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fpg
I know it does on Powerbooks. I did not try it on PS3 though.
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fpg
I know it does on Powerbooks. I did not try it on PS3 though.
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fpg
I know it does on PPC. I did not try it on Cell though.
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fpg
If you found a way to run Linux-X86 code on it, had a medium to install it from, and could connect a keyboard as well, yes, definitely.
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fpg
This is necessary to do anything with it in the HPC arena, isn't it?
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Chipguy
No doubt some developers will eventually
get good at writing code for it but IMO it holds very few
lessons for the greater computing world, PCs included,
except how *not* to build general purpose chips.
I believe this nails it. It could indeed be the reason IBM chose it for the not so general purposes it is used for: To limit the ability of ISVs to make code for it. Console manufacturers only make money with software revenues.
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I_banker
I'm not sure. When you cannot make money on hardware in volumes of four million systems annually even if you are asking a hefty premium from your customers, why not get rid of hardware and try to get a little bit of your customers savings for your Software/Service package? Then, if the overall package gets more attractive in TCO terms for the market, you can hope to grow there as well.
But most important is for Apples PC business to maintain (or regain, if you will) critical mass userbase for their ISV. (Actually, essential would be the better word for it.)
After today, they will certainly have a lot of hope to sell in this respect. Eventually increasing reach of hardwarebase to fiftyfold figures is what sweet dreams for ISV are made of, right?
However, as I said earlier it will neither happen soon nor fast. Mac-Hardware will remain proprietary for quite a while and will be transitioned to open platform gradually as well. Probably from bottom to top, as the architecture migration is planned as well.
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Keith
Yes. For a while, at least.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=6589694
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I_banker
Yope. Apples dealer network will probably suffer even more the next two years than it traditionally did anyway - and eventually Apple will loose quite a bunch of their franchise-dealers out there. Pawn-sacrifice comes to mind...
Steve was not specific in terms of how he is is going to protect the interests of these folks during the transition. I believe initially there will be some Apple IP on Mac-X86-Platforms OS-X needs to run. But eventually it will licence it as well. Insofar today's announced move might be considered as a step out of hardware for Apple.
In essence, by end of this decade the ability to run OSX will probably be a standard-feature of PC-plattforms by the end of the decade, as I see it.
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mas
Oups. I apparently lost "acquired" somewhere between macula nd brain. . (I hope i did not loose it due to AMD though, pun intended.)
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mas
HPQ bailed out of IPF development quite a while ago already.
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Keith
BTW, it seems most reviewers are using sub-optimal software for stress testing.
Which apps do you suggest to use for single-threaded/multithreaded environments respectively?
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Keith
For mainstream adoption, this TDP will need to come down quite a bit
I am not sure wattage will matter much for mainstream adoption in desktopspace, but TDP will certainly some down over time: While Toledo and Venice use the very same transistors, different lithography makes differences for process steps to be accounted for by means of optimizations. Stepping down the learning curve in this respect for a couple of months and considering the temperature dependencies of power consumptions elaborated on in the text of the article, you can expect wattages under load to average down from the eighties (or even hundred, assuming AMD has sent the best they have for now to ms) down to seventy or so by year-end.
Low leakage HE parts for next year's blade offerings will be yielded as well, just a question of how many and at which frequency.
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Doug
It is worth reading the text of the lostcircuits-article.
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mmoy
I'm trying for #2
Good to hear. Go for it!
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drjohn
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20050528/etc_dualcoreopteron.html
(Link is from buggi/wo)
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Keith
it is a shame that X2 gets a lot of "negative" press due to its pricing (great performance, but not affordable, so Pentium D wins, you see that logig in so many places).
Lol. Actually, I could not imagine anything better to be spread for AMD than this ediot logic press: The only shame involved is what is atttributed to Smithfield users for not being able to afford an X2.
This kind of press is forming a shiny halo as long as Dualcore is irrelevant anyway. It will pay out bigtime as soon as it will be relevant next year and AMD offerings will match Intel pricing.
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Keith
Opteron servers accounted for 2.5% of HP´s x86 server shipments in Q1
Considering these 2,5% already made HP AMD's #1 Opteron vendor gives an idea of the impact on AMDs number if this figure get into dual digits next year.
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chipguy
I've heard a claim Celeron-M lacks support for Speedstep. Is that so?
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Keith
#3 and/or #4 could offer something later this year. If only for JFTC considerations.
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Keith
Most of these 36% might be lessening spread between spot and contract price though. Anyway, I guess the market is troughing this Q. Insofar, I am reluctant to follow Semico's call for declining NOR-Tam (based on trend extrapolation of iSupply data?). Stable NOR-TAM in the 8B dimension for the next couple of years is rather what I see.
