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Why can't we scale the frequency of a processor to a very low value?

There is actually a technology called subthreshold computing where one uses the subthreshold current (leakage) to do useful work. There is another field of study referred to as near threshold computing which is also quite cool.
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- Post #26
- Feb 4, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel CES 2014...what the?

This. The cost of adding more channels is HUGE. Board area for placing addition memory chips, routing huge 64b buses across the board and accounting for noise and power created by them, extra pins/pads on the package, adding an extra memory controller per channel (these are huge, lumbering and...
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- Post #106
- Jan 12, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The reason Intel is not producing hot chips anymore

I have experienced this and a docking station is very convenient. More expensive than buying a full desktop to keep at your desk? A Thunderbolt setup is maybe a couple hundred dollars? I see the dilemma here, but I'm not fully convinced that Thunderbolt is dead in the water yet.
- Blandge
- Post #106
- Dec 9, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The reason Intel is not producing hot chips anymore

As somebody who uses a laptop + docking station at work and a desktop at home, I much prefer the desktop. I'm not saying that I NEED both, but it's definitely nicer to use the desktop. Laptops are standard issue at most corporations, but almost all still offer PCs upon request. However, these...
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- Post #104
- Dec 9, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The reason Intel is not producing hot chips anymore

The PC gaming industry made $20B in 2012 year. To give you a comparison, worldwide music sales (that is THE ENTIRE GLOBAL MUSIC INDUSTRY) made $16.5B. Unless your claim is that music isn't mainstream then I'm not sure you have a case. The PC gaming industry is also larger than the console...
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- Post #102
- Dec 9, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The reason Intel is not producing hot chips anymore

I agree with this so much, and I have the exact same experience. Tons of people's only experience with PCs is the old piece of junk they bought in 2004 when Windows was too big and processors were too slow. Most likely they've been using laptops ever since, and they get pretty much the same...
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- Post #95
- Dec 9, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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A comparison of Intel IPC over the last 24 years

SPEC is a system benchmark and won't measure IPC well. Dhrystone or Coremark is what you're looking for.
- Blandge
- Post #38
- Dec 6, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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TSMC Shows Path to 16nm, Beyond

Nevermind O.o
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- Post #105
- Oct 8, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The Intel Atom Thread

IIRC one of the Galaxy Tabs had an ARM CPU that Anandtech measured up to 8W and it worked fine.
- Blandge
- Post #982
- Oct 3, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel labels Ultrabooks a Failure

I don't see why a 2-in-1 can't be called an Ultrabook too. Also, I don't know why so many people say that a touchscreen is useless on a laptop. I actually think it's really nice. It's much more natural that using a mouse for a lot of things, and a million times better than using a trackpad. A...
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- Post #37
- Oct 3, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Geekbench 3 Sandy Bridge v.s. Apple Cyclone IPC comparison

There is so much that goes into comparing microarchitectures that it's impossible to determine relative performance without know more details. Specifically, the workload and compiler can completely deform the functionality of any computation engine. Modern CPUs have so many gotchas that if a...
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- Post #39
- Sep 20, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD A6-5200 user review

AMD found a good niche. Too cheap for Haswell to compete in price, too high power for Bay Trail to compete in performance. For $300 you'd be hard pressed to find a better performing laptop.
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- Post #34
- Sep 19, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The Intel Atom Thread

I think it's also important to keep in mind that Apple has a really tight software stack, so it's difficult to compare the two SoCs. Especially with something as software sensitive as Sunspider
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- Post #846
- Sep 18, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The Intel Atom Thread

ASUS had hybrid tablets in 2011. This isn't an AMD vs. Intel thing. Intel's only real advantage is that they have a desktop architecture that can run within tablet power envelopes with Haswell. AMD has a similar product in Jaguar, but coming up from the bottom instead of down from the top.
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- Post #176
- Sep 11, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is Intels fabrication process advantage shrinking?

BK shows one FFRD and now that's 50 functioning products? Show me a single article that states that the device was anything more than an FFRD. I'm not trying to insult you or argue with you or anything. I'm just telling you are woefully incorrect about Intel's release schedule. Haswell-Y isn't...
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- Post #30
- Sep 11, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is Intels fabrication process advantage shrinking?

Please understand that Broadwell is not shipping for revenue this year. Krzanich was referring to ESs shipping to OEMs to develop their products.
- Blandge
- Post #28
- Sep 11, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The Intel Atom Thread

What does the A4 have hanging off of PCIe that is using so much power? Do these parts of the chip not get power gated when not in use?
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- Post #157
- Sep 11, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The Intel Atom Thread

With AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Apple, Samsung and Qualcomm all competing for our business... This will be very good for us consumers.
- Blandge
- Post #89
- Sep 11, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 on September 10-12, what can we expect?

He's wrong. Broadwell will not be available until next year.
- Blandge
- Post #41
- Sep 10, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 on September 10-12, what can we expect?

I'm going to assume they meant SDP.
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- Post #34
- Sep 10, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[AnandTech] Atom Z3770's Cinebench performance

I can't tell if Enigmoid truly doesn't understand, or if he's just being lazy with terminology. In any case, 1Wh means it can supply one W of power for an hour, so despite his incorrect terminology, the math roughly works out to 1.25W average power.
- Blandge
- Post #101
- Sep 6, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD licenses and embeds Trustonic in CPU's and APU's

I think you'll find that in the real world, "but they started it," isn't an acceptable reason to act like a jerk Don't feed the trolls. This is common knowledge amongst seasoned internet users.
- Blandge
- Post #19
- Sep 6, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 on September 10-12, what can we expect?

