Yeah but in practice a lot of people don't have binaries compiled with FMA instructions. Those will probably only start getting out a long time after Haswell comes out. This means for a lot of people AMD's processor will seem to have half the peak FLOPS that it actually does have.
Not all countries can structure their tax income the same way. While one country may be rich enough in natural resources to derive its entire revenue from taxing mining, other countries may derive it from property taxes, sales taxes, etc. If corporations could cherry pick so they only needed to pay it where they wanted to pay it they would end up paying little or nothing at all.
AMD used to have processor node parity back in the 180 nm node. In fact they even had copper interconnects before Intel. The issue is they lost their advantage and now they don't even own their own fabs. The funny thing is AMD's ex-CEO and one of the founders Jerry Sanders used to say "real men have fabs". He attributed AMD's ability to survive against Intel due to their low per unit costs.
All these cores are superscalar and the present Intel cores in this class have more execution units per core than AMD. The caches in the Intel processors are also much better performing. However the performance of the AMD Bulldozer processors isn't as bad as some people think, especially if you compile your own binaries and run Linux.
Actually Germany had some of the most advanced machine tools at the time. These were then copied by the US and the Soviet Union after the war. They also had good capabilities in optics. A lot of people don't know about it but thermal imaging (i.e. night sights) were developed during WWII and the Germans had them. Most of the problems Nazi Germany had were related to material and manpower shortages. They lacked strategic materials like tungsten to make advanced turbine blades, kinetic rods or armor. Heck after WWII Stalin had the problem of how to create the infrastructure to mass produce V-2s and Soviet infrastructure wasn't up to snuff. So he had to get people from their automobile industry to work on production at first. They worked on the tooling issues. There were some people working on rocket planes in the Soviet Union since the 1930s but a lot of them had been purged. Korolev and Glusko were some of the few which actually survived.
The Chinese already have built large supercomputers including the world's highest performing supercomputer with their own interconnects and clustering solution (albeit with Western CPUs). Their main limitations are in lithography equipment to manufacture their own electronics. Due to trade restrictions on leading edge lithography tool exports to China they have 2-3 generation old manufacturing tools which means they can only design something similar to what you could get nearly a decade ago. The solution for them will probably be to do like Japan and start their own tool manufacturers eventually. For this they need expertise in optics. I do not see them working on this at the moment but I have little doubts it will happen.
Well the IBM BlueGene processors aren't exactly bleeding edge tech either but since they can put a lot of them in one chip they get decent performance on certain kinds of apps.
EV6 bus. Theoretically you could use the same chipset and motherboards but in practice the BIOS/firmware had to change and the manufacturers jacked up the price for the Alpha versions to ridiculously high levels for some reason...
Well one of the DEC chief designers ended up at AMD and designed the K7 (Athlon) which evolved into the K8 (Sledgehammer) and now the K10 (Bulldozer). Then he left AMD.
Blech. I can understand people not wanting to upgrade from XP, but Windows 95 and DOS are unstable POS. I think a lot of companies will upgrade from XP to Windows 7 in the near future. However Windows 8 is too much of a change to stomach.
Hmmm... According to this article it doesn't come with macros or VBA so businesses can't run their crapola apps on it. That mostly defeats the purpose. Still it's less bad than I expected.
Hackers don't usually go into the same jails as violent crime offenders. Not in civilized countries at least. Your inmates would probably be people guilty of fraud or whatever.
Microsoft is doing half-assed ARM support. They could have added fat binaries to Windows 8 but they didn't. They could have announced ARM ports of MS Office. Didn't hear anything about it.
Actually a lot of managers at AMD either left or got sacked. I don't know the ratios but Rory Read purged the old management pretty much. Which is not entirely a bad thing considering a lot of them were Ruiz's cronies. It is a shame Dirk Meyer had to leave though. Despite what people may think the Bulldozer line is the only viable core design AMD has at the moment and a lot of the credit towards K7, K8 and K10 goes towards him. He was a great CTO. Unfortunately he wasn't able to kick out the Ruiz's pals so he didn't have the chops to succeed at AMD as a CEO.
Eh? AMD only got an ARM license recently while Qualcomm was selling Snapdragon four years ago. Intel were the ones which had purchased xScale off Digital but sold it off to Marvell.
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Geez man. The 486 and Pentium Pro were not performance tweaks. The Pentium Pro for example was a wholly new out-of-order design.
Yeah but in practice a lot of people don't have binaries compiled with FMA instructions. Those will probably only start getting out a long time after Haswell comes out. This means for a lot of people AMD's processor will seem to have half the peak FLOPS that it actually does have.
Most government expenses are not consumed goods but salaries.
