Are you sure it's the 1st time ARM has produced a synthesizable core? (despite what the article says)
A little over a month ago I sat through a presentation by one of the guys near the top of ARM's research division...
It was a general overview of ARM's business model (it's an IP company) and products followed by some other material. During the presentation some cores were marked as synthesizable, others were marked as the opposite (I forget the specific term that was used).
To the best of my knowledge all the cores reviewed in the presentation were already released and in production.
You're mostly right. As feature size shrinks the transistors use less dynamic power on each switch. The problem is that more energy is wasted through static leakage.
Even if they aren't switched you're starting to loose 20% - 40% from static power (depending on the process).
Re-read the register article. Its not the Intel guy who said 30 stages, its the Register who is guessing.
They're assuming that since it went from 10 to 20 before it'll go from 20 to 30 now.
Its not likely to end up being more than a few extra stages.
the article is talking about tojans, not (D)DOS
If the torjan is big enough to bring down routers they need to stop infecting people with the entire contents of loc.gov:)
On University of Michigan's central campus alot of students raised a fuss and got the local coffee shops to offer fair trade coffee.
Maybe someone should do the same for Mozilla coffee on the engineering campus. There are only two coffee shops up there and they go through ALOT of coffee. Besides, its all the EECS kids loading up on coffee before the shops close anyway;)
If you're looking for laptops with 12" screens, take a look at the Sharp Acticus MV series. It has all the features of the other 12" notebooks without the $2000 entry price. (Though its a P3 1.13Ghz machine, not a Centrino)
I picked up an MV 12 a few months ago and I love it. I would've been disapointed if i went with the Viao r505 and I'm not sure I would've liked the ibm x series over this.
1" thick, 3.6lbs, built in DVD/CDRW (one of the few 12" machines that doesnt need an external drive), built-in 802.11b (with two black antennas on the sides of the display), 40Gig drive... 256M ram standard.
Dual boots of linux / XP work flawlessly... No wireless problems, etc... After picking up a 2nd mem-module (for a total of 512M ram) it cost $1300:)
If you want something even smaller, (and about $150 cheaper) check out the MV10. It's basicly the same machine but the DVD/CDRW is moved to an external adapter
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Having heard Brintey attempt to sing I'd remove her CDs as well. I'd just leave the album covers for everyone to enjoy. :)
Incoming text messages are already free on AT&T.
Now if only their data rates weren't so bad.
Great, I can see it now...
100 lb sandbags, the next must-have accessories for your 3oz, matchbox sized camera.
Are you sure it's the 1st time ARM has produced a synthesizable core? (despite what the article says)
A little over a month ago I sat through a presentation by one of the guys near the top of ARM's research division...
It was a general overview of ARM's business model (it's an IP company) and products followed by some other material. During the presentation some cores were marked as synthesizable, others were marked as the opposite (I forget the specific term that was used).
To the best of my knowledge all the cores reviewed in the presentation were already released and in production.
Wimp ;) How about this for a public school...
Out-of-state tuition @ Univ. of Michigan:
$27,290 per year.
~= $13,645 a semester
Just hit esc ;)
You're mostly right. As feature size shrinks the transistors use less dynamic power on each switch. The problem is that more energy is wasted through static leakage.
Even if they aren't switched you're starting to loose 20% - 40% from static power (depending on the process).
Two economists != two laywers though both tend to have their heads an equal distance up their ___
;)
"I packed up the car, scored some weed, picked up my girlfriend and headed to the Jersey Shore, just to be on the safe side"
Now that's a comment that'll make people believe this guy is a real journalist.
One of the inside jokes among hardware designers/architects is that we're there to fix the brain-dead ideas/practices of software people.
They doubled the size of both the L1 data-cache & L2 cache...
"...highly trained technical professional"
;)
"I have the certificates to prove this"
Using the phrase highly trained professional in conjunction with an MS cert is nearly worth +5 funny by itself.
On the bright side you can pretty much get away without textbooks once you get into grad school.
Maybe a book here and there but you'll end up spending alot more time reading research papers.
(Note: This may vary by major)
Re-read the register article. Its not the Intel guy who said 30 stages, its the Register who is guessing. They're assuming that since it went from 10 to 20 before it'll go from 20 to 30 now. Its not likely to end up being more than a few extra stages.
If you're really worried about someone identifying your specific copy of "Applied Cryptography" just microwave the thing.
The induced current will fry any RFID in the thing.
Sure, this may not be the best way to remove an RFID tag from your next cellphone but it'll work on a lot of things.
You sir are an evil, evil man.
I love it
the article is talking about tojans, not (D)DOS If the torjan is big enough to bring down routers they need to stop infecting people with the entire contents of loc.gov :)
You sir, have earned a cookie!
:)
Now we just need to build a mail filter that magicly signs him up for another one each time something gets filtered into our spam folder
On University of Michigan's central campus alot of students raised a fuss and got the local coffee shops to offer fair trade coffee.
;)
Maybe someone should do the same for Mozilla coffee on the engineering campus. There are only two coffee shops up there and they go through ALOT of coffee. Besides, its all the EECS kids loading up on coffee before the shops close anyway
(sorry if I sound like a commercial in this post)
:)
If you're looking for laptops with 12" screens, take a look at the Sharp Acticus MV series. It has all the features of the other 12" notebooks without the $2000 entry price. (Though its a P3 1.13Ghz machine, not a Centrino)
I picked up an MV 12 a few months ago and I love it. I would've been disapointed if i went with the Viao r505 and I'm not sure I would've liked the ibm x series over this.
1" thick, 3.6lbs, built in DVD/CDRW (one of the few 12" machines that doesnt need an external drive), built-in 802.11b (with two black antennas on the sides of the display), 40Gig drive... 256M ram standard.
Dual boots of linux / XP work flawlessly... No wireless problems, etc...
After picking up a 2nd mem-module (for a total of 512M ram) it cost $1300
If you want something even smaller, (and about $150 cheaper) check out the MV10. It's basicly the same machine but the DVD/CDRW is moved to an external adapter
Everything that is present in each of the L1 caches is also present in the L2 cache.
;)
Then again, as long as you run a "small" program you could run it all from 512Kb of cache with DOS.