tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183755382012-02-01T17:16:39.190-08:00Analysis 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.Sharikou, Ph. D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07422357045179489584noreply@blogger.comBlogger9061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375538.post-33782175694682821932012-01-29T23:02:00.000-08:002012-01-30T10:58:02.267-08:00

I was at a friend's home, and he proudly showed me his Core i7 machine equipped with dual graphics card. He played BF3, with pretty high settings.However, every 5 minutes or so, the screen froze for a few seconds, sometimes right in the battle. In one scene, the friend entered a train, facing some enemy dude with a knife. The friend was about to pull the trigger... Suddenly the screen froze,

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AMD released its earnings yesterday.INtel 4Q2011 PC revenue was sequentially down 5% from 3Q2011. The Thailand flood is said to cause some hard drive supply constraints.AMD's 4Q2011 computing solutions revenue was up 5% from 3Q2011. However, AMD's GPU business was down somewhat. Overall, AMD achieved slight revenue growth from 3Q2011 to 4Q2011.INTC stock trends down today, while AMD is up.

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Interesting tests reported by http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1838/1/ . Users play similarly configured AMD and Intel systems and choose their favored PC.136 choose AMD A8-3850, only 5 prefer Core i3-2105..Intel does better with its Core i7-2700K. 40 users pick the Intel system, while 73 choose AMD FX-8150.Personally, I have a FX-8150 system. Eight cores do more, and you got 2x bragging

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At today's price, AMD's market cap is $4.3 billion. Intel's market cap stands at $130 billion. AMD's market cap is only 4.3/130 = 3.3% of Intel's.With AMD's innovation and lead in computing technologies, it should worth at least 10 times more.Intel is becoming increasingly irrelevant in the visual age. It focuses its energy on single threaded linear programming performance. But the world has

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Trinity power: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsmTDb-MlwsAMD says DX11 2.0 is hard, very hard.That's why Intel had to fake it. See the infamous video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otcge1cn8Os tick tsk tick tsk ....I guess it would be Apple's loss if they don't use AMD APUs in MacBooks.Intel is mostly obsolete. Only the old and uninformed stick to Intel. The rest will use AMD's 8-core

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Charlie caught Intel folks pants down trying to fake a modern GPU with VLC+IV Bridge.DX11 is just too hard for Intel .Even Anand and his Intel fobois are embarrassed watching Intel's top exec trying to fake turning the wheel resulting a mismatch of his moves and the video play.

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Cray has four lines of computers, the XK6, XE6, XMT and the CX1000. The XK6, XE6 and XMT are giant machines with > 100,000 AMD Opteron CPUs. The CX1000 is just a small box for mom and pop shops.Intel technology seems to be not only ill suited for enterprise computing, but also not tested for supercomputing.The lesser educated may beg to differ. They say like AMD, Intel has four machines in

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If you are satisfied with VGA gaming, then the Intel platform is sometimes also playable, as Anand often reminds you.Now, when I try to donate my old VGA monitors, no charity wants them. How embarrassing.It seems even the Occupy Wall Street folks are doing 1080p these days.At that HD resolution, You go Sandy Bridge, you are fragged by the 400 stream processors of Llano.Watch the following video

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It is well understood that AMD Bulldozer is designed for the enterprise. Its 16-cores are like the big guns of the battleship which (unlike the single shot Remington rifle) deliver a heavy payload. Indeed, when it comes to mission critical enterprise applications, the Bulldozer simply destroys Intel Xeon. We are not talking about the Cinebench and SuperPI that AnandTech is good at, but TPC-C,

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Some readers complain that I was quoting AMD's press release on Bulldozer Opteron's towering performance numbers. Now, the numbers have been validated and published on Spec.org. Let's have a look at the highest scores for the Bulldozer.In SpecFp2006_rate, a 2P Bulldozer Opteron server achieves a score of 403. Simply put, there is no 2P Xeon can match this score.In SpecInt2006_rate, a 2P Bulldozer

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-AMD-Opteron-TM-Processors-iw-4190901655.html?x=0&l=12x AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6282 SE (2.6GHz): SPECint®_rate score= 526.2 x Intel Xeon processors Model X5690 (3.46GHz, 130watt) : SPECint®_rate score = 421.Not surprisingly, the Bulldozer Opteron destroys Intel Xeon in other enterprise benchmarks, in some cases, 89% faster than the popular Xeons.

