I've wondered about that too. It makes a lot of sense for Microsoft to skip the 32-bit edition of Vista entirely. It would dramatically reduce their testing requirements, not to mention force some wayward peripherals makers to quit slacking on 64-bit driver development. Plus as numerous other people have mentioned, by the time Microsoft actually ships the damn thing AMD64 will be the dominant x86 platform anyhow.
Intel's new chips won't stop AMD's share gains in the server market (no integrated memory controller, no HyperTransport, no 4P/8P options) and if you're standardizing on Opterons for your high-end x86 servers why not run AMD all the way down the line? How many corporate customers has Dell lost to HP because they had no Opteron option?
Plus AMD hasn't done their 65nm trasition yet (shipments start end of this year). That should be enough to leapfrog Intel, depending on how many architectural tweaks they do while they're at it. AMD doesn't switch process nodes until they've figured out how to get mature yields (which they say they have), then they do a rapid changeover.
Intel's C2D chips have got to be expensive to produce, what with their 2MB and 4MB L2 caches. I wonder what their yield rates are? Dell was probably worried about getting enough supply, especially with Apple getting first dibs now. Intel's strategy of throwing capacity at problems has to be becoming unsustainable, looking at their deteriorating balance sheet. (Ignore their income statement, that's much easier to manipulate. Cash is tougher to fake.)
Worst case, Dell has seen what's coming at wants to get on AMD's good side now.
This is nothing more than election year pipe dreaming.
I think you underestimate the reality-resistance of the People's Republic of Ann Arbor.
Seriously, it'll get done, or at least get started. I'm wondering if the various 3G cellular modem services won't prove much more popular than the paid tiers of this WiFi net though. Or if anyone will bother with the paid tiers since they have cable or DSL at home?
They did say they're planning to switch over to WiMAX when/if that technology gets straightened out. I don't think it's quite ready for mobile applications.
Being able to have city buses report their location over the WiFi network will be cool though. People will have lots of fun experimenting with the network.
Eh? If the person being mugged had a gun, how would it have helped when someone had what he thought was a gun pressed to the back of his head?
My point is that criminals don't obey gun control laws so all such laws do is make the criminals reasonably certain that their law-abiding victims are unarmed. In this particular situation being armed wouldn't have helped the victim much, but perhaps the criminal would have been less brazen if he was uncertain of that?
Alternatively the Brits could try novel approaches like long jail sentances for armed criminals. But when the state isn't doing its job then having something like the Second Amendment is really, really useful. And since making the state do its job is easier said than done...
Also, note the linked-to article's point as to why British crime statistics are bogus.
One favorite paragraph: It is not difficult to guess the reason for the senior policeman's anger. My wife had forced his men to record a crime that they had no intention whatever of even trying to solve (though, with due expedition, it was eminently soluble), and this record in turn meant the introduction of an unwanted breath of reality into the bogus statistics, the manufacture of which is now every British senior policeman's principal task--with the sole exception of enforcing the dictates of political correctness, thereby to head off the criticism levied at them for many decades by the liberal Left--not always without an element of justification. Proving their purity of heart is now more important to them than securing the safety of our streets: and thus Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Also, nice to see that gun control laws work the way we Second Amendment supporters said they would.
$91 Athlon 64 3000+ CPU which will spend most of its time in power-saving mode, depending on how often the array is used. This also allows you to use a 64-bit Linux distro. AMD64 mode gives a very nice performance boost to encryption, if you're into that. There are cheaper 64-bit Sempron series chips if you don't mind sacrificing some L2 cache. Eventually there will be some cheap dualcore CPUs too.
You'll need to be more careful about the memory you choose though. Spring for a good high-efficiency power supply too, probably Seasonic S12 or Enermax Liberty.
1) Intel is dumping its aging Netburst cores onto the market at such low prices that they're displacing lower-end AMD sales.
2) Intel is setting up for a Big Bath in their Q2 earnings report. Their selling off of their ARM processor unit to Marvell is part of this (they'll have to recognize a huge loss on the sale).
3) All of this is obvious to AMD, so they're putting even more emphasis on Opteron sales where Intel is weakest. This results in lower total sales, as they sell in far fewer numbers than low-end CPUs, but should keep net income at a nice level since they're extremely high margin chips.
4) Since each Opteron sale displaces an Intel Xeon sale, Intel's net income is hurting.
