new future toy.. the Intel NUC

[AtW]

One word:

I T A N I U M

If AMD hadn´t put 64 bit onto x386 Intel would have been quite happy to leave that at 32 bit. The original plans were that if you wanted 64 bit, Itanium would be Intel´s offering.

Yes Itanium was retarded idea, sadly they got locked into long term support contract so they could not just cancel it easily. It's not big cost in large scheme of things because unlike ARM's position Intel can afford to make expensive mistakes.

[AtW]

I get my multicore servers from Intel for nothing, you should join their "Premier Support" program.

Servers or just CPUs? When we buy server the extra RAM, chassis, HDDs cost far more than actual overpriced Xeons

[vetran]

oops wrong thread?

They don't get it do they? PI & Co is about providing a small functional LOW POWER system for everyday tasks.
The NUC is about sizeist willy waving. All custom interfaces I'm guessing.

[Sysman]

More like 5/6? Shirley?

I bow down to your superior mental arithmetic.

P.S. Maths was part of my degree. During that course I kept my mentail arithmetic alive by scoring for darts matches and shopping

[SupremeSpod]

Intel mainly makes money on fast processors, this uses energy - they've made good efforts in recent years to reduce it

ARM's profits - $50 mln for a quarter

BBC News - Arm Holdings profits up over 40%

Intel's profits - $3400 mln

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/te...rter.html?_r=1

This means just like Pi joker ARM will never have enough money to challenge Intel where it matters for them and with new stuff Intel should contain the problem enough to continue ground breaking research.

As you're obviously unaware, the pi uses a SoC supplied by Broadcom which incorporates (amongst other things) an ARM core.

ARM are making money hand over fist without actually owning a fabrication plant, on IP that was designed donkeys years ago.

Btw, Intel make chips with an ARM core and pay a license fee to ARM, funny that, eh?

[AtW]

Btw, Intel make chips with an ARM core and pay a license fee to ARM, funny that, eh?

Yes they did that for years, previously I think they called it XScale which was later sold to Marvell.

[SupremeSpod]

I bow down to your superior mental arithmetic.

P.S. Maths was part of my degree. During that course I kept my mentail arithmetic alive by scoring for darts matches and shopping

Oh well. That's part of your life you're never going to get back, eh?

[darmstadt]

Pick up some second hand playstation 3 and do this:

IBM developerWorks : Multicore acceleration : Technical library

[SupremeSpod]

Servers or just CPUs? When we buy server the extra RAM, chassis, HDDs cost far more than actual overpriced Xeons

The whole kit. Sometimes they're a rackmounted chassis or other times a "Super Tower" case. We get to keep the towers, Intel like to re-use the rackmounted chassis.

Currently got a box that contains the following codenames - "Canoe Pass", "Patsburg" "Powerville" and "Romley-EP". Mention them to your Intel rep.

We have access to a test environment in Reading that has a couple of "Knights Bridge" cards installed.

Seriously, the kind of stuff your company does Intel should be falling over backwards to use you as a reference site.

[AtW]

The whole kit. Sometimes they're a rackmounted chassis or other times a "Super Tower" case. We get to keep the towers, Intel like to re-use the rackmounted chassis.

We mainly use rack mounted stuff and typically it's large scale production (I don't like being beta testers).

The thing for us is that having standard servers helps for massively parallel processing and having one box finish job faster does not help since others will keep processing.

But thanks for suggesting, maybe we try to contact them soon ...