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	<description>Keeping up with Technology (so you don't have to)</description>
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		<title>nVidia and the Big Chip, the Top Line, and Gross Margins</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=752</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=752#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 02:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>GPU</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[nVidia recently turned in quarterly results that looked good, yet at the end of the day the stock kept falling. A little digging revealed nVidia had a bad miss on gross margins. &#8220;NVDA reports Q1 gross margin of 28.6% vs. 35.5% street expectation&#8221;. Thank you Briefing.com.

The next day brought confirmation: the company had been negatively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>nVidia&#8217;s Fourth Quarter: As the Semiconductor Bellwether Turns</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=748</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=748#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>Larrabee</category>
	<category>Desktop GPUs</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Bellwether of Semiconductors
When Cisco reports earnings, it is one of the first companies to offer insight into how the calendar quarter is progressing for the economy, since its fiscal quarter is one month behind the calendar quarter.

The same might be said of nVidia, except that nVidia is more specific to semiconductors. Many semiconductor companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jen-Hsun Huang&#8217;s Excellent Big Change of Heart</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=747</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=747#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>GPU Computing</category>
	<category>Atom</category>
	<category>AMD's Rich Uncle</category>
	<category>Ion</category>
	<category>VIA Nano</category>
	<category>Fusion</category>
	<category>Windows 7</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As early as August of last year Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA&#8217;s CEO, said of netbooks, &#8220;that’s just not our target. I mean, there are a lot of things that are not our targets and that just happens to be one of the things that is not our target&#8221; (Earnings Call Transcript).

That was then. This is now. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abu Dhabi Invests Another $300 Million in AMD</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=746</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=746#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>AMD's Rich Uncle</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Mubadala Development will increase its investment in AMD from 8.1% to 19.3% &#8220;through the purchase of shares and warrants worth $314 million&#8221;  (Zawya)

Abu Dhabi has already invested $8.4 billion [sic!] in AMD. About $6 billion of this is an investment in AMD&#8217;s fabs.

This $8.4 billion was already in addition to an investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But Mrs. Lincoln, what was the Play like? (Notes on Intel&#8217;s Q4 Earnings Call)</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=745</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=745#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
	<category>Solid State Drives</category>
	<category>Atom</category>
	<category>Nehalem</category>
	<category>32nm</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A financial analyst recently asked Intel&#8217;s CEO what certain aspects of the quarter would have been like had the world economy not cratered. Paul Otellini, with pain in his voice, shot back: &#8220;That&#8217;s just like asking Mrs. Lincoln what the play was like&#8220;.
The quarter was bad. How bad? It was &#8220;only the second time in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GPU Wars: Attack of the $200-300 GPUs</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=744</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=744#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>GPU</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good thing NVIDIA does more than just desktop GPU discrete graphics these days. If NVIDIA had never expanded beyond the desktop, the company would really be in a world of hurt. NVIDIA&#8217;s revenue share, for example, in high-end GPUs went from 80% to 30% from the second to third quarter (NVIDIA Corporation at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMD&#8217;s Sweet-spot Strategy: Desperation or Stroke of Genius?</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=741</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=741#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Desperation or Stroke of Genius?</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many would say today that AMD has surpassed NVIDIA in graphics performance. The question is, however, is it right to compare the performance of two GPUs with a single GPU? For that is what is being compared. AMD puts two GPUs on one card to trump NVIDIA&#8217;s single-card. So there are two different ways of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On-die Memory Controller</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=739</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=739#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>On-die Memory Controller</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took a long time for Intel to deliver an on-die memory controller. First there was Timna.
Timna, however, never made it to market thanks to a bad bet on memory technology.
Then AMD came out with Opteron.

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		<title>GPU Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=738</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=738#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>GPU Computing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most interesting thing in computing these day is GPU computing.
Instead of using the the CPU to do computations, one can use the GPU. GPU stands for graphics processing unit. These are the chips that have traditionally handled graphics in computers.
However, they are now able to handle much more.

