I believe I read that AMD's market share of x86 processors is 21% as of late. It will probably increase to 22 or 23% this year.
Intel keeps its market share for multiple reasons. The most important is production capability. The rest include advertising, competive pricing and products, and the willingness to share roadmaps to partners (and generally follow them).
Can't disagree with that. AMD is not going to increase market share without increasing their production capacity. Plus they're going to have to do a better job
with their laptop processors.
I thought it was the Intel chips that needed huge fans these days.
Seriously, I have 3 intel based machines. All were surplused. I think I paid a grand total of $65 for them, less than the cost of the AMD processor in my newest
machine.
Three things here.
First, yes Intel sells more server chips than AMD, but AMD is making strong inroads in this area. In fact, AMD has been limited by their lack of fabrication capacity. The margins in this arena are fairly high, and with the new Dresden Fab coning on line this year, Intel is going to take a big hit. If I'm AMD, and have limited production capacity, I'mg going to be producing chips that give me the biggest margin, and that's going to be the high end chips. Because of their superior performance, AMDs chips will command a price premium to Intels chips.
Secondly, corporate desktops. The best that AMD can do is to try to underprice Intel, which will be difficult since Intel does have better process technology. Expect prices of the midline chips to fall as Intel lowers prices to maintain market share. With margins as thin as they are in this arena, AMD needs to work to maintain its performance edge on the high end chips where it can command better margins.
In laptop processors, the Pentium-M's excellent perfomance/power ratio means that
AMD is not about to overtake Intel's number one position. AMD's Sempron may have
better performance, but it also 25% (AFAIK) more power hungry. This is an important market segment, and while AMD puts up some competition, Intel is still the strongest. The price margins in the market aren't as large as those of the server market, but they're still better than the margins desktop market.
It's Intel's more advanced process technology that gives them the edge in producing the low power laptop chips, not the manufacturing volume. I wouldn't say that AMD is years behind Intel, just 10 months behind, which is far enough behind to be at a definite disadvantage. AMD should be concerned with improving its process technology while also trying to improve production capacity.
Intel gave as one reason of lower than expected revenues was their inability to
supply enough chipsets for their processors. They also were predicting slower
growth the next quarter or two. AMD's revenue was also limited by supply problems, but in their case, the demand drove up the price of their processors. They also expect good growth in processor sales next quarter.
It will be interesting to see how things unroll the next half year, with AMD's new
Dresden fab coming online, and new chips being offered. I'll be interested to see
how much more inroads AMD will be making into the server, desktop, and laptop markets. How will Intel's Xeon hold up against the Opteron? Will AMD get more competitive in the market for laptop processors?
Right now I see Intel having the better fabrication technology, and the ability to produce more chips than AMD. Will Intel catch up and surpass AMD on the chip design front? Maybe the question should be 'when' and not 'if'.
And finally, can we expect to see a 5 GHz processor this year?
Back in the 70's aluminum was once used for house wiring in the U.S., with disasterous results. The aluminum wiring would work loose and spark fires. That's why its use is banned in many locations these days.
I very much doubt if you could replace the copper in cat5 cable with aluminum. It would be much more likely they'd be replaced with fiber. Copper is much more ductile than aluminum. In order to get the high data rates of cat5, the conductors must be of small diameter. Larger diameter wires have larger capacitance, thus reducing data rates. If you tried to use aluminum of the same gauge as the copper in cat5 cabling, the wire would likely break when it was bent.
Profit is not ever only good for one party. All transactions are mutually beneficial at the time of the exchange. You exchange money you don't need for a product/service you do need. The other party accepts this money to use for a product/service they'll need in the future. This is mutual profiting for both parties (capitalism).
Great. Then I'm sure you won't mind me setting up a little cocaine retailing operation in your neighborhood. Hell, I'll give you and your kids real good deals on the stuff, at least for the first few weeks anyway. Since you're so anti-government regulation, I'm sure you wouldn't be running to those nasty feds.
... were the Moon landings a technological feat, never to be duplicated?
