The People's Liberation Army tells the story of how they achieved PetaFlop with Opteron and Radeon. The difficulty lies in fully exploiting the potential of the GPU. Initially, they could only get 20% of the performance of the GPUs. After months of work, they attained 70% of the FP power of the GPUs.

I can't believe this. Bought a Athlon II X3 440 (3GHz Triple Core) and MSI 785G E45 motherboard for less than $100. The motherboard has the built in core unlock feature. Just change the bios setting, and now I have a quad core CPU running at 3GHz, and I haven't overclock this thing yet. The inexpensive yet feature laiden MSI board has a ton of features to overclock the beast.Only idiots will buy

GLOBALGOUNDRIES says it will start cranking out 32nm SOI chips in 3Q10. As we know, it has one customer for that technology--AMD.This is no less shocking than the news that the Chinese shot down an ICBM.

Even the diehard Intel supporter Anand sees that Intel's chips are not that good under Windows 7. The Core i5 661 3.33 GHz ($196) is substantially slower than Athlon II X3 435 ($100) at 2.9GHz in x264 encoding. BTW, it's just a total waste of silicon for Intel to glue those non-competitive integrated graphics with the 32nm CPUs -- people still need to buy a separate graphics card for some 3D fun.

Intel received another drop of bomb in its legal front yard. Now, it's the United States of America versus Intel Corporation. The Intel-AMD settlement was a sweet deal for both AMD and Intel. AMD got some money and the freedom to have10 Fabs built with Arabian gold. Intel saves $16 billion in treble damages. Time is more important for AMD.Now. the FTC took the charge against the mighty Intel.

See here.Intel didn’t specify this bug until September when it was mentioned in its specification updates under AAK119 (Xeon 5500), AAM123 (Xeon 3500), AAO89 (Xeon 3400), AAJ121 (Core i7-900) and AAN87 (Core i7-800, Core i5). ... Microsoft now describes the disaster under error number 975 530, provides a hotfix (on e-mail request) that is not further specified and otherwise proposes the

Well, those who wanted to see some dirty stuff are disappointed. Intel and AMD signed a settlement agreement.One thing in the agreement is that Intel will not dope benchmarks:"Intel shall not include any Artificial Performance Impairment in any Intel product or require any Third Party to include an Artificial Performance Impairment in the Third Party’s product.As used in this Section 2.3, “

Fun stuff to read. Like a Mafia story. Now, read my analysis back in 2005.On December 6, 2004, Intel’s Otellini emailed Intel’s Dell account representative about his concern that Dell would defect to AMD: “I had the analysts dinner tonight. One of the analysts … said he talked with Kevin [Rollins] today and Kevin told him it was ‘inevitable’ that Dell would use Opteron…” The next day, the Intel

The small 320GB hard drive in my desktop is getting filled, so I bought a bunch of 1TB external ones. But a small internal drive is always a limitation. So I decided to do some upgrade. And I found the simplest and probably the cheapest upgrade is to get a whole a new PC powered by AMD technologist and Windows 7.I was buying a Windows 7 Notebook (a beautiful Gateway machine powered by AMD Turion

Interesting stuff to read. Four companies formed a secret alliance to escape the death claw of Intel.In a presentation of 10 January 2003 on Dell rebates, [Intel Executive] outlined alist of objectives to be achieved by Intel in a high-level executive meeting withDell. This includes the following objective: "Get [Dell Senior Executive]/OOC [abbreviation used by Dell meaning Office Of the Chair

Most Americans cannot read and comprehend. But the news is AMD is profitable now.The idiot who wrote this can't understand plain English.http://seekingalpha.com/article/167233-amd-q3-results-approach-breakevenHe says: "Revenue of $1.39 billion was up 17.9% sequentially and down 21.4% year over year, better than management’s expectations of a slight sequential increase. However, excluding the $191

Investigation shows Intel cheated in benchmarks and the cheating boosted is benchmark numbers by up to 46%. In the duped benchmark test, Intel is ahead of AMD by 40%. Yet, in real world test, AMD is 200% of Intel.

According to this report, EC has published some internal Intel emails, with some juicy details. In response, Intel accuses the European Commission of mischaracterizing the documents.

Amazing, Intel followed AMD on technologies: AMD64, Direct Connect, HyperTransport, IMC, NX Bit, Multi-Core, L3 Cache, Performance/Watt, Spinning off flash business... Now it follows AMD to restructure it business units, closely mirroring AMD's effort.The only thing Intel can't copy is AMD "Asset Smart". Intel does not do SOI, and its FABs are not attractive to GLOBALFOUNDRIES.

So, I bought a DELL Mini 10, with stuff like GPS built-in. Why? I had this $200 DELL gift certificate, and I had to spend it.I have to say the Mini 10 was good for the price after the $200 off. Otherwise, it is far better to buy the Gateway 11.1 inch AMD netbook with a 1.2GHZ Athlon 64 CPU.The DELL mini 10 is good enough for surfing the web and play minesweeper, the battery life is OK. But one

Abu Dhabi's ATIC are on a shopping spree to buy FABs. It has now acquired the nine FABs of Chartered and is looking for more. With the mega FABs in Dresden and New York, ATIC/GLOBALFOUNDRIES are in a roll to world FAB domination.This is smart. The dollar still worth something. And Abu Dhabi has plenty of the paper. Before the dollar bills turn into germ infested garbage worth less than pieces of

Note this from Fudzilla, apparently, this is AMD's 45nm mobile CPUs with K10.5 technology. I almost regret that I bought this red notebook that makes ladies turn their heads. Hopefully, AMD will sell boxed CPUs, so I can do a quick and dirty replacement with the 45nm chip.Since AMD can do 6 cores in 40watts, we can expect these CPUs to do 7 watts single core. That's will be 4x the speed of Intel

European Union ombudsman P. Nikiforos Diamandouros accused EC for mishandling the guilty verdict against Intel. His reason? A Dell person said AMD processor performance was "poor."The dude is either a moron or has been bought by Intel. Of course Dell and Intel will say AMD chips are bad. But why has Intel copied every piece of AMD technology and forced its customers not to buy AMD?

My old desktop was running a Phenom X3 8450 triple core processor. The clock speed was 2.1Ghz. It was blazingly faster for running Windows XP and Windows 7.But two days ago, I noticed this Athlon II X2 245 processor running at 2.9Ghz for $66 with free shipping. As those who are educated know, this is a 45nm chip built on the K10.5 Shanghai technology. Since the total Ghz is 2x2.9 = 5.8 Ghz,

The Intel Pentium Su2700 CPU is a single core, 1.3GHZ core speed, 800MHZ ancient FSB CPU made on 45nm. The SU2700's heat generation is 10 watts. The AMD 200U CPU is 1GHZ with 1.6GHZ HyperTransport made on 65nm SOI, its heat production is 8 watts.Moreover, the AMD CPU uses direct connect, the memory controller is built in. The Intel one needs a separate chipset, and usually that is another 10