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		<title>The Great Tech Wreck of &#8216;08: It was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=735</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=735#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Financial</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high-tech companies of the S&#038;P 500 last quarter turned in &#8220;the best performance of any sector in the market&#8220;.
Yet the sector that performed the best in this case has also of late been one of the hardest hit. The tech-heavy Nasdaq has tumbled almost 14% since the first of the year, almost twice as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Spanks the Bottom of Intel&#8217;s Rookie CFO</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=733</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=733#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>Financial</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new CFO in town at Intel. The preceding CFO has moved on to become Chief Operating Officer. The former Assistant CFO is now the CFO. The new Chief Financial Officer received baptism by fire in an earnings conference Tuesday (Jan. 15, &#8216;08).
You would have thought it was a good quarter. Intel shipped a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Price of NAND Stabilizing</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=731</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Financial</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>NAND</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may well be that, after a big drop, &#8220;the price of NAND flash is showing signs of stabilizing&#8221;.
However, the problem this past year hasn&#8217;t been demand. The demand&#8217;s been there. The problem has been supply. There&#8217;s been an oversupply of chips on the market for the larger part of 2007.
This would suggest that times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macronix to Supply Flash, Qimonda 300-mm Wafer Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=730</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=730#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Semiconductors</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that makes semiconductors interesting is the on-going collaboration and potential consolidation taking place in the industry. The cost of manufacturing chips is so great that companies are having to pool their resources to get the job done.
A good example of this is the newly announced collaboration between memory maker Qimonda and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First 500-GB Notebook Hard Drive</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=729</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=729#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Hard Drives</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hitachi has announced the first 500-gigabyte (GB) hard drive for notebooks. That&#8217;s the 2.5-inch form factor hard drive.
You put two of these babies together, and you have one terabyte (TB). And that&#8217;s just what ASUS has done (read more here).
So how does Hitachi cram so many bytes into such a small notebook hard drive?
One reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel May Hedge Its Bets on WiMAX</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=728</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=728#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Intel may want to invest in competitors to Clearwire, the WiMAX venture of entrepreneur Craig McCaw. Or maybe Intel just wants to keep its options open.
Intel exec Arvind Sodhani recently resigned from the board of Clearwire. Dadi Perlmutter remains on the board, and Intel will appoint another Intel person to replace Sodhani. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Years to Advance a Process Node</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=727</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=727#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Process Manufacturing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to DIGITIMES, it generally takes two years to advance a process manufacturing node to a next generation. &#8220;DRAM makers usually take two years&#8221;.
In fact, in the past &#8220;the transition period has been as long as three years&#8221;.
Come to think of it, Intel introduces a new process about every other year. However, IBM and its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CPU Microprocessors Up Both in ASPs and Units Shipped</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=726</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=726#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Semiconductors</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Semiconductor sales were up in November, both year-over-year and quarter-on-quarter.
There were two opposing forces. On the one hand, units shipped were up. On the other hand, ASPs or average selling prices were down.
Just to use computer memory as an example, bit shipments were up 25%, yet ASPs were down 20%.
Overall semiconductors taken as a whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Problems for AMD</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=723</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=723#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Barcelona</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[3-core Phenoms, when they debut in the first quarter, will still not be clocked very high, and they are still experiencing delays. 8700, 8650, and 8450 triple-core Phenoms are not expected until the second quarter.
The B3 stepping is the chip revision that is supposed to correct the TLB erratum. Even the B3-stepping 3-core Phenoms will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NVIDIA More Focused On The Lower End</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=724</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>GPU</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NVIDIA appears to be more focused on lower-end, mid-range GPUs than the high end.
The launch of the G94 has been pulled forward from June to February. G94 debuts February 14. &#8220;The sources previously had said Nvidia would roll out the D9P in June 2008&#8243;.
Cards based on the G94 GPU should retail for around $169 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acer Surpasses Dell</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=725</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=725#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Notebooks</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acer has surpassed Dell. In notebooks.
Acer shipped 4.15 million notebooks in the third quarter to &#8220;Dell&#8217;s 4.01 million&#8221;.
Read more here.

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		<title>AMD Admits To Having Yield Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=722</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=722#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Barcelona</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to build credibility yet easy to lose it.
AMD faces the specter of  having worked to build credibility throughout 2003 to 2006, only to see it fade before them in 2007. A lot of credibility has &#8220;drained away in the last eight months&#8221; (p. 2).
Maybe AMD should imitate Intel for the time being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices)</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=720</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=720#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Menlow</category>
	<category>MID</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
At the heart of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) lie two pieces of silicon. The CPU is named Silverthorne. The single-chip chipset Poulsbo. The CPU and single-chip chipset combination is called Menlow.
MIDs will no doubt have other pieces of silicon on the printed-circuit board inside to do things like surf the Internet.
An optional component of Menlow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counterbalance to Intel&#8217;s Dominance</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=721</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=721#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Process Manufacturing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To help counterbalance Intel&#8217;s dominance in the chip industry, Toshiba has joined the semiconductor fab alliance led by IBM and consisting of other members such as Samsung, AMD, and Freescale. &#8220;The Tokyo-based company is the seventh company to join the alliance&#8221;.
As transistors get smaller, the processes on which they are manufactured get more expensive. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>45-nm Core 2 Duo</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=719</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=719#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Core 2</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Santa Rosa refresh comes in January, when Intel refreshes its current notebook technology. The current Centrino is known as Santa Rosa. Later in 2008 Intel will introduce a new Centrino called Montevina.
The most important component of the Santa Rosa refresh will be the CPU.

