AMD - Piledriver chitchat

[DanceswithUnix]

http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/james-fry/49/216/a56

Kaveri2.0??

I am intrugued by:

"Led a team developing the TCat APU, targeting low-cost markets, but which was ultimately cancelled."

Perhaps that that explains why Bobcat was as good as it was, if they had already learnt from mistakes in private.

[watercooled]

Scepticism about the blurry picture was appropriate it seems: http://semiaccurate.com/2013/05/20/a...-architecture/

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This is interesting:

http://translate.google.com/translat...d%3D1368122313

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

AMD hires another person from Nvidia:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6967/a...keting-to-join

AMD has shipped 30% more desktop GPUs and IGPs:

http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-C...od-News-NVIDIA

[watercooled]

Just noticed this roadmap at SA: http://semiaccurate.com/2013/05/20/n...roadmap_tiran/

Cape Verde is fabbed at GF?

[DanceswithUnix]

Just noticed this roadmap at SA: http://semiaccurate.com/2013/05/20/n...roadmap_tiran/

Cape Verde is fabbed at GF?

That was a preliminary roadmap from 2009, they intended to but pretty sure they stayed at TSMC for all their graphics.

[CountBartok]

That was a preliminary roadmap from 2009, they intended to but pretty sure they stayed at TSMC for all their graphics.

Correct http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-n...-nm-chip-deals

[CountBartok]

As far as the Goldman Sachs announcement Intel shares also dipped on that day.
Dell reported a 79 percent slide in profit at around the same time.
Which harmed both companies shares, although Goldman did give Amd a bit of a hammering.

[DanceswithUnix]

Just ordered a 965BE from Ebuyer as they are on offer, a last hurrah upgrade for my son's old dual core setup on an AM2+ motherboard.

Thought these offers on the old chips were dried up.

[DanceswithUnix]

AMD overtaken by Qualcomm and Samsung in market share by value.

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-n...rocessor-sales

Must be depressing reading for MIPS.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Some noise about the HD9000 series from one of the OcUK staff:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...02&postcount=7

[watercooled]

Not sure what he means on the line starting with: If AMD do launch...

I wonder if they mean VI, or just the SI refresh coming to desktop?

[Biscuit]

Looks like the Temash/Kabini reviews are starting to appear:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6974/amd-kabini-review

[HalloweenJack]

1 line from anandtech page 1 says it all about how unbiased they are:

how Kabini stacks up against Intel’s current ULV offerings, and where it falls relative to ARM offerings and Clover Trail

intel has been playing catchup with SoC for years , yet anand ignores that small detail.

edit:

seriously anad

The Ivy Bridge comparison is really just for reference. In all of the lightly threaded cases, a 1.7GHz Ivy Bridge delivers over 2x the performance of the A4-5000.

so why even HAVE IT in your review then!

`hey heres a chip not even in this market - a hex core 2011, but were including it for comedy factor cause intel pay us`

[kalniel]

so why even HAVE IT in your review then!

They explain in the article. The HD4000 performance is what they consider a minimum level for PC gaming, so if AMD's ULV part can reach that level then it might be suitable for PC gaming. As it happens, it can't, but Anand very fairly say that the chip is still suitable for other non-PC gaming for example tablet stuff.

[Biscuit]

They should have really had the IvB Celeron/Pentium chips in there like the 10xx or 20xx, that's certainly what i would like to see