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What Went Wrong for AMD's AM2? 318

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday September 29, 2006 @04:20AM from the hindsight-is-perfect dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When AM2 was first announced it seemed like it was going to be a guaranteed hit. After all, this platform would be moving the tremendously successful socket 939 into the future with its use of DDR2 memory, a greatly increased memory bandwidth, hardware virtualization, and a number of exciting new CPUs. Despite everything AM2 had going for it, this includes a dedicated enthusiast base and a tremendous amount of pro-AMD spirit at the time, the new platform has largely been dismissed by consumers. The question now is, what happened? How did AMD go from record growth and being the darling of enthusiasts to having a new platform which failed to impress?"

Comment Re:I'm putting on my hat... (Score 1) 242

by Shuasha on Tuesday April 04, 2006 @01:11PM (#15059403) Attached to: Security Fears Prod Firms to Limit Staff Web Use

Sometimes I wonder if this is exactly what companies *want*. They don't want people to use outside e-mail (especially ones running over https) because then they can't easily monitor what their staff is doing.

Yes you can. Bluecoat Systems can intercept SSL communications and output it to "Data Leakage Prevention" devices in plain text, then only pass it along if it's fine. Nobody else can really do this right now, but it's something that's hugely important in the Financial and Health industries. You can't have Joe Schmo emailing a spreadsheet of 100,000 credit card numbers or SSN's through gmail, can you?

http://www.bluecoat.com/solutions/security/ssl.htm l

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