Sayeth Anandtech:...the Athlon 64 X2 will consume less power than a 130nm Athlon 64, and less than 20% more power than a 90nm Athlon 64. Note that the Athlon 64 X2 4200+ compared here also consumes less power than all single core 90nm Intel Pentium 4 CPUs, even the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ consumes less power than all single core 90nm Pentium 4 CPUs.
Seriously. The anoynmous posters could be teachers union employees assigned to slander CSUSA for all we know, and if that's what CSUSA suspects their lawsuit threat suddenly make a lot more sense. (In Michigan, the MEA union is nicknamed the "Michigan Mafia". They have a curiosuly low regard for free speech too.)
There have been numerous calls in the conservative press for Bush/Congress to put the FCC on the short leash and let whoever wants to build high-speed networks to do so without having to beg Big Brother's permission (except for the use of regulated wireless bandwidth, and there's been calls for more unregulated spectrum) and without being forced to share what they've built with their competitors at regulated rates. Governments would cease granting legal monopolies at the same time. Let cable vs. DSL vs. FTTH vs. WiMAX vs. genetically engineered carrier pigeon have at it.
Newegg and Monarch both clearly label their CPUs. The new Turion notebook chips use this core, I haven't seen any other Socket 754 chips that do. Monarch throws in a nice sofware bundle with motherboard/CPU combos, I'd get a new Socket 939 board and CPU and sell your old board/CPU on eBay.
True athiesm is not a religion. As for how we and the rest of the universe got here, we know that we don't know.
The problem is that most people are wired for religion (it makes for a workable way to organize civilized societies), so when you take away their traditional religion they go find substitutes. Radical environmentalism, One World-ism, Communism, National Socialism, Political Correctness, you name it. They'd have been better off staying Christians.
Real athiests don't preach, and we're very, very rare. If you're one of us, cool, if not, that's nice. Freedom of religion does not mean eradication of religion.
As for ID, I don't see the harm in mentioning it and clarifying the distinction between science and religion, then moving on. This refusal to acknowledge that there are other opinions out there smacks at least as much of religious argument as any of the "fundamentalists". Where the ID people are messing up is thinking that winning this argument will do them any good. At best, ID gets a derisive mention in science class.
Actually, it's the Left that's opposed to fluoridation now too. See here:
For eons now, liberals have teased conservatives about one thing (well, many things, but I'm thinking of one in particular): the fluoridation of water. "Oh, you work at National Review? What do you do, write editorials denouncing the fluoridation of the water supply?" Ha, ha, ha. (Actually, we spend our time advocating separate lunch counters for Negroes.) In many quarters, "fluoridation of water" is a code word for right-wing kookery. Well, imagine my surprise -- and delight -- when I was talking recently with a dentist friend of mine and the subject of water fluoridation came up: "We still have to fight on that, all over the country," he said. "What," I said, "you mean the Birchers are still at it?" "Oh, no," he replied. "It's the Left. The opposition comes from the environmentalist, earthy-crunchy, sandal-wearing Left." Well, well, well. Who's laughin' now, baby?
The submission is absolutely misleading. Windows Server 2003 has supported 64-bits (Enterprise Edition and Datacenter edition) since its launch on IA64(Itanium).
I think they meant "64-bit WinXP on hardware more than 3 people actually paid for."
Whatever. Nice to see Microsoft start to catch up with Linux. I've been running 64-bit Fedora Core for over a year now.
Of course, the big problem is that the higher intelligence females of the US are decreasingly interested in reproduction in general and are therefore going to have to seek careers......This is where George Gilder's thesis in "Sexual Suicide", that feminism has far more dire consequences than any of the major players could have imagined...
This is the big problem. The most intelligent women disproportionatly go into careers, limiting their family size or skipping children altogether, while the least intelligent women are the most immune from feminist propaganda. From a purely Darwinian standpoint it's suicidal. Men aren't exactly helping the situation when we get caught up in the Acquisition of Shiny Toys rather than financing a family, with a major assist from reality-challenged housing costs that a single salary often just can't handle (can we please replace the mortgage interest deduction with a higher personal deduction and lower tax rate to stop encouraging housing inflation?).
I think much of feminism was cooked up by loser guys with no future who just wanted to get laid. Think about it: women have to have careers (no need to financially suppport them), should wait on kids (ditto), and don't have to marry (men can play the field). And so many women have been convinced that this makes sense!
The comment has been made that Europeans are "too dumb to breed", but I doubt America is that much better once you factor out our high immigration rate.