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In PCMark 7 Professional Edition, AMD's Bulldozer FX 810 clearly beats Intel i7-2700K.See http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1751/9/

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Richbo10/18/2011 8:54:21 AMTech Level: Ownership: Verified Owner The future of HPC Pros: Amazing price to performance for HPC applications. Multithreading capabilities. Abundant overclocking capabilities. Significantly outperforms basic dual slot CPU workstations. Cons: Most AM3+ motherboards currently on the market will require a BIOS update to

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All 8-core AMD FX chips have been sold out. See http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007671%20600213783&IsNodeId=1&name=ZambeziGiven the choice between i7 2600k and the AMD FX 8-core processor, many have no hesitation to choose the 8 core chip. Eight is 2x of four. Simple math.It is glorious to have eight cores.A FX 8150 user noted that the FX is faster than i7, and I

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As shown in this review, the AMD FX 8150 is 20% faster than Intel i7 980X in the CPU Hash benchmark. As the benchmark page explains:This test measures CPU performance using the SHA1 hashing algorithm defined in the Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 180-3. The code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly, and it is optimized for every popular AMD, Intel and VIA

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Why people are spending precious $ on slow CPUs such as Atom which can’t even do 720p? They are fast enough for typical word processing jobs. I bought a 1GHz C50 APU powered netbook and installed virtual machines on it. It served me well on a trip. I even did some development work on it. It is not very fast, but fast enough. For my regular desktop, the CPU is a Phenom II X4 at 3.4GHz. The CPU

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Real tests show that the FX 8150 is actually about 20% faster than i7 2600k.Using the Cineform Neoscene professional transcoder, the AMD FX8510 took 692 seconds to encode a 30GB AVCHD video, Intel i7 2600k took 867 seconds. AMD FX 8150 is 25.2% faster.Using the Cinema 4D (11) render, the AMD FX 8150 is 19.8% faster than i7 2600k.Check the benchmarks here (http://quinetiam.com/?p=2356).

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There are a lot of negative sentiment about the AMD FX CPU. Many of us expected a wonder weapon that destroys everything Intel. It didn't happen.Now, if you look at the benchmarks, the FX did score some points against the core i7 2600k. So, the results are software-compiler dependent.It will be interesting see some Linux+GCC benchmark results.

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I am running VirtualBox on the Acer Aspire 722 netbook to host some VMs, and am surprised to find that the tiny Ontario APU actually supports not only 64 bit but also AMD-V!! This allows my Windows VM to run in dual core mode.I think the APU supports nested paging also.This is great.In comparison, Intel's stuff is a crap. A Intel based notebook I bought last year has some important

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There is one small detail people may have missed during AMD's earnings call. AMD will say bye to SOI. According to interim CEO Thomas Seifert: "At the 28-nanometer node, all of our products will be based on bulk process technology, providing increased flexibility to work across these 2 committed and valued partner."What does it mean? It seems TSMC will be able to FAB more of AMD's CPU parts which

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AMD is very very bullish about its future. Six millions Brazos sold in 2Q11. Half of AMD CPUs in 3Q will be Fusion. Bulldozer will be out next month (August). AMD is working on a tablet CPU based on Trinity. Fusion is the future.Investors can't trust any outsider to run this great technology company.It was an insult to everyone to even approach Pat Gelsinger, an old Intel guy who left Intel

