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"Abu Dhabi will bury them now with masses of cheap chips. Enjoy !!
Funny.
AMD's new Phenom IIs are significantly cheaper than Intel's Nehalem/Core i7s but:
1. Cisco went with Nehalem with their new Virtualization Servers.
2. Apple went with Nehalem with their new Mac Pros.
3. Dreamworks is going with Nehalem
4. Sun's new servers are using Nehalem.
5. Cray dropped AMD and adopted INTEL'S Nehalem architecture for new designs.
6. IBM has announced new dual CPU Nehalem Blade Servers.
And last but not least......
AMD CPUs have always sold MUCH CHEAPER than Intel CPUs BUT - Intel has historically commanded an 80+ % market share.
So riddle me this - how does ABU DHABI trounce Intel with cheap CPUs when AMD could not do the same with AMD manufactured CPUs, even while amassing $9 BILLION in LOSSES over the past 8 years?
"how does builldozer fit into the landscape of products from AMD and Intel, in kind of feature - function terms.
The simple answer - and most logical explanantion - is that AMD doesn't even know what the Bulldozer architecture is.
Why?
Because AMD has delayed Bulldozer for at least 2+ years from now - which indicates they have scrapped whatever architecture they were working on for the past 2 years. And they have to start all over again.
Why?
Because AMD has seen benchmarks from Dual Socket Nehalem - EP and Four Scoket Nehalem - EX - leaked to them by common customers of both AMD and Intel.
What AMD has seen is that the architecture for Bulldozer that they had been working on up until recently would be inferior to the Nehalem EP (Quad Core) and Nehalem - EX (Eight Core) that exist today (Nehalem EP) and exist in engineering samples (Nehalem EX Octal Core) today.
Thus, AMD has found itself in a familiar position - having to scrap all work on an architecture that will be obsolete before they introduce it - exactly liked the architecture that AMD was working on PRIOR to the Barcelona architecture.
At that time, AMD abandoned whatever that architecture was and cobbled together pieces of the existing (circa 2006) dual core Opteron and added what they thought was enough improvements to make Barcelona competitive and still get it architected, designed and built in time to catch up with Intel's approaching Penryn architecture.
That hurried project, Barcelona, failed miserably - slow, power hungry and BUGGY.
AMD is in the process of repeating history by scrambling to re-architect Bulldozer into something they PRAY will be competitive in the 2011 time frame and still have a chance to actually get it finished in the 2011 time frame.
Good luck, AMD.
Asus Shows Off Dual Socket 1366 Motherboard
6:00 PM - March 6, 2009 by Devin Connors
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Category : Desktops
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Photo courtesy: SoftpediaAsus is shaking things up in the netbook world, but it hasn't forgotten about the enthusiast crowd.
During CeBIT Germany today, the Taiwanese computer giant showed off its newest motherboard. Dubbed the Z8NA-D6, this newest mainboard will allow for two LGA1366 processors to be used in the same system.
Asus also claims that at 12-inches by 9.6-inches, the Z8NA-D6 is the world's first dual socket ATX motherboard, which allows for it to be used in virtually any ATX computer case (note: Intel's Skulltrail is an Extended ATX mobo). The power connector is another point of interest. The 24+8 pin connection allows for both ATX and SSI power supplies to be used, the latter of which is traditionally used in servers.
The motherboard is based on Intel's 5500+ICH10R chipset, and can support all 1366 processors, including the upcoming Xeon 5500s. Supported memory includes up to 48 GB of RDIMM or 24 GB of UDIMM, with ECC support. The one shortcoming of this board is the lack of PCIe 2.0 x16 slots. With only one on the Z8NA-D6, you can forget about any sort of SLI or Crossfire setup. As for other expansion slots, the Z8NA-D6 comes with two PCIe x8 slots, one PIKE slot, and a PCIe x1 slot, which will likely be used for a soundcard. Like any other Asus mobo, expect this one to come with RAID software already included on the board.
