http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/...ip-factory

Quote:We have learned that high performance discrete GPUs will never make it to 20nm, simply as process has too much power leaks and poor yields with big cores. The GPU industry will move to 16nm FinFET at TSMC in 2016, or 14nm with Samsung and GlobalFoundries at about the same time. After 16nm FinFET, TSMC is planning to transition to 10nm as early as late 2016, but we believe that this is very optimistic timing.

A $16 billion investment may sound like a lot of money, but Intel has invested more than $6 billion in Israel based fabs since 2006. Intel is right now preparing Israel fabs for 10nm, while Ireland is manufacturing most of Intel's 14nm SoCs right now. The next node after 10nm for Intel is 7nm, probably happening before the end of this decade.

Back in 2009 in Albany, New York state, GlobalFoundries executives and chaps from The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering were telling us that each transition cost to a new node grows exponentially. Despite large R&D investments, it is getting harder to transition from 28nm to 20nm to 14nm. This is one of the reasons why Samsung and GlobalFoundries have joined forces for their 14nm push.

2-10-2015

Indiana Religious Freedom Law

Indiana business differed with Gov. Mike Pence and some clergy Monday on a proposed law that supporters say would protect people and businesses from having to take part in same-sex weddings and other activities they find objectionable because of religious belief.

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce and other business groups argued that the Republican-sponsored proposal could hurt the state's reputation and make it more difficulty to attract companies.

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce and other business groups argued that the Republican-sponsored proposal could hurt the state's reputation and make it more difficulty to attract companies.

I came across this recent article.

Best CPU for the Money: AMD vs Intel Budget Shootout

All i can say is that i am shocked everytime I see how bad AMD has fallen behind.

Their 8 core Vichera FX-8320E which turbos all the way up to 4 ghz cannot compete with a modern 4ghz 4core intel cpu without hyperthreading!!!!!

Worse is this 4ghz turbo 8 core AMD chip cannot best even a modern 3.7ghz intel dual core chip, even while overclocked to 4.6ghz.

Its bad bad bad

here are some highlights,




Forget about even high resolution gaming, Vishera is just to weak even with 8 cores at 4ghz



Intel Dual core walking all over Vishera
And look at look at the power consumption for this lack in performance.


Whats worse is that its not just gaming, even task like encoding. encoding with 8 AMD cores





SAY WHAT!!!!!

This is terrible,

From the conclusion:

Quote:In the end, AMD's FX-8320E is an affordable quad-core processor that overclocks decently, but even if you pushed it to 5GHz it would struggle to match the slightly pricier Core i5-4430 and even the Core i3-4360 at times. Then after you take the power consumption figures into account, arguments for the FX-8320E begin to seem rather indefensible.

Free performance isn't exactly free if it comes at the expense of drawing more power and needing a more efficient cooler, so the humble Core i3-4360 makes more sense than the FX-8320E for budget users. There may be some great reasons to buy the FX-8320E, but we don't think it's the chip you want if you're after the best overall performance for the price.

Separately, we were surprised by how well the dual-core i3-4360 performed against the quad-core i5-4430. Although it runs 500-700MHz faster and has Hyper-Threading, we thought there would be a larger gap in our application tests as the i5-4430 actually has four cores. Given the price difference, we would also suggest the i3-4360 over the i5-4430.

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