It doesn't favor ARM, but I wouldn't say that it specifically disfavors them either. The problem isn't ARM's business model, but rather that going forward, no one but Intel (and to some extent Samsung and IBM) will have access to modern fabs with sufficient capacity. And the chip sizes don't...
The basic problem is that despite that ARM has a lot of wind in its back, TSMC (which supplies Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia and TI (?)) can't even provide enough wafers for its customers. At the same time, Intel has released an at least somewhat competitive smartphone SoC at 32nm and will move to a...
That makes sense. I wonder if IBM's existing x86 license coupled with AMD's ISA extension-sharing agreements with Intel could somehow render IBM with an x86-64 license in the event of an IBM buyout of AMD, but I'm really speculating wildly at this point. I also think there is a clause in the...
I can't really say that they do need AMD (whatever direction they take), but I figure that if demand for POWER systems really becomes so small that IBM can't justify continuing development on them (which, admittedly, is unlikely, if for no other reason that IBM in any case would have to continue...
That's exactly why IBM wants to sell you their hardware and is ready to cut prices substantially to make sure you do. The amount of maintenance they can sell you (and the amount of control they exert over the future of computing and the computer market as a whole) grows less when their customers...
Exactly. Software and services is without a doubt the primary business of IBM these days, but their software division would be weaker without their hardware division.
Discounting systems is standard practice in this industry, and has to do with the scale and breadth of your hardware purchases, your history as a customer and what software and support contracts you buy with your hardware. In fact, paying list price for large-scale enterprise servers is rare. I...
That's true in a limited sense, but for a systems company like IBM there is more to selling hardware than the profits you make on hardware sales directly (which is just a function of the price tag you choose to set on your systems anyway). Just ask Larry Ellison why Oracle is so keen on...
Do you seriously think that an Intel monopoly on server CPUs is a good position for IBM to be in, whether strategically (control over platforms, programming models etc.) or purely economically (prices of Intel CPUs that go into IBM x86 servers)? That the RISC CPU market is shrinking (albeit with...
Apple will never fab their own chips. Anyone who understands the slightest bit about Apple's business model (maximal profits with a minimum of capital expenditures, and minimal risk in the manufacturing chain) can figure out why.
I can imagine that Qualcomm would, since they are already making...
No wonder that Google has partnered with Intel through Motorola over the future of the Android ecosystem, and made such an effort to optimize Android for x86. They might have seen this coming.
Also, this is just so damn funny. The ARM party is over before it even started.
That's not accurate. Real World Technologies puts the SB pipeline length at 2 stages more than that of Nehalem in case of a micro-op cache miss, which would make the number 18. For reference, the original NetBurst had a 20 stage pipeline.
HMC is a new way of making DRAM chips, not integrated memory. It could (and probably will) be added to CPUs as a separate layer of silicon, but so could the standard DRAM that we have today. The main application for HMC memory will probably be traditional DIMM sticks.
There's also no real...
Intel has already stated repeatedly that Haswell will have upgraded GTxxx graphics just like Sandy Bridge. Further down the road they are bound to use either LRBni or AVX2 software rendering though.
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