The Z8NA-D6 may be the first dual socket 1366 motherboard spotted (no price or release date yet), but we doubt it's the last. 1366 Skulltrail, anybody?
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-nehalem-xeon-motherboard,7211.html
"The Phenom II's are certainly selling much better than Phenom I's."
How many Phenom IIs has AMD sold since they introduced it?
How many Phenom IIs has AMD sold since Jan. 1, 2009 ?
How many Phenom IIs will AMD sell this quarter?
What is the ASP of Phenom II ?
You should be able to provide a nice estimate of AMD's revenue for this quarter - since you seem to have a grasp on their sales volume.
Please provide us with your estimate of AMD's Q1 2009 revenue.
TIA
I'm hoping that Intel & TSMC announce a joint development effort for 450 mm Wafer Fabication Equipment Development and Procurement.
If they do this - and that is a BIG IF - and succeed, these two companies would be unassailable in a few years down the road - with 450 mm fabs, equipment and processes that virtually no competitor could afford to build profitably.
Of course, that leaves open the AMD/Abu Dumby KAMIKAZE approach to throw other people's fortunes at the problem and build them any way, just for the privilege of losing many more Billion$ of Other People's Money.
Hey, Mas !
Maybe Intel is going to wake up Monday and be as SMART AS DIRK - and have a foundry of their own.
Whaddaya theeenk?
February 27, 2009, 2:58 pm
Intel, Taiwan Semi Plan Strategic Announcement
Posted by Eric Savitz
Intel (INTC) and Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) will hold a press event at Intel HQ in Santa Clara Monday to make a “strategic announcement.”
The key players:
From Taiwan Semi, CEO Rick Tsai and VP of Sales and Marketing Jason Chen.
From Intel, Anand Chandrashear, who run the company’s Ultra Mobility Group, which includes Atom, and Sean Maloney, chief sales and marketing officer.
Fascinating. TSMC, of course, is the world’s leading contract chip manufacturer. Intel, of course, has its own fabs. Will Intel be outsourcing some production to TSMC? According to one report, Intel CEO Paul Otellini this week said the company could adopt a foundry model for its NAND flash memory business. Or could Intel be handing over some capacity to TSMC? I have no idea. We’ll find out Monday.
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" ‘Smart men have foundries,’ is my new quote,” said Meyers during a Feb. 26 interview with eWEEK. "
So....Dirk is telling you and me and the world that he and AMD were DUMB as Doorknobs for owning fabs for the past 40 years -
...and they will magically wake up SMART next week when they end up owning 34% of a foundry with no foundry experience nor foundry customers - other than AMD?
How is that possible?
Here's some NEGATIVE news that is right up your alley - guaranteed to get your rocks off:
More AMD Layoffs today
Good Morning, here's your pink slip!
By Sylvie Barak
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 22:50 MORE FOLKS AT AMD will be packing their belongings into boxes and joining the overcrowded unemployment queue today, as the INQ has learned a fresh round of layoffs is underway.
Understandably angry and hurt employees have been making their frustrations public on social not-working site Facebook.
When the INQ asked senior sources at AMD if they cared to comment, we were told "no", but then, as an afterthought, one added "it's a sad day". Which is as good as confirmation in our book.
It is indeed a sad day, and we wish those who came into work this morning, only to be made redundant, all the best and speedy re-employment. µ
UPDATE: A short while after publishing this story, we were contacted by an AMD spinner with an official statement which reads: "We did have a workforce reduction today, part of the previously communicated 900 position reduction we announced earlier this year. Today's action impacted less than 50 people in North America, primarily in general and administrative functions. Previous actions have taken place this quarter at our manufacturing sites in Asia."
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/175/1051175/more-amd-layoffs
"I hear a lot of good things about clarity of vision and execution focus at AMD. "
Yessiree.
AMD's abject failure at their recent Special Shareholder's meeting - failing to summon their investors to even show up and reach a 50% quorum to vote for their Fab Spin off bailout vote.
