Version diversity isn't the only kind. Implementation and hardware diversity matters too - for instance, I've run into a crash bug when attempting to start a new Activity from within a TabHost that only occurs on Galaxy S devices. That sort of thing is really incredibly frustrating, and makes QA far more of a pain in the ass than it should be.
The sensor is 41mp. They're subsampling, not supersampling; generating a (supposedly) superior 5/8mp image from an original, potentially fairly noisy but high-detail, 41mp image.
And they still sell Power7 with 8 cores and issuing 6 instructions per cycle at 4GHz+. They're obscenely fast, but they're also not cheap unless you're comparing them to Itanium, SPARC, or Intel's -EX series Xeons.
Bulldozer - their current architecture - was really bad. Slow, mediocre price/performance ratio, and power-hungry. It remains to be seen if Piledriver can make it all better.
Real-world benchmarks that aren't linpack. Video encoding. Games. OLTP and OLAP workloads, as tested with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL. Even the TPC-C results are pretty unimpressive.
For specific workloads, Itanium is great. It can sustain 2 FP loads, 2 FP stores, and 2 FMA's in a cycle, which means for certain types of DSP-ish workloads, it has more performance per-cycle than just about any other mainstream CPU. It also has a very high-performance cache hierarchy, with massive blobs of SRAM and a low-latency L1 (one cycle to access.) The problem is that it's expensive, clocked low, and not really ideal for where it's marketed (the mission-critical enterprise server business.) It still has significant advantages over Xeon for some workloads, namely things that are highly cache-sensitive or that scale high enough where directory-based coherence is good to have.
I live in a medium-sized Kansas city, and 3G is almost unobtainable. No T-mobile presence (as far as I can tell), no AT&T 3G, poor Verizon and Sprint. The only carrier with solid infrastructure here is US Cellular. (I'm on Sprint, and it's frequently an exercise in patience.)
There is exactly zero chance of Trinity being anything other than what it's been announced and demo'd as from day one: L3-less Bulldozer (well, technically Piledriver) with a GPU on-chip. In other words, an incremental successor to Llano.
The most powerful general-purpose processor in the world (Power7) is a huge seller for IBM, and is a PowerPC implementation. PPC is also big in telecom applications, and Freescale does a number of fairly high-performance designs for that market.
The PPC used in the AmigaOne X1000 is a PA Semi PA6T - not very fast, designed as a low-power chip, and long-dead. Apple bought the company a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure new PA6T's are not being made. I suppose that speaks volumes about how many X1000's they reasonably expect to sell...
It's a tough question. The Intel Atom has an edge on ARM, but it's not a big one, and while a high-performance ARM chip costs below $20, the Atom is significantly more. On the other hand, right now there are no ARM implementations that are really competitive on the PC front, and probably won't be until ARMv8 (64-bit) chips, or at least until Cortex-A15. A15 chips will probably come out in late 2012 and be a bit faster than the Atom, but a long way from Sandy Bridge and the other current Intel designs.
Ethiopia was ruled by a rather brutal Communist regime (the Derg) from the 70's until the 90's. Since the partial move to democracy and free markets, they've had significant economic growth.
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Version diversity isn't the only kind. Implementation and hardware diversity matters too - for instance, I've run into a crash bug when attempting to start a new Activity from within a TabHost that only occurs on Galaxy S devices. That sort of thing is really incredibly frustrating, and makes QA far more of a pain in the ass than it should be.
Apparently the Libertarian Party had ballot access in almost every state in 2008, and I assume the same will be true this year.
http://www.lp.org/ballot-access
Take a look at the benchmarks. The FX-8150 really doesn't come out looking good against the 2500k, much less against the i7-980.
The sensor is 41mp. They're subsampling, not supersampling; generating a (supposedly) superior 5/8mp image from an original, potentially fairly noisy but high-detail, 41mp image.
And they still sell Power7 with 8 cores and issuing 6 instructions per cycle at 4GHz+. They're obscenely fast, but they're also not cheap unless you're comparing them to Itanium, SPARC, or Intel's -EX series Xeons.
Bulldozer - their current architecture - was really bad. Slow, mediocre price/performance ratio, and power-hungry. It remains to be seen if Piledriver can make it all better.
A company that fronts as an intelligence publisher... but is secretly an intelligence publisher? Oh, Associated Press, why you make no sense?
CTSS had email before UNIX did - 1964, if I recall.
No, you. The 96km is a mistake in the summary. The number in the article is 96,000km.
FMA is pretty much irrelevant for any of the above workloads.
Real-world benchmarks that aren't linpack. Video encoding. Games. OLTP and OLAP workloads, as tested with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL. Even the TPC-C results are pretty unimpressive.
You seem way too personally involved in this.
For specific workloads, Itanium is great. It can sustain 2 FP loads, 2 FP stores, and 2 FMA's in a cycle, which means for certain types of DSP-ish workloads, it has more performance per-cycle than just about any other mainstream CPU. It also has a very high-performance cache hierarchy, with massive blobs of SRAM and a low-latency L1 (one cycle to access.) The problem is that it's expensive, clocked low, and not really ideal for where it's marketed (the mission-critical enterprise server business.) It still has significant advantages over Xeon for some workloads, namely things that are highly cache-sensitive or that scale high enough where directory-based coherence is good to have.
A 3GHz Sandy Bridge core completely annihilates a 3.6GHz K10 core, and Bulldozer's per-cycle performance is significantly worse than K10.
You should come out of 2002 sometime.
I live in a medium-sized Kansas city, and 3G is almost unobtainable. No T-mobile presence (as far as I can tell), no AT&T 3G, poor Verizon and Sprint. The only carrier with solid infrastructure here is US Cellular. (I'm on Sprint, and it's frequently an exercise in patience.)
They're working on it; they have an indigenous light-fighter project, and are co-developing PAK FA with the Russians.
Published benchmarks disagree with your assessment of ARM.
There is exactly zero chance of Trinity being anything other than what it's been announced and demo'd as from day one: L3-less Bulldozer (well, technically Piledriver) with a GPU on-chip. In other words, an incremental successor to Llano.
28nm TSMC ARM is likely this year.
Power7 is fully compatible with the PPC 2.06 spec. How is it not a PPC ISA implementation?
The most powerful general-purpose processor in the world (Power7) is a huge seller for IBM, and is a PowerPC implementation. PPC is also big in telecom applications, and Freescale does a number of fairly high-performance designs for that market.
The PPC used in the AmigaOne X1000 is a PA Semi PA6T - not very fast, designed as a low-power chip, and long-dead. Apple bought the company a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure new PA6T's are not being made. I suppose that speaks volumes about how many X1000's they reasonably expect to sell...
It's a tough question. The Intel Atom has an edge on ARM, but it's not a big one, and while a high-performance ARM chip costs below $20, the Atom is significantly more. On the other hand, right now there are no ARM implementations that are really competitive on the PC front, and probably won't be until ARMv8 (64-bit) chips, or at least until Cortex-A15. A15 chips will probably come out in late 2012 and be a bit faster than the Atom, but a long way from Sandy Bridge and the other current Intel designs.
The US is keeping the B-52 alive until at least 2030, too (although in relatively small numbers.)
While we're playing anecdotal games, it was well below zero Fahrenheit last night when it should be around 10. Global cooling!!!!!!!
Ethiopia was ruled by a rather brutal Communist regime (the Derg) from the 70's until the 90's. Since the partial move to democracy and free markets, they've had significant economic growth.
"bizarre perversions of the once innocent C language"
You mean C++?