Remember, this includes $325 million from divesting GlobalFoundries which helps make this quarter look a lot better than it actually was. Still, they booked a profit which is good.
There are a couple of areas where Cell was sold:
1) Toshiba sold a couple of laptop models with Cell (called the SpursEngine) which utilized Cell for some custom media software.
2) Leadtek and Thomas-Canopus sold add in boards based on the Toshiba SpursEngine that were drop in accelerators...
Evidence? Just because there aren't any Westmere quad derivatives on the roadmap for LGA 1156 doesn't mean that there won't be future CPUs shipped on it either in the Westmere or Sandy Bridge varieties.
As ilkhan says, this is most likely a capacity issue, Intel is not killing support for...
...which would be useful advice if he was waiting until Q4 2010 or Q1 2011?
Besides, you have zero evidence of this assertion unless you have final 32nm silicon in your hands (which I somehow doubt).
Tigris is still not especially competitive with Intel and the market share numbers reflect this--AMD is having their asses handed to them in the laptop market (which incidentally is still growing in market size relative to desktops). Products like Arrandale are only going to increase the size...
Indeed, there are two problems with this that I see:
1) Current GPU compute resources are only useful for certain types of very select workloads, for most applications they are not going to be useful.
2) Software development optimizes for Intel not for AMD since they only have 13% of the...
Good news for AMD certainly as this will allow them to raise quite a bit of capital and pay off the worst of their debt (not all debt is created equal and some of their debt was baselined at a worse credit rating) not just because of the settlement but also because of the money they will raise...
Actually no, the best nVidia could hope for is to win the case, but what does that get them? The ability to make graphics chipsets for a system that MUST ship with integrated graphics by default? They already do that, it's called discreet graphics. In my opinion the only reason they are...
Indeed, and it's good for us enthusiasts too in many ways. I just built an Atom 330 system with a tiny SSD and 4x Gigabit ports in a package the size of a router and it's damn near silent. I use the system to run Untangle 7.x which handles all my home security appliance needs in a way totally...
But they still shut down their Nehalem chipset development now didn't they?
They are already in court over this very issue, avoiding being sued isn't the problem here.
Where are you getting this information? It is still a PowerVR derived core, but all the information I've seen suggests...
I think you are missing the point by a country mile on this. The cross licensing agreement between nVidia and Intel at the very least CAN be interpreted such that nVidia has the right to make i7 chipsets. So why did nVidia give up before there is a legal resolution on the matter? The answer...
This includes the sale of the written off ATI division that they sold to Broadcom. Still, the numbers are good and with the Abu Dhabi investment AMD is in no immediate danger of financial collapse.
Fine, so what exactly are you implying? What strategic benefit does nVidia get from buying Transmeta? They've already paid millions of dollars to license the Longrun/Longrun2 technology, so why buy what is purely an IP company if you already have access to IP?
And drop the reference to...
Indeed, this is a ridiculous assertion he is making. The whole point of the extra cache is to hide memory latencies and AMD already does a good job of that with the IMC. Intel doesn't see near that amount of IPC improvement with adding bigger caches and they have a much greater problem with...
Three problems here:
1) EPIC != VLIW.
EPIC is based on the design philosophy of instruction level parallelism like VLIW, but they are NOT identical.
2) Neither VLIW nor EPIC is an instruction set, they are a design philosophy like RISC. Technically the ISA on the Itanium line is...
What point exactly are you trying to make here? That making high performance CPUs is hard? I think everyone is well aware of that.
Those who are praising the virtues of Core 2 over K10 are doing so based on certain metrics including application performance in a wide variety of benchmarks...
Doesn't matter, this improved chipset = 200Mhz free is still just a rumor at BEST.
The proof is still in the pudding as they say. Regardless of the Phenom's architectural differences, it still can't provide the performance when overclocked of an overclocked Intel core, even when compared to...
You thought wrong.
ArsTechnica
Basically the 9950 consumes more than 100 watts more than the old Q6600 at load, which is comparable in performance and based on the old 65nm architecture. When you switch to the newer 45nm chips this gets even WORSE.
To top it off the Q6600 is...
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