The economy isn't that bad. What's bad for the likes of AMD and Intel is the drop in corporate spending.
When the economy went bust all those firms stopped buying new stuff for a few months building up a demand. Then they realized things weren't that bad and they went shopping. That's why...
The management's the issue. When I read Read is hiring consultants that to me is the warning bell.
Management hires consults when they are out of ideas. And consultants are well.. if they are so great at running companies why the F aren't those guys doing it? Because they don't want to be...
Exactly. HMC is more like moving the PHY and controller out of the CPU or whatever ASIC that uses memory, multiplying it by a huge number and stacking it under the DRAM chip. What you get is a sudden jump in bandwidth by it's 3D nature allowing more parallelism. Also it's got a much better...
I hope some of these comments were jokes. That or there really needs to be an overhaul of the education system.
So many face palms. The orignal question to the suggestion that electrons spinning around inside atoms are another example of perpetual motion. LOL
You have a lot of ram in your desktop. There is more to usability than just CPU. It's likely your work laptop has less ram and a lot slower hard disk. In reality an i5 even the mobile chips can be bloody fast. Especially if one ditches windows and it tendency to slow over time.
For example I...
Do you guys go out and buy via processors in any large numbers? No. Why?
Read is saying "we can't afford to keep up with intel, so we will now try to sell you stuff that's slower cheaper and hope you guys buy in".
We just got a brazo laptop for someone as a gift and I have to say its pretty...
1) If leaks are to be believed intel has power head room to grow into for IB on 22nm. They'll lean on their process advantage you can bet your bottom dollar on that.
2) http://www.micron.com/innovations/hmc.html still a tech lab sort of deal right now, as everyone have talked about it but when...
That's TBD but it certainly was the big reason why Nvidia went balls to wall for ARM SoCs. As soon as they lost their x86 chipset business it was only a matter of time. Just as creative before them went from a major player in the computer market to maker of a niche product. They too can see the...
Because in the real world of limited resources not everyone buys a new computer every year. Each dollar you spend on something you don't necessarily need is a dollar you no longer have for something you might really need. So for a lot of people they might buy a high end card expecting to use it...
Exactly, and that's where the money is. Which is why nvidia while screwing up previous gen of their new top end didn't go belly up and die. Top end is a nice name spinner but just like Toyota survived for a long time without a really interesting sports car, nvidia as long as they pump out the...
You realize that most people don't want to pay for a full eyefinity rig right? You are talking a top of the line card plus 3 or more good monitors. OEMs, where AMD and Nvidia's bread and butter is, couldn't give a flying copulation to what can run eyefinity. People who buys eyefinity rigs are...
What I am saying is if Nvidia is in as dire straits as semiaccurate says Apple wouldn't pick them. Apple is difficult and as a result I don't expect them to pick a horse with a lame leg. It's likely they would have done due diligence on finding out what's exactly what at Nvidia and AMD before...
I am with IDC on this hiring thing.
They would have to pay through the nose, offer some sort of job guarantees to attract the good talent. Even then I don't know if many people would tie their career to a ship that's low in the water for a while now. New grads who can't get a job else where...
I think we should all wait and see.
I am more of the personal unsubstantiated opinion that the gcn chips are going to be similar to whatever nvidia puts out this gen. And it's likely that nvidia is keeping pace with amd on the new 28 nm chip.
Saying this because of the rumored apple switch...
I think we have to wait and see. I personally don't expect too much from GCN because it's a new architecture. Could be good or bad it really is a mystery until it gets reviewed. Frankly, I am more concerned about it under performing as GCN is AMD's answer to FEMI on the compute side. For pure...
June 2013 is eons away in computing. Too long to really speculate. I have noticed that mr bottleneck likes arm a lot. I think you need to step back and think clearly before you over think just how much impact they will really make.
First whom will be the arm vendors for notebooks? Nvidia is the...
I know the 'new' kids on the tech block is exciting. That's why sites like and exists, so people can get at the latest news and reviews. However, let's not overstate the strength of arm, where it will go, and amd's embrace of arm at the expense of x86.
Yes nvidia has arm but it's not making as...
If this actually work, and I think not. What's stopping intel from doing the same? And what's motivating Microsoft to support this quickly? Don't get me wrong I am not saying ms wouldn't support just they don't work fast. So even if you launch this it will take at least a year for it to work...
Common misconception but apple don't use nvidia's Optimus.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/13/nvidia_says_new_macbook_pro_graphics_switching_isnt_optimus.html
http://semiaccurate.com/2011/11/21/exclusive-apple-swaps-gpu-suppliers-again/
If it's true this suggest a few interesting things about the next gen GPUs from both vendors.
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There are ways for a successful company to compensate someone (stocks for example) without raising their base salary and causing an imbalance. Yes maybe people will find out about it but if it's a one time grant for doing things well it's not going to make sensible people to feel unhappy. It is...
You have a point but I don't think you poach people at his level with only money.
It's more likely someone like him decides to leave (and I'd imagine taking his best people with him) because he feels Samsung offers him something more substantial than money.
I mean we are talking about a...
AMD had money. They have been making money for a while now (since the Meyer era) and this bobcat guy stayed for 8 years during which AMD had some bad moments, but he stayed. So why did he leave in August just months before the layoffs? Plus important people like him in a big company are usually...
Completely different sectors you can't compare a company like apple which sells to the consumer directly vs AMD which sells to people like Apple.
Marketing, sales and the general act of building up a brand is of up most importance when you are selling directly to consumers. Somethings that the...
Not to mention if this 1400 cut delays anything else and cause a drop in revenue. 200 million is small in the grand scheme of things.
Look everyone's wanting to decide their fate at this moment. The problem is no one here really knows what's going on inside that company. We'll have to see...
You are completely right on that one. When a CEO chops 10% after 2 months and a bit in office, he hasn't had the time to really study each and every aspect of the company.
What this really is is a change in direction. Nothing more. He's betting that AMD can keep it's relative market share...
More likely intel than nvidia. At Nvidia it would be a case of turf war with the bright people there. At intel there is enough money and space for him to maybe get his own project and do something amazing.
People are ARMbarrassingly willing to believe that ARM is magical.
You can't get away from the fact that ARMs are slow. And just because one company is doing ARM servers doesn't mean that it's going to pan out. New tech companies comes and go trying new ideas. Most don't make it.
That's because everyone's been looking at peak power of BD running at full clock speed. It is much more likely that the new trinity core will not be the same clock speed as the desktop BD part. Also, remember that until Llano the previous AMD mobile CPUs had worse power characteristics using...
I think you know the answer. For most of these people they just want the "fastest". It's like why do people buy cars with 300+ horsepower? Some would argue that in North America it's useful for the highway on ramps (in reality it's only useful once in a blue moon, and dangerous at other times)...
I think it should be 99% of people think they are better off with the SB. When in reality for that 99% most of the time they aren't better off with either and should have saved their money buying a cheaper processor from either company.
People who push their computers hard are a minority in...
You need to get out into the big blue room more if you are seriously desperate about a CPU. I mean desperate about a special someone yeah can understand that, desperate about a CPU.... :eek:
It's not just lawyers involved in these sort of thing. The lawyers don't do anything unless told. And Microsoft's engineers aren't going to send their lawyers after AMD/ATI if there's no reason. So it's likely because no one ever heard of any compensation between the two companies that the issue...
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