Welcome to 2006 AMD.
No, that's the 2014 AMD, the one that does not have enough resources to develop entire chips unless paid up front by the customer. You can bet your money that AMD will buy a lot more of IP blocks in the future.
Really? Who paid for Kaveri, Jaguar, GCN, Steamroller, Kabini, Temash?
I think you understand that most of these designs were already developed or at least funded before Rory arrived. Only in 2015 you'll see projects started under Rory's tenure reaching the market.
the one that does not have enough resources to develop entire chips unless paid up front by the customer
Ed: They went as far as licensing the entire CPU core for their new ARM SoC.
So you're suggesting that the 1000's of engineers at AMD are going to sit idle, staring out the window while the team in India design products out of existing or purchased IP? They probably didn't need to hire Jim Keller, Raja Koduri, John Gustafson and others then.
not develop an entire SoC by themselves =! not develop anything at all
the one that does not have enough resources to develop entire chips unless paid up front by the customer
This thread is about embedding Trustonic security. I suppose they could waste $7B on a company like McAfee, but that seems like extremely poor business.
“This will enable security features such as user-authentication that runs independently from the operating system, trusted user-interfaces and biometric pattern matching on AMD powered devices,” said Trustonic.
So, what does this mean for end-users? More DRM ebedded in our CPUs?
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.
A 'veiled insult to intel'? Like what for example? If I have more stuff to say about intel, I can guarantee it won't be in the form of a guise. But this thread is (was, until 2 trolls wandered in to derail) about TEE security.
Not to mention the other thread they did it in same time, but I guess some posters are too busy looking for these "veiled insults" to notice direct trolling.
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.
Yes in case you missed it, it's normally the AMD guys starting tech threads then the (same) Intel guys come in and bait people into an AMD vs Intel argument.
This one for example, and this one - http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2340661
Gonna blame piesquared for the latter too?
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 you know, "trusted" devices means that you CANNOT trust them, because you DO NOT control them.
Not to mention the other thread they did it in same time, but I guess some posters are too busy looking for these "veiled insults" to notice direct trolling.