Month: June 2003

Here’s why we think Thorton exists: AMD has just one fab. AMD needs to convert some of it to Athlon64 production and/or 90nm production. So they pull some TBred capacity offline (Barton will be around longer), but there’s still some Read More

We’re at the back end of the 130nm generation of processors. That means the processors are running about as fast as they’re going to get. It also means the equipment is running hotter than it ever did for this generation Read More

Buying a video card at a somewhat reasonable price has been a problem lately. You either pay through the nose, or you pay good money for a semi-crippled card. Given that PCI-Express will start replacing AGP in about a year, Read More

The RIAA is going to sue hundreds of the biggest file fencers, and the BS is hitting the fan. Here’s some talk about boycotting. A few points: 1) How do you boycott something you’re stealing? Yes, I realize that even Read More

Even in today’s world, there’s some things you can always count on. The sun shows up every day. The earth revolves around the sun. And Apple comes up with some nonsense that whatever it just came out with is faster Read More

Why Apple Isn’t Taken Seriously In the PC world, when companies like AMD or Intel benchmark their products, they usually use standard benchmarks that are readily available to others. They describe configurations in enough detail so that, again, others can Read More