5) Any advantage Intel will gain from C/M/W will be gone when AMD does their transition to 65nm in Q4. Sooner if Intel screws up, as is reported.
Sorry I dont follow... are you saying Intel (or AMD) shouldnt compare their newest chips with anything until the other releases a chip after that? Or are you saying it's unfair to compare 90 micron vs 65 micron chips together?
I think what he means is that we should compare Intel's not-buyable new chips with AMD's not-buyable new chips. When end-users start taking delivery of Woodcrest servers in, what, August maybe?, then maybe Intel can boast for perhaps even several weeks until AMD's new server chips are out.
Attempting to tank the entire market until Intel's next-gen chips are out just because everyone knows Intel's current "Netburst" chips are overheating crap is lame.
BTW, which Opteron CPU was Intel using in their comparison? Power consumption varies quite a bit even before you consider there are regular Opterons, Opteron HE, and Opteron EE series. A mere 7 watt advantage at the wall despite having started their 65nm transition earlier (AMD waits until they've figured out how to get mature yields before making a rapid switch to the next process node, very unlike Intel) tells me that Intel is going to get leapfrogged big-time in short order.
Yep, Google did evil in China...but that's a totally different discussion.
No, it's part of my point. Left-wingers act "bravely" when attacking entities that are extremely unlikely to do them harm (ie, the American federal government or America in general) and are sychophantic with entities that wouldn't think twice about murdering anyone who gets in their way (the terrorist-sponsoring, nuclear-bomb-building Iranian theocracy, Islamic terrorists in general, Castro's librarian-jailing dictatorship, the ChiCom dictatorship and its laogai but to a lesser extent now that their economics are going capitalist, the Soviets back in the day, etc).
The irony is that if we right-wingers really were the bastards the Left makes us out to be we wouldn't have to listen to so much whining. If Rumsfeld really were a mass murderer, maybe trustafarians would wear trendy T-shirts glorifying him instead of Che.
So Google "stands up" to the Bush administration and capitulates to the ChiComs, then in typical liberal fashion gives a useless apology for the latter afterwards.
Since Google doesn't have the same business model (lots of $$ from lots of sources instead of lots of $$ from few sources), they had the flexibility (and dare I say it...freedom) to speak out loud.
Except in China.
Yeah, y'all are real brave scoring own-goals in the war with Islamic fascism, braving scary consequences like fawning writeups in the NYT. Maybe they'll give one of you the Walter Duranty award for journalistic excellence.
They used to call those Luggable computers. My friend's dad had a kaypro or northstar CP/M computer. You could pick it up and take it anywhere, plug it in and go.
Yeah, but the new luggables can emulate a Beowulf cluster of those old CP/M machines...
They could tell you, but then they'd have to kill you. Seriously, AMD doesn't like to trumpet things that are years away from production or otherwise give Intel unnecessary clues about what they're up to. Intel... well, we were supposed to have 10GHz P4's by now...
Sure, they are the favorite this year, but do they have the R&D budget Intel has to remain competative in the long term?
Is the same management in charge of Intel's R&D budget? Looks that way. Besides, there's the law of diminishing returns at work. Plus AMD trades technology with IBM. Working with clueful partners is a heck of a lot more efficient than trying to do everything yourself (and pushing those potential partners into the AMD camp).
Intel had profits last year of almost $8 billion versus a market cap of $106 billion. AMD had profits of about $370 million on a market cap of about $15 billion.
You can make Net Income say whatever you want it to say if management and their accountants have sufficient moral flexibility, but you can't fake cash. Intel's management has been looting the company via stock options, using massive share buybacks to mop up the share dilution that would have occured had the new shares created by the exercised options hit the open market. They've been robbing Intel shareholders blind, but now they're under so much pressure from AMD that they've admitted they'll have to cut back on the buybacks. No word on whether they'll cut back on the options abuse too.
Folks, y'gotta read the financial statements. You have to understand the products. Why the Wall Street semiconductor analysts who get paid $megabucks per year can't seem to handle this is beyond me.
Another thing: AMD's new 65nm CPUs ship in volume in Q4. In the unlikely event that Conroe really is all that, its advantage will be very short-lived. AMD's just not going to Osbourne their current sales by pointing that out.
Why does a laptop need 64-bits? Are you addressing more than 4GB memory?
