AFAIK Athlon/Athlon XP had no such bugs, the issues were bugs in the VIA chipsets. AMD's chipsets worked fine.
I don't remember any bugs on Piledriver. I do remember that Bulldozer had a TLB bug though. The workaround was to disable the TLBs and it significantly hampered performance.
The problem is it has less density than DRAM and it's a lot more expensive. It does have better latency though, so it could be used as a kind of persistent last level cache.
It sounds crazy and barbaric, but look at it this way? Ethics wise how would you feel if you paid someone out of your own money and also paid for his equipment and time and he used your money to compete against you?
That's how Intel and AMD started out of Fairchild Semiconductor. Plus how Apple started out of Atari. I could continue here.
The touchdown was at quite a low velocity. Don't know what you are talking about. Plus most of the cost in a vehicle is the engines, not the propellant tanks or the aeroshell.
Eberhard... all of the problems he had gotten the company into (penalties for unmeetable contracts, a stupid choice of gearbox supplier, etc), and ultimately he was fired.... However, with a lot of good decisions, such as getting customer buy-in to (rather than starting over on the gearbox) switch it from a two-gear to a one-gear with a more powerful drivetrain to achieve the same accel, they brought the price down to $109k at release.
What you neglect to say is that Elon was the one who pushed them into adding the gearbox to the design in the first place. Not Eberhard. Elon wanted to increase the top speed.
No. This is the thing. You sell your product for $10 to someone who then resells it brand new for $8. Or you sell it to them at $6 and ask for them to resell it for $10.
The price fixing is in that you can't force someone else to resell or sell the product at a given price.
Good for them. The Russian people control their own energy sector, instead of giving it away to oligarchs, to profit from obscenely like in Yeltin's time.
Generating the electricity doesn't cause that much of an efficiency loss. Typically conversion from kinetic energy to electricity is 90% efficient or more. Most losses in such a generating method are actually in the conversion of heat to kinetic energy which can be from 30% to 60%. In the case of small scale diesel generators probably 30% efficient.
Due do Thermodynamics. Basically any kind of heat engine will be more efficient with sophisticated cooling, like cooling towers, and those only make economic sense with a large enough installation. Also the less parts a system has typically the less chance one of the parts will fail.
Well someone has to use the diesel. You can't produce 100% gasoline from oil cheaply even if you wanted to. That's not how refineries work. Oil is distilled in fractions and while you can adjust it with hydrogen or carbon injection it isn't particularly cheap either.
The major issue with diesel is the sulfur content (particulate emissions) and its perfectly possible to reduce the sulfur content but you need to do some engine modifications similarly to when gasoline cars switched to unleaded.
No. It's four chips, with 8-cores per chip (i.e. 16 threads per chip), per processor. I assume they're going to use a multi-chip module for that. The thing with multi-chip modules is that you can use a lot faster interconnect than you would otherwise because of the smaller traces and more specialized packaging.
AFAIK they did ok with the K8 servers and their derivatives. The issue is they released the high power consumption K10 processors around the time server people started taking notice about power consumption. Other than some HPC applications like supercomputers the K10 it wasn't that popular and eventually not even there.
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So you forgot the Intel TSX bug, the Intel F00F bug, the Intel FDIV bug, etc.
Really? How about using the damned stock cooler? That's what I've done and had no issues.
AFAIK Athlon/Athlon XP had no such bugs, the issues were bugs in the VIA chipsets. AMD's chipsets worked fine.
I don't remember any bugs on Piledriver. I do remember that Bulldozer had a TLB bug though. The workaround was to disable the TLBs and it significantly hampered performance.
There's MRAM available for sale right now. Everspin sells it:
https://www.everspin.com/
The problem is it has less density than DRAM and it's a lot more expensive. It does have better latency though, so it could be used as a kind of persistent last level cache.
e.g. Microsoft using someone else's mainframe for their own work.
It sounds crazy and barbaric, but look at it this way? Ethics wise how would you feel if you paid someone out of your own money and also paid for his equipment and time and he used your money to compete against you?
That's how Intel and AMD started out of Fairchild Semiconductor. Plus how Apple started out of Atari. I could continue here.
The main difference AFAIK is crummy IP law.
Yeah but a lot of companies are there or moving there as well like Occulus or even SpaceX who started their satellite division there.
The touchdown was at quite a low velocity. Don't know what you are talking about. Plus most of the cost in a vehicle is the engines, not the propellant tanks or the aeroshell.
Eberhard ... all of the problems he had gotten the company into (penalties for unmeetable contracts, a stupid choice of gearbox supplier, etc), and ultimately he was fired. ... However, with a lot of good decisions, such as getting customer buy-in to (rather than starting over on the gearbox) switch it from a two-gear to a one-gear with a more powerful drivetrain to achieve the same accel, they brought the price down to $109k at release.
What you neglect to say is that Elon was the one who pushed them into adding the gearbox to the design in the first place. Not Eberhard. Elon wanted to increase the top speed.
No, basically what Putin did was either they paid taxes, or they went to jail.
No. This is the thing. You sell your product for $10 to someone who then resells it brand new for $8. Or you sell it to them at $6 and ask for them to resell it for $10.
The price fixing is in that you can't force someone else to resell or sell the product at a given price.
Good for them. The Russian people control their own energy sector, instead of giving it away to oligarchs, to profit from obscenely like in Yeltin's time.
It's basically AOL buys Netscape redux. It's the 2000s again.
It also has lots of coal and uranium.
What did you expect? Floodplains agriculture? They still need to pump water from the river to the farms.
Generating the electricity doesn't cause that much of an efficiency loss. Typically conversion from kinetic energy to electricity is 90% efficient or more. Most losses in such a generating method are actually in the conversion of heat to kinetic energy which can be from 30% to 60%. In the case of small scale diesel generators probably 30% efficient.
Due do Thermodynamics. Basically any kind of heat engine will be more efficient with sophisticated cooling, like cooling towers, and those only make economic sense with a large enough installation. Also the less parts a system has typically the less chance one of the parts will fail.
You need actual funding to design hardware.
There are plenty of companies working on next generation memory devices already.
Well someone has to use the diesel. You can't produce 100% gasoline from oil cheaply even if you wanted to. That's not how refineries work. Oil is distilled in fractions and while you can adjust it with hydrogen or carbon injection it isn't particularly cheap either.
The major issue with diesel is the sulfur content (particulate emissions) and its perfectly possible to reduce the sulfur content but you need to do some engine modifications similarly to when gasoline cars switched to unleaded.
No. It's four chips, with 8-cores per chip (i.e. 16 threads per chip), per processor. I assume they're going to use a multi-chip module for that. The thing with multi-chip modules is that you can use a lot faster interconnect than you would otherwise because of the smaller traces and more specialized packaging.
AFAIK they did ok with the K8 servers and their derivatives. The issue is they released the high power consumption K10 processors around the time server people started taking notice about power consumption. Other than some HPC applications like supercomputers the K10 it wasn't that popular and eventually not even there.
Yeah diesel is pretty bad. Yet the life expectancy in the USA is lower than in the EU. So I guess it didn't turn out to be that bad.
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