It's going just like Motorola. Nothing unexpected.
The competition will keep dragging their feet so Google can't enter their domain. I've seen it happen here in Europe. Why do you think BT still has a defacto land line monopoly here?
IBM has been sinking into the same cesspool ever since their new management got in. Well it has been divesting itself of businesses for decades now but the latest moves are particularly egregious.
Actually during WWII it took less than 4 years. Seems rather obvious but if the design took too long to get into production the war would be over by then. The examples usually used for quick projects in the US aircraft industry in WWII are the P-51 Mustang and the P-80 Shooting Star. I think there were several reasons for their success. The main reason IMO was that they were simple designs to begin with.
Modern aircraft development seems to spend more time doing software than actually producing the flight hardware. The F-35 is a rather infamous example of this. Especially because they decided to reimplement the entire software in the airplane. In the 1980s several of the 'teen' fighters like the F-16 were intentionally specified to use as little electronics and software as possible to make them cheaper to develop.
You could as easily say that the private company is pissing away their customers or stockholders money. The problems the government has are the same problems any large bureaucracy has. I have seen competent and incompetent people working for both privates and government.
Because there is a non-insignificant chance that the Russians would sell them to the Chinese as well. So the Chinese could reverse engineer them and find weaknesses. Also it wouldn't be the first time Japan and Russia fought a war. They are regional competitors and have an ongoing dispute about ownership of the Kuril islands.
No once IDA is in and the Dragon V2.0 capsule is available it will auto-dock with the ISS by itself (with optional manual astronaut controlled docking) just like the Soyuz capsule. No Canadarm required as for the current berthing procedure.
No if you actually read AMD's own press releases they have been claiming at least since Piledriver that they are competitive in price/performance (which is true) and that were going to only do minor IPC improvements until their new architecture (i.e. Zen) came out.
Of course AMD is limited by available manufacturing technology regardless of how good their chip design is. They don't own fabs anymore...
Zen is a ready CPU redesign in case you did not hear about. AMD just showed it actually has more IPC than Intel in a heavy FPU benchmark which was were they were weakest to begin with.
Hardly surprising since the Bulldozer and derived processors have a shared FPU between each two cores. Zen just replicates the FPU unit. I'm more interested in how it runs multi-threaded integer benchmarks. The FPU heavy applications I use nearly all run on the GPU anyway.
Nah even AMD K8 was better than that. The 21464 (which never came out) was the one which was supposed to have SMT and large vector instructions. But then again Intel has had two-way SMT for years already and IBM even has four-way SMT in POWER 5 and later.
AMD has had a manufacturing process disadvantage for years. Add to that the Bulldozer architecture was designed for high-end servers were multi-threaded integer performance was the main concern and power consumption back then wasn't really a priority. Zen is a whole new architecture so it should be optimized differently.
Zen is a new architecture designed by Jim Keller, the same guy who designed the AMD Sledgehammer and Apple A4/A5 mobile processors. It shouldn't run as hot as Bulldozer/Piledriver/etc.
The AMD chipsets that they themselves designed and manufactured were pretty solid if kind of poorly featured. It was the VIA chipsets which were crap. Especially the southbridges.
Actually Intel did try to sell Netburst on laptops for a while (more like plug-in laptops though). What forced them to spend resources on Pentium-M was competition from Transmeta which claimed, at the time, they had lower power consumption and managed to get some wins with several Japanese laptop manufacturers. Until Intel offered them a better deal anyway. Had that gone to court to the end it would have sure been interesting...
The 'per-architecture' check included a strcmp with "GenuineIntel". There are processor flags to check if a processor supports an API already. I mean Intel designed the X86 ASM spec the least they could do is follow it in their own software.
So you are basically dismissing the Manhattan Project here. Even the investment on The Aerodrome was not totally useless. It ended up producing an engine design way better than anything the Wright Brothers had. A water cooled radial engine with 5x the horsepower and less weight. You are also comparing apples with oranges. The $1000 was cost in parts only while the $50000 was parts and labor.
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Uber was supposed to be all about UberBLACK. They only started UberX later. Even Amazon looks more like eBay than a store these days...
That does not say how long it took for them to get that deficit. We are talking about losing $1.2 billion in six months here.
It's going just like Motorola. Nothing unexpected.
