Seems this guy is some kind of computer fantasist. That or he worked at a data center for a long time, burnt out, and went insane. Not sure why such an advanced computer would still have such legacy features such as a BIOS. You'd think everything would evolve in unison!
100,000 machines, that's not small either. In a power to initial investment ratio it is still that same. This is why we have percentages ;) You could save more money by not replacing employee machines until a day later.
Correct. The ISA is one of the parts of the CPU that has technical documentation that is open to the public so it may seem significant as it can be criticised much more easily. The rest is all secret because it is HARD stuff and a Intel don't want the competition knowing about it. Instruction...
Still running Core2Duo + 8800GT. Can play all the games that come out today, sure not on highest quality but I can still play them. Web browsing no problems either.
The worst parts of old systems are the hard drives and I think this is what makes them feel slow a lot of the time. Hard drives...
People used to program GPU's directly, a long time ago. The API's make life much easier. GPU's have a very complex pipeline and are asynchronous in nature. Also there can be a lot of IP involved just in the hardware and software side, so this tends to be kept secret.
The shader instruction...
People in this thread think AMD will get $60 per unit? Hilarious.
AMD making $21.9B from PS4? That's like half the total revenue the PS4 will be lucky to achieve in its lifetime.
Who is fabbing the APU? They need money too.
Back to reality. As far as I can see AMD is selling IP for the PS4...
Also Intel processors are as cheap as they have ever been. You can buy the top of the line desktop CPU for ~$300 (excluding Socket 2011). Back in 2006 that only got you a Q6600. Of course that was lately replaced by a faster CPU that used to cost $572 but was bumped down into the $266 slot. But...
Note how all the tests that Nvidia quotes power consumption are basically CPU and GPU idle tasks.
Video decode and encode is done by dedicated hardware.
Web / book reading. How long is this measured over? Do they actually render the page?
Audio playback, more dedicated hardware, display off...
I retract the above statement about T4i being single channel as after doing some analysis I don't think T4i is going to be 60mm2. I am not sure where Anand got that figure from in this article? http://www.anandtech.com/show/6753/nvidia-announces-tegra-4i-formerly-project-grey-with-integrated-lte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A5X
March 2012 is "a few months"? Also the new iPad will smash T4 to pieces in terms of graphics performance. Fool yourself otherwise if you wish.
Qualcomm apple whoever. When others release devices can be purchased within weeks. When Nvidia releases it's 3/4...
A5X will have been replaced twice by the time Tegra 4 ships in volume.
Nvidia is a hype machine though and supposedly smart people buy into that. They show a die shot and people infer that the SoC is complete and all the drivers are complete and that the product is released. Many companies...
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