Personally I think feminism was an old Soviet plot that took on a life of its own when the Useful Idiots got tenure, but I'm cynical like that.
The system doesn't quite hit the perfect 60+ frames per second score in Doom 3 at 1,600-by-1,200, but no single graphics card solution has so far, and 40 fps is still quite playable.
Yeah, but Athlon 64 SLI graphics card solutions have. Oddly enough, PCMag only directly compares this Intel Pentium EE 840 box with an Intel Pentium 4 EE 3.73GHz box. Any hard-core gamer who buys an Intel dual-core machine to play his SINGLE-THREADED GAMES instead of an Athlon 64 dual video card SLI box is beyond hope. Torch your money responsibly, kids.
Dell and Intel get 100% from PCMag for "Best Bribes Paid". Geeze.
These things are great, but unfortunately, it looks like they're discontinuing them. It's looking doubtful that we'll see 64-bit WinXP drivers, much less Linux support. Too bad, because HDTV on widescreen notebooks looks great. 1680x1050 res is close enough to 1080i, and 1280x800 is the same width as 720p.
Sasem's site has a notice posted about the discontinuation, if anyone reads Korean.
Of course, you really need to be able to receive broadcast TV for HDTV tuner boxes/cards to be useful. Unencrypted digital cable TV channels are viewable, but broadcast works best. Plus it's free. I get better HDTV reception than analog TV broadcast.
Long long history of us whining about being unable to compete. Take a look at trade barriers set up in the late 1800's to early 1900's to allow the U.S. to set up a steel industry.
That was also back when we funded the federal government with tarriffs rather than income taxes. The income tax was started to pay for WWI... and never stopped.
There's been talk of doing a national sales tax to replace the income tax, rebating a predicted amount of sales tax payments back to the poor to keep them from getting clobbered (same effect as the Earned Income Tax Credit, only if you don't want the rebate you don't need to mess with what's left of the IRS *at all*). That would mean that companies become income tax free too, giving domestic company operations a nice boost, but that shiny new Made-in-China toy gets taxed when you buy it at the same rate as a domestic-made product.
Personally, I still favor the Flat (Income) Tax, since it doesn't require constitutional changes and can be implemented faster. But the sales tax idea has merit.
Big IT decisions regarding vendors aren't made by people who give a damn about the nerd cred of running customized open-source apps on kewl AMD gear, they're made by CTOs and bean counters concerned with getting low prices and support contracts.
Maybe if the sysadmins tell the bean counters that if they buy Opterons they can buy fewer servers to do the same amount of work and burn far less electricity per server, which also cuts air conditioning costs (not to mention eliminating the "How the heck are we going to power and cool these Xeon blast furnaces?!" question). If "nerd cred" is having a clue then nerds ought to help management to get one. Though, as you point out, that's easier said than done.
Microsoft and Oracle are rather geeked about Opterons, BTW.
AMD doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to supply the entire world + Dell. If Dell loses their massive Intel CPU discounts, they lose the bulk of their competitive edge. If they don't offer Opteron servers (especially now that the dual-cores are coming out), they're going to take a nasty hit to their server sales. Until AMD has the capacity to mostly replace Intel, Dell just has to smile and say "Do you want HypeThreading with that?" and hope people keep buying. It helps that most people are too clueless to know what they're missing, plus even a Celeron is enough to "surf the Information Superhighway, d00dz!"
Next year, when AMD's new 65nm fab is up and running and Charter (and IBM?) start fabbing AMD CPUs too, THEN things will get interesting.
Well, there's this eMachines package. $880 - $330 rebates. Drop in the PCIe graphics card of your choice (I like GeForce 6600GT's). That package has a 17" CRT and printer instead of the 19" panel, but the PC is superior to what Dell's offering. You can buy the PC without the monitor and printer bundled of course.
See the power consumption chart on this page. Buy the right CPUs and heat is much less of a problem. (Yes, I know, PowerPC is better in this regard, but if you want to run x86...)
Ah. Didn't know he was doing video production. In that case, I'd spend the money for a dual processor Opteron 252 system with a Tyan Thunder K8WE SLI motherboard and 8 1GB DIMMs. Two real CPUs with their own integrated memory controllers makes more sense than a dual core P4, and the power requirements are probably similar. The Opteron 252's use the new 90nm Troy core with SSE3 support, which narrows the benchmark gap with Intel on creatively Intel-optimized code (and anything not specifically Intel-optimized is probably going to run better on AMD; heck, once you get away from synthetic/rigged benchmarks, AMD tends to dominate). HP sells a nice workstation that I think is based around this board, Monarch sells them too. Plus you can swap in dual-core Opterons later if you so choose after a BIOS upgrade.