Amongst other things, the CPU is manufactured on a new process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMD&#8217;s Predicament</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=718</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=718#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taiwanese publication DIGITIMES has about the best analysis of some of the causes underlying AMD&#8217;s current predicament.
First of all, problems began in 2007 with the launch of the Radeon HD 2000 series. Graphics cards were delayed and underperformed.
Because of these and possibly other problems before the ATI acquisition, AMD experienced  &#8220;a loss in graphics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel Countermove to AMD Roadmap</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=717</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=717#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Centrino Santa Rosa refresh was announced on Friday (12/14/07), as well as a solid-state drive. Said refresh is not to ship until January, but it was announced on Friday all the same.
Point, counterpoint. Move, countermove. The Intel announcements are best interpreted as a countermove to the roadmap put out by AMD the day before.
Friday&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe AMD Should Sell Its Fabs</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=716</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=716#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe AMD should sell its fabs.
A process technology is no match for a microprocessor design.
Look at NVIDIA. NVIDIA designs its graphics chips on a process that is larger than the competition&#8217;s. Yet NVIDIA still makes the best GPUs.
Look at (dual-core) Opteron. The manufacturing process was not as advanced as Intel&#8217;s, yet it was the better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving To 45-nm Will Be Easier For AMD</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=715</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=715#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Interview</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=715</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The problems AMD has been having with its Quad-Core Opteron Barcelona and desktop Phenom microprocessors has not stopped the company from forging ahead with its 45-nm development.
Barcelona and Phenom are 65-nm projects. However, development on 45-nm chips is underway, and AMD &#8220;will have initial samples also in January&#8221; (p. 2).
Test vehicles on 45 nanometers look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half The Weight Of A MacBook</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=714</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=714#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Apple</category>
	<category>Solid State Drives</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple is rumored to be working on a highly portable computer that The INQUIRER is calling a subnote or subnotebook.
Said subnote is to weigh half as much as a MacBook Pro.
How will the notebook do that? With flash memory naturally, &#8220;rather than a hard drive&#8221;.
Read more: The INQUIRER, CNBC

