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Apple v. Samsung Jury Decision.

They have strong case that a later version like stock ICS does not infringe on any of these patents, since the implementations have been altered for these patents (and other possible things that Apple could claim violation, such as slide to unlock). The jury foreman actually said in an interview...
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- Post #379
- Aug 30, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
Apple v. Samsung Jury Decision.

That might be the case. They have already worked around the 381 patent "content bounce on scrolls/pinch-zoom/rotate"; but have yet to work on the workarounds for the other two utility patents. So there will be more updates coming down the pipe in the next few months. These might change the...
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- Post #374
- Aug 29, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
Apple v. Samsung Jury Decision.

It doesn't seem that you are capable of following a logical argument. I was not the one that pointed to the 3GS and said that was the device that Samsung modeled theirs after. It was Apple legal that did that, you should take that question verbatum from above and email it to their legal...
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- Post #152
- Aug 25, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
Apple v. Samsung Jury Decision.

No, you don't; You are still replying as if I was talking about the real-world scenarios. The scenario that Apple LAWYERS constructed during their argumentation specifically stated that it took only a few months to copy, in their own timeline.
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- Post #147
- Aug 25, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
Apple v. Samsung Jury Decision.

Again, read my actual original comment. I'm not arguing that it is actually the case that they actually copied, or that Samsung case was exactly the same. But I'm simply applying their own logic, and the way they constructed their own timeline, in their own closing argument, to point out the...
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- Post #144
- Aug 25, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
Apple v. Samsung Jury Decision.

Perhaps u should read my earlier response. Im not saying that it is the case that they copied. I think it's rather unlikely. But in their own closing argument, they constructed a timeline, and pointed to the 3gs picture and said that samsung copied that. And the ealiest phones that they...
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- Post #131
- Aug 25, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
Apple v. Samsung Jury Decision.

Not at all, since in the comparison pictures that Apple legal team showed during the trial itself, the model of the iphone used was actually 3GS
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- Post #121
- Aug 25, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
Apple v. Samsung Jury Decision.

No they are not shown off "days apart", and read my other comment
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- Post #104
- Aug 25, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
Apple v. Samsung Jury Decision.

It was shown off in the fall of 2006, well before the announcement of the original iphone. Im not saying that we can determine any act of copying (I actually think its unlikely), but im just going by the Apple legal team's own line of reasoning in the closing argument in terms of a established...
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- Post #103
- Aug 25, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
Apple v. Samsung Jury Decision.

Samsung are as much thieves in copying Apple, as Apple is a bunch of thieves in copying the LG Prada.
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- Post #95
- Aug 24, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
Rumour: Bulldozer 50% Faster than Core i7 and Phenom II.

That is very true; The term "throughput" by itself means very little in terms of actual work (in the mathematical sense) gets done by a pipeline. Most importantly, you will need to specify the fractions of the major instruction formats/types in the machine code. Something like 35% ALU, 15%...
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- Post #2,369
- May 21, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Rumour: Bulldozer 50% Faster than Core i7 and Phenom II.

That will be highly dependent on the fraction of mem references within the instruction stream; so you will need to analyze specific compiled applications as well as know more specific details about the microarchitecture than what is available in the public domain right now.
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- Post #2,368
- May 21, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
So here it goes: possible beginning of the end for x86

All the system level code would run on the ARM cores, x86 would only be necessary for specific applications that are compiled in x86 binary. I don't think power consumption would be an issue, but yield and cost might be. So MCM or off package co-proc design would be another possibility, which...
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- Post #4
- Apr 27, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
So here it goes: possible beginning of the end for x86

A couple of decades from now, 2011 maybe remembered as one of the titanic shifts in the chip industry. Not only with the success of iPad, the meteoric rise of Android in mobile, the rise of a number of ARM manufacturers (which include nVidia), and MS porting their main client OS to ARM, but now...
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- Apr 27, 2011
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- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
EE Times: Eight Possible Candidates for AMD's Top Job

I really loved that quote:
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- Post #11
- Jan 16, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will Nvidia Project Denver Succeed?

Exactly; The poll is a very good idea, but I think we would be able to make more concrete predictions, if the "success" is defined in a per category of devices. In a few years, you will probably see some different degree of success in each of these following market segments that pertain to...
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- Post #7
- Jan 15, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

Yes they do, Dell does already have a Ubuntu line of computers, and yet they often do not deal with these issues. Most of these driver issues that we have been talking about are kernel level issues, which require them to make contributions to open source projects under GPL, most of which...
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- Post #70
- Jan 14, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

I don't know about xbox level of integration; but I think the ecosystem of hardwares would be considerably smaller, and easier for QC than a typical x86 ecosystem, at least for the initial couple of years.
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- Post #68
- Jan 14, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

For a couple of very simple reasons. Desktop Linux has never had a comprehensive strategy of capturing non-technical users until Ubuntu very recently (really since Lucid LTS, which I love, and run on my main work laptop), and has really never targeted average end users' home systems until...
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- Post #66
- Jan 14, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

10 years ago, what you said would definitely be true, but not any more. You have to think about this with a perspective of the typical user of a client system on the street or in the home. The type of applications and work load that people in tech fora like this are note representative of...
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- Post #63
- Jan 14, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