You get twice as many general registers in AMD64 mode, providing a nice performance boost independent of how much memory you have. Java, cryptography, and codecs react particularly well to AMD64 environments.
2GB RAM is already pretty standard for power users. Throw in virtual memory and, voila, you're at the 4GB barrier. Being able to run the same 64-bit binaries on your notebook as on your quad processor, 8 core 64GB RAM server is kinda nice too.
July 23rd is rumored to be the launch date. Until then I'd definitely wait before buying a new CPU. Even if you want to buy an AMD processor, they're will be huge price drops.
Which is the precise objective of this Intel FUD campaign. They know their current chips are crap, so if they can use these highly controlled "benchmarks" to get people to wait it'll hurt AMD.
Even if Intel does launch the chips on July 23rd, will it be a real launch or a paper launch? How fast will they ramp production of the new chips? Will Apple get the first batch, leaving PC users to wait additional weeks? What with their 64-bit performance be? What will performance under Linux be like? Given that even Dell is starting to hedge their bets, I'm skeptical. Given that Intel is so tightly controlling the benchmarking process I'm REALLY skeptical.
1) Hexus used Intel's compilers with their synthetic benchmarks. Intel has been known to rig their compilers to ignore post-i486 instructions (SSE, etc) on non-Intel CPUs. This is suppoesd to have been corrected in later Intel compiler releases, but...
2) Some of those benchmarks, like Pifast, likely fit inside the Core 2 Duo's massive L2 cache. Intel uses all that expensive cache to compensate for their lack of on-board memory controllers and HyperTransport.
3) Curious how they chose much lower latency memory for the Intel machine than the AMD. I'm not sure that the higher bandwidth of the AMD PC's memory overcomes its higher latency.
4) Why use 1024x768 res for the FarCry benchmark and 1600x1200 with AA and AF cranked up for theother two games? Games are GPU-limited at hires, so if you wanted to spike the results where AMD is superior...
5) Despite all of that, the AMD FX62 still won the Cryptography benchmark.
6) Why are nearly all of these reviews showing up on websites outside of America? Could it be that Intel wants to keep these reviews out of reach of AMD's American lawyers?
It sure looks like Intel's playing dirty (again). Wake me up when we get reviews done outside of Intel-controlled environments.
Bloomberg is a Democrat who bought his way into the Republican Party. It was easier than running against the several Democrat primary candidates.
I'm not sure if that makes it any better though. The New York Republican Party is pretty far gone. Not that much of the rest of the party is all that impressive. You should read nationalreview.com's recent commentary on that.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled flame-fest against Republicans in general.
You watched some muslims "dancing in the streets", just like we watched some rednecks beating the shit out of Sikhs after 9/11 because they were thought to be Arabs.
And that handful of "rednecks" was prosecuted accordingly, whereas the Muslims had considerable popular and governmental support for their celebrations of mass murder.
Look, if Google News is going to index Aljazeera.net then why not keep indexing the vastly less inflammatory WND?
The new Turion X2 laptops will give you a nice 64-bit dualcore CPU and it looks like many will be offering nVidia chipsets and GPUs that ought to be Linux-friendly. They'll be buyable in June, possibly sooner. HP has already announced their 14" widescreen (GeForce 6150 integrated GPU, the best shared memory GPU out there at the moment) for shipment in June. MSI, ASUS, and assorted others have machines coming soon. Price looks to be only slightly more than singlecore models. I'm holding out for a 17" model with at least a GeForce 7600, haven't seen one announced yet.
If you're going to do the VMWare thing, dualcores are nice.
Dell needs Opterons for quad processor servers. Xeons scale extremely poorly thanks to their old fashioned frontside bus architecture. Opterons scale almost linearly thanks to their onboard memory controllers and HyperTransport. And if Dell is going to sell 4P Opteron servers then it's kinda silly not to sell 2P as well. Intel can have the uniprocessor rabble, cheapskates buying Celeron "servers".
[W]e doubt that people in general entertain any actual expectation of privacy in the numbers they dial. All telephone users realize that they must "convey" phone numbers to the telephone company, since it is through telephone company switching equipment that their calls are completed. All subscribers realize, moreover, that the phone company has facilities for making permanent records of the numbers they dial, for they see a list of their long-distance (toll) calls on their monthly bills. . . .
