Read up on your English lit. Or older American prose, for that matter. You'll find that it used to be pretty common as a way to emphasize key nouns and adjectives.
Monopoly issues aside, Intel must still be making a profit despite "throwing money away" for these bribes or price dumps or whatever they're accused of - otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. That means the are indeed able to compete on price, which suggests their products aren't so out-of-whack with the market as you seem to imply.
You seem to be contradicting yourself with this paragraph. The whole point is that they're not competing on price. It's not hard to outsell your competition if you pay off the market so they don't use your competitor's parts, or delay them so that they miss the early (and highly profitable) part of the market window.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that they will stop making and selling standalone CPUs and GPUs. This is just another option for applications (e.g., low cost, low power laptops) where it makes sense to combine the two.
Huzzah! For the first time in 25 years, the name MOSFET ( Metal -Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) will correctly describe the device that goes by that name!
Sort of. The gate is still mostly poly, with a relatively thin metal layer below it. Also, the devices use a high-k material like HfO2 for the dielectric, with a thin silicon oxynitride mobility enhancement layer.
There's a decent overview at Semiconductor International
They can't get the chips to clock up nicely as a whole; an individual chip or a few dozen individuals can, but most of them are binning in the sub-2GHz category
Do you have a source for that, or is it just internet speculation?
On the other hand, if they're devoting 1/4 of their booth to this, it's probably going to be something bigger than "Look, here's a new trailer!". Given the size of booth that a giant worldwide conglomerate like Sony will have, 1/4 of it would be ridiculous overkill for just trailers.
If it were a general consumer electronics show, I'd agree with you. But if it's a gaming-specific show, and they're only devoting 1/4 of their booth to the PS3, I don't have high hopes of seeing much new.
IBM has been hinting at a transition to SOI for years
Huh? IBM has been manufacturing production chips on SOI wafers for years. Same for AMD. Intel does not because they don't want to pay the patent license fees to IBM.
Sue who for what? 100 developers and contributors for a portion of all the profits they've earned?
Well, I'd guess their first target would be whoever runs the website that distributes FreeCiv to get it shut down. They could also try for damages from the same people for distributing the allegedly infringing materials.
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They're working on it: http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/JimKellerJoinsAMD-2012aug01.aspx
Windows file copy dialog is pretty awful, too. Obligatory XKCD
Read up on your English lit. Or older American prose, for that matter. You'll find that it used to be pretty common as a way to emphasize key nouns and adjectives.
I think 'used to be' is the key phrase here.
the article will likely be filled with factual errors as well as spelling mistakes?
He should feel right at home, then.
I have that setting in my account (just double checked) but the story still shows up on the front page for me--does anyone else see this behavior?
Monopoly issues aside, Intel must still be making a profit despite "throwing money away" for these bribes or price dumps or whatever they're accused of - otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. That means the are indeed able to compete on price, which suggests their products aren't so out-of-whack with the market as you seem to imply.
You seem to be contradicting yourself with this paragraph. The whole point is that they're not competing on price. It's not hard to outsell your competition if you pay off the market so they don't use your competitor's parts, or delay them so that they miss the early (and highly profitable) part of the market window.
My God that's sad...
I don't think anyone is suggesting that they will stop making and selling standalone CPUs and GPUs. This is just another option for applications (e.g., low cost, low power laptops) where it makes sense to combine the two.
Intel has deployed a high-k/metal gate device architecture at 45 nm.
Huzzah! For the first time in 25 years, the name MOSFET ( Metal -Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) will correctly describe the device that goes by that name!
Sort of. The gate is still mostly poly, with a relatively thin metal layer below it. Also, the devices use a high-k material like HfO2 for the dielectric, with a thin silicon oxynitride mobility enhancement layer. There's a decent overview at Semiconductor International
The CEO and the board recently voted themselves massive raises and then started cashing out their stock in the company.
Surely you can provide a link to back that claim up?
We're quoting Mythbusters as an authoritative source now?
Because anyone that would actually buy Halo-themed lingerie would have no chance of ever seeing it in action anyway.
They can't get the chips to clock up nicely as a whole; an individual chip or a few dozen individuals can, but most of them are binning in the sub-2GHz category
Do you have a source for that, or is it just internet speculation?
The proposed method is meant purely as a gedankenexperiment.
Guess you missed this part.
I spent many hours playing Sensible World of Soccer--I'd love to have a version for the DS!
I wish they would release a version of Sensible World of Soccer for the Nintendo DS. I loved that game!
if so then this woul dbe an awesome game controller.
I don't know I like my button-mashing devices to have, well, buttons.
I am now a little dumber for having read that.
On the other hand, if they're devoting 1/4 of their booth to this, it's probably going to be something bigger than "Look, here's a new trailer!". Given the size of booth that a giant worldwide conglomerate like Sony will have, 1/4 of it would be ridiculous overkill for just trailers. If it were a general consumer electronics show, I'd agree with you. But if it's a gaming-specific show, and they're only devoting 1/4 of their booth to the PS3, I don't have high hopes of seeing much new.
IBM has been hinting at a transition to SOI for years
Huh? IBM has been manufacturing production chips on SOI wafers for years. Same for AMD. Intel does not because they don't want to pay the patent license fees to IBM.
Who is Insult the Comic Dog?
Are you talking about Triumph the Insult Comic Dog? If so then I agree with you 100%.
Amen to that.
Don't you mean "Berzerkeley"?
Sue who for what? 100 developers and contributors for a portion of all the profits they've earned?
Well, I'd guess their first target would be whoever runs the website that distributes FreeCiv to get it shut down. They could also try for damages from the same people for distributing the allegedly infringing materials.