The competition will keep dragging their feet so Google can't enter their domain. I've seen it happen here in Europe. Why do you think BT still has a defacto land line monopoly here?
We're overdue an ice age and we're heading towards a solar minimum. Again.
IBM has been sinking into the same cesspool ever since their new management got in. Well it has been divesting itself of businesses for decades now but the latest moves are particularly egregious.
Actually during WWII it took less than 4 years. Seems rather obvious but if the design took too long to get into production the war would be over by then. The examples usually used for quick projects in the US aircraft industry in WWII are the P-51 Mustang and the P-80 Shooting Star. I think there were several reasons for their success. The main reason IMO was that they were simple designs to begin with.
Modern aircraft development seems to spend more time doing software than actually producing the flight hardware. The F-35 is a rather infamous example of this. Especially because they decided to reimplement the entire software in the airplane. In the 1980s several of the 'teen' fighters like the F-16 were intentionally specified to use as little electronics and software as possible to make them cheaper to develop.
You could as easily say that the private company is pissing away their customers or stockholders money. The problems the government has are the same problems any large bureaucracy has. I have seen competent and incompetent people working for both privates and government.
I still have a working 3GS. The only thing which did not last was the crappy Apple headphones.
Skype's been available since like forever.
Because there is a non-insignificant chance that the Russians would sell them to the Chinese as well. So the Chinese could reverse engineer them and find weaknesses. Also it wouldn't be the first time Japan and Russia fought a war. They are regional competitors and have an ongoing dispute about ownership of the Kuril islands.
AFAIK Harmony was a from scratch reimplementation of Java done by several groups. Mainly IBM, and some GNU.
IBM has had their own full stack Java implementation for years now.
I meant VIMEO.
There's VEVO.
No once IDA is in and the Dragon V2.0 capsule is available it will auto-dock with the ISS by itself (with optional manual astronaut controlled docking) just like the Soyuz capsule. No Canadarm required as for the current berthing procedure.
No if you actually read AMD's own press releases they have been claiming at least since Piledriver that they are competitive in price/performance (which is true) and that were going to only do minor IPC improvements until their new architecture (i.e. Zen) came out.
Of course AMD is limited by available manufacturing technology regardless of how good their chip design is. They don't own fabs anymore...
Zen is a ready CPU redesign in case you did not hear about. AMD just showed it actually has more IPC than Intel in a heavy FPU benchmark which was were they were weakest to begin with.
Hardly surprising since the Bulldozer and derived processors have a shared FPU between each two cores. Zen just replicates the FPU unit. I'm more interested in how it runs multi-threaded integer benchmarks. The FPU heavy applications I use nearly all run on the GPU anyway.
Nah even AMD K8 was better than that. The 21464 (which never came out) was the one which was supposed to have SMT and large vector instructions. But then again Intel has had two-way SMT for years already and IBM even has four-way SMT in POWER 5 and later.
AMD has had a manufacturing process disadvantage for years. Add to that the Bulldozer architecture was designed for high-end servers were multi-threaded integer performance was the main concern and power consumption back then wasn't really a priority. Zen is a whole new architecture so it should be optimized differently.
Zen is a new architecture designed by Jim Keller, the same guy who designed the AMD Sledgehammer and Apple A4/A5 mobile processors. It shouldn't run as hot as Bulldozer/Piledriver/etc.
The AMD chipsets that they themselves designed and manufactured were pretty solid if kind of poorly featured. It was the VIA chipsets which were crap. Especially the southbridges.
Actually Intel did try to sell Netburst on laptops for a while (more like plug-in laptops though). What forced them to spend resources on Pentium-M was competition from Transmeta which claimed, at the time, they had lower power consumption and managed to get some wins with several Japanese laptop manufacturers. Until Intel offered them a better deal anyway. Had that gone to court to the end it would have sure been interesting...
The 'per-architecture' check included a strcmp with "GenuineIntel". There are processor flags to check if a processor supports an API already. I mean Intel designed the X86 ASM spec the least they could do is follow it in their own software.
Japan has like half the population of the US and half the GDP. China has like 4x the population of the US.
So you are basically dismissing the Manhattan Project here. Even the investment on The Aerodrome was not totally useless. It ended up producing an engine design way better than anything the Wright Brothers had. A water cooled radial engine with 5x the horsepower and less weight. You are also comparing apples with oranges. The $1000 was cost in parts only while the $50000 was parts and labor.