That is one helluva manifestation of clarity and execution by AMD management.
But then again, Dirk and Hector are still running the show - and these are the two that ran the show for the past several years producing those $7 Billion in losses.
" performance is not the whole story."
Yep - that's the standard AMD line when AMD trails by a large margin in the performance arena.
I suppose AMD can make up for it by charging lower prices than Intel.
Whoops - AMD is already losing money hand over fist - a loss of $3.9 Billion in 2008 in addition to a $3+ Billion loss in 2007.
Maybe AMD can shoot for a > $4 Billion loss in 2009 by undercutting Intel some more - eh?
"AMD has an advantage for many virtual work loads"
AMD also beats Intel in Virtual Profits.
Pretty soon, AMD will lead Intel in Virtual Fabs.
How do your customers feel about AMD's future potential?
It's all moot - Innovative Silicon did the work - and they don't have any products that would be helpful to you....and AMD just seems satisfied with runing a few wafers designed by Innovative Silicon through their soon-to-be-ARAB-OWNED-FOUNDRY-fab.
If there was any value there, AMD would have been all over it like flies on horseshiit.
Thank you for keeping us updated on the work of
Innovative Silicon.
Nice to hear that after all these years of silence they have abandoned their approach to using ZRAM to replace DRAM.
Good to see those good folks at AMD getting in some practice doing foundry work for an outside customer.
" The failing companies are good because they obviously never cheated anyone, and in order to find the bad companies all you have to do is look at the successful ones because no one can succeed fairly. In short, all good companies will perform equally poorly and evil companies are easily identified by their success."
Yes, you have grasped the underlying principles of the new Euro-Liberal New World Order.
"Shouldn't you be posting this on the SI AMD board? "
I am not familiar with this board - what is it?
"There are also companies that are too bad to save."
I don't think you comprehend the new world order.
Any really successful company is ipso facto evil and corrupt - that is the only way that they could possibly have achieved their success.
On the flip side, the chronic failing companies - AMD is the poster child here - are merely victims of both circumstance and evil predator companies that have conspired against them (the chronic failures).
It is these poor chronic failing companies that must be saved and propped up by the new world order governments.
Remember, failing will hurt one's self esteem - and this failure cannot be tolerated in today's modern society.
"Every last bit of Oil will be extracted and used from this Earth eventually, it's just a question of when.
The oil will run out on the same day AMD posts their next profitable quarter.
"Show me a Euro price that equates to $225 mr know nothing.
How about a U.S. price of $229 ?
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"They already took a $1.6 billion charge for the ATI acquisition exactly 12 months ago."
When AMD purchased ATI, ATI posted Revenues for ATI's third quarter 2006 of $652.3 million - just prior to AMD's purchase.
AMD paid about $5.4 Billion for ATI at that time.
Last quarter - Q3 2008 - AMD's ATI division posted $385 million in revenue. That's a 40% DECLINE in quarterly revenue.
My guess, as a simple rule of thumb, is that AMD will have to write off about 40% of the AMD purchase price. And, 40% of $5.4 Billion is $2.16 Billion.
So, the combined writeoffs - $1.6 Billion and 622 Million - come to about $2.2 Billion !!!!!
Pretty close - eh?
Now - if ATI''s revenue base continues to SHRINK BELOW $385 Million/quarter, - AMD will have to write off more of this impaired asset.
I almost think AMD hired Craig Barrett as a consultant in the ATI purchase.
AMD just figured out the current impairment charge for ATI - $622,000,000.
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/090116/amd8-k_a.html
"On January 13, 2009, the Company determined that the goodwill impairment charge related to the ATI Acquisition would be approximately $622 million. In addition, the Company concluded that approximately $62 million of the current carrying values of certain acquired identifiable intangible assets was impaired. "
Stay tuned......
"The rest is all about making excuses.
Ah.....that should be AMD's new corporate tag line:
AMD - we don't make money - we make EXCUSES !