[E]ven if [a caller] did harbor some subjective expectation that the phone numbers he dialed would remain private, this expectation is not "one that society is prepared to recognize as 'reasonable.'" . . . This Court consistently has held that a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties. . . . [W]hen [a caller] used his phone, [he] voluntarily conveyed numerical information to the telephone company and "exposed" that information to its equipment in the ordinary course of business. In so doing, [the caller] assumed the risk that the company would reveal to police the numbers he dialed.
Now, what the NSA allegedly did is rather more comprehensive, but being able to say "Ah, this phone number we found on this captured terrorist laptop was in contact with phones A, B, and C. Are any of those numbers interesting?" has its merits. There's all sorts of scenarios where it's useful to know who a person of interest has been in contact with.
The Soviets took the easy route. They had some Useful Idiots steal the technology.
The Soviets had ASAT programs too. ASAT weaponry is old news, it's just that now they're using lasers rather than missiles. Heck, even that's not all that new, though making it work would be.
Don't you think the way for the US to really ensure its population's security would be to try to track down the arsenal of the former USSR?
Don't you think Putin ought to take nuclear security more seriously? The Russians built the damn things and they're not so poor that they can't deal with them if they want to, especially with high oil prices pouring hard currency into Russian state coffers.
90% of Apple computers sold are either laptops or SFF desktops, and Intel simply has the better product in these markets with Core.
Until the Turion X2 ships, which won't be much longer. Going with the current single core Turions instead of the Core Duo would have made more sense since then OSX could have been 64-bit from the get-go. Now Apple will have to support both 32-bit and 64-bit codebases. Were Intel's cut-rate chips and other support worth it? Time will tell, but given that things like codecs get a *nice* boost from AMD64 (it's not just about breaking the 4GB barrier) I think Jobs screwed up.
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Yet if they don't get it into print, it can't be used in a classroom setting. What a terrible system (hail capitalism).
You think our government education near-monopoly is capitalist? Maybe capitalism as imagined by socialists, there's a lot of that going around...
I've wondered about that too. It makes a lot of sense for Microsoft to skip the 32-bit edition of Vista entirely. It would dramatically reduce their testing requirements, not to mention force some wayward peripherals makers to quit slacking on 64-bit driver development. Plus as numerous other people have mentioned, by the time Microsoft actually ships the damn thing AMD64 will be the dominant x86 platform anyhow.
Intel's new chips won't stop AMD's share gains in the server market (no integrated memory controller, no HyperTransport, no 4P/8P options) and if you're standardizing on Opterons for your high-end x86 servers why not run AMD all the way down the line? How many corporate customers has Dell lost to HP because they had no Opteron option?
Plus AMD hasn't done their 65nm trasition yet (shipments start end of this year). That should be enough to leapfrog Intel, depending on how many architectural tweaks they do while they're at it. AMD doesn't switch process nodes until they've figured out how to get mature yields (which they say they have), then they do a rapid changeover.
Intel's C2D chips have got to be expensive to produce, what with their 2MB and 4MB L2 caches. I wonder what their yield rates are? Dell was probably worried about getting enough supply, especially with Apple getting first dibs now. Intel's strategy of throwing capacity at problems has to be becoming unsustainable, looking at their deteriorating balance sheet. (Ignore their income statement, that's much easier to manipulate. Cash is tougher to fake.)
Worst case, Dell has seen what's coming at wants to get on AMD's good side now.
This is nothing more than election year pipe dreaming.
I think you underestimate the reality-resistance of the People's Republic of Ann Arbor.
Seriously, it'll get done, or at least get started. I'm wondering if the various 3G cellular modem services won't prove much more popular than the paid tiers of this WiFi net though. Or if anyone will bother with the paid tiers since they have cable or DSL at home?
They did say they're planning to switch over to WiMAX when/if that technology gets straightened out. I don't think it's quite ready for mobile applications.
Being able to have city buses report their location over the WiFi network will be cool though. People will have lots of fun experimenting with the network.
Eh? If the person being mugged had a gun, how would it have helped when someone had what he thought was a gun pressed to the back of his head?
My point is that criminals don't obey gun control laws so all such laws do is make the criminals reasonably certain that their law-abiding victims are unarmed. In this particular situation being armed wouldn't have helped the victim much, but perhaps the criminal would have been less brazen if he was uncertain of that?
Alternatively the Brits could try novel approaches like long jail sentances for armed criminals. But when the state isn't doing its job then having something like the Second Amendment is really, really useful. And since making the state do its job is easier said than done...