There's a reason why SW:ROTS and Sin City were rendered on Opterons.
It doesn't matter, since Intel's dual core gaming performance will "blow dead goats". Games being mostly single-threaded and all, and Intel's dual cores running substantially slower than their single-core counterparts.
You'd be far better off buying an Athlon 64 FX with a nForce4 SLI board today. That's still the gaming king-of-the-hill. Torch your money responsibly.
CompUSA has failed to send more rebates than anywhere else I've shopped, no contest. I stopped shopping there for a while, then bought a PNY video card when the after rebate price was cheaper than Newegg. The rebate processor swears I didn't send in the UPC barcode, even though there's a hole in the box that says I did. CompUSA says it's not their problem, it's PNY's, and PNY doesn't list any way to contact them. So, screw you CompUSA and PNY.
Best Buy has been pretty good since they started printing out rebate receipts rather than making you hunt down the rebate coupons, but still, very good riddance to the damn things.
I buy way more stuff via mail order than I otherwise would because of crap like this.
Traditionally, the World Bank has been run by European socialists pretending to be capitalists. Bush pulled rank this time (since we're the largest funder of the thing) to put Wolfowitz in charge. I suppose it was easier to try to reform it than to kill it, from a political perspective. Personally I'd have zero-funded it (and quite a few other things; I laugh at people who think Bush is an "arch-conservative").
Now they can sell AMD machines without selling AMD machines. IT directors who are locked into buying from Dell can buy these with cheap Celerons, then drop in AMD upgrade cards for people who do actual work. Then, when the PHBs notice their IT people have better PCs, they'll hear "Well, we could have bought AMD machines from the get-go for less money, but you said we had to buy from Dell".
At which point there will either be a revalation that Dell sucks, or the IT guy gets fired. Or a PHB with just enough knowledge to be dangerous makes the IT guys configure Pentium 4's instead of Celerons, causing the company's electrical wiring to turn into plasma.
U.S.-based AMD Not Seeking Orders From PC Seller Dell Dow Jones Equity News, Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 00:17
TAIPEI (Dow Jones)--U.S.-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has no plans to supply chips to Dell Inc. (DELL) in the foreseeable future, despite Dell's No.1 position in the global personal computer business."Our plans to successfully grow market share and improve our finances are actually based on not doing business with Dell. We're not going to give away product just to win Dell,"said Hector de J. Ruiz, chairman, president and chief executive of AMD, at a small media gathering in Taipei on Thursday.
The comments come shortly after Dell's chief executive, Kevin Rollins, said the U.S. personal computer giant wouldn't likely add AMD as a supplier of microprocessors, keeping its long Intel Corp. (INTC)-only policy in place.
AMD and Intel compete in the market for computer microprocessors, which act as the brains of a personal computer.
Ruiz also said his company's plans to introduce a new flash memory chip designed to store data in a range of mobile products like cellular phones, digital cameras and music players, will be in production next year.
He said customers will be able to sample the product, called ORNAND, in the second half of this year.
The chips will combine the speed of NOR flash memory, which takes its name from the algebraic expression"not or"and is used mainly in mobile phones, with the greater storage capacity of NAND, or"not and", flash memory chips.
NAND, a chip segment dominated by South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE is favored in gadgets that require greater memory storage space, like the iPod Shuffle music player.
AMD's flash memory unit, Spansion, is a joint venture with Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. (6702.TO), and is developing the ORNAND chips.
I had the same thought. If they're for real, I bet nVidia buys them.
It might be interesting to pair a PPU PCIe card with a graphics card on a nForce4 SLI board. I don't know if the PPU needs that much bandwidth though. Still, the marketing weasles could have serious fun with that idea.
Plus if nVidia does get on board we'll see Linux drivers for it, even if they're closed-source. If there is Linux support, I'm buying one. (My desktop runs 64-bit Linux exclusively.)
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Sayeth Anandtech: ...the Athlon 64 X2 will consume less power than a 130nm Athlon 64, and less than 20% more power than a 90nm Athlon 64. Note that the Athlon 64 X2 4200+ compared here also consumes less power than all single core 90nm Intel Pentium 4 CPUs, even the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ consumes less power than all single core 90nm Pentium 4 CPUs.