Yeah, 'cause we all know that in order for something to be more technically advanced, it has to be bigger. That's how come modern computers are so much more primitive than the ENIAC.
From what I understand, you are correct. The Atlas is very lightwieght for the amount of payload it sends up. This is because the design is based on the fact that a pressurized pop can can support far more weight than an unpressurized pop can. The fuel & oxidizer tanks of the Atlas are pressurized, allowing the booster to be very light weight but still be able to support a substantial payload. Saturn V didn't use this design.
Increase support for higher education.
Have a privatized social security option. One could invest a portion of their
social security in privatized plans.
Stop government support for having large families. You get tax deductions for
up to the first two kids. That's it. There already are enough people in this
world.
Increase support for early childhood education and after-school programs.
States must set statewide education standards for eighth grade and high school
graduation. (Currently some states do nothave statewide standards.)
The welfare program would probably change, but since I'm not currently very
familiar with the current one, I couldn't say exactly how. The federal jobs
program would be continued.
Basic health care guaranteed for all americans. This would include annual
check up, required childhood immunizations. Would not cover any proceedures
or medications for conditions that are not life threatening or which don't substantially degrade the individuals quality of life. (No cosmetic surgery,
no sex change operations, treatment of minor cuts & scrapes not covered.)
Support research and development of a more energy efficient transportation system.
Get rid of a lot of those dammed silly little laws that make people criminals
when all they're really doing is annoying the neighbors a bit.
From wikipedia, a globular cluster is a spherical bundle of stars that orbits a galaxy as a satellite. Not to be confused with a gobbler cluster, a bunch of turkeys huddled together.
Because the second requires constructing completely (at least copying) the
complete beer object, a task requiring more instructions than the 1 or 2 instruction
overhead of the virtual function call.
You know you can do generic programming in 'C' as well. It's just not usually done and it's rather kludgy (using #defines and #includes). And also you can style your 'C' code in an object oriented manner. Take a look at the source for the XtIntrinsics library for X11 some time.
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I believe I read that AMD's market share of x86 processors is 21% as of late. It will probably increase to 22 or 23% this year.
Intel keeps its market share for multiple reasons. The most important is production capability. The rest include advertising, competive pricing and products, and the willingness to share roadmaps to partners (and generally follow them).
Can't disagree with that. AMD is not going to increase market share without increasing their production capacity. Plus they're going to have to do a better job with their laptop processors.
I thought it was the Intel chips that needed huge fans these days.
Seriously, I have 3 intel based machines. All were surplused. I think I paid a grand total of $65 for them, less than the cost of the AMD processor in my newest machine.
Secondly, corporate desktops. The best that AMD can do is to try to underprice Intel, which will be difficult since Intel does have better process technology. Expect prices of the midline chips to fall as Intel lowers prices to maintain market share. With margins as thin as they are in this arena, AMD needs to work to maintain its performance edge on the high end chips where it can command better margins.
In laptop processors, the Pentium-M's excellent perfomance/power ratio means that AMD is not about to overtake Intel's number one position. AMD's Sempron may have better performance, but it also 25% (AFAIK) more power hungry. This is an important market segment, and while AMD puts up some competition, Intel is still the strongest. The price margins in the market aren't as large as those of the server market, but they're still better than the margins desktop market.
It's Intel's more advanced process technology that gives them the edge in producing the low power laptop chips, not the manufacturing volume. I wouldn't say that AMD is years behind Intel, just 10 months behind, which is far enough behind to be at a definite disadvantage. AMD should be concerned with improving its process technology while also trying to improve production capacity.
Apple is even more evil than intel.
It will be interesting to see how things unroll the next half year, with AMD's new Dresden fab coming online, and new chips being offered. I'll be interested to see how much more inroads AMD will be making into the server, desktop, and laptop markets. How will Intel's Xeon hold up against the Opteron? Will AMD get more competitive in the market for laptop processors?
