Does Apple even sell 20m Macs annually?
If Apple were to use AMD it would likely test the water first with a single product - which would likely be just a way to get Intel to reduce their prices.
I think Nintendo have backed themselves into a corner and all they can do now is Wii2 - i.e Innovate, be different. The main issue with this is that it is very hard to do. It isn't easy to develop something every 5 years that can catch people's imagination.
Only if Nintendo orders them from Amazon!
Nvidia are probably get 130-150 GPU per wafer.
On 14/16nm that will double. (Once yields improve)
14nm wafers are costing between $9-12k.
So at most the cost to create a GPU(just the chip) is $46. Add in a margin for error and some profit and the...
It would need to be a custom chip and Nvidia and Nintendo already have one failed project together. I think they will stick with AMD.
And market it to whom? Porting old games onto a new machine is not a good way to attract customers. The devs wouldn't come back as nobody would buy the games...
I don't see Nintendo going x86 - it doesn't make much sense to me.
Third parties on Nintendo consoles are finished. They have struggled to attracted them over the past 20 years except for niche titles.
By going x86 they would be tying themselves to a company that is struggling to stay afloat...
How would using AMD tech help? AMD sold their mobile GPU to Qualcomm and their desktop GPU's don't scale down well enough to be competitive as a mobile GPU.
Samsung have used PowerVR as well as Mali. PowerVR is the the class of the field but Mali might have cheaper licensing costs, or a...
I assume the reasoning was that it is far easier to reach the app switching button than the tab switching button on the top of the browser - especially as phones are getting bigger with every release!
There is a reason that Intel, who have far more resources than AMD, don't make large architecture changes when they are changing nodes - it is because it reduces the chances of something going wrong.
AMD have a history of doing both ways-
AMD moved to 55nm with the 3870, which was a very...
Intel NEEDS to compete with ARM's low power products as they are eating into Intel's historical user-base. OTOH ARM, and it's partners don't need to compete with Intel 'Core' family as it's not a treat to their business model.
A7 is only 1/2 as fast as A15, for 1/3 of the power so what...
Better camera has little to do with ARM and it's also fairly amazing what smartphone camera's can do already given the limited space/cost that they are afforded.
As for better battery life, ARM has a bigger role to play there but the main improvements need to come from the screens and radio's...
That has much more to do with US prison system. The US has about 7 times as many people in prison than the average European country(relative to population)- mainly due to the revolving door system in Europe.
Maybe instead of wasting money on assault rifles you should start pooling your money...
And then the nut jobs will just find a different target, or target the school at a different time- you know when everyone is walking out as if in one massive firing line. What then? Get students to go 1 by 1 with armed guards at either side and snipers on the roof?
Easy access to high powered...
AMD aren't a true competitor to Intel and haven't been for a number of years. ARM, and it's partners, are what is pushing Intel to stay competitive.
AMD will be bought out, that is fairly clear and has been for a while now. There are a number of tech companies that could buy them with less...
Engadget Review
Review is probably a bit rushed but it's not pretty. Battery life is horrible and benchmarks are far slower than less specced phones.
Even at €349 Google can keep it. Tempted by the HTC 8X.
TheVerge
Another rushed review but they have less issues...
Story from Ireland.
Irishtimes
I guess it's something for Apple fans to look forward too in the iPhone6- maps that were as good as something that they already had on the iphone4....
Just a warning for anyone flying over Dublin, Ireland any time soon...
iOS maps have marked a 35 acre site in the middle of Dublin city as an airport because the name of the area is called AirField! Lets hope they have done a better job state side where some American Pilots have been given...
This will probably be about 4 years too late. I assume AMD are starting to get back to where they had planned to be when they started to envisage this line of CPU's back in ~2005. As already pointed out they are back tracking on some of the major changes they made as they just didn't work.
AMD set targets. PR were told those targets. JF-AMD passed on those targets. AMD missed the targets by a wide margin. Everyone shoots the messenger.
Hopefully John Fruehe will find a company with a product that is an easier sell than an AMD branded CPU!
One of the main arguments is that Samsung stole Apple's design which confused people into buying a Samsung instead of an iPhone however a large part of the confusion is just down to people's ignorance and the media's hype around the iPhone.
I was at a football game yesterday and the guy beside...
GF's 22nm? I wouldn't be surprised if the oil money behind them dried up before GF reach 22nm(I believe TSMC are going straight to 20nm). Even if they do reach it it's likely to be 2014/15 and it's highly questionable whether AMD will be around at that stage.
Mainly because it rolled out a lot faster, especially in the US. I don't think the 4.8 screen is a major plus. In fact I know a lot of people that would of bought one if the screen was smaller. Hopefully one of the rumoured Nexus range will come in 4.3-4.5 form factor which is where my money...
The market knows that AMD are finished. A company can't make as many mistakes as they have over the last 5 years and survive, if they do then there is something wrong with the market.
Mistakes over the last few years:
Getting out of the flash market just as it was starting to grow...
WP7 is far more polished than Android was when the G1 was released. The market for smartphones has also increased massively in that time.
It's hard to say why WP7 hasn't gained traction but it's fairly clear that nobody at Microsoft or Nokia are happy with how it is going. With the new HTC One...
WoW has turned based combat.... news to me! In fact one of the reasons I gave up on Oblivion after ~10 hours was because of it's insanely dull combat when compared to a game like WoW, which you clearly have never played. I am sure it would of improved given more time...
It's probably not difficult to produce them it's just that nobody else really has a use for them. Apple is taking a hit on the cost of the SoC to make sure they are a major force in the game industry going forward.
If Nvidia's benchmark's are showing that it's 10% faster then it's likely to be no faster than a 7970 and probably slower in a lot of cases. Remember that AMD's figures for the 7970 had it some ~40-50% faster than a GTX580 but most reviews have it at a lot less than that.
Is the GTX680 a GPGPU or has it been stripped of those parts to maximise it's GPU ability? That might explain how Nvidia have leap frogged AMD in performance per mm2 and performance per watt- although I suspect that NV are been a little more liberal with their TDP than AMD.
There is also the Nova A9600 from ST-Ericsson which seems to have slipped to 2013. It will be a dual core A15 with a series 6 PowerVR GPU- i.e much faster than the just released 543MP4.
There is no need to spin it- the iPhone is a massive success in all markets but people do love to twist stats. It's hardly a surprise that the iPhone is the top selling phone in nearly all markets in the quarter than it released it's annual update. It will also be no surprise that Android will...
Would you not consider the One S a premium device? The main difference between the S and X are the screen but you don't seem to want a screen larger than 4.3in anyway!
Google didn't have much choice. If they went with a Exynos SoC then everyone that isn't Samsung would be a 'little' annoyed as the lead platform for ICS would be a SoC that only Samsung seem(can?) to use. Tegra 3/S4 weren't ready so OMAP4 was the next best thing.
Take Apple's patent on clicking on a phone number- it's obvious. On non mobile OS's it didn't make sense to store a phone number- although one could argue that it would be nice be able to 'store' a number on your desktop browser and sync it with your phone or call that number on your phone...
I remember reading that at 40nm AMD looked at the projected leakage figures that TSMC were providing and came to the conclusion that they were overly optimistic so they designed around it.
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