"There are no plans for a follow-on product to today's available AMD Geode LX products, but we expect to make this very successful processor available to customers as long as the market demands," said Phil Hughes, an AMD spokesman.
The chip is too old for further development, said Dean McCarron, president for Mercury Research. Chip designs and manufacturing processes have improved since it was first introduced.
Sums it up nicely. They'll still make them as long as there is a demand, but no more architecture improvements.
If they want a drop in replacement, they'll have to contact VIA. Please ignore the price.:P
Why would you want to run x86 binaries? Most x86 programs are so unoptimized, that if you actually looked at the code, it'd make your eyes bleed. (figuratively, of course)
One advantage of ARM CPUs is a lot of software to run on them still has to be made or ported. Since only the most committed (and skilled?) developers are doing that at this stage, my hope is ARM software will have a more efficient baseline.
Considering how far most Windows apps have slid, this isn't unreasonable or difficult.
I seem to recall reading about people with ADHD focusing much better if they can keep their minds busy with something.
Take that stimulus away, and it's like a mental wall comes up that blocks incoming knowledge.
More recently, it's been observed that many people with Aspergers have the same thing. I know someone with a mild form of it, and he twiddles his fingers. We can be in a meeting for 3 hours, and he'll be twiddling his fingers the whole time.
If you strip out the IE rendering engine from Windows (using a tool like nLite) then memory usage drops about 20-30MB. If you go to an explorer window without stripping it out, HTML content can pop up instant. With it stripped out, you get nothing.
IE shouldn't be taking any time to start. The rendering engine is already in memory. It just has to load the UI, and a few plugins.
Regardless of that... these benchmarks seem quite tailored. I'm curious which renders slashdot the fastest.
I didn't confuse the two. It's just that I have a UPS, so the power going out and everything shutting off doesn't apply to me.:P
But I did find it interesting that different apps had different responses. Left4Dead just... waited. Ventrilo was fine. Firefox was fine, even though it failed to write. Maybe this is why it works *okay* from CD-roms.
uTorrent though... I was seeding quite a few files(TV shows, OpenOffice versions, linux distros), and it turned them all into corrupted folders. >_>
Methinks the API wasn't quite followed to the letter! Perhaps it doesn't make the developer shitty, but it certainly makes that piece of code shitty. I can't imagine what it's doing for it to have such a vastly different result from everything else that was running.
Ahh yes, I love developers like you. You assume your app is the only one running, and it must have full access to the entire IO bandwidth an HDD can provide.
And then an antivirus program updates while Firefox is starting and a video is transcoding, and your program either slows to a crawl or crashes after 30 seconds of not receiving or being able to write any data.
Recently I was playing Left4Dead when one of my HDDs in my RAID array died in a very audible way. All the drives spun down, then 3 of them came back online. IOPS went to zero for over 60 seconds. No data in or out to those devices!
Interestingly, Ventrilo kept running fine. Left4Dead completely froze, but a minute or so after the 3 drives came back online, it unfroze. (CPU catching up?) All the while I was freaking out on Ventrilo, much to my friends' amusement.
Pretty much everything else crashed, except for Portable Firefox... uTorrent crashed, but first it left corrupted files all over - appearing as undeletable folders, which require a format to remove.
Time for a disk wipe. Thank you, shitty developers! Next time, use the API properly, and if you must have it written to disk, sync it immediately after you write!
I'm waiting for FusionIO ioDrives to become affordable.
They run through PCIe 4x slots directly to the CPU, so you can skip a limiting SATA controller. I've seen benchmarks approaching 2GB/sec by RAIDing multiple of them. That's almost 1/10th the speed of DDR3.
A parrot (now dead) that understood cause and effect. If he answered a question correctly, like counting the number of blocks of a certain colour, he was allowed a treat. (only if he asked for it)
If he got it wrong, no treat. Apparently he learned not to ask for treats after getting the answer wrong, which unless I'm mistaken (quite likely - I'm not an expert:P ) means he also re-examined his answers after giving them.
Pretty smart bird. Doesn't really surprise me that a genetically closer mammal was able to prepare for a future event.
Video won't load for me, but the article seems to.
During a laptop demonstration provided by Dell, the laptop weathered jetted water and 3-foot drops while running, but the non-operational 4-foot drop proved to be a problem. After a third drop from 4 feet, the LCD screen's protective plastic cover shattered.
Dell responded to the crack by saying that the demo laptop was a pre-production model that had already been dropped a hundred times. There's a three-year warranty on the machine and a cracked screen will be replaced immediately, Bolen said.