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		<title>The idea of Apple offering a computer with a flash-based solid state drive</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=713</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=713#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Apple</category>
	<category>Solid State Drives</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that the primary storage of iPods used to be hard drives. Today iPods predominantly use NAND flash for storing movies and more.
It was a tumultuous event when Apple introduced NAND flash memory in place of hard drives. Fortunes rose and fell. Memory companies did really well. Hard drive makers suffered.
Today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XP Won&#8217;t Run On OLPC Computers</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=712</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=712#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Microsoft</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows XP will not run on a OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) computer because &#8220;there&#8217;s no hard drive&#8221;.
Is it that the OLPC computers have no hard drives, or is it a solid-state drive is not big enough?
If this isn&#8217;t a problem for Linux, why is it a problem for Microsoft? I thought Microsoft was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel to Resurrect Hyper-Threading in Symmetric Multi-Processing</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=711</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=711#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>Symmetric Multi-Processing</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel is to resurrect Hyper-Threading with its Nehalem microarchitecture and system architecture (latter half &#8216;08). It shall be called Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT), however, not Hyper-Threading (HT).
The idea is simple. Take the individual cores of CPUs and have the OS and applications see each core as two cores instead of one. That way you can do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First There Was The $500 PC &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=709</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=709#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Notebooks</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First there was the $500 PC, then the $500 laptop.
No, wait, first there was the $1,000 PC. No. First there were really expensive PCs, then the $1,000 PC. Then the $500 PC.
$500 notebooks aren&#8217;t that big a deal. The industry is moving below $500 notebooks. It&#8217;s more than just the costs of notebooks.
There&#8217;s notebooks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slowest Server Growth Since Q1 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=706</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=706#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>servers</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IDC server figures are in for the third quarter.
Server sales grew ever so slightly. It was &#8220;the slowest growth rate since the first quarter of 2006&#8243;.
While the volume server space grew, the midrange fell. Sales for midrange servers experienced their &#8220;second consecutive quarterly decrease&#8221;.
One of the things that is going on here is that quad-core [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NVIDIA&#8217;s Integrated Graphics Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=703</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=703#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
	<category>Motherboard GPU</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The largest maker of computer graphics in the world is not NVIDIA or AMD. It&#8217;s Intel. Intel is the largest by virtue of its integrated graphics.
Because integrated graphics makes up most computer graphics, and Intel makes most integrated graphics, this makes Intel the largest supplier of graphics in the world. Bigger than NVIDIA, bigger than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NVIDIA Just Can&#8217;t Make Enough GPUs</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=701</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=701#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
	<category>GeForce 8800 GT</category>
	<category>Motherboard GPU</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NVIDIA recently had an amazing quarter. The company more than doubled its earnings. It scored its first billion dollars. NVIDIA is the first dedicated &#8220;GPU company to reach the billion dollar quarter level&#8221;.
Nevertheless things could have been better. For NVIDIA was and still is capacity constrained.
Capacity Limited
In the quarter before last, NVIDIA had phenomenal results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel Hard Pressed</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=698</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=698#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In spite of the recent setbacks in housing and the credit markets in the U.S., most component makers of computer equipment are in the midst of a boom. Results of the previous quarter ended even better than most third quarters, which are usually pretty strong.
The strength that was manifested in the previous period shows signs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel Walking Away From Low-End Business</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=699</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=699#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Both AMD and Intel were able to command good prices for their chips in the last quarter. Prices were up for AMD, and at Intel they were better than expected, which is to say for Intel, prices did not go down.
A Very Selective Approach
One reason for the favorable pricing surely is that Intel is letting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highest Growth for Intel in Ten Years</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=697</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=697#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel had a good last quarter, their best in a long time. It is hard to believe that just a few years ago, the server and desktop processors of Intel had lost their competitive edge. Then CPUs came along based on the Core microarchitecture: that is, the Core 2 families of processors and the Xeon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over Two Million Quad-cores in the Third Quarter</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=695</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=695#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel introduced its first CPUs based on the Core microarchitecture way back in June of 2006. This was the Xeon 5100 family of server processors, perhaps better known as Woodcrest.
First Quad-core Processors
Woodcrest was soon followed by Conroe and Merom&#8211;also known as Core 2 Duo&#8211;in July and August (still 2006) for desktops and notebooks. Then in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMD Building 45-nm Microprocessors as We Speak</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=694</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=694#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMD intends to begin ramping 45-nanometer technology in the first half of next year. Acording to the Chief Operating Officer, the company is &#8220;building 45 nanometer microprocessors as we speak&#8221;.
A 45-nanometer process technology will give AMD much-needed economies of scale. However, it won&#8217;t give them high-k/metal gate transistors. Expect the processors to run hotter than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Initial Ramp of Barcelona Slower Than AMD Anticipated</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=693</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=693#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
	<category>Barcelona</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barcelona is the codename for the new quad-core Opterons from AMD. At a recent conference call, AMD confessed that the first stage of the ramp of Barcelona had been &#8220;slower than anticipated&#8221;.
The current period hopes to be better. AMD managed to ship tens of thousands of quad-core processors in the previous period. In the current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMD&#8217;s Fab 38 will be like a Race Car Idling in a Pit Stop</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=692</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=692#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AMD has two fabs, Fab 30 and Fab 36. Fab 30 is in the process of converting to a 300-millimeter toolset, whereby it will be able to make CPUs out of larger 300-mm size silicon wafers. For this transition to happen, Fab 30 has to come offline. Once it comes back online it will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMD is not Going to Cut Its Way to Profitability</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=691</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=691#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Breaking Even
AMD lost money again in the recent period. However, the company should break even soon if everything keeps going as it has been. Their profit margins on their processors are such that if they keep increasing sales they should break even soon.
But what does break even mean? AMD has lost about $1.6 billion over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XMP, DDR3 Speed Bins, the Integrated CPU, and DDR4</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=690</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=690#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>Memory</category>
	<category>Interview</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Techgage interviewed the lead designer of XMP&#8211;which stands for Extreme Memory Profiles&#8211;at Intel.
Sometime last year, NVIDIA came out with something called Extreme Performance Profiles (EPP). EPP makes it easier to overclock memory. XMP is something similar, but from Intel. One difference is that the Intel technology applies to DDR3 memory, not DDR2. XMP represents &#8220;an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primary GPU Face-Off Shifts to the Midrange</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=689</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=689#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>Graphics</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an astounding turn of events, there shall be no showdown in high-end graphics cards or GPUs this Christmas season. Last year ATI missed its golden window of opportunity with the holiday buying season. This year NVIDIA too shall sit it out. Instead the war for graphics moves down a notch to the midrange, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel, AMD Optimize Transistors Differently</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=688</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=688#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Process Manufacturing</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people don&#8217;t care about the number of transistors on a CPU. Many people, however, do care about performance.
