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crazyDAJT

crazyDAJT

crazyDAJT

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Found this on the BBC website over my lunch brake today, don’t think anybody else has posted about it, form my quick search.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7223145.stm

I think its very market specific this one,

2GHz, lots of Cache and according to this, its going to run very hot.

Doubt it will have much impact on the gaming/overclocking world

But hay two billion transistors
 
Yer I saw this, but what interested me most was why IBM don't partake in the home PC market. They obviously have some awesome chips so why not let us play with them...
 
Munkeh said:
Yer I saw this, but what interested me most was why IBM don't partake in the home PC market. They obviously have some awesome chips so why not let us play with them...
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cost & manufacturing limitations

AMD is struggling to get it manufacturing right, hell even Intel is stugaling to hit porduction targets, and thay are the big boys, all thay realy do is CPU's.

its an impossible market to join, you can only really attack a very specific area of the market to get away with it.
 
crazyDAJT said:
... Intel is stugaling to hit porduction targets, and thay are the big boys, all thay realy do is CPU's.
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Intel make a hell of a lot more than CPUs. They are the largest semiconductor company in the world! They make all kinds of microprocessors, flash memory, motherboard chipsets, bluetooth chipsets, network chipsets, graphics processors and all kinds of other things.
 
dbmzk1 said:
Intel make a hell of a lot more than CPUs. They are the largest semiconductor company in the world! They make all kinds of microprocessors, flash memory, motherboard chipsets, bluetooth chipsets, network chipsets, graphics processors and all kinds of other things.
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I know I know, using a bit of hyperbole.

I was just saying they ship millions of processors, its actually amazing what they do, you talking about 45nm production but they make it mass market, that’s bordering on the imposable.
 
IBM also ships millions of processors. Think about it, the Wii, 360 and PS3 all use IBM fabbed processors. There are tons of blade and mainframe servers which all use IBM processors.
 
IBM

Revenue ▲ $98.8 billion USD (+4% FY '07 to '08)
Net income ▲ $10.8 billion USD (+18% FY '07 to '08)

Intel

Revenue ▲ $38.3 billion USD (2007)[1][2]
Operating income ▲ $8.2 billion USD (2007)
Net income ▲ $7.0 billion USD (2007)


IBM is worth a Lot more than Intel.
 
IBM as a whole may be bigger than intel, but as a semiconductor manufacturer intel is still bigger.

IBM is largely a software and services company now that has an interest in hardware, as opposed to intel which is the opposite.
 
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