaviolet from a flame which will ionize the gas.
However, isolating the transistors might be harder than it seems at face value because transistors must be used to control the mechanics of the satellite. If you tried to isolate the charge to the metallic chassis, it might be able to pass through control lines into the electronics. The resulting electric field could either keep transistors from depleting, or even worse, blow the dielectric.
I have never designed or worked with vacuum rated electronics (except for tubes and certain other devices with a self contained vacuum) but my guess is that a conformal coating is used to insulate all conductors from the vacuum. Conformal coatings are also used in high precision circuits to prevent surface leakage. Most of my work has been at the low end of the current and voltage spectrum (less then picoamps and nanovolts) but at the high end (kilovolts, amps, and kilowatts), I have occasionally found component failure mode to be "disappearance" with attendant explosive like effects.
Dingos are not marsupials so they would match no better then any other placental mammal. All of the Thylacinidae are extinct so the closest matches would be in the order Dasyuromorphia and the family Dasyuridae (marsupial mice, quolls, and Tasmanian Devil) or the family Myrmecobiidae (the Numbat aka Banded Anteater).
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This cannot be emphasized enough. I remember hearing a story that when the federal government forced the states to implement the 55 mile per hour speed limit, a Texas politician complained that they had just made the state twice as large.
I am not an expert on this but doesn't AMD's cross licensing agreement with Intel preclude selling to someone without an already existing x86 license unless they are not going to continue to produce x86 processors? I have seen it said that the agreement requires them to fab at least a significant percentage (half?) of their x86 chips themselves which complicates any move to become fabless.
Intel has historically always had multiple development teams. It is very expensive to have a fabrication plant come online without anything to produce so each one has a design team for products that include simpler things like shrinks and improvements to older designs. Intel was also originally a memory company with a little sidestep into microprocessors so changing strategic objectives in a short business time frame is not exactly foreign to them.
Intel's plans for x86 at one point included no successor to the P4 and a transition to IA-64. AMD was able to take significant advantage of that until Intel redirected their efforts. nVidia had better either hope that Intel does not become serious about replacing GPUs or have a transition plan to not exclusively rely on GPU sales.
Car engines are have large reciprocating masses yielding significant dynamic stresses not to mention the difficult physical environment that they operate in, need to save weight, and consumer level construction. The stresses are great enough that significant engineering goes into attempting to balance them out using clever piston configurations and reciprocating weights at considerable cost. Large scale reciprocating diesel engines fair better but do to their application areas can more easily be overbuilt. Brushless DC motors in contrast have no reciprocating parts.
I have to question whether the added minuscule stresses caused by CLV torque changes would even measurably affect reliability in all but the most fragile DVD drive design. What are the most common failure modes for commodity CD and DVD drives anyway? The ones that come to mind include laser diode wear out for writers, dust contamination, overheating, and power semiconductor failure do to poor power supply regulation. Modern drives have balance mechanisms for handing unbalanced CDs and DVDs when operated at high speed but they are unrelated to CLV or CAV operating mode.
The slow lock time while in motion is probably not caused by the doppler change which is certainly significant but by the various forms of multipath which cause signal fading and flutter. Even after the receiver has locked onto a satellite, it has to have an updated ephemeris and repeated signal loss even with continuous lock on can make it difficult to download completely or even maintain. Patch antennas can help here somewhat in comparison to helix antennas because by restricting the field of view from the horizon, the severity of the multipath will be reduced at the cost of not being able to pick up low elevation satellites quite as well.
Don't most if not all common GPS receivers just differentiate the position updates to generate velocity anyway?
P.S. I have always found it somewhat humbling to monitor low earth orbit satellite carriers using a single sideband receiver to hear the doppler shift in real time.
Puts a strain on the motor? Drive motors are almost exclusively DC brushless using electronically driven commutation and are usually phase locked to an on board frequency reference. Changes necessary to accommodate variable motor speed include an adjustable reference frequency and appropriate feedback loop compensation.
Maybe the slightly more complicated design for variable speed is significant for something built to typical consumer reliability standards?
You could also try using an inverter based generator but I suspect given your working conditions that a couple of online UPSes would be better since they could be used with any available source. A ferroresonant power conditioner would probably solve any AC power related issues at least as reliably as any UPS but would not provide any backup time.
Nehalem reportedly has a 4 cycle L1 cache latency instead of the 3 cycle L1 cache latency in Core2 so my guess is that SMT was necessary to make up for the lower IPC.
