"An excellent book!" — Paul Wilmott Principles of quantitative development With the announcement that Via is leaving the Third Party Chipset market and amidst rumors of nVidia’s imminent departure from the chipset game we wonder if there will be a time in the very near future where we are left with two platform choices....
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Archive for August 11th, 2008
Death of the Third Party Chipset
Perception Part Three; AMD Flavored
"An excellent book!" — Paul Wilmott Principles of quantitative development Is AMD making a comeback? For the last two or so years it seems that AMD has not be able to get out of its own way, from horribly timed acquisitions to botched chipsets and GPU/CPUs. These last few years have been painful to...
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More fun with Perception and Spin
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy "For thinking laymen." Is nVidia sinking? Over the last few weeks there have been articles (some written by me) talking about the massive issues that nVidia is facing. These issues range from bad mobile GPUs to failed high-end chipsets. But amid all of this rumor...
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Intel Chooses Name for Nehalem
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 11, 2008 – Intel Corporation announced today that desktop processors based on the company’s upcoming new microarchitecture (codenamed “Nehalem”) will be formally branded “Intel® Core™ processor.” The first products in this new family of processors, including an “Extreme Edition” version, will carry an “i7” identifier and will be formally branded...
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Where Perception and Reality Meet
It is no secret that I hate FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt), nor is it a secret that I have been trying to (in whatever small way I can ) debunk much of the FUD about Microsoft and Vista in particular. Well now it seems that I have some actual research to back up...
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