"Advanced Micro To Hold Special Mtg Feb 10 On Mubadala Deal 01/16 04:09 AM
Going by last year's stockholder's meeting of lobodomized shareholders, AMD will probably get one question on this subject - from an addled octogenarian:
"Will Muadala sponsor a golf tournament in the Austin area?"
Charlie was IN LOVE with NVIDIA - and hated ATI - up until the day AMD bought ATI.
Just read his old posts.
Which just proves that Charlie is an AMD stooge.
By the way - did Charlie report recently about AMD DANCING IN THE AISLES?
"Sanders and Ruiz will haunt Intel forever once all their plans play"
Here's a news flash:
Sanders is gone.
Ruiz is gone.
AMD under Sanders and Ruiz has lost $7.8 Billion cumulatively over the entire 40 year history of AMD - PATHETIC.
Intel stands strong and profitable - and is getting stronger on a daily basis.
"LOL, so management design cpus now ?
Management hires CPU design leaders and designers. AMD management clearly hired the wrong people.
AMD management is corrupt, incompetent - but VERY RICH !!!
"what do you and your Intel fanboi buddies think about the mismanagement of a clear product leadership which brought the stock to 12 and change from a price in the 30s only 4-5 years ago and 28 over one year ago ?
You seem to be quite happy with AMD management that has brought their stock to $2 and a few pennies while posting billions and billions of dollars of losses quarter after quarter, and has brought out the circumcision knife to remove the AMD fab foreskin from their remaining limp member.
Intel's stock price sucks currently. But as an investor, and not a trader, I am extremely pleased that Intel's current management has positioned Intel for strong financial stability, excellent product and technology superiority, and future growth - as their main competitor shrinks up like a dying fungus.
What do you and your AMD fanboi buddies think about this comment from Paul Otellini?
"One example is our Nehalem dual-processor server offering, which began shipping for revenue in December.
The performance of this product is stunning and will allow our customers to offer businesses unprecedented
performance while lowering their operating costs."
http://seekingalpha.com/article/115020-intel-corp-q4-2008-earnings-call-transcript
" Intel's will not have large over-capacity, considering it has six high volume production fabs (three 65nm, three 45nm), plus the development fab."
Don't forget - Intel has completed their 32 nM process development - in their development lab, of course - and they will need to bring up a production fab on this new 32 nM process.
Converting an existing 65 nM fab, or one of the 45 nM fabs, will absorb a good deal of this "extra" capacity.
Ideally, by the end of this year, Intel could have a 32 nM FAB qualified for production and in the midst of a full production ramp.
When this recession is over, Intel will need that 32 nM FAB.
In addition, Intel has signalled their intention to move their new chip sets to the newest wafer fab processes, making 45 nM and 32 nM fabs even more loaded. Add in (HOPEFULLY) the new Larrabee graphics processor, and they could easily use all their capacity once the economy recovers.
IF THE ECONOMY DOESN'T RECOVER, THEN ALL BETS ARE OFF.
Another ISSCC 2009 Abstract
3.4 Dynamic Frequency-Switching Clock System on A Quad-Core Itanium® Processor
3:15 PM
A. Allen, J. Desai, D. Mulvihill, F. Verdico, F. Anderson
Intel, Fort Collins, CO
The clock system for a 700mm2 65nm quad-core Itanium® processor has a cascaded PLL architecture and enables dynamic frequency switching with a single-cycle switch penalty and minimal di/dt impact, which minimizes power-supply disturbance. This allows
frequency-power optimization without stopping the clock.
ISSCC 2009 - Abstracts:
3.1 A 45nm 8-Core Enterprise Xeon® Processor
1:30 PM
S. Rusu, S. Tam, H. Muljono, J. Stinson, D. Ayers, J. Chang, R. Varada, M. Ratta, S. Kottapalli
Intel, Santa Clara, CA
An 8-core 16-thread enterprise Xeon® processor has 2.3B transistors in 9M 45nm CMOS. The I/O links use per-lane TX and RX compensation to enable operation up to 6.4GT/s. Vertical and horizontal spines keep the uncore clock skew under 19ps before engaging the compensation. Core and cache shut-off techniques are used to minimize leakage.