When it comes to the performance of transistors inside current-generation CPUs, Intel and AMD &#8220;appear to match fairly closely&#8221;.
Both Intel and AMD use a 65-nm process. However, a 65-nm process does not in itself make transistors the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memory Supply Outstripping Demand, per Micron</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=687</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=687#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Earnings Calls</category>
	<category>Micron</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supply and Demand
Micron bled red ink again for like the third straight quarter in a row. In spite of robust demand for NAND flash and DRAM, memory makers witnessed an &#8220;industry wide oversupply&#8221;.
It was a good thing demand was robust. Or Micron would have lost even more.
However, the chip industry is cyclical. Spending announcements at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semiconductors Healthy</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=686</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=686#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Semiconductors</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s October, and figures are in for the chip industry for August. August is an important month as it marks the beginning of the holiday season.
Unsurprisingly, NAND flash memory led the charge in semiconductors, NAND revenue being up a whopping 48% compared to last year and 19% versus the previous month. Supplies &#8220;tightened and prices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>nForce 780i Launches Same Day as Penryn</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=685</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=685#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>780i SLI</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechConnect says that the nForce 780i SLI chipset launches the same day as Penryn. The core logic is &#8220;set to have a hard launch on November 12&#8243;.
Intel and NVIDIA may end up stealing each other&#8217;s thunder by launching silicon on the same day. However, the launch of the 780i SLI may be complementary to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SkullTrail has Xeon Sockets, Desktop Processors</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=684</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=684#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Benchmark Literature</category>
	<category>SkullTrail</category>
	<category>AnandTech</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel demonstrated a SkullTrail system at IDF. SkullTrail is a high-end desktop with SLI graphics and two quad-core CPUs. That&#8217;s eight cores total.
SkullTrail is designed for Intel&#8217;s next-generation Penryn processors.
The SkullTrail motherboard had two LGA-771 sockets. These are Xeon workstation and server sockets. However, the processors used were the desktop processors codenamed Yorkfield.
Some analysts have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barcelona 45-nm Pilots and Demos as Early as December</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=683</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=683#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>Financial</category>
	<category>Barcelona</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a twist, one financial analyst has lowered expectations for AMD, yet retains his Buy recommendation for the stock.
Downgrading the company, the analyst cites the late introduction of Barcelona and slow clock speeds, which we already knew about, but also &#8220;poor uptake&#8221; (24/7 Wall St.).
The AmTech analyst furthermore attributes the problems of Barcelona to &#8220;a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SkullTrail Features Both MCPs and HyperTransport</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=682</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=682#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>SkullTrail</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel&#8217;s SkullTrail is to feature both Media and Communications Processors from NVIDIA and HyperTransport, which is a technology from AMD.
MCPs contain core logic. However, the core-logic features of the MCPs shall be turned off with the exception of SLI, which Intel wants and does not have a license for.
HyperTransport is a high-speed interconnect. The HyperTransport [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FB-DIMMs are Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=681</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=681#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Memory</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Inquirer reports that FB-DIMMs (FBDs) are dead. If FB-DIMM memory is dead, what shall replace it? The Inquirer says Registered DDR3 memory (RDDR3).
If true, the news is less spectacular than it sounds. It would affect only DP servers and workstations for one thing. Entry-level single-processor servers already do not use FBDs. They use DDR2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unable to Meet Demand with NAND</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=680</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=680#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Toshiba</category>
	<category>NAND</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toshiba is unable to meet demand with its NAND flash memory and is sold out. The semiconductor manufacturer can satisfy only about 70 percent of orders and is &#8220;turning the remaining business away&#8221;.
After a difficult first half, the NAND industry is booming again. Strangely prices remain a bit depressed in spite of the boom. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Core Logic for AMD and Intel</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=679</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=679#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>MCP</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NVIDIA recently released integrated graphics + core logic for Intel Core microarchitecture products. This was just the start apparently. Later this year NVIDIA releases additional  core logic for both Intel and AMD CPUs.
The core logic to be released later this year includes support for SLI, whereas the recently released core logic for Intel was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>X38 Launch Date Pushed Out</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=678</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=678#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>X38 Chipset</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The launch date for the X38 chipset has been pushed out to October 10, something that has to do with the BIOS microcode.
The delay brings the launch of the X38 to within about a month of the the launch of Penryn, Intel&#8217;s first 45-nm processors. Penryn shall be launched in server and desktop flavors on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Handful of Broad Architectures</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=677</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=677#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel has traditionally maintained two separate and distinct design teams for its CPUs. In the past, one of these design teams was dedicated to desktop and server designs, whereas the other focused on notebook processors.
Today Intel still has two predominant design teams, except that the mobile, desktop, and server lines have been consolidated under one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Graphics, Cheaper Prices</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=676</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=676#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>Financial</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
	<category>MCP</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not like we didn&#8217;t know NVIDIA was prepping integrated graphics for Intel CPUs. In fact, the chips are long overdue.
There&#8217;s nowhere to go but up when you are at the bottom. Jon Peddie reports that NVIDIA has less than 1% of the chipset market for Intel systems. NVIDIA accordingly has &#8220;big market potential&#8221;.
It appears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel to Have K8 to Contend with in Mobile</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=675</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=675#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Notebooks</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hector Ruiz has said that AMD would adopt different architectures for its mobile and server products moving forward. Turns out AMD&#8217;s way of maintaining two separate architectures cost effectively is to reuse its old architecture, K8, for mobile. Most of the changes surrounding AMD&#8217;s forthcoming mobile design involve not changes to the microprocessor itself but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beleagured Green Company</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=674</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=674#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Inquirer speculates that IBM might buy AMD. Buying AMD would give Intel competition and settle IBM&#8217;s &#8220;long standing grudge against Intel&#8221;.
Is there anyone IBM doesn&#8217;t have a grudge against? Grudge or no grudge, the two companies partner.
Another option is that a private equity group purchases AMD. The Inquirer suggests that this would be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New-Found Edge on PPW</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=673</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=673#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Barcelona</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would appear that performance per watt has swung to the advantage of AMD. So if energy efficiency is your bag, the new quad-core &#8220;Barcelona&#8221; Opterons deserve a close look.
Intel, however, retains the crown of performance. Opteron scales well, but it currently tops out at 2 GHz.
Because Barcelona scales so well, the performance lead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMD Adopts Intel&#8217;s Tick-Tock Model</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=668</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=668#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Technology Analyst Day</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMD shall adopt the tick-tock cadence of Intel, wherein a new CPU design follows upon a new process technology every other year.
AMD, too, shall offer new &#8220;core and new silicon technology in alternating years&#8221;.
 