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This is truly shocking. A student was banned by two professors from classes because his $1099 Intel Core i7 notebook overheats and makes a lot of noise. It seems that Intel's 32nm has fusion technology too -- thermally.http://reviews.bestbuy.com/3545/2821755/hp-pavilion-laptop-intel-core-i7-processor-17-3-display-steel-gray-reviews/reviews.htmSee also, Core i7 MacBook Pro 2011 overheats to the

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The APUs are amazing pieces of technology. I just bought an Acer Aspire 722 Netbook with a C50 APU (1GHz dual core). Without GPU acceleration on VLC, 720p video is fine, but 1080p stutters. But with GPU acceleration enabled, 1080p is super smooth, and the CPU usage dropped to around 30%.Now you naysayers may not know what 1080p is, but just remember this simple fact: no Intel netbook can

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DX11 Vision APU compute for the People of America.Intel simply does not have the know-how.

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Read it here. The 3.2GHz Bulldozer leads Sandy Bridge by about 36%.http://www.fudzilla.com/processors/item/23381-bulldozer-performance-figures-are-in

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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/pc-components/3289363/amd-a8-3850-apu-review/AMD LLANO APU 39x faster than Intel in graphics.LLANO APU supports modern DX11, Intel does not.LLANO APU supports 3D video, Intel does not.LLANO APU supports OpenCL acceleration via GPU, Intel does not.LLANO APU runs 1080p video at 66 watts, Intel needs 72 watts.Intel is obsolete.

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The following table from http://techreport.com/articles.x/21099 tells an interesting story:Code nameKeyproductsCoresThreadsLast-levelcache sizeProcess node(Nanometers)Estimatedtransistors(Millions)Diearea(mm²)PenrynCore 2 Duo226 MB45410107BloomfieldCore i7488 MB45731263LynnfieldCore i5, i7488 MB45774296WestmereCore i3, i5244 MB3238381GulftownCore i7-980X61212 MB321168248Sandy BridgeCore i5, i7488

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Wow. only $141 for the Quad core APU with 400 shaders.

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AMD and Nvidia both quit BAPCo, which was the SYSMark benchmark organization headquartered within an Intel building.AMD's reason for quitting is simple: the benchmark is rigged, and AMD does not have enough say to correct it, so just let BAPCo play its game by itself.For instance, AMD points out, SysMark uses outdated applications, and distorts scoring. On a 35000 line spreadsheet, a $155 AMD CPU

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Intel knows that it has no future. In the past 9 years, Intel made no innovation and copied AMD on every step. Intel copied AMD64--the 64 bit extension to x86, even though it tried to deny it for years. Intel copied multi-core from AMD. They copied embedded memory controller from AMD, and finally the cache coherent hypertransport from AMD, which Intel calls Quick Path. Intel even followed

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No DX11http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a8-3500m-llano-apu,2959-8.html

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Wow, this is some technology Intel wants to copy.

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Benchmarks show that AMD's notebook Llano chips frag Intel's i7-2600K into pieces. The score was 3300 to 2124 in AMD's favor.If you compare the Llano to Intel's i5-2500, the green team is more than 2x faster.

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The future is Vision technology. Few cared about E350's Bobcat CPU, the selling point is its GPGPU which has 5x more compute power than the CPU.The Llano Fusion products will have 20x of the compute power of the top end Intel CPU. Llano has 400 stream processors. It can encode videos 20x faster than Intel. It is called massively parallel personal computing.It seems Intel missed the boat again

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According to information leaked by Gigabyte, AMD's Bulldozer will frag Intel's fastest processors. On SuperPI 1M, the 2.8GHz Bulldozer takes 7.8 sec, SuperPI 32M, Bulldozer finishes in 7min 22 sec (or 442 sec).The running times for Intel CPUs can be found here. Intel's fastest CPU takes 563.408 seconds for SuperPI 32M.In other words, the Bulldozer is 27% faster than Intel's fastest on the SuperPI

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AMD Fusion is the killer. Intel's Sandy Bridge, even when it resumes shipping in April, will not be enough to extract Intel from the inevitable decline and fall.The problem with SB is that its graphics is low end, which makes the whole chip low end. If one wants a high end Intel based PC, he or she will still need to buy a separate discrete AMD GPU (or Nvidia). That's what I observed in the

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Live for Speed, Crysis, 1080p video using VLC...The AMD C50 APU is cool. Moreover, it's a true 64 bit chip that can use 4GB of memory (Atom N550 is limited to 2GB).

