On what? AVX specific benchmarks optimized for Sandy Bridge which do not use Bulldozer's FMA instruction which would give it a 2x performance boost? Poorly programmed OS schedulers which do not scale well beyond 4 cores? Or what?
FWIW at the time ATI was much higher valued than AMD, despite AMD having loads of cash at hand. The transaction seemed to the market like a tuna swallowing a whale. Just shows you how much you can rely on stock price as an indicator of anything of use.
They could have if not for anti-competitive tactics. That way they could have bootstrapped production at Chartered which had a similar little used plant based on the IBM process. The AMD/Intel deal said AMD could not manufacture processors on a 3rd party outfit. So when they were capacity constrained they could not outsource production and use the windfall to buy more fabs later. They still did get enough money to make two more fabs and upgrade the old one at Dresden. They made the second fab also at Dresden and were planning on making another in NY near IBM's fab. However Hector Ruiz blew the AMD cash reserves for the fab buying ATI load stock and barrel with a premium over the market price at the height of the stock bubble before the 2008 implosion.
Conroe, Hector Ruiz's shady ATI purchasing deal right before the market bubble burst, spinoff of the fabs (never got to play even with Intel in the same process node again, have more costs because company is not vertically integrated), ambitious products which had issues in the beggining (the fact workers were displeased with Ruiz's tenure didn't help either).
I'm guessing you didn't read about the Dell lawsuit. Even Michael Dell was on the scopes and had to pay a hefty fine. Dell reported quarter by quarter profits increasing their stock price in a kind of two-tiered Enron scheme with Intel. At the same time companies like Compaq and HP had to merge their companies and sell with razor-thin margins, while IBM sold their PC division to Lenovo.
Diamond is a better heat conductor than silica. So theoretically you can just switch to Diamond substrates and get higher speeds without melting the processor.
Actually AMD bet on servers and it won. x86.64 was a result of this. Intel still sells crap like 32-bit Atom processors. We would probably be stuck in 32-bit land today if Intel had its will fullfilled.
Sure, they hurt on desktops, but it was no major issue. The problem was when Intel actually started making decent server processors.
Bullshit. Opteron is a brandname which was composed of several products. The original Opteron line was quite innovative. When AMD introduced the K10 core they had several issues, Intel took the technological low road (multi-chip module) and got quicker results, AMD had bugs in the more complex K10 which was introduced late. However the bugs were all resolved in Shanghai/Instanbul. The FPU latencies were in many cases cut by half, the TLB bug was fixed, and AMD had the same performance than an Intel processor of the same period at a lower price.
With Bulldozer the same thing is happening. Bulldozer has a lot of bugs which cripple its performance. Once the bugs are fixed, if ever, the performance will climb up. The theoretical peak performance of Bulldozer in FP for example is 2x that of an Intel processor because of the FMA instruction. This should make the processor very popular in supercomputing and other workstation environments. Its peak integer performance is already awesome as well.
Doesn't matter. It's fast enough for all VGA and SVGA games or earlier on any decent system. It is also multiplatform (people can run it in ARM platforms for example). Besides, do you really, really want to mess around with himem.sys or setting up the umb memory space so you have more base memory so the game runs and trouble like that? Its bonkers.
Dumping toxic waste into the drinking water would carry a death penalty under the Great Yasa as encoded by Genghis Khan, and that was before the EPA, or whatever. You do not put crap into the water you drink. You need to drink water to survive and people cannot survive without water for more than 3 days simple as that.
Much of the Southern state's argument for secession was precisely that they were suffering from embargoes that limited their ability to be anything else but plantation economies. Much of their limited industry was destroyed in the civil war, including the largest explosives and fertilizer manufacturing plant in the whole US.
It is a matter of GNP vs GNP/capita. Luxembourg has a high GNP/capita but it certainly does not have enough GNP to lend the amounts of money the US is demanding at the moment.
