By Joseph F. Kovar, Nov. 16, 2009
More of the top supercomputers in the world are running AMD processor or graphics technology than ever before, but Intel continues to dominate the space. Five of the world's fastest supercomputers utilize AMD processors or the vendor's ATI graphics. In total, however, 402 of the world's top 500 systems utilize Intel processors. IBM Power processors are the second most common chips among the top systems, appearing in 52 of the top 500 supercomputers, followed by AMD's Opteron family, which resides in 42 systems. AMD, flush with victory over arch-rival Intel following last week's settlement of antitrust-related legal action, said Monday that the top three supercomputers in the world run on the company's Opteron processors, pointing to the semiannual list published by the TOP500 Project. They include the world's fastest supercomputer, a Cray XT5 system known as "Jaguar" in use at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which was recently upgraded to six-core processors from the computer's previous quad-core architecture. Jaguar knocked the previous No. 1 supercomputer, "Roadrunner" from the top spot on the list. Now the No. 2 computer on the list, the Department of Energy's "Roadrunner" features an IBM chip as its primary processor and also utilizes AMD Opteron technology. No. 3 on the list, a Cray XT5 system named "Kraken" that's in use at the University of Tennessee's National Institute for Computational Sciences, also uses AMD Opteron processors, said John Furehe, director of product marketing at AMD's Servers and Workstations division. Altogether, Furehe said, AMD technology was a part of five of the top 10, 10 of the top 20 and 42 of the top 500 supercomputers, according to the TOP500 Organization.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Verizon Mocks AT&T's Ad Lawsuit, Commenting "The Truth Hurts"
The nation's largest wireless provider fires back in court
By Jason Mick November 17, 2009
AT&T and Verizon, the nation's second largest and largest telecoms, respectively, are at open war. With Verizon's new Droid phone looking to challenge the iPhone as the reigning media smartphone, the pair wage battle in the court room over Verizon's commercials which depict AT&T's poor 3G coverage. It has been reported that in some areas, such as New York City, that AT&T's call drop rates are as high as 30 percent -- or that it merely has no 3G service at all. However, AT&T does have broad coverage under its older EDGE network, and it claims that Verizon's ads are deceptive. AT&T's argument basically boils down to a claim that the average viewer is fooled to believe that Verizon commercial's maps represent 3G coverage and not total coverage -- despite several textual and audio clues. Thus it claims the commercials are misleading and damaging. Initially AT&T only sued over Verizon's "There's a map for that" series, which introduced Verizon's rich red map and AT&T's lacking blue map to viewers, all while poking fun at Apple's iPhone slogan ("There's an app for that"). AT&T recently expanded the suit to include Verizon's new Christmas themed ads "The Island of Misfit Toys".
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By Jason Mick November 17, 2009
AT&T and Verizon, the nation's second largest and largest telecoms, respectively, are at open war. With Verizon's new Droid phone looking to challenge the iPhone as the reigning media smartphone, the pair wage battle in the court room over Verizon's commercials which depict AT&T's poor 3G coverage. It has been reported that in some areas, such as New York City, that AT&T's call drop rates are as high as 30 percent -- or that it merely has no 3G service at all. However, AT&T does have broad coverage under its older EDGE network, and it claims that Verizon's ads are deceptive. AT&T's argument basically boils down to a claim that the average viewer is fooled to believe that Verizon commercial's maps represent 3G coverage and not total coverage -- despite several textual and audio clues. Thus it claims the commercials are misleading and damaging. Initially AT&T only sued over Verizon's "There's a map for that" series, which introduced Verizon's rich red map and AT&T's lacking blue map to viewers, all while poking fun at Apple's iPhone slogan ("There's an app for that"). AT&T recently expanded the suit to include Verizon's new Christmas themed ads "The Island of Misfit Toys".
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Nvidia CEO Wants Further Action Against Intel
Nvidia's CEO says that additional measures need to be taken against Intel.
by Kevin Parrish November 16, 2009
Even though Intel must now shell out a whopping $1.25 billion USD to rival AMD, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says that there needs to be further action taken against Intel. It's not the first time Nvidia has spoken out against the CPU giant: its complained about Intel's business practices for years, especially in the mobile sector. As it stands, Intel currently owns 53-percent of the GPU market share, followed by a distant 24-percent with Nvidia. In the notebook integrated market, Intel commands a hammering 80-percent of the market. Nvidia claims that the latter number stems from Intel's "bundling" tactics, and that the company is impeding competition on two chipset fronts. "Intel's tactics with Ion have been the most aggressive we've seen from a competitor. They have offered the Atom [a total of three chips] for $25, but when the one-chip Atom is used with Ion, it sells for $45," Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang said in a statement provided to CNET. "A customer can't even choose to resell the chipset and use Ion instead. What's the point of Nvidia getting an Intel bus license if it's impossible to overcome Intel's pricing bundles?" he asked, referring the licensing fee that Nvidia pays Intel.
