AMD Introduces New Opterons 128
New submitter Lonewolf666 writes "According to SemiAccurate, AMD is introducing new Opterons that are essentially 'Opteron-ized versions of Vishera.'
TDPs are lower than in their desktop products, and some of these chips may be interesting for people who want a cool and quiet PC."
And on the desktop side, ZDNet reports that AMD will remain committed to the hobbyist market with socketed CPUs.
Re:AMD SUcks (Score:1, Insightful)
Everyone knows that Intel is better, and competition in the CPU market is not a good thing. I hope AMD goes out of business soon, so that Intel can lower the price of their chips.
Yea, because usually when a company has no competition they lower prices. Happens all the time.
Re:Not watching the trends? (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, all modern OSs do a fantastic job of taking advantage of multiple cores. It's the apps that fail to do so.
As for OSs that take advantage of low power CPUs, you only mention MS - who (I suppose) has done a good job of this with Windows RT on the Surface. And maybe even a good job with whatever the hell Windows Phones run. It's just that consumers have not liked the apps. Of course Apple and Google both have solid contenders in the embedded space.
So, as it always has been: "It's the applications, dummy."
What are you trying to get at?
Re:AMD SUcks (Score:3, Insightful)
...competition in the CPU market is not a good thing. I hope AMD goes out of business soon, so that Intel can lower the price of their chips.
What? Competition drives innovation and lowers prices. It happened with AMD's Athlon killing the old Netburst P4s. It happened with x64 killing IA-64. Why would AMD leaving the market "let" Intel lower CPU prices?
Oh, I'm sorry, you're just a troll, without the possibility of reasonable discourse or fair and reasoned debate. Forgive my oversight.
Re:Not watching the trends? (Score:4, Insightful)
I think he's saying that CPUs bought several years ago are good enough for most people and the need to upgrade hardware every few years is not as pressing as it once was. One way to force this is to bloat software like OS so that you needed new processors.
This leaves MS in a difficult place as most consumer tend to buy new machines to get new Windows versions instead of upgrading. There are rumors that MS is switching to a yearly release to entice consumers to upgrade. It is nearly the same model that Apple uses.
A key difference is that while Apple might make some profit on OS upgrades, they make a lot more on hardware. Thus MS is trying to get into the hardware business as well.
Re:Not watching the trends? (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh I completely dig that idea. If it is of no use to you (ie. you aren't selling it) then you have apparently exhausted its value to you as a business. It is now your responsibility under the contract of copyright, to release it to the public domain. But no. "The value" is maintained by keeping it away from the public in order to ensure that they keep buying the same things over and over and over again. This is a public abuse which could only be enabled by copyright law.
So copyright went from the right to copy and distribute to the right to take it away from the public and to withhold information, arts and technology.
Re:Keep 'em Coming (Score:4, Insightful)
- Core density
- Virtualization extension on all Opteron chips (and now most desktop chips, even the A6-4455M in my laptop)
Not all XEONs have hardware virtualization. Only some of the most expensive chips have it and even then, it can be spotty.
Bottom line, AMD wins in virtualization/"cloud" market (and supercomputing).
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