I think you are referring to some "just in case" design by Intel. I have heard some tid bits from people in the industry for/against that hypothesis, but it's not really my place to talk about these in the public. As much attention as the industry watchers have been following the Windows on...
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- Post #61
- Jan 13, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

Well, that might be possible. But to think of AMD's grand strategy of fusion, of intending to integrate a their own throughput SPMD design onto a heterogeneous platform, it will take much longer to do what they actually desire to do even with a stock ARM design. They need to forge a way...
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- Post #60
- Jan 13, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

Yes, you make some very good points. Another way of looking at this is: There are the three most important component suppliers for the Personal Computer (I'm talking all x86 compatible PC and Macs), Intel, AMD, and NV. All of them have been threatened by low power ISA designs since circa...
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- Post #56
- Jan 13, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

That is very true; but it does not solve their underlying problem in terms of the architectural design that they have been shooting for. And that's not anything that you can change outside a 3-5 year development cycle. Bobcat is a technically very sound chip, in just about every way. The...
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- Post #54
- Jan 13, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

NV has really played their cards right in the last 3-4 years. Now provided that they can compete with some of the more established entities like Samsung, TI, Marvell, Qualcomm, etc, they will be in very good shape to take advantage of the trends in IT. I remembering some ridiculing their Tegra...
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- Post #45
- Jan 11, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
AMD's CEO Dirk Meyer to leave company - CONFIRMED!!!!

IDC, that's some very logical thinking there. As I said in the other thread yesterday: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=31055131#post31055131 ; I would probably give 80% chance of AMD ceasing to be an independent entity within 12 months. There are just too many obstacles for AMD...
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- Post #122
- Jan 11, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

2006 wasn't necessarily their first IC design experience; they've had considerable experience with cutom FPGA designs with embedded applications before then. I don't really know how many personelle would be working on their design team, but with ARM design source code for cortex, it won't take...
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- Post #42
- Jan 11, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

Yes, many things that could have been; some of which could have been bets that really paid off handsomely, and rid AMD of their dependence on x86 ecosystem. It's certainly not a cake walk; Nufront has been working on this since late 2004. Even a larger company with more resources would need...
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- Post #39
- Jan 11, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

SMT (hyperthreading) is already in Atoms, as is x86_64, so these will not be any kind of factor in the roadmap ahead. Intel does have substantial manufacturing advantage. But ironically, one of the reasons why the ARM ecosystem is in such a strong position in the next few years is the...
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- Post #36
- Jan 11, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

I think they could if given the financial resources; but probably won't be able to come out with a competitive design before the company either goes belly up or gets swallowed by some of the bigger players. I don't think it's likely that they will be able to compete with the likes of Samsung or...
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- Post #34
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Will AMD sign a new deal to build ARM chips?

The poll is probably too simple to make sense of the real situation. There is a better chance that AMD becomes sold than it designing ARM ICs themselves. By that I don't really any scarcasm: there is some realistic chance that they will produce an ARM ISA design some time in the future; but...
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- Post #31
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
CPU comparison, need your opinion

Yep, wrong thread indeed; Actually not sure how it happened.
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- Post #25
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
CPU comparison, need your opinion

Content actually belonged to a different thread
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- Post #23
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
AMD's CEO Dirk Meyer to leave company - CONFIRMED!!!!

That may be true; although Seifert is strictly a interim guy, so someone else will move into the position soon. From what I can gather, this could be the precursor of some rather drastic changes in the coming year. I mean in terms of what types of markets AMD is going to play in the future...
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- Post #88
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
AMD's CEO Dirk Meyer to leave company - CONFIRMED!!!!

No, that's not the case; I hope revisionist history doesn't take root here. Otellini took over when Merom development was already in full swing. All the microarchitectural designs were already finished; the design was quite mature as in past RTL verification and moving toward initial test...
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- Post #86
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Any good reviews of retail AMD Brazos products?

In that price range and size, mobile gaming is not going to be relevant for the products; at least not in the traditional types of PC games you are thinking about. I don't think anyone really sees them as any "gaming platform", certainly not AMD themselves. A brazos platform system might be...
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- Post #22
- Jan 8, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Any good reviews of retail AMD Brazos products?

These should transition into the new HKMG tech by the end of this year, being fabricated on 28nm HPL. So there shouldn't be any time spent on 32nm in between, according to the current plans. The microarchitecture is about as good as it gets in terms of the combination of TLP and clock cycle...
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- Post #17
- Jan 8, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Any good reviews of retail AMD Brazos products?

Sandy bridge competitor it is not, even on the low end; and no reasonable observer should have expected it to be. Then again, even K10.5 does not really adequately compete with S-B. But considering the die size, the system power envelope, the parallel throughput on openCL, and the fact...
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- Post #15
- Jan 8, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Any good reviews of retail AMD Brazos products?

Here's a decent review of one: http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/hp-pavilion-dm1.aspx#axzz1ARpP7bUF More should be on the way this Sunday, I hear.
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- Post #13
- Jan 8, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
What is AMD fusion?

AMD fusion is assymmetric CMP design, in terms of both execution resources and ISA. It takes various functions of a genereal purpose processer, and a parallel SPMD-encapsulated VLIW processor, and integrates them onto a single piece of IC with separate PLL domains. The communcations between...
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- Post #2
- Jan 5, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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