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by Kevin Parrish November 16, 2009
Even though Intel must now shell out a whopping $1.25 billion USD to rival AMD, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says that there needs to be further action taken against Intel. It's not the first time Nvidia has spoken out against the CPU giant: its complained about Intel's business practices for years, especially in the mobile sector. As it stands, Intel currently owns 53-percent of the GPU market share, followed by a distant 24-percent with Nvidia. In the notebook integrated market, Intel commands a hammering 80-percent of the market. Nvidia claims that the latter number stems from Intel's "bundling" tactics, and that the company is impeding competition on two chipset fronts. "Intel's tactics with Ion have been the most aggressive we've seen from a competitor. They have offered the Atom [a total of three chips] for $25, but when the one-chip Atom is used with Ion, it sells for $45," Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang said in a statement provided to CNET. "A customer can't even choose to resell the chipset and use Ion instead. What's the point of Nvidia getting an Intel bus license if it's impossible to overcome Intel's pricing bundles?" he asked, referring the licensing fee that Nvidia pays Intel.
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Droid is a major threat to Apple
Analysis The beast cometh
By Nick Farrell, 17 November 2009
IT IS WRITTEN in the book of the revelations of Steve Jobs that the world will be swamped in a sea of open sauce and people shall not heed the hallowed press releases from Cupertino any longer. It predicts a grave time, when the smug, after inheriting the world with their nifty gadgets, will be mocked for being backward. This terrible course of events can be avoided, says the book of Jobs, if mankind repents and buys whatever Steve tells them to at whatever price he names. Now it seems that people have not been buying Ithings fast enough for the beast, or rather the anti-Iphone, is upon us. The Motorola Droid is proving popular with the great unwashed. After only a week in the stores 250,000 people have snatched up Droids according to Flurry, an analytics firm specialising in mobile applications. This is four times the number of launch-week sales estimated for the Mytouch 3G, which had previously been considered the fastest-selling Android device. Droid's 250,000 figure puts it well above the Mytouch, but still well below the Iphone. More than 1.6 million Iphones went out the doors during its first seven days. However the Iphone 3GS was building upon a massive base of brainwashed Apple fanboys whipped into a frenzy by the tame Apple press vying to show Steve how loyal they were to the faith. Droid started out from scratch with few people knowing what it was. It also only launched in the US while the Iphone 3GS was launched in eight countries during its first week. True it is a long way from being an Iphone killer even if it has emerged in a strong position. But taken together with Android's popularity among mobile phone makers, Apple might have something to worry about.
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By Nick Farrell, 17 November 2009
IT IS WRITTEN in the book of the revelations of Steve Jobs that the world will be swamped in a sea of open sauce and people shall not heed the hallowed press releases from Cupertino any longer. It predicts a grave time, when the smug, after inheriting the world with their nifty gadgets, will be mocked for being backward. This terrible course of events can be avoided, says the book of Jobs, if mankind repents and buys whatever Steve tells them to at whatever price he names. Now it seems that people have not been buying Ithings fast enough for the beast, or rather the anti-Iphone, is upon us. The Motorola Droid is proving popular with the great unwashed. After only a week in the stores 250,000 people have snatched up Droids according to Flurry, an analytics firm specialising in mobile applications. This is four times the number of launch-week sales estimated for the Mytouch 3G, which had previously been considered the fastest-selling Android device. Droid's 250,000 figure puts it well above the Mytouch, but still well below the Iphone. More than 1.6 million Iphones went out the doors during its first seven days. However the Iphone 3GS was building upon a massive base of brainwashed Apple fanboys whipped into a frenzy by the tame Apple press vying to show Steve how loyal they were to the faith. Droid started out from scratch with few people knowing what it was. It also only launched in the US while the Iphone 3GS was launched in eight countries during its first week. True it is a long way from being an Iphone killer even if it has emerged in a strong position. But taken together with Android's popularity among mobile phone makers, Apple might have something to worry about.
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