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Over the past decade, Intel did nothing but try to imitate AMD. Several years ago, AMD had the bright idea of Fusion -- combing the CPU and GPGPU to create an APU. To do that, AMD acquired ATI at great cost. Not to be left in the dust, Intel's engineers struggled hard, they spent more sleepless nights digesting the voluminous AMD PDF files, some thousand pages long, laden with cryptic

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AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350 (1.6GHz, 1MB L2 Cache)+AMD Radeon(TM) HD 6310M Discrete-Class Graphics • Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit• AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350 (1.6GHz, 1MB L2 Cache)+AMD Radeon(TM) HD 6310M Discrete-Class Graphics• FREE Upgrade to 3GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)• FREE Upgrade to 320GB 7200RPM Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection• No

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See for yourself. Why do you want to spend $$$ for the crappy GPU incapable of DX11?http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i5-2600k-i5-2500k-and-core-i3-2100-tested/11

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Intel hyped Sandy Bridge a lot. People were expecting massive performance gains. Now, they are disappointed. It seems the performance gain Intel promised depended on the GPU part, which is ancient DX10 technology which nobody cares. The following benchmark from BenchmarkReviews.com shows that Sandy Bridge is even slower than Phenom II X4 840 in some situations.

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Received the $99 Walgreens Android Tablet today. It's the Maylong M150. After playing it for a while, I was shocked to find out it is running Android 1.6 and ZDNet people had already made a death sentence for it. You can't even access Android Market from this thing they say. And it was true. I packed it up and ready to return it to Walgreens store. But then, I thought, maybe some guy has figured

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Look at the objective scores. Don't believe Anand who receives money from Intel. AMD's tiny Fusion chip is 3x of Atom in speed measurements. The Zacate E-350 attained a score of 3298 in PCMark vantage, close to Cored 2 Duo P8700's score of 4526. The Atom N270 only gets a score of 1272.

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Ontario is being pulled in. Soon, you can play Crysis on good netbooks.

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A 2P-24 core Dell PowerEdge R815 2U server with 2x Opteron 6176SE (2.3GHz) achieved a SpecInt_rate2006 score of 401. The 4P-48 core 2.2GHz cousin achieved a Spectint_rate2006 grade of 771.Both machines are substantially faster than similarly equipped Intel boxes.

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AMD claimed that its 12-core CPU offers 88% increase on Specint_rate2006 and 119% on Specfp_rate2006. This comparison was made between the 2.2GHz Opteron 6174 (80w) and the Opteron 2435.The 2435 had Specint_rate2006 score of 205, and Specfp_rate2006 score of 143. This means the 6174 achieves integer score of 385 and fp score of 313. This is substantially faster than Intel's fastest Nahelem Xeon

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HP listed the DL385 G7 servers with 2x Opteron 6100 series processors, each containing 12 cores. This makes the DL385 a 24-core monster, with 256GB of RAM. The Intel based DL380 G6 only has 2x4 cores, and is limited to 192GB RAM.It is also interesting to note that the 24-core Opteron box needs only a 460 watt power supply, while the Intel based DL380 G6 needs a 750 watt power supply for 2.53GHz

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Shocking. An Italian judge sentenced Google executives David Drummond, Peter Fleischer, and George Reyes to six months of jail, because Google failed to censor some offensive kid beating video soon enough.I thought these convicted felons were Google's people in Italy.Not true. I just realized that David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, is in the U.S, blogging happily about Google's