 
AMD Technology Analyst Day

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		<title>Investment Protection</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=667</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=667#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Technology Analyst Day</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the key selling points of Opteron is investment protection. Makers of AMD systems have only needed to qualify two platforms between the years 2003 and 2009.
AMD platforms accompany memory technologies&#8211;DDR, DDR2, DDR3, that sort of thing&#8211;thanks to the company integrating the memory controller on-die.
Ironically, AMD would never transition to a new memory technology if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Shipping for Revenue Yet</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=666</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=666#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Technology Analyst Day</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barcelona is not shipping for revenue yet.
Production wafers are out, and Barcelona is on track to ship in August.
 

 
AMD Technology Analyst Day

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		<title>FB-DIMMs to not Affect Performance as Much</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=654</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=654#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming Intel chipset for dual-processor servers goes by the name of San Clemente. The platform is known as Cranberry Lake.
San Clemente is supposed to use registered DIMMs, RDIMMs, rather than fully-buffered DIMMs, FBDIMMs. With the new architecture, &#8220;FB-DIMM does not affect server performance as much as it used to&#8221;.
Nehalem shall feature on-die memory controllers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes Years to Make a Driver</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=653</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=653#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest challenges Intel faces in bringing its discrete graphics chip to life is in developing drivers for the hardware. It &#8220;takes years to make a driver&#8221;.
Intel is said to have over 75% more engineers devoted to the discrete graphics chip than worked on NVIDIA&#8217;s current reigning generation of graphics.
Even so, Intel may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Long Time in Purgatory</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=652</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=652#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>Financial</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel shares have been pent up for a long time. They&#8217;ve been &#8220;a long time in purgatory&#8221;.
Now the shares have been rising and hitting new 52-week highs.
It may be that Intel deserves its share price to go up. That being said, the share price has been going up not on Intel&#8217;s own merits but rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume Ramp Delayed</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=649</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=649#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It isn&#8217;t that Barcelona&#8217;s delayed. It&#8217;s that the volume ramp of Barcelona is delayed.
AMD&#8217;s main 300-millimeter SOI wafer supplier is having trouble giving guidance for the company&#8217;s fiscal year because of uncertainty surrounding the volume ramp of one of its customers. Semiconductor Fabtech says that customer is AMD.
The upshot is, &#8220;the Barcelona volume ramp is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speed Path Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=648</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=648#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlie at the INQUIRER writes that the B0 stepping of Barcelona from April had &#8220;speed path problems&#8221;.
This was the 1.6-GHz part that AMD and its partners demonstrated at Computex.
The next B1 stepping is the one AMD shall release to OEMs in August at speeds of up to 2 GHz. We could see Quad-core Opteron speed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel Prepares Response to Barcelona</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=646</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=646#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AMD recently announced that its Barcelona quad-core Opterion would ship to OEMs this August. Intel is rumored to have a response waiting in the wings. And it isn&#8217;t even a faster processor either.
Intel intends to release a lower clocked version of its quad-core chips. AMD shall release a 2-GHz Barcelona, so Intel shall release a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tigerton Will Have Barcelona to Contend with</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=642</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=642#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tigerton is the codename of the high-end Xeon multiprocessor CPU that debuts in the third quarter, scheduled for &#8220;the beginning of September&#8221;.
Tigerton will introduce the Core microarchitecture to 4-way servers and up.
There will be dual-core and quad-core Tigerton CPUs. Quad-core Tigerton shall predominate. Two dual-core Tigerton parts compare to six quad-core Tigerton models.
It wasn&#8217;t long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frequency to Offset Architectural Advantages</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=645</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=645#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barcelona may be the industry&#8217;s first native quad-core x86 processor. However, Intel processors will clock higher.
The industry anxiously awaits to see &#8220;how much frequency will offset architectural advantages&#8221;.
EET

