UKTerrorist
Posted by Dev at 18:22 10/1/2003.
Just saw something interesting on Challenge-CS although not specifically CS related it does link with the posts about technology and so forth which have been flying around lately. It appears IBM and AMD have teamed up to make the ‘chips of the future’. The new chip-making technology will be used in the high performance machines of the future. Here is a snippet from the press release:The new processors, developed by AMD and IBM, will be aimed at improving microprocessor performance and reducing power consumption, and will be based on advanced structures and materials such as high-speed silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistors, copper interconnects and improved “low-k dielectric” insulation.As Challenge-CS have noted, a few European Counter-Strike teams are sponsored by AMD so we will have to wait and see what develops. Here’s to the future.The agreement includes collaboration on 65 and 45nm (.065 and .045-micron) technologies to be implemented on 300mm silicon wafers.
AMD and IBM will be able to use the jointly developed technologies to manufacture products in their own chip fabrication facilities and in conjunction with selected manufacturing partners. The companies expect first products based on the new 65nm technologies to appear in 2005.
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Croydon
18:22 10/1/2003
Anti-Climax
18:24 10/1/2003
18:36 10/1/2003
Specster
18:43 10/1/2003
Rush!
19:10 10/1/2003
Infinity-eSports
19:25 10/1/2003
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21:31 10/1/2003
Infinity-eSports
13:32 11/1/2003
14:09 11/1/2003
IBM, by 1980, had lost most of its market share, with only its mainframe and microcomputer sales keeping it alive. It had to deal with massive internal bureaucracy, and had been fighting a federal antitrust lawsuit for years (up until 1982).
In 1980 IBM needed an OS for its personal computers. IBM hired Microsoft to do the task. MS bought a program called Q-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, modified it, and MS-DOS was born. It quickly became the market leader, despite being pretty stodgy compared to UNIX.
IBM was rejuvenated, its desktop PCs controlling the market with this wonderful new OS that everyone had to have. Bill Gates, however, convinced IBM to let him have free license on the OS (through some pretty s***ty methods i.e. basically holding them to ransom as a PC without an OS is useless). So, with this, he sold it to every PC manufacturer under the sun, and IBM's market share was completely wiped out, as Dell, Compaq and Gateway all use Bill Gates' OS, but without any IBM hardware.
If you compare how much of the market share they had in the early '80s, or then again go back to the '60s and '70s and look compared to today, you'll see that IBM is a mere ghost of its previous self. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Infinity-eSports
19:25 11/1/2003
19:29 11/1/2003
I said they'd gone "downhill", which is absolutely true, their largest market (home users) was completely wiped out in the 1980s, so don't continue to make yourself look stupid. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Rush!
19:29 11/1/2003
Rush!
19:29 11/1/2003
THX
15:20 12/1/2003
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