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182 million Microcomputers (PCes) produced. Also, 41 billion IC chips, 13.79 million motor vehicles (including 7.485 million cars), 67.65 million LCD TVs, 568 million tons of steel...Total grain output is 530.82 million tons, or 815 pounds of grain per Chinese. That's too much rice to eat.In terms of housing, 3.2 billion m^2 is under construction. A lot of growth potential there.In terms of

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China's Xinhua News criticizes Google's U.S. security and political connections. It points out that "Four of the [Google]'s former executives including Sumit Agarwal, who ... is currently deputy assistant secretary of defense, are now serving the US government."The Xinhua News also points out Google's connection with the U.S. military, that Google masked out U.S. military bases on Google maps,

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The People's Liberation Army tells the story of how they achieved PetaFlop with Opteron and Radeon. The difficulty lies in fully exploiting the potential of the GPU. Initially, they could only get 20% of the performance of the GPUs. After months of work, they attained 70% of the FP power of the GPUs.

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I can't believe this. Bought a Athlon II X3 440 (3GHz Triple Core) and MSI 785G E45 motherboard for less than $100. The motherboard has the built in core unlock feature. Just change the bios setting, and now I have a quad core CPU running at 3GHz, and I haven't overclock this thing yet. The inexpensive yet feature laiden MSI board has a ton of features to overclock the beast.Only idiots will buy

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GLOBALGOUNDRIES says it will start cranking out 32nm SOI chips in 3Q10. As we know, it has one customer for that technology--AMD.This is no less shocking than the news that the Chinese shot down an ICBM.

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Even the diehard Intel supporter Anand sees that Intel's chips are not that good under Windows 7. The Core i5 661 3.33 GHz ($196) is substantially slower than Athlon II X3 435 ($100) at 2.9GHz in x264 encoding. BTW, it's just a total waste of silicon for Intel to glue those non-competitive integrated graphics with the 32nm CPUs -- people still need to buy a separate graphics card for some 3D fun.

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Intel received another drop of bomb in its legal front yard. Now, it's the United States of America versus Intel Corporation. The Intel-AMD settlement was a sweet deal for both AMD and Intel. AMD got some money and the freedom to have10 Fabs built with Arabian gold. Intel saves $16 billion in treble damages. Time is more important for AMD.Now. the FTC took the charge against the mighty Intel.

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See here.Intel didn’t specify this bug until September when it was mentioned in its specification updates under AAK119 (Xeon 5500), AAM123 (Xeon 3500), AAO89 (Xeon 3400), AAJ121 (Core i7-900) and AAN87 (Core i7-800, Core i5). ... Microsoft now describes the disaster under error number 975 530, provides a hotfix (on e-mail request) that is not further specified and otherwise proposes the

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Well, those who wanted to see some dirty stuff are disappointed. Intel and AMD signed a settlement agreement.One thing in the agreement is that Intel will not dope benchmarks:"Intel shall not include any Artificial Performance Impairment in any Intel product or require any Third Party to include an Artificial Performance Impairment in the Third Party’s product.As used in this Section 2.3, “

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The small 320GB hard drive in my desktop is getting filled, so I bought a bunch of 1TB external ones. But a small internal drive is always a limitation. So I decided to do some upgrade. And I found the simplest and probably the cheapest upgrade is to get a whole a new PC powered by AMD technologist and Windows 7.I was buying a Windows 7 Notebook (a beautiful Gateway machine powered by AMD Turion

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Fun stuff to read. Like a Mafia story. Now, read my analysis back in 2005.On December 6, 2004, Intel’s Otellini emailed Intel’s Dell account representative about his concern that Dell would defect to AMD: “I had the analysts dinner tonight. One of the analysts … said he talked with Kevin [Rollins] today and Kevin told him it was ‘inevitable’ that Dell would use Opteron…” The next day, the Intel

