Is the ps3 out one the market right now? No. End of story.
Comparing future consoles to current PC's don't really make sense in my mind but maybe that's just me.
I'm pretty sure that by the time those console are released, NVIDIA and ATI will have GPUs for PC that meet or exceed that of consoles in terms of hardware.
Also with regards to the cell processor, based on my knowledge of it and history, I don't really see it catching on in the general computing market. It has the two major flaws similar to the Itanium (different instruction set, and performance heavily dependent on optimization). It will probably work well for consoles but will unlikely displace x86 chips. I may work for Apple but that depends on the chips performance and Apple's final decision.
If one were to make a memory chip out of a die with a certain set size, they will always be able to make a DRAM chip with a much greater capacity than a SRAM chip assuming the cost of production (including the equipment costs) is held constant. That is why DRAM chips are used.
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The grandparent was probably refering to this statement made by the great-grandparent:
"We need to ask these questions. We are Westerners, and we have a conscience. Neither Chinese nor Koreans would ask such questions; the first cloned person will likely appear in Korea or China."
This is definitely trolling and should be modded down.
ELF, which is frequencies between 30Hz to 300Hz, can affect life since it disrupts electrical signals in the body. This is especially bad for cyclical signals, like that of the heart. Since I'm not a marine biologist, I can't really tell you exactly which frequencies are dangerous. I do know you can actually kill humans fairly quickly if you direct a sufficiently powerful ELF signal at the victim at a frequency close to that of his/her pulse (usually around 60Hz).
>Using 2 cores on one die improves locality of reference, which lets you use a higher clock speed.
I believe the main reason that two cores are used is to increase processing power, not frequency. The problem with increasing frequency right now is the heat dissipation. With CMOS devices, power consumed increases with freqency as current flows through the device during transistions between logic states. To increase processing power, multiple cores need to be used (without frequency increases) now inorder to take full advantage of the current process technology (65nm) since increasing the frequency will cause device to overheat unless the transistor density is reduced. IIRC, this is the main reason that Intel abandoned the latest P4 chips in favor of Pentium M. Also if two cores do increase frequency, it will be minimal since the layout of each core probably will not differ much from that of a single core processors.
>Using 2 cores on one die improves locality of reference, which lets you use a higher clock speed.
I believe the main reason that two cores are used is to increase processing power, not frequency. The problem with increasing frequency right now is the heat dissipation. With CMOS devices, power consumed increases with freqency as current flows through the device during transistions between logic states. To increase processing power, multiple cores need to be used (without frequency increases) now inorder to take full advantage of the current process technology (65nm) since increasing the frequency will cause device to overheat unless the transistor density is reduced. IIRC, this is the main reason that Intel abandoned the latest P4 chips in favor of Pentium M. Also if two cores do increase frequency, it will be minimal since the layout of each core probably will not differ much from that of a single core processors.
Perfect competiton in an international market maybe, since they are not just producing DVD players for just Chinese consumers. Have you thought of that?
If the misunderstanding is because you don't understand microeconomics, let me breifly explain the situation. In a perfect competition, if you are making a (economic) profit, another company can com in and undercut your prices (earn less profit than you of course). This keeps happening until profits are reduced to zero. Less then zero profit will result in the company refusing produce the product.
There are maybe one or two reasons that the DVD market cannot operate in the textbook definition of a perfect competition (if any, very few products do) but it comes pretty close.
for a more detailed explaination go to:
http://www.business.uiuc.edu/ldebrock/econ102s04/o ll/Chap08/index.html
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a) Criminal A b) Criminal B c) Criminal C... z) Criminal Z
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Is the ps3 out one the market right now? No. End of story.
Comparing future consoles to current PC's don't really make sense in my mind but maybe that's just me.
I'm pretty sure that by the time those console are released, NVIDIA and ATI will have GPUs for PC that meet or exceed that of consoles in terms of hardware.
Also with regards to the cell processor, based on my knowledge of it and history, I don't really see it catching on in the general computing market. It has the two major flaws similar to the Itanium (different instruction set, and performance heavily dependent on optimization). It will probably work well for consoles but will unlikely displace x86 chips. I may work for Apple but that depends on the chips performance and Apple's final decision.
The ping on that must suck really bad though.
If you want a really high bandwidth, get a truckload of hard drives.
If one were to make a memory chip out of a die with a certain set size, they will always be able to make a DRAM chip with a much greater capacity than a SRAM chip assuming the cost of production (including the equipment costs) is held constant. That is why DRAM chips are used.
The grandparent was probably refering to this statement made by the great-grandparent:
"We need to ask these questions. We are Westerners, and we have a conscience. Neither Chinese nor Koreans would ask such questions; the first cloned person will likely appear in Korea or China."
This is definitely trolling and should be modded down.
ELF, which is frequencies between 30Hz to 300Hz, can affect life since it disrupts electrical signals in the body. This is especially bad for cyclical signals, like that of the heart. Since I'm not a marine biologist, I can't really tell you exactly which frequencies are dangerous. I do know you can actually kill humans fairly quickly if you direct a sufficiently powerful ELF signal at the victim at a frequency close to that of his/her pulse (usually around 60Hz).
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>Using 2 cores on one die improves locality of reference, which lets you use a higher clock speed.
I believe the main reason that two cores are used is to increase processing power, not frequency. The problem with increasing frequency right now is the heat dissipation. With CMOS devices, power consumed increases with freqency as current flows through the device during transistions between logic states. To increase processing power, multiple cores need to be used (without frequency increases) now inorder to take full advantage of the current process technology (65nm) since increasing the frequency will cause device to overheat unless the transistor density is reduced. IIRC, this is the main reason that Intel abandoned the latest P4 chips in favor of Pentium M. Also if two cores do increase frequency, it will be minimal since the layout of each core probably will not differ much from that of a single core processors.
>Using 2 cores on one die improves locality of reference, which lets you use a higher clock speed. I believe the main reason that two cores are used is to increase processing power, not frequency. The problem with increasing frequency right now is the heat dissipation. With CMOS devices, power consumed increases with freqency as current flows through the device during transistions between logic states. To increase processing power, multiple cores need to be used (without frequency increases) now inorder to take full advantage of the current process technology (65nm) since increasing the frequency will cause device to overheat unless the transistor density is reduced. IIRC, this is the main reason that Intel abandoned the latest P4 chips in favor of Pentium M. Also if two cores do increase frequency, it will be minimal since the layout of each core probably will not differ much from that of a single core processors.
Perfect competiton in an international market maybe, since they are not just producing DVD players for just Chinese consumers. Have you thought of that? If the misunderstanding is because you don't understand microeconomics, let me breifly explain the situation. In a perfect competition, if you are making a (economic) profit, another company can com in and undercut your prices (earn less profit than you of course). This keeps happening until profits are reduced to zero. Less then zero profit will result in the company refusing produce the product. There are maybe one or two reasons that the DVD market cannot operate in the textbook definition of a perfect competition (if any, very few products do) but it comes pretty close. for a more detailed explaination go to: http://www.business.uiuc.edu/ldebrock/econ102s04/o ll/Chap08/index.html
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At least close to perfect competition since in perfect competition, the profitsare zero. I don't really see how this is a problem.
but because it's a MS product, it would be more like
"Yer out! Home run! Home run! Yer out! Yer out! Ho-" Warning: Unrecoverable Error. System Halted.
Of course this is a feature since you no longer need to listen to that annoying microsoft sam's voice.
Choose your candidate a) Criminal A b) Criminal B c) Criminal C ... z) Criminal Z
Well at least now with electronic voting we won't need to choose which criminal will win. Now that's progress.