3.2 A Family of 45nm IA Processors
2:00 PM
R. Kumar, G. Hinton
Intel, Hillsboro, OR
A family of next-generation IA processors with up to 8 cores, enhanced Core™ microarchitecture, 3-level caches and 2-way SMT is implemented in 45nm high-κ metal-gate CMOS. The family has a coherent point-to-point link and integrates memory controller, power-management microcontroller and power-gate transistors and scales from sub-10 to 130W in mobile, desktop and server applications.
So, smart fellow - what happened to your wildass prediction on AMD? It's closing 2008 at about $2.00/share.
Or is your tail stuck between your legs so tight that you cannot think anymore?
Tick Tock
Intel Completes Next Generation,
32nm Process Development Phase
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/081210/20081209006560.html?.v=1
Press Release Source: Intel Corporation
Intel Completes Next Generation, 32nm Process Development Phase
Wednesday December 10, 12:00 am ET
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intel Corporation has completed the development phase of its next-generation manufacturing process that further shrinks chip circuitry to 32 nanometers (a billionth of a meter). The company is on track for production readiness of this future generation using even more energy-efficient, denser and higher performing transistors in the fourth quarter of 2009.
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Intel will provide a multitude of technical details around the 32nm process technology along with several other topics during presentations at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) next week in San Francisco. Finishing the development phase for the company’s 32nm process technology and production readiness in this timeframe means that Intel remains on pace with its ambitious product and manufacturing cadence referred to as the company’s “tick-tock” strategy.
That plan revolves around introducing an entirely new processor microarchitecture alternating with a cutting edge manufacturing process about every 12 months, an effort unmatched in the industry. Producing 32nm chips next year would mark the fourth consecutive year Intel has met its goal.
The Intel 32nm paper and presentation describe a logic technology that incorporates second-generation high-k + metal gate technology, 193nm immersion lithography for critical patterning layers and enhanced transistor strain techniques. These features enhance the performance and energy efficiency of Intel processors. Intel’s manufacturing process has the highest transistor performance and the highest transistor density of any reported 32nm technology in the industry.
“Our manufacturing prowess and resulting products have helped us widen our lead in computing performance and battery life for Intel-based laptops, servers and desktops,” said Mark Bohr, Intel Senior Fellow and director of process architecture and integration. “As we’ve shown this year, the manufacturing strategy and execution have also given us the ability to create entirely new product lines for MIDs, CE equipment, embedded computers and netbooks.”
Other Intel IEDM papers will describe a low power system on chip version of Intel’s 45nm process, transistors based on compound semiconductors, substrate engineering to improve performance of 45nm transistors, integrating chemical mechanical polish for the 45nm node and beyond; and, integrating an array of silicon photonics modulators. Intel will also participate in a short course on 22nm CMOS Technology.
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"What is noney?"
That was Money - misspelled. I guess you weren't clever enough to figure that out.
"dissipation is due to Intel's criminal acts..
I don't recall that Intel was ever convicted of any criminal acts. Please show me where Intel was convicted of ANY criminal act. - Just cite the court cases - not your psychologically mangled opinions.
As far as Barcelona is concerned, its still stomping all over Xeon in 4P.
Dunnington is now eating into AMD's 4P market share.
Pretty soon, Nehalem-EX - in 2 socket configurations - will eat into the rest.
Shanghai just hits harder and wider.
Hits what? The electrical bill?
Not many Shanghai Exist - Except In Your Imaginary World.
Dear Pete -
Why are you whining on about IPF profitability issues?
Your beloved AMD has lost noney in 25 of the past 32 quarters.
