Point Taken
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 11:25 AM
(13 votes, average: 4.54 out of 5)
Loading ...Let me first give a nod to my colleague Margaret Lewis, who blogged about her experience at the GigaOm Structure ’09 event, particularly around hearing comments from Facebook’s Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations, first hand. While I was 1,500 miles away in Austin, I think I squirmed in my seat just as much [...]
Read MoreDDR3 has Arrived
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 1:28 PM
(5 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)In my last post on DDR3, I predicted that it would be mid-2010 before DDR3 reached price parity with DDR2, and encouraged users to wait to adopt. At the time, the price of DDR3 memory was more than double that of DDR2. Based on what we’ve seen in the past with memory, mass adoption of [...]
Read MoreNetbook v. Notebook – Confusion Ensues
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 10:00 AM
Vodka and water. They look the same, but taste different (or so they tell me).
Similarly, netbooks may look like notebooks, but ― as we’ve previously pointed out ― they’re not the same.
NPD released a survey last week finding that 60% of consumers who purchased a netbook thought it would have the same performance as a [...]
Sweet Suite
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 9:52 AM
I often get asked about AMD’s commitment to the Linux® community. In fact we are very committed to Linux and the broader open source community, and some recent news speaks directly to that.
Last week we posted on our developer site a pre-release version of the x86 Open64 Compiler Suite. Targeted at high performance and parallel computing workloads, this [...]
AMD and the Code Name “Congo”
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 5:26 PM
AMD has taken a bit of flack recently because we referred to an upcoming laptop platform using the name of a river, “Congo”, as a code name. Some people took objection to the association ― entirely unintended ― with violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As it happens, because we were moving closer [...]
Read MoreAMD Fusion, or up to 8X More Performance for No Extra Cost
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 12:42 PM
It’s pretty good when you get asked to do as a business project something that’s also your hobby. That’s what I was doing last weekend ― and I know that you wanted the details!
I first learned to edit video at school, maybe 30 years ago, on reel-to-reel Sony black and white video machines. The process [...]
“Too Stupid To Learn” and Dyslexia
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 12:55 PM
The title of this blog comes from something that was said to Thomas Edison by one of his teachers. Because he had dyslexia.
So did Winston Churchill. And George Patton.
And Richard Branson, Charles Schwab, John Chambers, Jay Leno and Tom Cruise have dyslexia, too.
So do I.
It has never stopped them, and in more than twenty [...]
Something for Everyone
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 1:35 PM
This is an exciting week for AMD, and more importantly for our customers and consumers. Yesterday I blogged about the launch of the industry’s only six-core processor for x86 2P, 4P and 8P solutions, the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor. Today we’re talking about new levels of performance and improved user experiences for everyone from mainstream [...]
Read MoreBetter Than Ever
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 4:26 PM
While we’re still hearing generally grim news about the global economy, there’s also talk about moving past the recession ― particularly about being smart about investing now for the future. People often tout the magic of “getting more for less.” But if you’re investing in IT, one of the best ways to be smart about [...]
Read MoreIs this fusion? Or Fusion?
Posted by Nigel Dessau at 11:07 AM
Some people have noted that our “Fusion” brand reminds them of the “fusion” code name for a piece of silicon containing both a CPU and a GPU. At the time we introduced the Fusion brand we conveyed that it was more than a name, that it was about our technology partnerships, how we engage with [...]
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