Journal of Pervasive 64 bit Computing

Analysis on IT trends and competitive strategies, with emphasis on micro processors, computer systems and networks. Based on latest news, backed up with real data, this site intends to provide a true and realtime picture of the fast changing IT landscape. This journal strives to be accurate on facts and sharp on criticisms. You may email your opinion to sharikou@yahoo.com or post comments here, be cool and intelligent.

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Thoughts on AMD's Rembrandt Laptop Benchmarks

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 AMD is doing so well on all fronts. EPYC is killing Xeon in datacenter. AMD's more 50% share of the FPGA market will surely generate a ...
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Friday, August 20, 2021

The AMD64 Revolution Is Almost Accomplished, But Not Yet

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 I haven't posted for a while. Because my posts were forward-looking, to tell you what was to come, not to state the obvious. AMD is win...
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Friday, November 09, 2018

Reflections on the AMD Revolution

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The AMD-Intel struggle is nothing short of biblical in the world of computing. Ever since the Athlon days, AMD has always been the innovat...
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Thursday, June 14, 2018

AMD Winning in Mobile Space

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AMD is grabbing mobile big time. Susquehanna is misinformed or misinforming. AMD's presence in the Laptop market has never been stronger...
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Thursday, January 04, 2018

Intel Meltdown Reshapes the x64 Computing Landscape

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Finally, the picture has been set straight. Let me summarize. 1) The Intel Meltdown hole is on the galactic scale. You didn't see me j...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Hackers Can Remotely Control Intel Servers -- Even if they are turned off

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According to the Hacker News , there are massive security flaws in the Management Engine of Intel servers. One of the security hole is CVE-2...
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Monday, November 13, 2017

TensorFlow for AMD Radeon Will Break Nvidia Monopoly

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Nvdia has established a virtual monopoly in the artificial intelligence and machine learning arena through its CUDA. Jensen Huang openly ack...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Can Intel Price War With AMD's EPYC RyZEN

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A common and naive misconception of the Intel and AMD rivalry is that Intel can always conduct a price war against AMD. Macquarie Research...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Comment on Mantle Boost

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Joel , You ought to take a lesson in logical reasoning. Mantle mostly helps in "CPU bound" situation does lead to a conclusio...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

AMD 1Q04 Guidance Up 25% YoY

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AMD had the great 4Q03, which showed a 9% sequential growth from 3Q03. 1Q04 will be down sequentially, but is guided up 25% from 1Q03, from...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

Now Intel is fragged

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ExtremeTech   shows HSA enabled AMD Kaveri frags Intel Haswell i5-4670S by being almost 500% faster in a LibreOffice Calc test
Thursday, January 09, 2014

AMD is no longer just a chips provider

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It has become a solutions provider. It is on a different level from one-trick-ponies such as INTEL and NVIDIA. NVDA is dead man walking....
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

The genie is now out of the bottle

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"The shorts are playing with fire," says one Seeking Alpha reader. Yes. They totally misunderstood and underestimated AMD, which h...
Friday, December 20, 2013

AMD Mantle is gonna smother Intel Haswell

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Oxide says See https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QIWyf8Hyjbg
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Litecoin Millionaires-to-be are flocking to the mine

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Ordered four AMD R9 290s last night, there were five in stock, quickly made an order, and got the following message in the morning: ******...
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Friday, December 06, 2013

The New Compute Metric: Price-Per-Coin

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The new performance metric for the compute world is now Price-Per-Coin. In case you haven't noticed, high end AMD Radeon GPUs are gett...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

PS4 and XBox One Sales May Reach 30 Million in 2014

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SONY announced that it had sold 2.1 million PS4 in just two weeks. This was better than PS2, which had sold over 150 million units in the fi...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

AnandTech Benchmark shows GTX 780Ti Slower

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AnandTech has a Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review  by Ryan Smith, where he claimed to show the Nvidia card 11% faster than AMD's R9 290X....
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Commentary on Ashraf Eassa's Tragedy

