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Inside AMD's Phenom Architecture 191

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 14, 2007 @11:40AM from the behind-the-curtain dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek has uncovered some documentation which provides some details amid today's hype for AMD's announcement of its upcoming Phenom quad-core (previously code-named Agena). AMD's 10h architecture will be used in both the desktop Phenom and the Barcelona (Opteron) quads. The architecture supports wider floating-point units, can fully retire three long instructions per cycle, and has virtual machine optimizations. While the design is solid, Intel will still be first to market with 45nm quads (the first AMD's will be 65nm). Do you think this architecture will help AMD regain the lead in its multicore battle with Intel?"

iPods and Pacemakers Don't Mix 152

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday May 10, 2007 @09:35PM from the listen-to-your-heart dept.

fermion writes "The Register reports a study that indicates that iPods and pacemakers do not get along. While there do not appear to be any long term effects, iPods disrupt the operation of the pacemaker. It is noted that such effects have not previously been observed as iPods do seem to be popular with the pacemaker-wearing population."

Comment Re:A long historical tradition of dumb names (Score 1) 560

by xtapalapaquetl on Friday April 28, 2006 @02:23PM (#15222631) Attached to: Both Sides of Wii

Gamecube - ... Final name: a plastic block. The ads picture a bunch of gang-like teenagers walking the streets and then cut to a cartoon Advance Wars-like game. Huh? Although it could've been worse -- one of the final designs called for a star-shaped plastic fins and the name "Starcube". Picture the Disney PC for 4-year olds but in your living room. Again, incredible games -- dumb system name.

I'd say the same thing about the xbox and playstation. The formula is EDGY/GAMES + THING, which is what led to the gamecube, playstation, xbox.

Bottom line is Nintendo should fire their marketing department and hire the guys from Sega, Microsoft or even Sony.

Worst idea in this thread. So we should look forward to blatant lies about the system's overhyped capabilities instead of coming forward with honest stats?

A lot of your criticsm is very subjective and that I don't agree with. Genesis as the best name? The thought of n64 as a bad name has never occurred to me, but my main concern was the triad-style controller.

I definitely agree with other posts about this article in that Nintendo is not going for the hardcore wannabes. Personally, I'm buying a Wii and I'm not embarrassed to ask for one by name. Because of the games like Smash Brothers online.

PS I go by DS, not like a Gameboy, when I refer to it.

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