The sensor is 41mp. They're subsampling, not supersampling; generating a (supposedly) superior 5/8mp image from an original, potentially fairly noisy but high-detail, 41mp image.

And they still sell Power7 with 8 cores and issuing 6 instructions per cycle at 4GHz+. They're obscenely fast, but they're also not cheap unless you're comparing them to Itanium, SPARC, or Intel's -EX series Xeons.

Bulldozer - their current architecture - was really bad. Slow, mediocre price/performance ratio, and power-hungry. It remains to be seen if Piledriver can make it all better.

A company that fronts as an intelligence publisher... but is secretly an intelligence publisher? Oh, Associated Press, why you make no sense?

CTSS had email before UNIX did - 1964, if I recall.

No, you. The 96km is a mistake in the summary. The number in the article is 96,000km.

FMA is pretty much irrelevant for any of the above workloads.

Real-world benchmarks that aren't linpack. Video encoding. Games. OLTP and OLAP workloads, as tested with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL. Even the TPC-C results are pretty unimpressive.

You seem way too personally involved in this.

For specific workloads, Itanium is great. It can sustain 2 FP loads, 2 FP stores, and 2 FMA's in a cycle, which means for certain types of DSP-ish workloads, it has more performance per-cycle than just about any other mainstream CPU. It also has a very high-performance cache hierarchy, with massive blobs of SRAM and a low-latency L1 (one cycle to access.) The problem is that it's expensive, clocked low, and not really ideal for where it's marketed (the mission-critical enterprise server business.) It still has significant advantages over Xeon for some workloads, namely things that are highly cache-sensitive or that scale high enough where directory-based coherence is good to have.

A 3GHz Sandy Bridge core completely annihilates a 3.6GHz K10 core, and Bulldozer's per-cycle performance is significantly worse than K10.

You should come out of 2002 sometime.

I live in a medium-sized Kansas city, and 3G is almost unobtainable. No T-mobile presence (as far as I can tell), no AT&T 3G, poor Verizon and Sprint. The only carrier with solid infrastructure here is US Cellular. (I'm on Sprint, and it's frequently an exercise in patience.)

They're working on it; they have an indigenous light-fighter project, and are co-developing PAK FA with the Russians.

Published benchmarks disagree with your assessment of ARM.

There is exactly zero chance of Trinity being anything other than what it's been announced and demo'd as from day one: L3-less Bulldozer (well, technically Piledriver) with a GPU on-chip. In other words, an incremental successor to Llano.

28nm TSMC ARM is likely this year.