Why haven't you denigrated AMD's designers, managers and process people for a completely egregious dissipation of AMD shareholder assets - instead you whine on about Intel - the world''s most successful semiconductor company?
How are your Barcelona DAWGS doing?
Burned Once, Intel Prepares New Chip Fortified by Constant Tests
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/technology/companies/17chip.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
November 17, 2008
Burned Once, Intel Prepares New Chip Fortified by Constant Tests
By JOHN MARKOFF
HILLSBORO, Ore. — Rows and rows of computers in Intel’s labs here relentlessly torture-tested the company’s new microprocessor for months on end.
But on a recent tour of the labs, John Barton, an Intel vice president in charge of product testing, acknowledged that he was still feeling anxious about the possibility of a last-minute, show-stopping flaw.
After all, even the slightest design error in the chip could end up being a billion-dollar mistake.
“I’m not sleeping well yet,” Mr. Barton said.
Intel’s Core i7 microprocessor, code-named Nehalem, which goes on sale Monday, has already received glowing technical reviews. But it is impossible for Mr. Barton to predict exactly how the chip will function in thousands of computers running tens of thousands of programs.
The design and testing of an advanced microprocessor chip is among the most complex of all human endeavors. To ensure that its products are as error-free as possible, Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., now spends a half-billion dollars annually in its factories around the world, testing the chips for more than a year before selling them.
There is good reason for the caution. In 1994, the giant chip maker was humbled by a tiny error in the floating point calculation unit of its Pentium chips. The flaw, which led to an embarrassing recall, prompted a wrenching cultural shift at the company, which had minimized the testing requirements of the Pentium.
A series of bugs last year in the Barcelona microprocessor from Intel’s main competitor, Advanced Micro Devices, was equally devastating.
A.M.D., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., had been making steady progress, offering new processor technologies long before Intel and handily winning the power-efficiency war. But the quality problems that slammed A.M.D. cost the company revenue for several quarters and landed it in a hole from which it has yet to dig out.
If Nehalem is a hit for Intel, it will represent vindication for Andrew Grove, the company’s former chief, who acknowledged that he had been blindsided by the Pentium problems and then set out to reform the company.
The Pentium bug badly damaged Intel’s brand with consumers. The company quickly became a laughingstock as jokes made the rounds of the Internet: Q: Know how the Republicans can cut taxes and pay the deficit at the same time? A: Their spreadsheet runs on a Pentium computer.
After initially appearing to stonewall, Intel reversed course and issued an apology while setting aside $420 million to pay for the recall.
The company put Mr. Grove’s celebrated remark about the situation on key chains: “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.”
Those words weigh heavily on the shoulders of Mr. Barton and his colleagues — as does the pressure from Intel’s customers around the world whose very survival is based on the ability to create new products with the company’s chips at their heart. Nehalem is initially aimed at desktop computers, but the company hopes it will eventually be found in everything from powerful servers to laptops.
“Our business model is now predicated on saying to the consumer, ‘You will get a new set of functionality by a particular date,’ ” Mr. Barton said. “We did get a new dimension of business pressure that says we can’t take our merry time turning it out whenever we feel like it.”
The pressure for a successful product is especially intense now as the overall technology industry faces a serious slump. Intel’s chief executive, Paul S. Otellini, said last month that the company was getting “mixed signals” from customers about future spending. Intel’s stock fell 7.7 percent on Friday to $13.32, a six-year low, in a broad market drop.
With Nehalem, Intel’s designers took the company’s previous generation of chips and added a host of features, each of which adds complexity and raises the possibility of unpredictable interactions.
“Now we are hitting systemic complexity,” said Aart de Geus, chief executive of Synopsys, a Silicon Valley developer of chip design tools. “Things that came from different angles that used to be independent have become interdependent.”
Trying to define the complexity that Mr. Barton and his team face is itself a challenge. Even in the late 1970s, chips were being designed that were as complicated as the street map of a large city.
