Go AMD Go AMD
September 30th, 2008
| Categories: Computers, Nothing Better to Post
We have AMD supporters even in Germany.
EDIT: it looks like there’s more to this image than I first thought.
AMD kommt endlich in die pötte: AMD finally gets it right
Hoffen wir das beste fur AMD: All the best to AMD
Intel zerstörer: Intel destroyer
OC wunder: Overclocking wonder (crack’s available everywhere I suppose)
Rudiger will einen haben: Rudiger wants one
go PowerPC go! haha… PPCs best for consoles these days though… Apple did abandon it.
AMD… hmm… Intel is still the Best. and also Nvidia… hehehe…
PowerPC: A variant of the POWER architecture that IBM used for its big iron servers. The first PowerPC came out of IBM’s POWER2 (for reference, they’re at POWER6 now, and runs at 5-6GHz liquid-cooled. IBM is the only one left from the Apple, IBM and Motorola alliance that first produced the PowerPC.
POWER is one of the few RISC CPUs today that stay competitive with Intel and AMD’s high end CPUs. SGI MIPS was clearly in trouble since 1999, SPARC is only relevant today in Rock/Niagara, aka the UltraSPARC T1/T2s, the DEC Alpha was canceled in favour of Intel’s Itanium (later turned out to be a massive flop), and HP’s PA-RISC (yes, they made CPUs once upon a time) is now largely forgotten.
The PowerPC was first used in Apple’s computers, with an emulator to run Motorola 68000 software. Since Apple’s market share was pretty low, IBM didn’t really give a flying fuck. Eventually Apple got the message when the G5 ran too hot to be used in laptops and the G4 got stuck at 1.xGHz speeds, and ran off to bed with Intel.
The PowerPC got its first huge break when Nintendo paired it with the chip that was later to become ATi’s legendary Radeon 9700 in the Gamecube. Mostly similar to a PPC750 (G3), it found itself reused with slightly more Hz in the Nintendo Wii. IBM, with its massive pool of resources, was able to collaborate with Sony and Microsoft. Thus were the Xenon and Cell born. As you can see they are radically different designs, mostly because Microsoft and Sony had different visions for their consoles. You rarely see that kind of collaboration between chipmaker and chip buyer.
yep. $$$, customers3x, revenue3x.
business.
hey, thanks for posting the tidbits (though I know the history already), others that may stumble upon here might get to know it better. well, actually, about the consoles though, its an insight for me. Thanks:)
oh yeah, Sun’s SPARC is also worth the mention.
I also like Sun’s Project Blackbox that they offer. Yummy datacenters. I wish sumday I could be inside a datacenter. hehe. Servers galore! XD
I’m also an hardware junkie yah see.
Sun’s Project Blackbox
You’re a hardware junkie? I couldn’t tell from your blog.
I love Blackbox – I just don’t know what to do with it. And no, SPARC isn’t worth mentioning anymore. UltraSPARC IV = dual core UltraSPARC III. Dude, they’re still trying to push USIII on their workstations! And they’re so much more expensive than the x86 counterparts it’s just ludicrous. Sun also has plans to can SPARC for their Ultra workstations too… so the only way we’re going to get SPARC workstations is…. in a used hardware centre. BTW I want a Sun Blade, care to ship one over?
well, if only I have the money like Gates, I’d buy a Black box and invite yah over to mess inside.
in servers, what do yah think is best: Intel, AMD, or Sun’s very own SPARC?
Sun Fire X4150 Server
I love 1RU designs.