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Interesting stuff to read. Four companies formed a secret alliance to escape the death claw of Intel.In a presentation of 10 January 2003 on Dell rebates, [Intel Executive] outlined alist of objectives to be achieved by Intel in a high-level executive meeting withDell. This includes the following objective: "Get [Dell Senior Executive]/OOC [abbreviation used by Dell meaning Office Of the Chair

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Most Americans cannot read and comprehend. But the news is AMD is profitable now.The idiot who wrote this can't understand plain English.http://seekingalpha.com/article/167233-amd-q3-results-approach-breakevenHe says: "Revenue of $1.39 billion was up 17.9% sequentially and down 21.4% year over year, better than management’s expectations of a slight sequential increase. However, excluding the $191

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Investigation shows Intel cheated in benchmarks and the cheating boosted is benchmark numbers by up to 46%. In the duped benchmark test, Intel is ahead of AMD by 40%. Yet, in real world test, AMD is 200% of Intel.

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According to this report, EC has published some internal Intel emails, with some juicy details. In response, Intel accuses the European Commission of mischaracterizing the documents.

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Amazing, Intel followed AMD on technologies: AMD64, Direct Connect, HyperTransport, IMC, NX Bit, Multi-Core, L3 Cache, Performance/Watt, Spinning off flash business... Now it follows AMD to restructure it business units, closely mirroring AMD's effort.The only thing Intel can't copy is AMD "Asset Smart". Intel does not do SOI, and its FABs are not attractive to GLOBALFOUNDRIES.

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So, I bought a DELL Mini 10, with stuff like GPS built-in. Why? I had this $200 DELL gift certificate, and I had to spend it.I have to say the Mini 10 was good for the price after the $200 off. Otherwise, it is far better to buy the Gateway 11.1 inch AMD netbook with a 1.2GHZ Athlon 64 CPU.The DELL mini 10 is good enough for surfing the web and play minesweeper, the battery life is OK. But one

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Abu Dhabi's ATIC are on a shopping spree to buy FABs. It has now acquired the nine FABs of Chartered and is looking for more. With the mega FABs in Dresden and New York, ATIC/GLOBALFOUNDRIES are in a roll to world FAB domination.This is smart. The dollar still worth something. And Abu Dhabi has plenty of the paper. Before the dollar bills turn into germ infested garbage worth less than pieces of

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Note this from Fudzilla, apparently, this is AMD's 45nm mobile CPUs with K10.5 technology. I almost regret that I bought this red notebook that makes ladies turn their heads. Hopefully, AMD will sell boxed CPUs, so I can do a quick and dirty replacement with the 45nm chip.Since AMD can do 6 cores in 40watts, we can expect these CPUs to do 7 watts single core. That's will be 4x the speed of Intel

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European Union ombudsman P. Nikiforos Diamandouros accused EC for mishandling the guilty verdict against Intel. His reason? A Dell person said AMD processor performance was "poor."The dude is either a moron or has been bought by Intel. Of course Dell and Intel will say AMD chips are bad. But why has Intel copied every piece of AMD technology and forced its customers not to buy AMD?

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My old desktop was running a Phenom X3 8450 triple core processor. The clock speed was 2.1Ghz. It was blazingly faster for running Windows XP and Windows 7.But two days ago, I noticed this Athlon II X2 245 processor running at 2.9Ghz for $66 with free shipping. As those who are educated know, this is a 45nm chip built on the K10.5 Shanghai technology. Since the total Ghz is 2x2.9 = 5.8 Ghz,

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The Intel Pentium Su2700 CPU is a single core, 1.3GHZ core speed, 800MHZ ancient FSB CPU made on 45nm. The SU2700's heat generation is 10 watts. The AMD 200U CPU is 1GHZ with 1.6GHZ HyperTransport made on 65nm SOI, its heat production is 8 watts.Moreover, the AMD CPU uses direct connect, the memory controller is built in. The Intel one needs a separate chipset, and usually that is another 10

