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Marvell MACCHIATObin Delayed

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Estimated shipping : end of October (Based on availability from Marvell)” See Marvell MACCHIATObinOne of the candidates to replace my AMD64 hair-drying Beast was promised for September but now it’s October… Shucks! Socketed RAM, SATA connectors, lots of Ethernet… Why can’t … Continue reading →

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Failing To Deliver What The Customer Wants

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Robert Pogson

“Gigabyte Technology is expected to see its motherboard shipments fall under 13 million units in 2017 from 16-17 million units in 2016, and could struggle to maintain the 10 million level in 2018, due largely to the dwindling desktop PC … Continue reading →

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Free Software Foundation Keeps On Giving

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Robert Pogson

“Meanwhile, freedom is threatened even at the level of the processors in PCs. The current generation of Intel and AMD processor chips are designed with vicious back doors that users cannot shut off. (In Intel processors, it’s the “management engine”.) No … Continue reading →

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Free Radeon

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Robert Pogson

“Based on the Polaris GPU architecture, the Radeonâ„¢ Pro WX (workstation experience) graphics cards employ the latest advances in AMD’s fourth generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture are optimized for an extensive list of ISV applications. And they are fully … Continue reading →

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Trusting Intel…

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Robert Pogson

“ME has access to everything that is important. It has unconstrained access to DRAM, to the actual CPU, to GPU, it can also talk to your networking card, especially your Ethernet card, the controller for which is also in the … Continue reading →

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AMD Drops Oracle

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Robert Pogson

“The migration of 276TB of data, which was completed last year, was prompted by "an environment outage that took weeks to recover," according to an internal document seen by El Reg. This encouraged AMD to replace Oracle for something else.In … Continue reading →

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AMD Plans To Compete On Price/Performance In Servery

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Robert Pogson

I pretty well wrote off AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) when they utterly failed to develop an ARMed CPU many years ago for the thin client and mobile markets but there’s still some hope. In their latest roadmap, there’s an ARMed … Continue reading →

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AMD: “we also see a market for Android and Chrome developing”

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Robert Pogson

“AMD, the chip maker which was making chips exclusively for Microsoft’s Windows platform is now considering designing chips for Google’s open source Android and Chrome OS.” see AMD also walks out of Microsoft camp, to design chips for Android, Chrome … Continue reading →

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Is Higher Resolution The Only Hope For The Legacy PC Industry?

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Robert Pogson

“The only hope for the PC industry is 4K, but 4K or UHD panels are still prohibitively expensive and it will take a few years before we see affordable 4K monitors in the 23- to 26-inch range. Pricing is not … Continue reading →

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Wintel Contracts Sharply – IDC

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Robert Pogson

“Worldwide PC shipments totaled 76.3 million units in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), down -13.9% compared to the same quarter in 2012 and worse than the forecast decline of -7.7%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly … Continue reading →

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AMD Sticks With Socketed CPUs

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Robert Pogson

“AMD has a long history of supporting the DIY and enthusiast desktop market with socketed CPUs & APUs that are compatible with a wide range of motherboard products from our partners. That will continue through 2013 and 2014 with the … Continue reading →

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AMD ARMed

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Robert Pogson

Years ago I advocated AMD CPUs as a less-expensive alternative to Intel monopolistic pricing. When they completely ignored the netbook I began to ignore them. Perhaps they noticed because now they have an ARMed CPU on the horizion: “Advanced Micro … Continue reading →

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