Despite the screen crack, the laptop is protected by a chassis made of ballistic armor, which is a high-strength substance used in ballistic missiles, cryogenics and other military applications. It is a high-end polymer that is two to three times more durable than the magnesium alloy material used on most laptops today, Bolen said.
He doesn't come off that savvy to me. Stuff that made complete sense to me because of my previous experience working with Windows, utterly confused him.
He couldn't find Add/Remove!? It's right there in the "start menu". That was the first thing I found. I clicked on it, and was delighted to see I wouldn't have to track down all the programs I need. I could search them out right there, or find new ones categorically. Software descriptions were all adequate to understand what the programs did - except for game descriptions, which were totally useless. Luckily FreeCell and Minesweeper(the only games that matter) were already installed.
The next thing I did was see if OpenOffice was installed, then check to see if 3.0 was available. It wasn't, which seemed like a good move to me, since OpenOffice 3.0 is a bug filled POS compared to 2.4
I've moved back to 2.4 on every computer I use.:/
It didn't take me long to find the admin options and the Synaptic Package Manager. Once I had started it, I did what I do when I first get a new Windows computer - update my web plugins, like Flash, Java, etc.
That was as simple as typing in flash and picking the one with "adobe" and "flash" in it. Then I typed in java, and picked the one with "java" and "jre" in it. Apparently I picked the wrong one. It corrected me, and told me I needed 2-3 others as well.
Once that was done, and I verified all the software I needed was installed... it worked just fine.
It'll take a while for the i.MX515 to mature. It does look very powerful, but power isn't everything.
Some of the posts from the Pandora devs suggest that the biggest perk of the OMAP3530 is the "lack of binary blobs" - having working linux drivers for all the hardware is a big perk, and necessary before efficient/advanced software can be developed for a device.
I'll keep my eyes open for i.MX515 stuff in late '09.:)
Enter the technology developed by Zen. Instead of rotating the disc above and beyond the physical limits by some act of magic, they have devised a means to read seven tracks concurrently. Those seven streams of data flow through a specially designed RISC chip and to your computer with no additional CPU-load.
The 72x CD drive is a lie. It's probably spinning at 40x speeds(or lower) - although as the sandra benchmarks show, if you have to read 7 tracks at once, it's way faster than any other drives out at the time.
I would've ordered one, but my country's exchange rate is shit right now.:(
I'll probably impulse buy it when the reality of the delays between batch #1 and batch #2 finally hit me.
It seems to me it's been put through more testing than most large-scale commercial products. It's already on revision 4, I think? And the first hardware revisions were done over a year ago? I wouldn't worry - it'll probably work flawlessly.
I'm with you on that - although I'm more into hacker/homebrew stuff.
Browsing on a device without a keyboard seems inefficient to me. I'm waiting for the Pandora to get manufactured, since it'll have a thumb-keyboard, and I want some of that 800x480 goodness.
I might use it to play back movies too. It does 720p, so why not?
...to avoid passive gaming: "Yes, you can play that game, but you have to sit on this gymnastics ball or in that rocking chair."
Result: I play a lot of games. (~4 hours per day) Also, I'm not fat. I may not be running any marathons, but I doubt I'll be overwhelmed by obesity or heart disease.
Cancer though... I'm sure staring at a CRT for the first ten years of my life messed something up.:P
No, ARM isn't MIPS - and yet it seems to be selling better than it.
This isn't something two people can accurately predict. We'll just have to wait and see what the developers, device manufacturers, and consumers end up doing.
Vista seems to have a software glitch where sometimes the file deletion dialog sits there for ~30 seconds before it deletes the file.
This is a software glitch. The dialog isn't doing anything. It's just sleeping for a half-minute before it deletes it.:/
Extensive benchmarks show that a lot of software runs about 5% more efficiently on Vista. Games aren't part of that software - mostly just office programs and things that benefit from slightly better prefetching.
Slashdot Mirror
Have a conscience. Block them - don't fraudulently click them.
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/274414/amd_sees_no_geode_chip_replacement_sight
"There are no plans for a follow-on product to today's available AMD Geode LX products, but we expect to make this very successful processor available to customers as long as the market demands," said Phil Hughes, an AMD spokesman.
The chip is too old for further development, said Dean McCarron, president for Mercury Research. Chip designs and manufacturing processes have improved since it was first introduced.
Sums it up nicely. They'll still make them as long as there is a demand, but no more architecture improvements.
If they want a drop in replacement, they'll have to contact VIA. Please ignore the price. :P
Why would you want to run x86 binaries? Most x86 programs are so unoptimized, that if you actually looked at the code, it'd make your eyes bleed. (figuratively, of course)
One advantage of ARM CPUs is a lot of software to run on them still has to be made or ported. Since only the most committed (and skilled?) developers are doing that at this stage, my hope is ARM software will have a more efficient baseline.