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I am interested in getting something like a netbook, small and cheap. But all those Intel Atom CPUs are so toyish, they will invite laughs from educated people. In this age of 64 bit computing, the 32 bit Atom CPU is rather primitive. Coupled with low screen resolution, they look like those toy notebooks for kids to learn the alphabet.Then I found this Gateway LT3114u for just $100 more. It has a

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In a recent Wired article titled "Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street", a Chinese mathematician Dr. David Li was blamed for the collapse of U.S. financial market. Now, another Chinese scholar tells you why you the small fish are screwed."We think that the GOOGLE stock may have been illegally controlled by WallStreet firms. We show that large financial institutions use small

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It is called Many-Cores: 96 cores for a 8P configuration. Meanwhile, a Chinese firm showed a mobile phone running Windows XP on AMD's super mobile processor.

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Read this, Fred Pollack is touting Intel's skill in copying AMD.He failed to mention that Intel copied everything from AMD. Basically, Intel illegally bought off OEMs, locked them into Intel, and bought 8 years of time to copy AMD64+Direct Connect, which Intel named EM64T and QuickPath.It literally took Intel engineers 8 years to digest AMD's PDFs and patents, and came out with knockoffs of AMD

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Nice, very nice score of 402. It is very nice that AMD was able to keep the 2.6Ghz six-core Istanbul at 75 watts. In comparison, Intel's 2.93Ghz Core i7 is a 130 watt beast that can fry eggs for your breakfast.

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AMD's GlobalFoundries subsidiary is ready for 28nm GPUs.With Dirk Meyer as CEO, AMD's cranking out products like there is no tomorrow.

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I was surprised to find that U.S. government borrowed $770 billion from China. In comparison, all the oil exporters (Saudi, UAE, etc) only lent $213 billion to the US. So, when US is deploying those nuke subs and F22s around China, it is actually using Chinese money. Who owes money is the boss. What a scheme!There is an explosion of Ponzi scheme cases like this one. The victims are usually

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Despite the Intel's dirty acts revealed by the EU, the Korean FTC and the Japanese, Jim Goldman of CNBC jumps for the defense of the big Intel money pile. Can this man tell the difference between right and wrong, honor and dishonor, competition and anti-competition?"Oh really? Not one of those millions of harmed consumers brought an action against Intel." Goldman wrote.My suggestion to Mr.

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The EU finds Intel guiltyConditional rebates and payments Intel awarded major computer manufacturers rebates on condition that they purchased all or almost all of their supplies, at least in certain defined segments, from Intel: Intel gave rebates to computer manufacturer A from December 2002 to December 2005 conditional on this manufacturer purchasing exclusively Intel CPUsIntel gave rebates to

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Intelers are quiet these days, they know uncle Obama is not going to give them favors. Reliable sources say.This is the statement of an e-mail in full - even though the source was anonymous, we have to state that this opinion is opinion of the source alone and not the comment of US Department of Justice:"Hi Theo,We are not actively investigating the x86 cross-license agreement between the two

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The KFTC held a full-member committee on June 4, 2008 and decided to impose a corrective order and surcharges against abusing market dominance by 「Intel Corporation, Intel Semi-conductor and Intel Korea (Hereinafter referred to as “Intel”). To eliminate AMD, a rival company, from the CPU market using its dominant market power, Intel provided rebates to Samsung Electronics and Sambo Computer

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George Ou is known to be a bit mental, as he likes to accuse people of fraud with his semi-retarded and illogical stuff. He was again caught making false analysis.An AMD guy wrote:What's interesting is that those benchmark results are based on Intel systems configured with 24 GB of memory for the SPECcpu results and 96GB for the SPECweb result. Yet, when George does his price comparison later in

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Dirk Meyer pwns Intel, whose Nahelem chip will get smothered before it could take a healthy breath out of the bushes of old double-cheeseburger designs. Intel customers had to switch boards, memory, cables and re-install the OS. AMD's six shooter is plug n play. Take an existing socket F Opteron server, you can swap in the 6-core Istanbul, and there you go. The 12-core version had been sampled