Yes, the Great Leap Forward. Even the hardened Stalinist economists at China thought Mao was insane in wanting to implement something that took them 20 years (with much strain as well) in 5. Japan did the same thing like in what 50 years? Without so much misery and pain.
Largest electronics manufacturer? In what? Units? Income? I doubt it is in units or income unless you define electronics as a very narrow segment indeed.
Ah yes, the race to the bottom scenario. No my little friend. What will happen is that the Chinese will increasingly demand higher salaries and increasingly have more home grown industries while buying off Western assets for peanuts from all the foreign cash they have from their large export surplus. Just like happened with Japan before. Capitalists will move from place to place until salaries more or less level off. Of course this may take a generation or two and these people will get filthy rich by convincing useful idiots to tear down the achievements of the social underclasses in the XIXth century. You can turn back the clock but progress will still be inexorable. Perhaps you should look at your golden age in the 1950s-1960s and reexamine the conditions for why it happened in the first place. It had nothing to do with that so called "American ethos" pushed by the right-winged liberals of today.
The US and the EU are increasingly turning into fascist entities where the state has an incestuous relationship with the major corporations. That is the Eastern Indies Corporation model of mercantilism, not the capitalism proposed by Adam Smith et al.
*Yawn* yes, they make less profit, yet nearly all the components in the iPhone come from Samsung while the phone itself is assembled in China by Foxconn. Apple does what? Basic design and OS work? This segment is clearly headed for Android domination with Samsung as one if not of the foremost leader. Apple may start all the lawsuits they want, they will not be able to stop the competition that is coming from all sides.
China makes cheap lithium-ion batteries and magnets and stuff like that from what I'm aware of. Capacitor and board manufacturing, probably, from companies owned by Taiwanese (much like Foxconn). They do have a foundry called SMIC but due to US export barriers on high-tech machine tools they can only manufacture chips using older generation processes which have less transistors per area. They do have native chip designs like Loongson but they are manufactured somewhere else where the US ban on machine tools does not exist.
You mean Korea and Taiwan. TSMC is the world's largest foundry and is based in Taiwan. Samsung is the world's largest DRAM and Flash manufacturer, not to mention LCD panel displays. I'm not aware of any manufacturing in Indonesia at present.
I was skeptical about the Google IPO as well, but not Apple's prospectives for growth. Never thought they would go this far, but clearly once they switched from that neanderthal OS called MacOS 8/9 whatever to MacOS X which is still arguably the most advanced OS in the market today well... They were going to stay unless there were some humongously stupid decisions. But whatever.
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On what? AVX specific benchmarks optimized for Sandy Bridge which do not use Bulldozer's FMA instruction which would give it a 2x performance boost? Poorly programmed OS schedulers which do not scale well beyond 4 cores? Or what?
FWIW at the time ATI was much higher valued than AMD, despite AMD having loads of cash at hand. The transaction seemed to the market like a tuna swallowing a whale. Just shows you how much you can rely on stock price as an indicator of anything of use.
They could have if not for anti-competitive tactics. That way they could have bootstrapped production at Chartered which had a similar little used plant based on the IBM process. The AMD/Intel deal said AMD could not manufacture processors on a 3rd party outfit. So when they were capacity constrained they could not outsource production and use the windfall to buy more fabs later. They still did get enough money to make two more fabs and upgrade the old one at Dresden. They made the second fab also at Dresden and were planning on making another in NY near IBM's fab. However Hector Ruiz blew the AMD cash reserves for the fab buying ATI load stock and barrel with a premium over the market price at the height of the stock bubble before the 2008 implosion.
Conroe, Hector Ruiz's shady ATI purchasing deal right before the market bubble burst, spinoff of the fabs (never got to play even with Intel in the same process node again, have more costs because company is not vertically integrated), ambitious products which had issues in the beggining (the fact workers were displeased with Ruiz's tenure didn't help either).