Right now I see Intel having the better fabrication technology, and the ability to produce more chips than AMD. Will Intel catch up and surpass AMD on the chip design front? Maybe the question should be 'when' and not 'if'.
And finally, can we expect to see a 5 GHz processor this year?
You'll have to get a fusion reactor like mine. One that produces copper atoms from heavy water. That's the ticket. Electric power and copper.
Back in the 70's aluminum was once used for house wiring in the U.S., with disasterous results. The aluminum wiring would work loose and spark fires. That's why its use is banned in many locations these days.
I very much doubt if you could replace the copper in cat5 cable with aluminum. It would be much more likely they'd be replaced with fiber. Copper is much more ductile than aluminum. In order to get the high data rates of cat5, the conductors must be of small diameter. Larger diameter wires have larger capacitance, thus reducing data rates. If you tried to use aluminum of the same gauge as the copper in cat5 cabling, the wire would likely break when it was bent.
Can't stick around here. Got to go out and feed the cows.
Great. Then I'm sure you won't mind me setting up a little cocaine retailing operation in your neighborhood. Hell, I'll give you and your kids real good deals on the stuff, at least for the first few weeks anyway. Since you're so anti-government regulation, I'm sure you wouldn't be running to those nasty feds.
The earth already is loosing rotaional energy. Quite a bit in fact. It happens naturally. The moon has pretty much lost all its rotational energy.
My bad. I see where it uses a Russian designed engine as well.
Yeah, 'cause we all know that in order for something to be more technically advanced, it has to be bigger. That's how come modern computers are so much more primitive than the ENIAC.
From what I understand, you are correct. The Atlas is very lightwieght for the amount of payload it sends up. This is because the design is based on the fact that a pressurized pop can can support far more weight than an unpressurized pop can. The fuel & oxidizer tanks of the Atlas are pressurized, allowing the booster to be very light weight but still be able to support a substantial payload. Saturn V didn't use this design.
Think Alfred Hitchcock: The Birds
Increase support for higher education. Have a privatized social security option. One could invest a portion of their social security in privatized plans. Stop government support for having large families. You get tax deductions for up to the first two kids. That's it. There already are enough people in this world. Increase support for early childhood education and after-school programs. States must set statewide education standards for eighth grade and high school graduation. (Currently some states do nothave statewide standards.) The welfare program would probably change, but since I'm not currently very familiar with the current one, I couldn't say exactly how. The federal jobs program would be continued. Basic health care guaranteed for all americans. This would include annual check up, required childhood immunizations. Would not cover any proceedures or medications for conditions that are not life threatening or which don't substantially degrade the individuals quality of life. (No cosmetic surgery, no sex change operations, treatment of minor cuts & scrapes not covered.) Support research and development of a more energy efficient transportation system. Get rid of a lot of those dammed silly little laws that make people criminals when all they're really doing is annoying the neighbors a bit.
Bet not. These days there are a lot more immigrants in the U.S. from south of the border who are low-skilled or unskilled.
From wikipedia, a globular cluster is a spherical bundle of stars that orbits a galaxy as a satellite. Not to be confused with a gobbler cluster, a bunch of turkeys huddled together.
Electricity from trees!? Listen to your boxelders and stop this foolishness or I'll have Maple paddle your ash, you little good fir nothin!
To unindent 3 tabs, :.,.+14 3
Or mark the first line a, the last line b and use
void drink_beer( Beer b) { b.drink(); }
will run slower than calling the first
void drink_beer( Beer *b) { b->drink(); } or
void drink_beer( Beer &b) { b.drink(); }
Because the second requires constructing completely (at least copying) the complete beer object, a task requiring more instructions than the 1 or 2 instruction overhead of the virtual function call.
That should be 'C'.
You know you can do generic programming in 'C' as well. It's just not usually done and it's rather kludgy (using #defines and #includes). And also you can style your 'C' code in an object oriented manner. Take a look at the source for the XtIntrinsics library for X11 some time.
hole is the word you're looking for. Hole - an ommision, a spot where the dirt has been dug out of the ground. Whole - entire, complete, not partial.