Having said this, I don't see anybody making money in this market before most manufacturers are squeezed out of it, leaving three or so left. Memory commodity markets literally force oligopolic structures to be formed out.
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Keith
Duh. Semico sees NOR TAM declining going forward. And these chaps are not exactly known for being overly bearish on any of their members businesses. ;-(
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Dan
I'd think it just depends on how you decode the messages. Here's a suggestion:
UMC 300mm outsourcing: The cheaper alternative to SP1 tooling.
Chartered outsourcing: Taking over products from JV1 and JV2 to smaller geometry nodes. (JV1 and JV2 are same location while JV3 is located on another site in Aizu-Wakamatsu). Impacts in the dimension of what Austin had when Fabs14/15 were closed if SP1 will not be tooled.
Bottomline: Outsourcing-Restructuring of Spansion.
As far as the authenticity of the information is concerned, I have not the slightest doubt Spansion/AMD/Fujii indeed evaluate this way to play it - because it is worth to do so. However, it is most probably not the only option they are exploring into. Whether one or both parts will eventually happen certainly depends on what terms they get. (I do even not even consider the IPO plan as carved in stone as well).
Just as Hector explicitely stated: We are considering every option...
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Mike
I am still amazed at the ongoing demand for S-478 Prescotts,
older Celerons and even some older Northwoods, despite the
pushing from Intel to change the platforms over.
Evidence for intelligence on earth?
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Mike
Thanks once again. Reading over your table feels like really slow business in US retail. Distis working down inventories?
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Tiger64
Not at all off topic imo, for the reason you mentioned and a couple more consideration about future usemodels.
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Many thanks. K. eom
ddb / alan / chipguy
Thanks. Hmm. While I am still clueless how you could see through IC layers, there is a possibility that bumps are deposited on pads after the front end fabbing for testing purposes which are etched away before backend processing. (Unless the wafer is discarded and its dies go into a keychain accessory ).
As far als grafics material is concerned - well, it is grafics.
The photo you posted I believe to have seen in a publication from chipworks a longer while ago, in a series of photos of successive skiving of the die, showing layer by layer, for reverse engineering purposes.
Alan and/or chipguy comments would be helpful, they know better.
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Matthias
Thanks. Interesting. Is it possible that what you describe as bumps are actually vias? It is hard to grasp for me how to look through nine layers of wiring.
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Dan
Actually, more clarity later in the year is the part i understand best of the quotes.
I see Chartered ramping 90nm volume next year, and coordinated ramp up of 65nm at Fab36 and ramp down Fab30 in 07; Fab36 being utilized as a dev fab for the 65nm-consortium in the meantime. Makes most sense to me, overall. Looking smooth in the manufacturing model this way.
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Dan
I look at it as an AMD PR photo. Btw, the photo does not show a fully processed wafer, but a polisilicon processed wafer (when it is fully processed the structures are covered under several interconnect layers).
Anyway, i missed AMD announcing to be in pilot mode in Fab36.
Qualification and Calibration of tools and engineering wafers was what I understood for this year.
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Keith
More Turion books triggering in: Hofer is offering a 1299 Euro ML32 book with X600 gc in Austria from Gericom (GB DRAM, 100GB HD).
In Germany, Vobis offers an an SIS-IGP based ARIMA MT32 book for some 900 Euro (512MB DRAM, 80GB HD).
Nothing to sing and dance about for the time being. But at least it's good to see things progressing.
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Matthias/Dan
I'd be stunned if this particular wafer would not be from Fishkill. And imo it is far more likely the process [in development) will be deployed in Singapore rather than in Fab36.
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CJ
There are dozens of different modems in use in Germany, unfortunately. Basicaly the same standards as in the US, ethernet or USB.
However, the way you describe your father in law you have a 90% chance he is set up with one from T-online. Although there are couple of DSL-modems from this co (depending on when his installation was set up) they all have an ethernet outlet. If you want to use a WLAN router, most of the manufacturers have manuals in the net to set it up for T-online - although probably in its german service portals in german language.
Enjoy your trip.
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Keith OK thanks K. eom
Keith
Not specifically AMD, the question was rather OS - related. Is HP shipping Win-64 systems? (I understand they are shipping "Win-64 ready" systems, but ship it with XP Pro installed)
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Been away from civilization for a while, are there any Win-64 systems for sale out there in the meantime?
Tia.
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Many thanks Mike.
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Mike
Well, what I have been told specifically is corporate buyers being extremely reluctant to migrate platforms. In fact, they often specify older Intel-chipset-based S478-mainboards on their orders.
Now, more precise on channel availability of S478 mainboards: Are the ones in stock typically third party chipset based or Intel-chipset based as well?
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Joe
Uh, ok. Thanks.
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