Also, note the linked-to article's point as to why British crime statistics are bogus.
Is all this crime the result of shiny inanimate objects or really stupid policies?
One favorite paragraph:
It is not difficult to guess the reason for the senior policeman's anger. My wife had forced his men to record a crime that they had no intention whatever of even trying to solve (though, with due expedition, it was eminently soluble), and this record in turn meant the introduction of an unwanted breath of reality into the bogus statistics, the manufacture of which is now every British senior policeman's principal task--with the sole exception of enforcing the dictates of political correctness, thereby to head off the criticism levied at them for many decades by the liberal Left--not always without an element of justification. Proving their purity of heart is now more important to them than securing the safety of our streets: and thus Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Also, nice to see that gun control laws work the way we Second Amendment supporters said they would.
$91 Athlon 64 3000+ CPU which will spend most of its time in power-saving mode, depending on how often the array is used. This also allows you to use a 64-bit Linux distro. AMD64 mode gives a very nice performance boost to encryption, if you're into that. There are cheaper 64-bit Sempron series chips if you don't mind sacrificing some L2 cache. Eventually there will be some cheap dualcore CPUs too.
$85 ASUS M2NPV-VM Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard. Everything you need including the best onboard video available. I'm using its Socket 939 predecessor in my home server.
You'll need to be more careful about the memory you choose though. Spring for a good high-efficiency power supply too, probably Seasonic S12 or Enermax Liberty.
1) Intel is dumping its aging Netburst cores onto the market at such low prices that they're displacing lower-end AMD sales.
2) Intel is setting up for a Big Bath in their Q2 earnings report. Their selling off of their ARM processor unit to Marvell is part of this (they'll have to recognize a huge loss on the sale).
3) All of this is obvious to AMD, so they're putting even more emphasis on Opteron sales where Intel is weakest. This results in lower total sales, as they sell in far fewer numbers than low-end CPUs, but should keep net income at a nice level since they're extremely high margin chips.
4) Since each Opteron sale displaces an Intel Xeon sale, Intel's net income is hurting.
5) Any advantage Intel will gain from C/M/W will be gone when AMD does their transition to 65nm in Q4. Sooner if Intel screws up, as is reported.
Sorry I dont follow... are you saying Intel (or AMD) shouldnt compare their newest chips with anything until the other releases a chip after that? Or are you saying it's unfair to compare 90 micron vs 65 micron chips together?
I think what he means is that we should compare Intel's not-buyable new chips with AMD's not-buyable new chips. When end-users start taking delivery of Woodcrest servers in, what, August maybe?, then maybe Intel can boast for perhaps even several weeks until AMD's new server chips are out.
Attempting to tank the entire market until Intel's next-gen chips are out just because everyone knows Intel's current "Netburst" chips are overheating crap is lame.
BTW, which Opteron CPU was Intel using in their comparison? Power consumption varies quite a bit even before you consider there are regular Opterons, Opteron HE, and Opteron EE series. A mere 7 watt advantage at the wall despite having started their 65nm transition earlier (AMD waits until they've figured out how to get mature yields before making a rapid switch to the next process node, very unlike Intel) tells me that Intel is going to get leapfrogged big-time in short order.
Yep, Google did evil in China...but that's a totally different discussion.
No, it's part of my point. Left-wingers act "bravely" when attacking entities that are extremely unlikely to do them harm (ie, the American federal government or America in general) and are sychophantic with entities that wouldn't think twice about murdering anyone who gets in their way (the terrorist-sponsoring, nuclear-bomb-building Iranian theocracy, Islamic terrorists in general, Castro's librarian-jailing dictatorship, the ChiCom dictatorship and its laogai but to a lesser extent now that their economics are going capitalist, the Soviets back in the day, etc).
The irony is that if we right-wingers really were the bastards the Left makes us out to be we wouldn't have to listen to so much whining. If Rumsfeld really were a mass murderer, maybe trustafarians would wear trendy T-shirts glorifying him instead of Che.
So Google "stands up" to the Bush administration and capitulates to the ChiComs, then in typical liberal fashion gives a useless apology for the latter afterwards.
Since Google doesn't have the same business model (lots of $$ from lots of sources instead of lots of $$ from few sources), they had the flexibility (and dare I say it...freedom) to speak out loud.
Except in China.