Mr. Barton’s love affair with the world of electronics began as a child, when he took apart a walkie-talkie his father had given him and counted its transistors: a total of seven. The change in his lifetime, he said, has been “mind-boggling.”
Going from the Intel 8088 — the processor used in the IBM PC 27 years ago — to the Nehalem involves a jump from 29,000 transistors to 731 million, on a silicon chip roughly the same size.
Mr. Barton equates the two by comparing a city the size of Ithaca, N.Y., to the continent of Europe. “Ithaca is quite complex in its own right if you think of all that goes on,” he said. “If we scale up the population to 730 million, we come to Europe as about the right size. Now take Europe and shrink it until it all fits in about the same land mass as Ithaca.”
Even given a lifetime, it would be impossible to test more than the smallest fraction of the total possible “states” that the Nehalem chip can be programmed in, which are easily more plentiful than all the atoms in the universe.
Modern designers combat complexity by turning to modular design techniques, making it possible to simplify drastically what needs to be tested.
“Instead of testing for every possible case, you break up the problem into smaller pieces,” said G. Dan Hutcheson, chief executive of VLSI Research, a semiconductor consulting firm.
After the Pentium flaw, Intel also fundamentally rethought the way it designed its processors, trying to increase the chance that its chips would be error-free even before testing. During the late 1990s it turned to a group of mathematical theoreticians in the computer science field who had developed advanced techniques for evaluating hardware and software, known as formal methods.
“For several years Intel hired everyone in the world in formal methods,” said Pat Lincoln, director of SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory.
The Intel designers have also done something else to help defend against the errors that will inevitably sneak into the chip. Nehalem contains a significant amount of software that can be changed even after the microprocessor leaves the factory. That gives the designers a huge safety net.
It is one that Mr. Barton and his team are hoping they will not have to use.
AMD leaps past Intel in process development.
AMD announced that they would be in volume production on their 5 nM process in EO 10. This would follow their 22 nM and 10 nM process introductions and ramps at BO 10 and throughout RO 10 (Rest of 2010)
AMD credits their new PR manager, Phineas T. Barnum, for these rapid technological advances.
'Intel is Toast' according to Mr. Barnum
AMD has engaged various New York banks and mid Eastern Sovereign Funds to help raise financing in light of these great advancements.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/11/amd-announces-move-05nm
" they've spent their whole corporate adult-hood fishing for OPM."
Without a doubt, this has been AMD's one TRUE SUCCESS story.
They have lost money, in toto, for their entire corporate history, and they have openly admitted that what they are good at is spending Other Peoples' Money.
And to prove PT Barnum was correct, AMD has had absolutely no problem in continuing to find a string of new suckers to pony up their (the suckers') money and give it to AMD so AMD can p*ss that new money down the drain just as AMD p*ssed all their older money down that same drain.
"Well AMD says that this Fission Fusion process will give it a Hydrogen Bomb !
That will make two BOMBS when you add in the Barcelona Bomb which blew up in AMD's face.
My guess is that Shanghai is setting up to be another BOMB - if AMD is resorting to leaking some heretofore never discussed obscure benchmarks for that part.
It begs the question - what is AMD really hiding with Shanghai?
"“Our new tagline ‘The Future is Fusion’....Fusion is the future for AMD after spin-off "
Hasn't AMD or anyone else figured it out yet that AMD has this all wrong?
If AMD plans on SPLITTING itself in two, then AMD's future is actually FISSION .
Let's get our physics straight on this subject.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/081029/20081028006910.html?.v=1
AMD Broadens Sustainability Commitment with Eighth Annual Global Climate Protection Plan
All new 45 nM quad core Opteron Shanghai CPUs will ship with a condom - for protection - of course.
"Climate is very important," Zacharia said. "
Sure it is.
Running this 387 MEGA WATT global warming, polar ice melting Super Computer will certainly help save the climate.
JEEEEEEESUZ KRYST !!
Won't these US Government Welfare recipient-hypocrites learn to keep their mouths shut?