Considering how far most Windows apps have slid, this isn't unreasonable or difficult.
I seem to recall reading about people with ADHD focusing much better if they can keep their minds busy with something.
Take that stimulus away, and it's like a mental wall comes up that blocks incoming knowledge.
More recently, it's been observed that many people with Aspergers have the same thing. I know someone with a mild form of it, and he twiddles his fingers. We can be in a meeting for 3 hours, and he'll be twiddling his fingers the whole time.
It really shouldn't be atrocious.
If you strip out the IE rendering engine from Windows (using a tool like nLite) then memory usage drops about 20-30MB. If you go to an explorer window without stripping it out, HTML content can pop up instant. With it stripped out, you get nothing.
IE shouldn't be taking any time to start. The rendering engine is already in memory. It just has to load the UI, and a few plugins.
Regardless of that... these benchmarks seem quite tailored. I'm curious which renders slashdot the fastest.
I didn't confuse the two. It's just that I have a UPS, so the power going out and everything shutting off doesn't apply to me. :P
But I did find it interesting that different apps had different responses. Left4Dead just... waited. Ventrilo was fine. Firefox was fine, even though it failed to write. Maybe this is why it works *okay* from CD-roms.
uTorrent though... I was seeding quite a few files(TV shows, OpenOffice versions, linux distros), and it turned them all into corrupted folders. >_>
Methinks the API wasn't quite followed to the letter! Perhaps it doesn't make the developer shitty, but it certainly makes that piece of code shitty. I can't imagine what it's doing for it to have such a vastly different result from everything else that was running.
Ahh yes, I love developers like you. You assume your app is the only one running, and it must have full access to the entire IO bandwidth an HDD can provide.
And then an antivirus program updates while Firefox is starting and a video is transcoding, and your program either slows to a crawl or crashes after 30 seconds of not receiving or being able to write any data.
Recently I was playing Left4Dead when one of my HDDs in my RAID array died in a very audible way. All the drives spun down, then 3 of them came back online. IOPS went to zero for over 60 seconds. No data in or out to those devices!
Interestingly, Ventrilo kept running fine. Left4Dead completely froze, but a minute or so after the 3 drives came back online, it unfroze. (CPU catching up?) All the while I was freaking out on Ventrilo, much to my friends' amusement.
Pretty much everything else crashed, except for Portable Firefox... uTorrent crashed, but first it left corrupted files all over - appearing as undeletable folders, which require a format to remove.
Time for a disk wipe. Thank you, shitty developers! Next time, use the API properly, and if you must have it written to disk, sync it immediately after you write!
I'm waiting for FusionIO ioDrives to become affordable.
They run through PCIe 4x slots directly to the CPU, so you can skip a limiting SATA controller. I've seen benchmarks approaching 2GB/sec by RAIDing multiple of them. That's almost 1/10th the speed of DDR3.
All I have to say is... bring it! I want it!
Animals just don't tend to plan ahead, and it's exciting that this one did.
I wonder what all the animals that prepare to hibernate in the winter would think of your statement?
Regardless, this may interest you: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/1825206
A parrot (now dead) that understood cause and effect. If he answered a question correctly, like counting the number of blocks of a certain colour, he was allowed a treat. (only if he asked for it)
If he got it wrong, no treat. Apparently he learned not to ask for treats after getting the answer wrong, which unless I'm mistaken (quite likely - I'm not an expert :P ) means he also re-examined his answers after giving them.
Pretty smart bird. Doesn't really surprise me that a genetically closer mammal was able to prepare for a future event.
From reading their boards. On the whole, it seems to be a very open platform.
Closed-source 3D drivers are fine by me, as long as they don't utterly suck. (bug-free, good performance, well documented)
Sure, if they're outright lying, it's bad.
I guess nobody here trusts anything Dell says, either. :P
No, you couldn't spend a $25 cheque right away. Mind you, you could drain the sender's account with it.
Video won't load for me, but the article seems to.
During a laptop demonstration provided by Dell, the laptop weathered jetted water and 3-foot drops while running, but the non-operational 4-foot drop proved to be a problem. After a third drop from 4 feet, the LCD screen's protective plastic cover shattered.
Dell responded to the crack by saying that the demo laptop was a pre-production model that had already been dropped a hundred times. There's a three-year warranty on the machine and a cracked screen will be replaced immediately, Bolen said.