Seriously. The anoynmous posters could be teachers union employees assigned to slander CSUSA for all we know, and if that's what CSUSA suspects their lawsuit threat suddenly make a lot more sense. (In Michigan, the MEA union is nicknamed the "Michigan Mafia". They have a curiosuly low regard for free speech too.)
There have been numerous calls in the conservative press for Bush/Congress to put the FCC on the short leash and let whoever wants to build high-speed networks to do so without having to beg Big Brother's permission (except for the use of regulated wireless bandwidth, and there's been calls for more unregulated spectrum) and without being forced to share what they've built with their competitors at regulated rates. Governments would cease granting legal monopolies at the same time. Let cable vs. DSL vs. FTTH vs. WiMAX vs. genetically engineered carrier pigeon have at it.
Newegg and Monarch both clearly label their CPUs. The new Turion notebook chips use this core, I haven't seen any other Socket 754 chips that do. Monarch throws in a nice sofware bundle with motherboard/CPU combos, I'd get a new Socket 939 board and CPU and sell your old board/CPU on eBay.
Which models of Opteron would have these improvements?
Opteron 252 (Troy core) and all dual-core Opterons. If you're building servers, you'll want the dual-cores.
True athiesm is not a religion. As for how we and the rest of the universe got here, we know that we don't know.
The problem is that most people are wired for religion (it makes for a workable way to organize civilized societies), so when you take away their traditional religion they go find substitutes. Radical environmentalism, One World-ism, Communism, National Socialism, Political Correctness, you name it. They'd have been better off staying Christians.
Real athiests don't preach, and we're very, very rare. If you're one of us, cool, if not, that's nice. Freedom of religion does not mean eradication of religion.
As for ID, I don't see the harm in mentioning it and clarifying the distinction between science and religion, then moving on. This refusal to acknowledge that there are other opinions out there smacks at least as much of religious argument as any of the "fundamentalists". Where the ID people are messing up is thinking that winning this argument will do them any good. At best, ID gets a derisive mention in science class.
Actually, it's the Left that's opposed to fluoridation now too. See here:
For eons now, liberals have teased conservatives about one thing (well, many things, but I'm thinking of one in particular): the fluoridation of water. "Oh, you work at National Review? What do you do, write editorials denouncing the fluoridation of the water supply?" Ha, ha, ha. (Actually, we spend our time advocating separate lunch counters for Negroes.) In many quarters, "fluoridation of water" is a code word for right-wing kookery. Well, imagine my surprise -- and delight -- when I was talking recently with a dentist friend of mine and the subject of water fluoridation came up: "We still have to fight on that, all over the country," he said. "What," I said, "you mean the Birchers are still at it?" "Oh, no," he replied. "It's the Left. The opposition comes from the environmentalist, earthy-crunchy, sandal-wearing Left." Well, well, well. Who's laughin' now, baby?
The submission is absolutely misleading. Windows Server 2003 has supported 64-bits (Enterprise Edition and Datacenter edition) since its launch on IA64(Itanium).
I think they meant "64-bit WinXP on hardware more than 3 people actually paid for."
Whatever. Nice to see Microsoft start to catch up with Linux. I've been running 64-bit Fedora Core for over a year now.
Of course, the big problem is that the higher intelligence females of the US are decreasingly interested in reproduction in general and are therefore going to have to seek careers... ...This is where George Gilder's thesis in "Sexual Suicide", that feminism has far more dire consequences than any of the major players could have imagined...
This is the big problem. The most intelligent women disproportionatly go into careers, limiting their family size or skipping children altogether, while the least intelligent women are the most immune from feminist propaganda. From a purely Darwinian standpoint it's suicidal. Men aren't exactly helping the situation when we get caught up in the Acquisition of Shiny Toys rather than financing a family, with a major assist from reality-challenged housing costs that a single salary often just can't handle (can we please replace the mortgage interest deduction with a higher personal deduction and lower tax rate to stop encouraging housing inflation?).
I think much of feminism was cooked up by loser guys with no future who just wanted to get laid. Think about it: women have to have careers (no need to financially suppport them), should wait on kids (ditto), and don't have to marry (men can play the field). And so many women have been convinced that this makes sense!
The comment has been made that Europeans are "too dumb to breed", but I doubt America is that much better once you factor out our high immigration rate.
Personally I think feminism was an old Soviet plot that took on a life of its own when the Useful Idiots got tenure, but I'm cynical like that.