I'm guessing you didn't read about the Dell lawsuit. Even Michael Dell was on the scopes and had to pay a hefty fine. Dell reported quarter by quarter profits increasing their stock price in a kind of two-tiered Enron scheme with Intel. At the same time companies like Compaq and HP had to merge their companies and sell with razor-thin margins, while IBM sold their PC division to Lenovo.
Diamond is a better heat conductor than silica. So theoretically you can just switch to Diamond substrates and get higher speeds without melting the processor.
Sure, they hurt on desktops, but it was no major issue. The problem was when Intel actually started making decent server processors.
With Bulldozer the same thing is happening. Bulldozer has a lot of bugs which cripple its performance. Once the bugs are fixed, if ever, the performance will climb up. The theoretical peak performance of Bulldozer in FP for example is 2x that of an Intel processor because of the FMA instruction. This should make the processor very popular in supercomputing and other workstation environments. Its peak integer performance is already awesome as well.
Smaller installations usually have less generating efficiency which compensates the transmission losses.
Doesn't matter. It's fast enough for all VGA and SVGA games or earlier on any decent system. It is also multiplatform (people can run it in ARM platforms for example). Besides, do you really, really want to mess around with himem.sys or setting up the umb memory space so you have more base memory so the game runs and trouble like that? Its bonkers.
Registered Nurse I guess.
Dumping toxic waste into the drinking water would carry a death penalty under the Great Yasa as encoded by Genghis Khan, and that was before the EPA, or whatever. You do not put crap into the water you drink. You need to drink water to survive and people cannot survive without water for more than 3 days simple as that.
Much of the Southern state's argument for secession was precisely that they were suffering from embargoes that limited their ability to be anything else but plantation economies. Much of their limited industry was destroyed in the civil war, including the largest explosives and fertilizer manufacturing plant in the whole US.
It is a matter of GNP vs GNP/capita. Luxembourg has a high GNP/capita but it certainly does not have enough GNP to lend the amounts of money the US is demanding at the moment.
Yes, the Great Leap Forward. Even the hardened Stalinist economists at China thought Mao was insane in wanting to implement something that took them 20 years (with much strain as well) in 5. Japan did the same thing like in what 50 years? Without so much misery and pain.
Largest electronics manufacturer? In what? Units? Income? I doubt it is in units or income unless you define electronics as a very narrow segment indeed.
The US and the EU are increasingly turning into fascist entities where the state has an incestuous relationship with the major corporations. That is the Eastern Indies Corporation model of mercantilism, not the capitalism proposed by Adam Smith et al.
No, the effect is well known. People feel better off and happier if there is less income inequality. Which was the case in the FSU.
*Yawn* yes, they make less profit, yet nearly all the components in the iPhone come from Samsung while the phone itself is assembled in China by Foxconn. Apple does what? Basic design and OS work? This segment is clearly headed for Android domination with Samsung as one if not of the foremost leader. Apple may start all the lawsuits they want, they will not be able to stop the competition that is coming from all sides.
China makes cheap lithium-ion batteries and magnets and stuff like that from what I'm aware of. Capacitor and board manufacturing, probably, from companies owned by Taiwanese (much like Foxconn). They do have a foundry called SMIC but due to US export barriers on high-tech machine tools they can only manufacture chips using older generation processes which have less transistors per area. They do have native chip designs like Loongson but they are manufactured somewhere else where the US ban on machine tools does not exist.
You mean Korea and Taiwan. TSMC is the world's largest foundry and is based in Taiwan. Samsung is the world's largest DRAM and Flash manufacturer, not to mention LCD panel displays. I'm not aware of any manufacturing in Indonesia at present.
I was skeptical about the Google IPO as well, but not Apple's prospectives for growth. Never thought they would go this far, but clearly once they switched from that neanderthal OS called MacOS 8/9 whatever to MacOS X which is still arguably the most advanced OS in the market today well... They were going to stay unless there were some humongously stupid decisions. But whatever.
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