By Antone Gonsalves March 4, 2009
GlobalFoundries, the chip-manufacturing spin-off of Advanced Micro Devices, officially opened for business Wednesday and laid out its preparations for moving to next-generation 32-nanometer products. The joint venture of AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Co. said it will expand its Dresden, Germany, manufacturing capacity by bringing a second facility online in late 2009. Called Fab 1, the Dresden complex will dedicate one of its two facilities to making 45-nm chips, which AMD is in the process of transitioning its products to, and the other to 32-nm processors. The numbers refer to the size of the microprocessor circuitry. The smaller the size, the more transistors can be placed on a piece of silicon, which translates into much higher performance without increasing power consumption. The move to 32-nm is seen as the next big jump in processor performance. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Nvidia announces x86 chip
We told you so...
By Charlie Demerjian, 4 March 2009
NVIDIA ANNOUNCED AN x86 CPU – you know, those things that don't matter – yesterday at a Morgan Stanley conference. We told you so. The pronouncement is at the end of the talk, you can hear it here. If anyone has a transcript, please post a link in the comments, we couldn't find one. I wonder what the fanbois will say now? Who really cares? The important thing is what the Intel legal team will say when they get off the emergency 3am conference call they will be on in 3... 2... 1... Given Nvidia's track record of compute correctness of late, I wouldn't want one of these to run my toaster much less a PC.
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By Charlie Demerjian, 4 March 2009
NVIDIA ANNOUNCED AN x86 CPU – you know, those things that don't matter – yesterday at a Morgan Stanley conference. We told you so. The pronouncement is at the end of the talk, you can hear it here. If anyone has a transcript, please post a link in the comments, we couldn't find one. I wonder what the fanbois will say now? Who really cares? The important thing is what the Intel legal team will say when they get off the emergency 3am conference call they will be on in 3... 2... 1... Given Nvidia's track record of compute correctness of late, I wouldn't want one of these to run my toaster much less a PC.
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Microsoft Quietly Working on Live Search Service
By Michael Barkoviak - March 4, 2009
Microsoft is internally testing a new search engine aimed at live search. Looking to better fight back against Google and Yahoo, Microsoft spokespeople have confirmed the company is working on a new online search service that is being internally tested. Kumo, a Japanese word meaning both "spider" and "cloud," is not available to the public, but it's possible Kumo.com will eventually be opened up to the public. "Kumo.com exists only inside the corporate network, and in order to get enough feedback we will be redirecting internal live.com traffic over to the test site in the coming days," a memo posted by Satya Nadella said. "Kumo is the codename we have chosen for the internal test."
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Microsoft is internally testing a new search engine aimed at live search. Looking to better fight back against Google and Yahoo, Microsoft spokespeople have confirmed the company is working on a new online search service that is being internally tested. Kumo, a Japanese word meaning both "spider" and "cloud," is not available to the public, but it's possible Kumo.com will eventually be opened up to the public. "Kumo.com exists only inside the corporate network, and in order to get enough feedback we will be redirecting internal live.com traffic over to the test site in the coming days," a memo posted by Satya Nadella said. "Kumo is the codename we have chosen for the internal test."
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