Despite the screen crack, the laptop is protected by a chassis made of ballistic armor, which is a high-strength substance used in ballistic missiles, cryogenics and other military applications. It is a high-end polymer that is two to three times more durable than the magnesium alloy material used on most laptops today, Bolen said.
Where's the problem?
He doesn't come off that savvy to me. Stuff that made complete sense to me because of my previous experience working with Windows, utterly confused him.
He couldn't find Add/Remove!? It's right there in the "start menu". That was the first thing I found. I clicked on it, and was delighted to see I wouldn't have to track down all the programs I need. I could search them out right there, or find new ones categorically. Software descriptions were all adequate to understand what the programs did - except for game descriptions, which were totally useless. Luckily FreeCell and Minesweeper(the only games that matter) were already installed.
The next thing I did was see if OpenOffice was installed, then check to see if 3.0 was available. It wasn't, which seemed like a good move to me, since OpenOffice 3.0 is a bug filled POS compared to 2.4
I've moved back to 2.4 on every computer I use. :/
It didn't take me long to find the admin options and the Synaptic Package Manager. Once I had started it, I did what I do when I first get a new Windows computer - update my web plugins, like Flash, Java, etc.
That was as simple as typing in flash and picking the one with "adobe" and "flash" in it. Then I typed in java, and picked the one with "java" and "jre" in it. Apparently I picked the wrong one. It corrected me, and told me I needed 2-3 others as well.
Once that was done, and I verified all the software I needed was installed... it worked just fine.
Well, that was complicated... ;)
It'll take a while for the i.MX515 to mature. It does look very powerful, but power isn't everything.
Some of the posts from the Pandora devs suggest that the biggest perk of the OMAP3530 is the "lack of binary blobs" - having working linux drivers for all the hardware is a big perk, and necessary before efficient/advanced software can be developed for a device.
I'll keep my eyes open for i.MX515 stuff in late '09. :)
There's no way in hell that I'd buy a HDD locked to a specific motherboard. :?
I swap HDDs far too much for system-specific encryption to work for me.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=339&page=2
Enter the technology developed by Zen. Instead of rotating the disc above and beyond the physical limits by some act of magic, they have devised a means to read seven tracks concurrently. Those seven streams of data flow through a specially designed RISC chip and to your computer with no additional CPU-load.
The 72x CD drive is a lie. It's probably spinning at 40x speeds(or lower) - although as the sandra benchmarks show, if you have to read 7 tracks at once, it's way faster than any other drives out at the time.
I would've ordered one, but my country's exchange rate is shit right now. :(
I'll probably impulse buy it when the reality of the delays between batch #1 and batch #2 finally hit me.
It seems to me it's been put through more testing than most large-scale commercial products. It's already on revision 4, I think? And the first hardware revisions were done over a year ago? I wouldn't worry - it'll probably work flawlessly.
I'm with you on that - although I'm more into hacker/homebrew stuff.
Browsing on a device without a keyboard seems inefficient to me. I'm waiting for the Pandora to get manufactured, since it'll have a thumb-keyboard, and I want some of that 800x480 goodness.
I might use it to play back movies too. It does 720p, so why not?
Too bad the new thing is 720p x264. :P
I imagine a fuzzy xvid won't have any watermarks left, but 720p or higher are the new pirate's choice, right?
...to avoid passive gaming: "Yes, you can play that game, but you have to sit on this gymnastics ball or in that rocking chair."
Result: I play a lot of games. (~4 hours per day) Also, I'm not fat. I may not be running any marathons, but I doubt I'll be overwhelmed by obesity or heart disease.
Cancer though... I'm sure staring at a CRT for the first ten years of my life messed something up. :P
I heard from a friend that you can deactivate steam games and give/sell the codes to people.
Then he gave me a code to the original half-life. :D
I've never done it myself, but it's something to look into.
Oh, and region locking is total BS. I hate that.
No, ARM isn't MIPS - and yet it seems to be selling better than it.
This isn't something two people can accurately predict. We'll just have to wait and see what the developers, device manufacturers, and consumers end up doing.
My bet's on ARM. ;)
Vista seems to have a software glitch where sometimes the file deletion dialog sits there for ~30 seconds before it deletes the file.
This is a software glitch. The dialog isn't doing anything. It's just sleeping for a half-minute before it deletes it. :/
Extensive benchmarks show that a lot of software runs about 5% more efficiently on Vista. Games aren't part of that software - mostly just office programs and things that benefit from slightly better prefetching.
Yeah, divs don't always work. Tables are definitely more cross-os cross-browser compatible.
My point was, it has div after div after div embedded inside each other, to get the right offsets. :P