Network World mentioned how this aspect of the law could cause problems for software licensing if Blizzard was successful in its lawsuit:
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/050808backspin.html
The whole thing initially struck me as too unreal to take seriously but I reconsidered after remembering that lawyers are involved.
EMP protection is fairly straightforward compared to radiation hardening since you can use faraday shielding and circuit designs tolerant of EM overload although the semiconductor process itself may place some limitations on the later.
For radiation hardening, shielding is often secondary to the semiconductor process since in some cases it just makes for a larger cross sectional target. Early IC processes used junction isolation which is very susceptible to radiation induced carrier generation. Dielectric isolated processes are inherently much more radiation resistant and silicon on insulator ones should be even more so. Silicon on sapphire shares the same advantages as silicon on insulator. None of the later though with the exception of silicon on insulator are really commodity processes.
Forgive me if I got some details wrong. It has been a few years since I read my Harris Radiation Hardening handbook. :)
I remember buying a Maxtor 8760E for $900 and thinking, "Wow. I could copy an entire CD onto this drive."
IBM required that there be a multiple sources for the CPU to which Intel agreed leading to AMD among others producing them.
I am not sure about the second sourcing for the 68000 however Motorola at the time was unwilling to produce an 8 bit external bus version which later became the 68008. Intel's 8088 was a less expensive 8 bit external bus version of the 16 bit 8086 and was supported by the existing peripheral chips (also multiple sourced) made for the earlier 8080 and 8085.
Being able to work from the CP/M code base was a consideration as well. Early on both CP/M-86 and MS-DOS were available.
That is nothing. I was running a token passing protocol over one of these cables and one end pulled out allowing the token to fall out on the floor. I still have not found it.
Just add handguns and self loading firearms to the NFA. That will give the DEA agents plenty to do and citizens hardly ever get entrapped, shot, or burned alive over NFA violations.
I guess Luis Wu's father did not tell him that story either.
It was still a vacuum around the planet and star so not much antimatter was involved. Pelton and Shaeffer were in space suits with their helmets located in close proximity at Shaeffer's insistence. His pilot training included being exceedingly cautious around unexplained anomalies. Because the hull disintegrated as one piece, there were no bulkheads to get thrown into and no flying debris. The radiation hazard could be handled by the extension bubble until they moved out of range.
So what you are saying is . . it was not widely advertised?
Wait, I did not know that antimatter could destroy a General Products hull.
That is why standards are so nice. There are so many to choose from.
That is interesting. Capacitors occasionally suffer from a similar problem where if the dielectric is not uniform, like it has a bubble or discontinuity, the extreme electric field change at the discontinuity where the dielectric constant changes will cause localized catastrophic breakdown in the dielectric even though the total breakdown voltage should be sufficient.
Arcing, or at least conduction, is a huge problem in a vacuum and can even be worse in a rarefied or ionized gas where the effective resistance will be much lower and negative resistance may manifest leading to sudden destructive discharge. Vacuum tubes contain a vacuum for proper operation and the only tricky requirement is a source of electron emission. The vacuum of space conveniently provides such a source in the ultraviolet radiation from the sun which will quite handily knock electrons off of the right materials and has no problem ionizing various gas atoms in the vicinity. A flame detector for safety applications can be made using a gas filled tube somewhat like a neon bulb and they work by watching for the characteristic ultaviolet from a flame which will ionize the gas.
I have never designed or worked with vacuum rated electronics (except for tubes and certain other devices with a self contained vacuum) but my guess is that a conformal coating is used to insulate all conductors from the vacuum. Conformal coatings are also used in high precision circuits to prevent surface leakage. Most of my work has been at the low end of the current and voltage spectrum (less then picoamps and nanovolts) but at the high end (kilovolts, amps, and kilowatts), I have occasionally found component failure mode to be "disappearance" with attendant explosive like effects.
Dingos are not marsupials so they would match no better then any other placental mammal. All of the Thylacinidae are extinct so the closest matches would be in the order Dasyuromorphia and the family Dasyuridae (marsupial mice, quolls, and Tasmanian Devil) or the family Myrmecobiidae (the Numbat aka Banded Anteater).
As a matter of interest, what do ants smell like?
They smell like formic acid if you get enough of them.
You could plant flowers all around it. I don't know what you are so upset about.
That is better then stringing him along.