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Is AMD's 65nm SOI process broken?

Since news first broke that AMD's Barcelona will be six months late confirmed by AMD CEO and six hundred megahertz short on clock speed, the microprocessor community began to wonder aloud whether AMD's 65nm SOI Silicon On Insulator process is fundamentally broken.  The fact that there are absolutely zero production...

Tags: Processor, Barcelona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., George Ou

Blog posts 2007-08-21

Getting to the bottom of the 3.0 GHz AMD quad-core demos

[Update 8/16/2007 - It has been confirmed that the photographs were shot the same day and sent out without an NDA.  The photo was not a "canned for the press" shot that my sources told me.]There's been some controversy brewing over the issue of the 3.0 GHz "K10 Barcelona" desktop-variant quad...

Tags: Quad-core, Photograph, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Chip, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Is expecting a Vista system to support XP asking too much?

The Inquirer runs a story with the provocative title HP screws Presario buyers. The story, by Charlie Demerjian, charts his attempts to get HP to supply drivers for a Windows Vista-based HP/Compaq Presario. Is he just bashing Vista for the heck of it and expecting too much of HP...

Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Charlie Demerjian, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Co., Inquirer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Vista

Blog posts 2007-05-07

FI Bashing at The Inquirer

Ouch! Charlie Demerjian at TheInquirer.com pulled no punches in his criticism of "a large financial institution" for getting infected with the Zotob worm. Keep in mind that Zotob backdoors infected machines so Charlie's invocation of Sarbanes Oxley has some merit. But did he have to be so...

Tags: Ouch, Charlie Demerjian

Blog posts 2005-08-19

Additional Resources

Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source

Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as sourceWindows contributes to global climate change#courtesy of: cjm LTWhy should anyone feel defensive about "being cheap?"America and Americans are in debt to the eyeballs and have no savings because we spend the money as fast as we get it and then we...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, computer hardware, fossil fuel, GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, hardware, Gutmann, global climate change

Discussion threads 2007-09-01

Gutmann Vista DRM paper uses shoddy Web Forums as source

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann made a name for himself when he published his paper “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection” and got worldwide attention for outlining some serious concerns about Windows Vista DRM mechanisms. But Peter Gutmann admittedly doesn't use Windows Vista and he's publicly asked for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Web, Windows Media, Digital-rights Management, WMV, Microsoft Windows Vista, Fact, Microsoft Windows, CPU, Peter Gutmann, AudioDG, WMP11, Media Foundation, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-01

Where is AMD's Intel-killer Barcelona?

Back in May when speculation on AMD's "Barcelona" quad-core CPU was still running rampant, I wrote that "AMD Barcelona can potentially smash Intel" if high clock speeds at sufficient yields could be produced in a timely manner.  AMD needed to hit 2.5 GHz to reclaim the performance crown and release...

Tags: Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics, AMD

Blog posts 2007-07-03

Intel V8 intimidates Barcelona using half the cores

Intel V8 intimidates Barcelona using half the coresAhh Just like the days of oldI knew the universe couldn't remain upside down for too long. Intel is back to full throttle performance and AMD is back to sucking again, taking the second hand, low end computer. The only difference...

Tags: Processors, Intel V8, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., CPU

Discussion threads 2007-05-31

Intel V8 intimidates Barcelona using half the cores

AMD recently produced some impressive Barcelona 16-core (4-socket quad-core) scores of just over 4000 on the POV benchmark.  Charlie Demerjian estimates that these are probably 1.8 GHz pre-production low-power 65W TDP Barcelona chips.  Intel decided to put the beat-down on these Barcelona numbers by showing off their own "V8" 3.0...

Tags: AMD, Desktop, Hardware, Intel, Processors

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Is expecting a Vista system to support XP asking too much?

Is expecting a Vista system to support XP asking too much?OEMs don't need to give backwards compatable driversWhy should they support something that almost nobody wants.Vista has its flaws but why should HP do all the work if you want to install "legacy" software. Finding manufacturer drivers is much easier...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-05-07

Did Intel rig test or out engineer AMD/ATI?

When Humphrey Cheung at TG Daily wrote a glowing review of Intels G965 embedded graphics chipset beating an AMD/ATI X1600 dedicated graphics board on a video playback quality test, AMD cried foul, and other journalists echoed some concerns with the massively one-sided test. That prompted Cheung to write a follow-up...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video cards, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Willis, ATI X1600, video, graphics, ATI Technologies Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-14

Intel pushes back Itanium chips, revamps Xeon

Intel pushes back Itanium chips, revamps XeonMore decisive steps ... backwards! Good showIntel once more preferred the well trodden road of the x86-32/64 ISA, rather than doing the right thing and moving forward. Now Intel realized that xeon is a 'gooder' alternative than Itanimu-2 for the servers? How long should...

Tags: Processors, Intel Xeon, Phase 2, Intel Corp., Foxton, chip, Intel Itanium

Discussion threads 2005-10-24