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		<title>Cautionary Statement Most Important Part of Announcement</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=643</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=643#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Press Release</category>
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMD at last came forward and announced shipping time-frames for its Barcelona quad-core Opteron processors. The announcement quelled rumors that have been rampant surrounding the delays with the chip.
That being said, the most important part of the announcement may be the cautionary statement at the end. Forward-looking statements in the announcement &#8220;involve risks and uncertainties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turbo Memory for Desktop in Q1 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=639</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=639#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[DIGITIMES reported that Intel delayed Turbo Memory for the desktop to &#8220;the end of 2007 or first quarter of 2008&#8243;.
TM was supposed to ship in the third quarter according to sources at motherboard makers. Intel, however, &#8220;reacted to reports claiming that its Turbo Memory (Robson) tech for desktops is delayed&#8221; (INQUIRER).
Rather, TM for the desktop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improved Thermal Characteristics</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=640</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=640#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel has improved the thermal characteristics of some of its quad-core CPUs. &#8220;The new cores add no new features&#8221;.
The Register says that &#8220;Core 2 Quad now consumes up to 95W, down from 105W&#8221;.
Register

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		<title>Not Just a Quad-Core Chip</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=641</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=641#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Interview</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IDG recently interviewed the vice president of commercial business of AMD. &#8220;Barcelona is not just a quad-core chip&#8221;.
Intel takes a cache approach to performance, whereas AMD uses integrated memory controllers (IMCs). Barcelona and Intel quad-core server chips are &#8220;very different products&#8221;.
Back in the day, AMD&#8217;s X2 crushed Intel&#8217;s Pentium D. Going from single-core to dual-core [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAND Hand to Mouth</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=638</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=638#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Earnings Press Release</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
	<category>Micron</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Micron lost $225 million from March through May. Management nevertheless remained upbeat at a recent conference.
Memory companies are at the mercy of the laws of supply and demand. In this case, it wasn&#8217;t demand that drove prices down. It was supply, or rather oversupply.
Over the same period, Micron increased bit shipments by 30%. This &#8220;could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Longer Using ATI</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=637</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=637#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel used to put ATI chipsets in some of its low-end motherboards. ATI, however, was acquired by AMD, Intel&#8217;s archrival. So it appears that Intel began looking elsewhere for a chipset partner.
The D201GLY desktop motherboard contains a chipset from SiS. The board uses the ITX form factor.
The Celeron processor is based on Yonah, the mobile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel Penetrating Supercomputing</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=636</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=636#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over half of the computers on the current list of the top 500 supercomputers use Intel CPUs. IBM still holds the number one spot. Nevertheless &#8220;289 systems of the published list are based on Intel processors&#8221;.
Interestingly, most of the Intel CPUs are Woodcrest Xeon 5100 series, not quad-core Clovertown Xeon 5300. Last year, Intel was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potential Third Round of Layoffs</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=634</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=634#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMD may initiate a third round of layoffs in July. &#8220;What we are hearing in the background is there is indeed a so-called third round of layoffs coming, most likely in July&#8221;.
The company took down debt to finance its ATI acquisition and is now heavily in debt.
Opteron in its heyday made hundreds of millions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DirextX 10 Drivers Delayed</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=633</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=633#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Intel shall ship DirectX 10 hardware in the third quarter with its integrated graphics chipsets, DX10 drivers for the chipsets shall not appear until 2008. And &#8220;Intel&#8217;s G35 chipset was originally planned to support DirectX 10 at launch&#8221;.
Integrated graphics for notebooks will &#8220;delay their support of DirectX 10 until first quarter of 2008 too&#8221;.
Drivers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biggest Problem of V8 the Single GPU Slot</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=635</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=635#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel announced a high-end enthusiast desktop platform codenamed Skulltrail at IDF. Skulltrail is to contain &#8220;two sockets and four PCIe slots&#8221;.

That&#8217;s two sockets for two CPUs and four PCIe slots for graphics cards.
The PCIe slots shall only be 8x, not 16x. However, they shall also be second-generation PCIe, rather than first-generation. &#8220;This should be more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HPC Mainstream in Datacenters</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=632</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=632#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>Press Release</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[High-performance computing (HPC) is expanding &#8220;to more mainstream use in data centers&#8221;.
To assist HPC expansion, Intel is introducing cables and cluster technology. The cluster technology provides a way to use off-the-shelf applications.
The cables allow those with Infiniband or 10-gigabit Ethernet to reach throughput of up to 20 gbps.
The cable technology is designed to replace copper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chipset has a Built-in GPU</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=630</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=630#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MCP 73 is a chipset. It&#8217;s also &#8220;Nvidia&#8217;s first Intel platform IGP&#8221;.
MCP stands for media and communications processor. The MCP 73 combines the core logic of the nForce 630i with a GPU in the GeForce 7050.
The chipset was supposed to debut in May. Now it looks like August at the earliest. Not good.
The MCP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMD Mainstream Notebooks</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=631</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=631#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toshiba recently introduced computer systems with AMD microprocessors for &#8220;the first time in seven years&#8221;.
The computers are notebooks. Why not focus on the fastest growing types of computers?.
One of the notebooks retails for around $1,300. That&#8217;s not exactly low-end.
Toshiba was said to be using the AMD parts mainly for low-end notebooks. The notebooks might then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the Chips are Smaller Too</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=629</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=629#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel shall ramp its 45-nm process technology over the coming year. There will be four 45-nm fabs, and the transistors shall be smaller, so Intel should be able to get more CPUs out of each wafer.
Two 45-nm fabs shall come online in the second half of this year, and two in 2008. Intel has already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus Primarily on Consumers</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=627</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=627#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When AMD introduced 64-bit extensions, one of the applications was in making animated feature films.
Animators needed to address lots of memory in order to render features such as the hair on lots of animals, which they couldn&#8217;t do using 32-bit processors. Opteron was a big hit in the entertainment community, a classic case of hardware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>200-mm Still Outnumbers 300-mm</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=628</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=628#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Semiconductors</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fabs manufacture wafers that are typically either 200 millimeters or 300 millimeters in diameter.
While 300-millimeter fabs are state of the art, more semiconductors today are manufactured on the older 200-mm technology. 300-mm wafers account for only about 37% of the output, 200-mm 56%.
300-mm output is growing, of course. &#8220;200mm capacity peaked at 71.0 percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bygone Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=626</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=626#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1995 the Pentium Pro was introduced leading to dual and multi-processor x86 servers that replaced proprietary systems engineered and provisioned by single companies.
Intel has had less success with Itanium. The idea is the same, though. Replace a system engineered by a single vendor with multiple players and off-the-shelf components.
Intel Blog