The system doesn't quite hit the perfect 60+ frames per second score in Doom 3 at 1,600-by-1,200, but no single graphics card solution has so far, and 40 fps is still quite playable.
Yeah, but Athlon 64 SLI graphics card solutions have. Oddly enough, PCMag only directly compares this Intel Pentium EE 840 box with an Intel Pentium 4 EE 3.73GHz box. Any hard-core gamer who buys an Intel dual-core machine to play his SINGLE-THREADED GAMES instead of an Athlon 64 dual video card SLI box is beyond hope. Torch your money responsibly, kids.
Dell and Intel get 100% from PCMag for "Best Bribes Paid". Geeze.
These things are great, but unfortunately, it looks like they're discontinuing them. It's looking doubtful that we'll see 64-bit WinXP drivers, much less Linux support. Too bad, because HDTV on widescreen notebooks looks great. 1680x1050 res is close enough to 1080i, and 1280x800 is the same width as 720p.
Sasem's site has a notice posted about the discontinuation, if anyone reads Korean.
Of course, you really need to be able to receive broadcast TV for HDTV tuner boxes/cards to be useful. Unencrypted digital cable TV channels are viewable, but broadcast works best. Plus it's free. I get better HDTV reception than analog TV broadcast.
Long long history of us whining about being unable to compete. Take a look at trade barriers set up in the late 1800's to early 1900's to allow the U.S. to set up a steel industry.
That was also back when we funded the federal government with tarriffs rather than income taxes. The income tax was started to pay for WWI... and never stopped.
There's been talk of doing a national sales tax to replace the income tax, rebating a predicted amount of sales tax payments back to the poor to keep them from getting clobbered (same effect as the Earned Income Tax Credit, only if you don't want the rebate you don't need to mess with what's left of the IRS *at all*). That would mean that companies become income tax free too, giving domestic company operations a nice boost, but that shiny new Made-in-China toy gets taxed when you buy it at the same rate as a domestic-made product.
Personally, I still favor the Flat (Income) Tax, since it doesn't require constitutional changes and can be implemented faster. But the sales tax idea has merit.
Big IT decisions regarding vendors aren't made by people who give a damn about the nerd cred of running customized open-source apps on kewl AMD gear, they're made by CTOs and bean counters concerned with getting low prices and support contracts.
Maybe if the sysadmins tell the bean counters that if they buy Opterons they can buy fewer servers to do the same amount of work and burn far less electricity per server, which also cuts air conditioning costs (not to mention eliminating the "How the heck are we going to power and cool these Xeon blast furnaces?!" question). If "nerd cred" is having a clue then nerds ought to help management to get one. Though, as you point out, that's easier said than done.
Microsoft and Oracle are rather geeked about Opterons, BTW.
AMD doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to supply the entire world + Dell. If Dell loses their massive Intel CPU discounts, they lose the bulk of their competitive edge. If they don't offer Opteron servers (especially now that the dual-cores are coming out), they're going to take a nasty hit to their server sales. Until AMD has the capacity to mostly replace Intel, Dell just has to smile and say "Do you want HypeThreading with that?" and hope people keep buying. It helps that most people are too clueless to know what they're missing, plus even a Celeron is enough to "surf the Information Superhighway, d00dz!"
Next year, when AMD's new 65nm fab is up and running and Charter (and IBM?) start fabbing AMD CPUs too, THEN things will get interesting.
Seriously. Short of unplugging (which I can't do because I need the Internet to do work too) and going cold-turkey.
Well, there's this eMachines package. $880 - $330 rebates. Drop in the PCIe graphics card of your choice (I like GeForce 6600GT's). That package has a 17" CRT and printer instead of the 19" panel, but the PC is superior to what Dell's offering. You can buy the PC without the monitor and printer bundled of course.
See the power consumption chart on this page. Buy the right CPUs and heat is much less of a problem. (Yes, I know, PowerPC is better in this regard, but if you want to run x86...)
Ah. Didn't know he was doing video production. In that case, I'd spend the money for a dual processor Opteron 252 system with a Tyan Thunder K8WE SLI motherboard and 8 1GB DIMMs. Two real CPUs with their own integrated memory controllers makes more sense than a dual core P4, and the power requirements are probably similar. The Opteron 252's use the new 90nm Troy core with SSE3 support, which narrows the benchmark gap with Intel on creatively Intel-optimized code (and anything not specifically Intel-optimized is probably going to run better on AMD; heck, once you get away from synthetic/rigged benchmarks, AMD tends to dominate). HP sells a nice workstation that I think is based around this board, Monarch sells them too. Plus you can swap in dual-core Opterons later if you so choose after a BIOS upgrade.