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This Shanghai Quad Core Opteron server from HP scores 1,181,782. The best Intel Nahelem based Xeon X5570 scores about 542,793, less than 50% of AMD.Core i7 has shown some good IPC numbers, but it is no big iron like Opteron, which scales to 8P 32 core. This again shows that Intel is a desktop company which only knows how to do 2P, while AMD's Opteron is a server chip designed by server

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AMD's general counsel sees the true picture, Intel wants AMD dead. Hitler did not like jews as competitors, so he went on his way. Intel has been trying to do the same.I have analysed that long time ago.Intel's claim that GlobalFoundries is not an AMD subsidiary as defined in the AMD-Intel cross-licensing agreement. Of course, AMD is saying it met the definition: originally >50%, 50% control, and

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According to this SEC filing, Intel has materially breached the Intel-AMD cross-licensing agreement, "which gives the Company [AMD] the right to terminate Intel’s rights and licenses under the Cross License Agreement while retaining the Company’s rights and licenses under the Cross License Agreement."If this is true, then Intel is in trouble. With the x86_64, HyperTransport clone, IMC, Direct

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Original source is here."In the beginning of January 2001, the defendants suggested a total $800 million rebateproposal to Samsung on the condition of abandoning the AMD CPUs-installed PCmodels named 'Airfox' and 'Leo'(defendants described it as "AMD Drop"2), withconcerns such as an erosion of domestic market share, a difficulty of accomplishing100% Intel CPU MSS, an increase of AMD’s brand

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I predicted long time ago that Intel will always follow AMD. Now it is doing it again. AMD has successfully carried out the asset smart strategy, basically unloading CPU fabrication to another firm. Now, the news is that Intel is following suit. It has shutdown numerous FABs and signed up TSMC for Intel CPU manufacturing.I predict some day Intel may even use GlobalFoundries for its next

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Unlike Intel three-dual-core 220 watt monsters, AMD's are real six-core chips with HT3 consuming 95 watts. Intel will play copycat for the next 20 years...My guess is that the HT3 cache coherence technology may indeed carry some hidden tricks, maybe something borrowed from the Horus chipset.

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One of Intel's new Core i7-965 processors can run Crysis at an average of 7.4 FPS at 800x600 with the detail level turned down. In the same test, Microsoft says Intel's DX10-capable integrated graphics hardware managed just 5.2 FPS.From 5.2 FPS to 7.4 FPS, 40% jump for Intel.The $30 GeForce 8400 GS scores 33.9 FPS.

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An employee of a tech firm allegedly killed three colleagues.

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Intel's chips are only "Windows XP Capable", yet Intel begged Bill Gates for Windows Vista labels. Class action suit uncovers internal Intel-Microsoft emails that show the secret dealings.

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Two $90 HD 4830s fragged Nvidia's $500 top dog, GTX 280. Jenhesung is furious right now.

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You all see those benchmarks where Nehalem is xx% faster than Phenom doing video encoding.Guess what? AMD is gonna frag Intel with a 17x performance hike with its GPU. Similarly, Nehalem is good at PhotoShop. But wait,  PhotoShop has a driver to use the hundreds of stream processor in AMD's GPUs. AMD should also work on doing PovRay and Cinebench on GPUs.Nehalem's meagre 4 cores are simply no

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It is common knowledge in the IT profession that AMD (16 core: 210) kills Intel (24 core: 155) in floating point (FP) performance. What is little unknown is that AMD slaughters Intel with Shanghai.A 2P 8 core 2.7GHz AMD Shanghai white box server scores 136 in SpecInt_rate 2006.In comparison, a 2P 8 core Intel Xeon 2.83GHz Dell PowerEdge 2950 scores 134.A 4p 16 core 2.7GHz AMD Shanghai white box

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