Not all countries can structure their tax income the same way. While one country may be rich enough in natural resources to derive its entire revenue from taxing mining, other countries may derive it from property taxes, sales taxes, etc. If corporations could cherry pick so they only needed to pay it where they wanted to pay it they would end up paying little or nothing at all.
Since when was plundering merchant ships considered to be the use of armed force against armed aggressors?
AMD used to have processor node parity back in the 180 nm node. In fact they even had copper interconnects before Intel. The issue is they lost their advantage and now they don't even own their own fabs. The funny thing is AMD's ex-CEO and one of the founders Jerry Sanders used to say "real men have fabs". He attributed AMD's ability to survive against Intel due to their low per unit costs.
All these cores are superscalar and the present Intel cores in this class have more execution units per core than AMD. The caches in the Intel processors are also much better performing. However the performance of the AMD Bulldozer processors isn't as bad as some people think, especially if you compile your own binaries and run Linux.
Actually Germany had some of the most advanced machine tools at the time. These were then copied by the US and the Soviet Union after the war. They also had good capabilities in optics. A lot of people don't know about it but thermal imaging (i.e. night sights) were developed during WWII and the Germans had them. Most of the problems Nazi Germany had were related to material and manpower shortages. They lacked strategic materials like tungsten to make advanced turbine blades, kinetic rods or armor. Heck after WWII Stalin had the problem of how to create the infrastructure to mass produce V-2s and Soviet infrastructure wasn't up to snuff. So he had to get people from their automobile industry to work on production at first. They worked on the tooling issues. There were some people working on rocket planes in the Soviet Union since the 1930s but a lot of them had been purged. Korolev and Glusko were some of the few which actually survived.
The Chinese already have built large supercomputers including the world's highest performing supercomputer with their own interconnects and clustering solution (albeit with Western CPUs). Their main limitations are in lithography equipment to manufacture their own electronics. Due to trade restrictions on leading edge lithography tool exports to China they have 2-3 generation old manufacturing tools which means they can only design something similar to what you could get nearly a decade ago. The solution for them will probably be to do like Japan and start their own tool manufacturers eventually. For this they need expertise in optics. I do not see them working on this at the moment but I have little doubts it will happen.
Well the IBM BlueGene processors aren't exactly bleeding edge tech either but since they can put a lot of them in one chip they get decent performance on certain kinds of apps.
EV6 bus. Theoretically you could use the same chipset and motherboards but in practice the BIOS/firmware had to change and the manufacturers jacked up the price for the Alpha versions to ridiculously high levels for some reason...
Well one of the DEC chief designers ended up at AMD and designed the K7 (Athlon) which evolved into the K8 (Sledgehammer) and now the K10 (Bulldozer). Then he left AMD.
I would try Python with PyGame probably.
Not if it is done for interoperability purposes.
Hmmm? Compile? This is not C/C++ compiling right? You could do that with a cross compiler.
Next time the IT systems go down or someone steals all the patient records because of an XP security hole don't complain then.
Blech. I can understand people not wanting to upgrade from XP, but Windows 95 and DOS are unstable POS. I think a lot of companies will upgrade from XP to Windows 7 in the near future. However Windows 8 is too much of a change to stomach.
Hmmm... According to this article it doesn't come with macros or VBA so businesses can't run their crapola apps on it. That mostly defeats the purpose. Still it's less bad than I expected.
AFAIK Qualcomm is a fabless company using TSMC to manufacture products.
Hackers don't usually go into the same jails as violent crime offenders. Not in civilized countries at least. Your inmates would probably be people guilty of fraud or whatever.
Microsoft is doing half-assed ARM support. They could have added fat binaries to Windows 8 but they didn't. They could have announced ARM ports of MS Office. Didn't hear anything about it.
The sad thing is for that amount of cash you could pay for someone to develop your own customized solution to which you had the source code. Oh well.
Actually a lot of managers at AMD either left or got sacked. I don't know the ratios but Rory Read purged the old management pretty much. Which is not entirely a bad thing considering a lot of them were Ruiz's cronies. It is a shame Dirk Meyer had to leave though. Despite what people may think the Bulldozer line is the only viable core design AMD has at the moment and a lot of the credit towards K7, K8 and K10 goes towards him. He was a great CTO. Unfortunately he wasn't able to kick out the Ruiz's pals so he didn't have the chops to succeed at AMD as a CEO.
So they sold their ARM business to Qualcomm.
Eh? AMD only got an ARM license recently while Qualcomm was selling Snapdragon four years ago. Intel were the ones which had purchased xScale off Digital but sold it off to Marvell.
Actually what destroyed AMD was Hector Ruiz as CEO. The Intel interference cost AMD a lot but it wasn't crippling like Ruiz.