There's a reason why SW:ROTS and Sin City were rendered on Opterons.
It doesn't matter, since Intel's dual core gaming performance will "blow dead goats". Games being mostly single-threaded and all, and Intel's dual cores running substantially slower than their single-core counterparts.
You'd be far better off buying an Athlon 64 FX with a nForce4 SLI board today. That's still the gaming king-of-the-hill. Torch your money responsibly.
CompUSA has failed to send more rebates than anywhere else I've shopped, no contest. I stopped shopping there for a while, then bought a PNY video card when the after rebate price was cheaper than Newegg. The rebate processor swears I didn't send in the UPC barcode, even though there's a hole in the box that says I did. CompUSA says it's not their problem, it's PNY's, and PNY doesn't list any way to contact them. So, screw you CompUSA and PNY.
Best Buy has been pretty good since they started printing out rebate receipts rather than making you hunt down the rebate coupons, but still, very good riddance to the damn things.
I buy way more stuff via mail order than I otherwise would because of crap like this.
either. Defense of the institution seems to be heavily qualified at best. They do some incredibly stupid things.
Traditionally, the World Bank has been run by European socialists pretending to be capitalists. Bush pulled rank this time (since we're the largest funder of the thing) to put Wolfowitz in charge. I suppose it was easier to try to reform it than to kill it, from a political perspective. Personally I'd have zero-funded it (and quite a few other things; I laugh at people who think Bush is an "arch-conservative").
Only it's for liquid cooling your PowerBook. That's what you tell the (hic!) officer, at least.
(I don't even drink, or own any Apple gear, but the thought of a blue Apple logo on a traditional silver flask amuses me...)
Now they can sell AMD machines without selling AMD machines. IT directors who are locked into buying from Dell can buy these with cheap Celerons, then drop in AMD upgrade cards for people who do actual work. Then, when the PHBs notice their IT people have better PCs, they'll hear "Well, we could have bought AMD machines from the get-go for less money, but you said we had to buy from Dell".
At which point there will either be a revalation that Dell sucks, or the IT guy gets fired. Or a PHB with just enough knowledge to be dangerous makes the IT guys configure Pentium 4's instead of Celerons, causing the company's electrical wiring to turn into plasma.
But, yeah, I bet Dell buys these.
This is just priceless:
U.S.-based AMD Not Seeking Orders From PC Seller Dell
Dow Jones Equity News, Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 00:17
TAIPEI (Dow Jones)--U.S.-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has no plans to supply chips to Dell Inc. (DELL) in the foreseeable future, despite Dell's No.1 position in the global personal computer business."Our plans to successfully grow market share and improve our finances are actually based on not doing business with Dell. We're not going to give away product just to win Dell,"said Hector de J. Ruiz, chairman, president and chief executive of AMD, at a small media gathering in Taipei on Thursday.
The comments come shortly after Dell's chief executive, Kevin Rollins, said the U.S. personal computer giant wouldn't likely add AMD as a supplier of microprocessors, keeping its long Intel Corp. (INTC)-only policy in place.
AMD and Intel compete in the market for computer microprocessors, which act as the brains of a personal computer.
Ruiz also said his company's plans to introduce a new flash memory chip designed to store data in a range of mobile products like cellular phones, digital cameras and music players, will be in production next year.
He said customers will be able to sample the product, called ORNAND, in the second half of this year.
The chips will combine the speed of NOR flash memory, which takes its name from the algebraic expression"not or"and is used mainly in mobile phones, with the greater storage capacity of NAND, or"not and", flash memory chips.
NAND, a chip segment dominated by South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE is favored in gadgets that require greater memory storage space, like the iPod Shuffle music player.
AMD's flash memory unit, Spansion, is a joint venture with Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. (6702.TO), and is developing the ORNAND chips.
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SOURCE Dow Jones Equity News
03/10/2005
I had the same thought. If they're for real, I bet nVidia buys them.
It might be interesting to pair a PPU PCIe card with a graphics card on a nForce4 SLI board. I don't know if the PPU needs that much bandwidth though. Still, the marketing weasles could have serious fun with that idea.
Plus if nVidia does get on board we'll see Linux drivers for it, even if they're closed-source. If there is Linux support, I'm buying one. (My desktop runs 64-bit Linux exclusively.)