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		<title>40% Cheaper Than 1066-MHz FSB CPUs</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=622</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=622#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The introduction of the 1333-MHz front-side bus (FSB) on the desktop shall stop production of certain 1066-MHz FSB Core 2 Duos.
Intel shall cut prices of many of its CPUs on July 22, at which time it shall introduce desktop processors that support a 1333-MHz FSB. These are not Penryn processors, which will also be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strongest in Five Years</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=625</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=625#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel is the strongest it&#8217;s been &#8220;for the past five years&#8221;.
INQUIRER

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		<title>Competitive Landscape a Three-Way</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=624</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=624#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NVIDIA may have denied Intel a SLI license, but it is hard to see how this hurts Intel. Chipsets are lower profit margin parts than CPUs. By not selling a chipset with a CPU, Intel makes a greater percentage of profit. Intel still wins.
The strategy of NVIDIA is to focus on the high end and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eleven Consecutive Quarters</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=623</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=623#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Financial</category>
	<category>NVIDIA</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gross profit margins of NVIDIA have &#8220;expanded for 11 consecutive quarters&#8221;.
MarketWatch

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		<title>Lead Lost</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=621</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=621#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>AMD</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PC World writes that it has been a while since a lead was &#8220;lost as dramatically as AMD&#8217;s on the desktop&#8221;.
PC World

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		<title>High K Metal Gates At 45-nm in 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=620</link>
		<comments>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=620#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>The Literature</category>
	<category>Process Manufacturing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;IBM will implement its high-k/metal-gate solution at the 45-nm node, slated for 2008&#8243;.
Nor is IBM alone. EET mentions others that &#8220;are racing to implement the technologies at the 45-nm node&#8221;.
Intel has said that its competitors would be hard pressed to execute metal gate at the 32-nm node, much less 45-nm. Maybe Intel has underestimated its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Technology Curve</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=618</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel manufactures its Itanium 2 chips on a 90-nanometer process. By contrast, Sun and IBM both use the more advanced 65-nanometer node. Thus in the high end, Intel is &#8220;actually behind the technology curve&#8221;.
Maybe this is the reason Intel proposes to skip a generation in process manufacturing with its Itanium line and go from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Common Chipset with Xeon MP</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=619</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Itanium chip codenamed Poulson shall consist of a new microarchitecture. Intel has not used a new microarchitecture for its high-end server chips since the introduction of Itanium 2.
A chip codenamed Tukwila appears to be influenced by the Nehalem x86 design. Like Nehalem, Tukwila shall feature integrated memory controllers. In addition, &#8220;Tukwila will share a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Move Chipmakers Make</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=615</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>The Literature</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cutting prices in the CPU business helps clear old inventory. That&#8217;s one of the reasons price cuts often accompany new product introductions. It&#8217;s why &#8220;cutting prices is a move chipmakers make on a regular basis&#8221;.
CPUs, like GPUs, are a winner-take-all business. The one who has the best-performing chip &#8220;gets to charge the most&#8221;.
The runner-up is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Words on Itanium</title>
		<link>http://www.askaboutcomputers.com/blog/?p=617</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Intel</category>
	<category>primary sources</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few words from Pat Gelsinger on Itanium. In the past, Intel&#8217;s &#8220;execution had been poor&#8221;.
Montecito is the current Itanium 2. Montvale is due later this year and is &#8220;the next stepping of Montecito&#8221;.
Tukwilla will follow in 2008 and Poulson in the 2010/2011 timeframe.
Xeon and Opteron compete in the volume server space, which is &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
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