Yeah, y'all are real brave scoring own-goals in the war with Islamic fascism, braving scary consequences like fawning writeups in the NYT. Maybe they'll give one of you the Walter Duranty award for journalistic excellence.
They used to call those Luggable computers. My friend's dad had a kaypro or northstar CP/M computer. You could pick it up and take it anywhere, plug it in and go.
Yeah, but the new luggables can emulate a Beowulf cluster of those old CP/M machines...
And what is AMD doing in R&D lately?
They could tell you, but then they'd have to kill you. Seriously, AMD doesn't like to trumpet things that are years away from production or otherwise give Intel unnecessary clues about what they're up to. Intel... well, we were supposed to have 10GHz P4's by now...
Sure, they are the favorite this year, but do they have the R&D budget Intel has to remain competative in the long term?
Is the same management in charge of Intel's R&D budget? Looks that way. Besides, there's the law of diminishing returns at work. Plus AMD trades technology with IBM. Working with clueful partners is a heck of a lot more efficient than trying to do everything yourself (and pushing those potential partners into the AMD camp).
Intel had profits last year of almost $8 billion versus a market cap of $106 billion.
AMD had profits of about $370 million on a market cap of about $15 billion.
Note which direction AMD's profits are going. Their stockholders' equity is growing very nicely too. Current assets are up, long-term debt is way down.
Now look at Intel. Profits plummeted last quarter. Stockholders' equity is down, thanks to their cash balance plummeting from $11B to $5B over the past year.
You can make Net Income say whatever you want it to say if management and their accountants have sufficient moral flexibility, but you can't fake cash. Intel's management has been looting the company via stock options, using massive share buybacks to mop up the share dilution that would have occured had the new shares created by the exercised options hit the open market. They've been robbing Intel shareholders blind, but now they're under so much pressure from AMD that they've admitted they'll have to cut back on the buybacks. No word on whether they'll cut back on the options abuse too.
Folks, y'gotta read the financial statements. You have to understand the products. Why the Wall Street semiconductor analysts who get paid $megabucks per year can't seem to handle this is beyond me.
Another thing: AMD's new 65nm CPUs ship in volume in Q4. In the unlikely event that Conroe really is all that, its advantage will be very short-lived. AMD's just not going to Osbourne their current sales by pointing that out.
Why does a laptop need 64-bits? Are you addressing more than 4GB memory?
You get twice as many general registers in AMD64 mode, providing a nice performance boost independent of how much memory you have. Java, cryptography, and codecs react particularly well to AMD64 environments.
2GB RAM is already pretty standard for power users. Throw in virtual memory and, voila, you're at the 4GB barrier. Being able to run the same 64-bit binaries on your notebook as on your quad processor, 8 core 64GB RAM server is kinda nice too.
July 23rd is rumored to be the launch date. Until then I'd definitely wait before buying a new CPU. Even if you want to buy an AMD processor, they're will be huge price drops.
Which is the precise objective of this Intel FUD campaign. They know their current chips are crap, so if they can use these highly controlled "benchmarks" to get people to wait it'll hurt AMD.
Even if Intel does launch the chips on July 23rd, will it be a real launch or a paper launch? How fast will they ramp production of the new chips? Will Apple get the first batch, leaving PC users to wait additional weeks? What with their 64-bit performance be? What will performance under Linux be like? Given that even Dell is starting to hedge their bets, I'm skeptical. Given that Intel is so tightly controlling the benchmarking process I'm REALLY skeptical.
1) Hexus used Intel's compilers with their synthetic benchmarks. Intel has been known to rig their compilers to ignore post-i486 instructions (SSE, etc) on non-Intel CPUs. This is suppoesd to have been corrected in later Intel compiler releases, but...
2) Some of those benchmarks, like Pifast, likely fit inside the Core 2 Duo's massive L2 cache. Intel uses all that expensive cache to compensate for their lack of on-board memory controllers and HyperTransport.
3) Curious how they chose much lower latency memory for the Intel machine than the AMD. I'm not sure that the higher bandwidth of the AMD PC's memory overcomes its higher latency.
4) Why use 1024x768 res for the FarCry benchmark and 1600x1200 with AA and AF cranked up for theother two games? Games are GPU-limited at hires, so if you wanted to spike the results where AMD is superior...
5) Despite all of that, the AMD FX62 still won the Cryptography benchmark.
