Must have been using old Cadence tools. Maybe they're still on Silicon Ensemble and PKS?
Must have been using old Cadence tools. Maybe they're still on Silicon Ensemble and PKS?Look at it from another angle - there is a reason it took ~$2B and >4yrs for AMD to create the bulldozer microarchitecture and it wasn't because they forgot to press the "start optimization" button on their computers
Must have been using old Cadence tools. Maybe they're still on Silicon Ensemble and PKS?
Ok.AMD cross licenses more from Intel beyond just the x86 license, and Intel from AMD. There is a lot of IP that goes into branch predictors, cache functionality, prefetchers, clock distribution, layout, power-reduction circuitry, etc.
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This was foreseen a long time ago, it was why TI got out of the advanced CMOS process node development in the first place beginning with 45nm. They couldn't compete with Qualcomm, contracts are signed 4yrs in advance and we knew all the way back then that we lost pretty much all the business that was going to be had 4 yrs later. We went from ~80% marketshare to 10% marketshare in that time.
If you look at what TI has done in the past 10yrs or so you will notice that they don't really innovate or create anything anymore. Once Tom Engibous took the helm, and Rich Templeton followed in his footsteps, the business of TI is basically about acquisition. They acquire companies that have already innovated and then TI scales them up volume-wise because it has the fabs to do that.
It isn't a bad way to do business, TI's financials are solid, but the innovation engines of TI have long gone cold and the reality of their once crown-gems like OMAP becoming outdated and outmoded is the outcome of that.
Too bad really, because that will mean the death of things like this
http://pandaboard.org/
AFAIK, other manufacturers don't produce embedded dev boards like that, only ti really.
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So besides Nvidia and Samsung who is still using the reference arm cpu design and not doing a custom design like Qualcomm or Apple?
10yrs from now the TI that will exist will be 100% analog, metamorphosis complete. Same name but having nothing else in common with its heritage. Exactly the same as AT&T.
Looks like the fallout is a layoff of 1700 people.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/texas-instruments-cutting-1-700-215450621.html
Freescale. Pretty sure the i.MX 6 is reference.
Also all those China chip companies are producing rather capable chips (when everyone thought their chips would fall flat).
Example is Rockchip's RK3066. This dual core 1.6GHz beat the Tegra 3 in quadrant, and not by a hair, I think it was something like 4288/4085? But yea, you get the point.
nVidia bought Icera last year and is taping out 28nm discrete radio modems and SoCs with an integrated modem right now.
Sometimes you got to fire the Wally's and hire a few Dilbert's and Tina's. HR doesn't like it when you do it, but companies go bankrupt if they don't clear out the deadwood that accumulates over time.Freescale may be changing things up, we will see how i.MX fares.
"Freescale, which makes and designs microprocessors, will fire 150 of its 450 workers at its Herzliya headquarters. The company fired 120 workers in 2009, when it still had 600 workers. The firings were somewhat surprising, said analysts, because the company just last month advertised that it was hiring 30 engineers."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/161419#.UKQsaoeeFyQ
Isn't that a "soft"-modem? How will that hold up power consumption wise? And didn't Intel buy out a wireless company 2-3 years ago (Infineon Technologies)? Where's the product from them?
Sometimes you got to fire the Wally's and hire a few Dilbert's and Tina's. HR doesn't like it when you do it, but companies go bankrupt if they don't clear out the deadwood that accumulates over time.
Letting go that high of a percentage probably means dropping some products.
Samsung is a behemoth corporation with revenue that absolutely dwarfs Intel.
I don't think many people truly understand the size and scale of Samsung, they know what they see of it as electronics consumers (LCD's, phones, ram) and that is probably about it.
Samsung's 2011 revenue was $248B. Intel's was a relatively paltry $54B in 2011.
Samsung employs 369,000 employees. Intel just 100,000.
Samsung is responsible for generating one fifth (20%) of S.Korea's GDP.
Think about that for a moment, imagine what it would mean to everyone's livelihood and social structure here in the US if Apple or Intel was responsible for generating 20% of the USA's GDP.
Samsung is not just "yet another business" that the competition must contend with. Samsung is essentially a highly capitalistic national movement, an anti-communistic planned economy of sorts.
They are diversified because they are literally larger than any single business segment within which they might attempt to participate.
Samsung is to S.Korea what the Mubadala Development Company (parent company of GloFo) is to the United Arab Emirates.
Samsung would be interested in AMD's IP only if Samsung was able to envision a way to compete with Intel using that IP.
Personally I don't think they are. I think Samsung sees the future of high volume sales and ubiquitous computing as being that of ARM and smartphones.
But make no bones about it, if Samsung decided to put their resources into it then they could outspend Intel by nearly the same margin that Intel outspends AMD. For now though, they seem satisfied to spend their time and money growing in a different direction. The impending collision between Intel and Samsung thanks to Intel's atom will be interesting.
But make no bones about it, if Samsung decided to put their resources into it then they could outspend Intel by nearly the same margin that Intel outspends AMD. For now though, they seem satisfied to spend their time and money growing in a different direction. The impending collision between Intel and Samsung thanks to Intel's atom will be interesting.
Ehhh, you have to look at Net Income. Samsung's revenues are high because it also ships a lot of high revenue/low margin products. Look at Net Income of INTC versus Samsung, and the playing field levels out immensely. Then take a look at Samsung's electronics division and see how it does compared to Intel's - not even close.