I really wish AMD some success with the Athlon. Just imagine a quad-Athlon SMP machine (drool).
A quad-Athlon SMP machine @ 700MHz will be a lot more realizable than a similar Intel SMP machine just from the sheer power dissipation. Intel, in recent years, has produced some high speed processors -- from brute force -- sure the processors are fast, but they simply throw the book out the window on power consumption and design efficiency. They can get away with it because they have had little competition (until now), and the mindless masses simply accept Intel products without a technical critique.
AMD, on the otherhand, has produced some powerful chips that can now compete with Intel's best. They also consume less power and have smaller die. A PentiumIII has 9.5M transistors as opposed to the Athlon's 22M transistors! Can you imagine two PIII die in that SEC package? Do you know what China Syndrome means? You will if you try it!
Go AMD! Go Athlon! At the very least, this type of technical challenge will only help us, the consumers!
I am a firm supporter of the faster, cheaper, and better program. Imagine sending hundreds or thousands of different probes throughout the cosmos instead of a couple of ultra-expensive manned missions to Mars just so we can strut around the surface, pat ourselves on the back, plant a flag in the dirt, and go home. Scientific discovery should be the driving force behind our space missions, not nationalistic bravado.
I have been an @Home Cable modem user since they started beta testing in Fremont, CA, (ah, the 10Mbit glory days!) and the one disturbing trend with this service has been this gravitation towards something called "content". (groan) That's what the Internet is for, you dolts!
I don't know why companies like @Home don't just focus on providing reliable, fast internet access/service and stop spending so much time trying to create "user portals" full of fluffy "content". Cable modem/DSL users are generally technically-competent, sophisticated users who usually ignore most of that glitzy crapola anyway. We don't want another AOL, we want the access we were promised.
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A quad-Athlon SMP machine @ 700MHz will be a lot more realizable than a similar Intel SMP machine just from the sheer power dissipation. Intel, in recent years, has produced some high speed processors -- from brute force -- sure the processors are fast, but they simply throw the book out the window on power consumption and design efficiency. They can get away with it because they have had little competition (until now), and the mindless masses simply accept Intel products without a technical critique.
AMD, on the otherhand, has produced some powerful chips that can now compete with Intel's best. They also consume less power and have smaller die. A PentiumIII has 9.5M transistors as opposed to the Athlon's 22M transistors! Can you imagine two PIII die in that SEC package? Do you know what China Syndrome means? You will if you try it!
Go AMD! Go Athlon! At the very least, this type of technical challenge will only help us, the consumers!
--DigitalAce
"Lost probe was model of NASA's faster, cheaper space missions"
Here's the link to the story.
I am a firm supporter of the faster, cheaper, and better program. Imagine sending hundreds or thousands of different probes throughout the cosmos instead of a couple of ultra-expensive manned missions to Mars just so we can strut around the surface, pat ourselves on the back, plant a flag in the dirt, and go home. Scientific discovery should be the driving force behind our space missions, not nationalistic bravado.
I don't know why companies like @Home don't just focus on providing reliable, fast internet access/service and stop spending so much time trying to create "user portals" full of fluffy "content". Cable modem/DSL users are generally technically-competent, sophisticated users who usually ignore most of that glitzy crapola anyway. We don't want another AOL, we want the access we were promised.
-- DigitalAce