6) Why are nearly all of these reviews showing up on websites outside of America? Could it be that Intel wants to keep these reviews out of reach of AMD's American lawyers?
It sure looks like Intel's playing dirty (again). Wake me up when we get reviews done outside of Intel-controlled environments.
Bloomberg is a Democrat who bought his way into the Republican Party. It was easier than running against the several Democrat primary candidates.
I'm not sure if that makes it any better though. The New York Republican Party is pretty far gone. Not that much of the rest of the party is all that impressive. You should read nationalreview.com's recent commentary on that.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled flame-fest against Republicans in general.
You watched some muslims "dancing in the streets", just like we watched some rednecks beating the shit out of Sikhs after 9/11 because they were thought to be Arabs.
And that handful of "rednecks" was prosecuted accordingly, whereas the Muslims had considerable popular and governmental support for their celebrations of mass murder.
Look, if Google News is going to index Aljazeera.net then why not keep indexing the vastly less inflammatory WND?
The new Turion X2 laptops will give you a nice 64-bit dualcore CPU and it looks like many will be offering nVidia chipsets and GPUs that ought to be Linux-friendly. They'll be buyable in June, possibly sooner. HP has already announced their 14" widescreen (GeForce 6150 integrated GPU, the best shared memory GPU out there at the moment) for shipment in June. MSI, ASUS, and assorted others have machines coming soon. Price looks to be only slightly more than singlecore models. I'm holding out for a 17" model with at least a GeForce 7600, haven't seen one announced yet.
If you're going to do the VMWare thing, dualcores are nice.
Dell needs Opterons for quad processor servers. Xeons scale extremely poorly thanks to their old fashioned frontside bus architecture. Opterons scale almost linearly thanks to their onboard memory controllers and HyperTransport. And if Dell is going to sell 4P Opteron servers then it's kinda silly not to sell 2P as well. Intel can have the uniprocessor rabble, cheapskates buying Celeron "servers".
Maybe not. The article quotes Smith vs. Maryland:
[W]e doubt that people in general entertain any actual expectation of privacy in the numbers they dial. All telephone users realize that they must "convey" phone numbers to the telephone company, since it is through telephone company switching equipment that their calls are completed. All subscribers realize, moreover, that the phone company has facilities for making permanent records of the numbers they dial, for they see a list of their long-distance (toll) calls on their monthly bills. . . .
[E]ven if [a caller] did harbor some subjective expectation that the phone numbers he dialed would remain private, this expectation is not "one that society is prepared to recognize as 'reasonable.'" . . . This Court consistently has held that a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties. . . . [W]hen [a caller] used his phone, [he] voluntarily conveyed numerical information to the telephone company and "exposed" that information to its equipment in the ordinary course of business. In so doing, [the caller] assumed the risk that the company would reveal to police the numbers he dialed.
Now, what the NSA allegedly did is rather more comprehensive, but being able to say "Ah, this phone number we found on this captured terrorist laptop was in contact with phones A, B, and C. Are any of those numbers interesting?" has its merits. There's all sorts of scenarios where it's useful to know who a person of interest has been in contact with.
...Itanic sinks YOU!
Sigh. Another legendary company gone via death by management.
Umm, read some history. There's even a picture of one National Socialist German Labor Party nuke design.
Imperial Japan had nuclear bomb programs too.
Personally, I'm glad America got there first.
The Soviets took the easy route. They had some Useful Idiots steal the technology.
The Soviets had ASAT programs too. ASAT weaponry is old news, it's just that now they're using lasers rather than missiles. Heck, even that's not all that new, though making it work would be.
Don't you think the way for the US to really ensure its population's security would be to try to track down the arsenal of the former USSR?
Don't you think Putin ought to take nuclear security more seriously? The Russians built the damn things and they're not so poor that they can't deal with them if they want to, especially with high oil prices pouring hard currency into Russian state coffers.
90% of Apple computers sold are either laptops or SFF desktops, and Intel simply has the better product in these markets with Core.
Until the Turion X2 ships, which won't be much longer. Going with the current single core Turions instead of the Core Duo would have made more sense since then OSX could have been 64-bit from the get-go. Now Apple will have to support both 32-bit and 64-bit codebases. Were Intel's cut-rate chips and other support worth it? Time will tell, but given that things like codecs get a *nice* boost from AMD64 (it's not just about breaking the 4GB barrier) I think Jobs screwed up.