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Mr. Eassa at SA wrote the this sentimental piece:   http://seekingalpha.com/article/1755942-the-tragedy-of-amd And below is my response: ...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

AMD's transitioning to profitability and beyond

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PC will continue to decline. 30% of AMD's revenue now comes from SOCs. 50% of AMD's business will be in new high growth product ...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Intel is a one-trick pony and is very afraid

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According to this report ,    after the AMD-Verizon Cloud deal, Intel "call[ed] in some of their pro-Intel media to write ..  FUD piece...
Monday, October 07, 2013

AMD is smart to let vendors design their own machines

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People are usually more emotionally attached to their biological children than adopted kids. AMD is fathering a lot of brain children, XBo...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Intel Bay Trail has weak visual performance

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Even Anand can't deny the numbers. BTW, I predict that AMD will enter mobile markets with its own 64-bit ARM based APUs. Phones...
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Friday, September 06, 2013

AMD's ARM based Opteron will hurt Intel real bad

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The main thing Intel uses to hold the industry back is the x86 instruction set. AMD's ARM based Opteron will have no competition, unle...
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Sunday, June 02, 2013

Intel Haswell Peformance -- LOL Anand is such an Intel pumper boy

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Anand at AnandTech.com just published a review of Intel's Haswell CPUs . He started by worshiping Intel Haswell with words like "th...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

Refuting Arnold Frisch's Article at SeekingAlpha

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The arrogant tone in Mr. Frisch's article is typical of Intel. But face the reality. In the past decade, Intel has become a simple co...
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Friday, May 03, 2013

AMD APU for Apple --

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In the past decade, every time AMD innovated, Intel copycatted  AMD's innovation, while suppressing AMD's market expansion with its ...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

AMD may bring the end to x86

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AMD's ARM based Opteron will cause a major plate tectonic shift in computing. AMD is enslaved by the x86 instruction set controlled by...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

AMD Trinity Beats Intel i7 in Compute Performance

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We know that Trinity destroys Intel i7 in 3D visual performance. If you look closer, Trinity is faster than Intel in many other areas. Check...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Rory Read can think outside the box

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Finally, AMD found someone who can do it .
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Trinity Destroys Intel i7-3920XM Extreme Edition

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AMD's Trinity is 48% faster than Intel's Ivy Bridge Extreme i7-3920XM Intel i7-3920XM specs : Essentials Status Launched ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

AMD Trinity Battery Life 44% Longer than Intel Ivy Bridge

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According to AnandTech. Also, the Trinity has 31.4% longer battery life than Ivy Bridge.
Monday, May 14, 2012

AMD says Intel Ivy Bridge having trouble doing 1080p

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http://www.slashgear.com/amd-trinity-official-hands-on-14228174/ AMD’s head of desktop and software product marketing Sasa Marinkovic: ...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Intel CEO Sounds Very Irritated At Apple

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hmm.... why?
Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Review: Intel CPU plays HD better than a slideshow

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Very interesting review here: http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/2700/18/cpu-shoot-out-intel-atom-d2700-vs-amd-e-450-video-compatibility As e...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Intel Ivy Bridge Fragged by Old AMD A8 3870K

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The old LLano 3870K frags Intel Ivy Bridge i7 3770K by a healthy 40% in 3DMark 2011. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/2171317/i...
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Monday, April 16, 2012

SeaMicro Fabric + MIPS64 Low Power Core?

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That combination seems to be a good one. Current x64 CPUs are still much more power hungry than the simple RISC chips.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

GF Yields Doubled for AMD

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AMD and GlobalFoundries made a major announcement today. AMD's Roy Read commended GF for "doubling of yields on 32nm". AMD wi...
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Thursday, March 08, 2012

Intel's Sour Grapes Untruth Exposed

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In the past few days, we heard Intel execs saying that SeaMicro begged for Intel's acquisition, and Intel was unimpressed. The press, al...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2012

The World's First 4GHz x64 CPU Now Available

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4.2GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819106009&Tpk=fx-4170
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