The agreement is fairly bidirectional and this was a big win for AMD, a kind of life insurance. Even if something go wrong with AMD, there still have the unique value of the cross license granted by the agreement. And given the massive market involved, there will be investors seeking for this kind of value. This is a open gate to a big market. No other open gate to this market exists at this moment.

Yes, and some insanely overpriced Itanium descendant chip to get some 64-bits capabilities with a completely incompatible instruction set.

Don't forget that Intel need a AMD64 license for all there x86 64 bits CPU.

Yes, but while there try to give usable Linux driver, there completely failed to support a recent leading standard distribution like Debian with a native compiler build system and all the fun and efficient tools. There are stick to an outdated Timesys distribution with an unbelievable obsolete build architecture. There still use static dev over udev, proprietary kernel driver build instead dkms, and no packaging.

There urgently need to evolve from a 'hardware staff that try to code application' point of view to 'software staff use standard distribution to dynamically load hardware capabilities' point of view. There have the advantage on the hardware but obfuscate it by an inappropriate software stack.

Going with AMD is an old idea as Altera was basically a Intel spin-off from the beginning. But this path will expose even more there products to a market where support for standard leading distribution is required and obsolete outdated almost proprietary bullshit rejected.

This was the most simple and useful USB function and there removed it. It allowed to play with any computers, TVs, or printers with high speed. Compared to MSD, the "new" protocols are slow and poorly supported.

There removed MSD for the wrong reasons as there is technical solution to provides a snapshot of the internal filesystem as a external view to avoid corruption.The btrfs filesystem support snapshot for example and a gateway could translate the resulting snapshot view in a other filesystem format like FAT32.

Thanks for the offer, but I don't plan to climb so high mountains even if I live in the middle of some of them. I enjoy walking the summer and ski the winter, but no high performance sport for me :-) I will probably take the panoramic cable car with my children someday.

Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in central Europe.
FTFY

Sadly the Wikipedia link show very little of this work and the external link is broken.

I think I can recognize the Mont Vélan immediately behind the right on the Dent du Géant and even the Mont Rose at hit right on the horizon. Impressive, this is over 70km away from the point of view.

There is a icon to get full screen view on the right lower corner. Work perfectly on my 4K 40" screen at least with Chrome.

In fact the photo was taken precisely from the lower side of the cable that act as the aerial pylon of the Mont-Blanc Panoramic cable car. If you zoom you can follow almost the full installation but the blurred part before the Gros Rogon pylon buildings.
http://www.remontees-mecanique...

I wrote Dents du Midi by mistake because there take most the view from my window :-)

No need to be billionaires and no need of helicopter. This is a cable car arrival and the price is far lower than with an helicopter, at least from the Italian side. From the French side the travel is more expensive because this is a long travel including a impressive 5km panoramic track with an aerial pylon.

http://tools.wmflabs.org/geoha...

This the new Helbronner cable car arrival connected to the Italian side and to the Aiguille du Midi on the other side with the famous Mont Blanc Panoramic cable car: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
The new Italian side is due to open this summer.

My mistake, this is the Aiguille du Midi instead of the Dentd du Mid.