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AMD announces 6- and 12-core Opterons
Engadget
May 8th 2008 5:09AM the current AMD quad cores are "native", not two dies in a single package.
AMD announces 6- and 12-core Opterons
Engadget
May 8th 2008 5:06AM per socket.
also amd's quad cores are 4 channels of memory access per socket. 4 channels is 128-bit access, and the upcoming shanghai should be running with ddr3. theres a crossbar joining the memory, cpu, and HT links.
ddr3 is also the plan for nehalem, which has 3 channels memory access for up to 6 cores.
ddr3 could well reach 2GHz, and thats pretty damned fast. it would make shanghai 32 (GByte/second)/socket and nehalem 24 (GByte/second)/socket.
gddr5 is supposedly less demanding, that will probably scale up to similar speeds and get pressed into being used on cpus at some point, but really the main advancement going forwards will be more sockets that provide more channels.
for comparison, a quad socket 2GHz-ram nehalem would be the same 100GByte/second as the nvidia 8800 ultra, also at 100GByte/second, from 6 dual-channel worth of ram bandwidth running at 2160 MHz.
AMD announces 6- and 12-core Opterons
Engadget
May 8th 2008 4:24AM amd has dual channel memory access
nehalem has 3 channel memory access
pa semi has 4 channel memory access
AMD announces 6- and 12-core Opterons
Engadget
May 8th 2008 4:23AM the first Nehalem chips are 6 core too
true story
HTC Touch Diamond shots and specs: this week's big announcement?
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May 3rd 2008 4:52PM Wow do I ever wish this thing ran linux.
Western Digital's VelociRaptor drive gets reviewed
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Apr 30th 2008 5:50PM ExtremeTech has fine reviews, but I'd much rather go to the de-facto experts on hard drive reviews, StorageReview. Their review was also out the day the drive was announced, April 21st.
http://www.storagereview.com/WD3000BLFS.sr
Netgear offers up 6-bay ReadyNAS Pro
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Apr 29th 2008 11:59AM Fogedaboutit, this new one has totally jumped the shark. $2000 for two more bays, and it has the power consumption of a computer not a storage array.
FCC's broadband over power lines expansion hits major snag
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Apr 28th 2008 9:16PM The wireless technologies you take for granted all came to being on amateur bands. Its the only part of the spectrum designated for people to play with, and as such its where all the cool stuff you take for granted gets built. Theres a lot of Software Defined Radio stuff getting pioneered by the Hams now that one day you'll be using to send HDTV signals wirelessly. Just because YOU dont have the desire or want to play with open radio spectrum doesnt mean you dont benefit from it.
FCC's broadband over power lines expansion hits major snag
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Apr 28th 2008 9:12PM GOD BLESS THE DC COURTS.
How would you change Samsung's YP-P2?
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Apr 25th 2008 7:13PM Useless as fuck without AT LEAST one SDHC slot.