Rackscale architecture will probably be big at IDF 2013.
- Blandge
- Post #5
- Sep 6, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD licenses and embeds Trustonic in CPU's and APU's

Has nobody ever taught you that two wrongs don't make a right? It wouldn't both me, except that everytime there's an interesting technical discussion going, somebody comes in and derails that thread by baiting people into an Intel vs. --- argument.
- Blandge
- Post #17
- Sep 6, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD licenses and embeds Trustonic in CPU's and APU's

More than likely it will allow for hardware acceleration for encryption/decryption. It's a good thing.
- Blandge
- Post #14
- Sep 6, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD licenses and embeds Trustonic in CPU's and APU's

The topic of this thread has nothing to do with Intel, but every single post you make is a veiled insult to Intel. This entire thread is just a guise so that you can talk more [stuff] about Intel. Just let it go.
- Blandge
- Post #12
- Sep 6, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Avoton dropped today

HP and Ericsson will be some of the first. Source: http://www.zdnet.com/intel-juices-up-microserver-speeds-with-thrifty-avoton-chip-7000020173/
- Blandge
- Post #4
- Sep 6, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Vendors pleased with Bay Trail-T performance & power ($329 8'' W8.1 Toshiba tablet)

I really don't buy into the 7 inch tablet when my phone is already 4.5 inches. Phablets I get, and I can even see the appeal of a 10 inch tablet (Although I'd rather have a 13 inch detachable laptop), but 7-8 inches is too small to watch movies on and too big to fit comfortably in a pocket...
- Blandge
- Post #62
- Sep 5, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[AnandTech] Atom Z3770's Cinebench performance

How the hell does this thing use 23W at load? The 2012 MBA only uses 21W while running Cinebench with Ivy Bridge. Are you telling me that this Temash laptop uses more power than an i3? What has Acer done to cause this.
- Blandge
- Post #30
- Sep 4, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Q2 2013 Market Share up 2.2% Q to Q (Mercury Research)

Wasn't 32nm the last node with SOI?
- Blandge
- Post #174
- Aug 15, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Q2 2013 Market Share up 2.2% Q to Q (Mercury Research)

Funfact: Intel's finFETs are FD. Not sure if you knew that.
- Blandge
- Post #172
- Aug 15, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Vendors pleased with Bay Trail-T performance & power ($329 8'' W8.1 Toshiba tablet)

I can't decide if that would be awesome or frightening. Samtel
- Blandge
- Post #41
- Aug 14, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Q2 2013 Market Share up 2.2% Q to Q (Mercury Research)

Uhh... Yes they have. Try Intel muscling its way into the server market against big iron at turn of the millennium. This was a very similar situation where Intel was going up against the likes of IBM (Who was an $80b dollar company in 1997) and SPARC. In 1997 Intel had almost zero revenue from...
- Blandge
- Post #154
- Aug 14, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Q2 2013 Market Share up 2.2% Q to Q (Mercury Research)

This is a complete misrepresentation of the statement I made. I said Intel did not have an mobile (atom) SoC on their latest manufacturing technology (22nm). This was to point out a failure on Intel's part. Don't try to paint me as a mindless Intel fanboy when I've done nothing of the sort. I...
- Blandge
- Post #90
- Aug 13, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Q2 2013 Market Share up 2.2% Q to Q (Mercury Research)

In any case. We've gotten pretty far off topic so I'll cease to continue this discussion in this thread.
- Blandge
- Post #83
- Aug 13, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Q2 2013 Market Share up 2.2% Q to Q (Mercury Research)

Yes Intel is a big company that moves slowly compared to companies like Qualcomm, but they are making a significant effort to compete in the mobile space by changing the way they do business. Intel doesn't look like the same company that was was 5 years ago, but the stock performance is...
- Blandge
- Post #81
- Aug 13, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Q2 2013 Market Share up 2.2% Q to Q (Mercury Research)

This is a strawman. I never said it would. False. From Wikipedia: You are making an assertion without any evidence again. Show me the evidence that Intel cannot afford bleeding edge fabs. How much does a bleeding edge 10nm or 7nm fab cost? How much can Intel afford to spend on CAPEX in...
- Blandge
- Post #80
- Aug 13, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Q2 2013 Market Share up 2.2% Q to Q (Mercury Research)

Except that the reason people are so pissed off about Haswell is because it was designed completely for mobile (which would indicate that they are not too set in their ways), and the new CEO recently said that Intel may prioritize Atom over Core (According to Anandtech's podcast). You keep...
- Blandge
- Post #76
- Aug 13, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Q2 2013 Market Share up 2.2% Q to Q (Mercury Research)

Just because you assert something is true, does not make it true. Qualcomm benefited from the smartphone and tablet boom more than any other ARM licensee primarily because they had the best coms technology (or at least the most pervasive in the US). Asserting that Intel's process technology...
- Blandge
- Post #73
- Aug 13, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Q2 2013 Market Share up 2.2% Q to Q (Mercury Research)

Investing in your business is not a bad thing. Look at Amazon. They don't make any profit and their company is growing out of the stratosphere, because they invest every penny of revenue (Plus some!) back into the business to keep ahead of the competition. Intel could double their profits in...
- Blandge
- Post #63
- Aug 13, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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