Some Thoughts On Nvidia's Tegra Strategy [View article]
One thing I would like to add, Nvidia always works hard to eventually get it right. So in 1996 when they invented a test GPU with a RISC processor built into a video card, it was hardly the best. But it had unique features. It took them 3-4 years to reach the peak of the market and get a product that really shined. If they can repeat this Tegra 5 should really be a QCOM kiiller at the same power and price point. Otherwise, they will be just another ARM design house.
Some Thoughts On Nvidia's Tegra Strategy [View article]
if you look at electronic engineering mags, power management is less about technology but about a system of gating every aspect of your design so that it can be switched off. It is also very process dependent.
Some Thoughts On Nvidia's Tegra Strategy [View article]
In mobile it is important to note the priority: 1- Power Consumption 2- Performance. Nvidia's presentation had me worried they switched the Tegra line to 1- Performance (4 or 8 x A15) 2- Power Consumption.
Would you not agree? That's why AMD had problems in tablets, they meet only the performance criteria.
Some Thoughts On Nvidia's Tegra Strategy [View article]
Good article, though a little bit more down than I expected from a long time Nvidia bull. I like it that you made the technical connection. APU is AMD marketing jargon, but all SOC's with built in GPU (including QCOM) are really APU's albeit smartphone APU's. Your concerns are valid, but have you changed your position on Intel? Performance metrics (also of Atom in mobile) are not relevant as much as you made them seem last year. Timely execution and power consumption is what matters. If performance only mattered, AMD with jaguar or brazos would be the mobile winner.
More on Nvidia: The chipmaker has updated its mobile processor/GPU roadmap. The next Tegra processor (after the Tegra 4), codenamed Logan, will enter production early next year, contain a Kepler GPU (found in PCs), and support Nvidia's CUDA GPU computing tech. Its successor, Parker, is expected to arrive in 2015. It'll include a Project Denver ARM CPU (much-delayed), as well as a GPU based on Nvidia's next-gen Maxwell architecture, which will find its way into PCs in 2014. Maxwell's successor, Volta, will support PC GPUs with stacked DRAM. (live blog) [View news story]
I would like to see the power efficiency of Kepler Tegra. That would be way cool, running crysis 3 graphics on a mobile. But I do not believe it until I see it. How they will shrink Kepler die to fit the power of 2000mah mobile battery.
Investing In Gold: Is A Bubble Popping? [View article]
Look at oil prices denominated in gold. You will be suprised. And central banks buying gold means a gradual return to a com-oddity standard. Otherwise, the argument was gold is not needed and central banks are wasting their money. UK central bank sold gold when it was $250/ounce 15 years ago based on such reasoning by economists who do not understand market psychology, only theory. Now the UK central bank is significantly poorer as a result. Ok so you are so smart, and all these central banks are wasting money? That is what the US treasury wants you to believe.
Google's (GOOG) Nexus 5 phone will have a Nikon camera module that's "better than everything else," a source tells Phone Arena. He also claims the device will have a 5" 1080p display and a Qualcomm (QCOM) Snapdragon 600 processor; a Snapdragon 800 will reportedly go into the next Nexus 10 tablet. Google+ chief Vic Gundotra recently hinted future Nexus phones will deliver major camera improvements. Qualcomm supplies the app processor for the Nexus 4, and has been rumored to be the supplier for the next-gen Nexus 7. [View news story]
It means Google is annoyed at Microsoft having the best Carl Zeiss optical stabilisation lenses in the Nokia 920 :)
The Galaxy S IV shows the contrast between Apple's (AAPL) minimalist approach to smartphones and Samsung's (SSNLF.PK) "maximalist" approach, writes Forbes' Anthony Wing Kosner. Whereas Apple carefully weighs the impact of product changes and lets the iPhone speak for itself, Samsung is constantly making big upgrades while promising its phones will change your life. Kosner thinks Apple's low-key approach resonates better in the U.S., but TechCrunch's John Biggs argues Samsung's approach has its strengths. "[Samsung] figured out that people didn’t care about specs. Instead, they care about use cases." [View news story]
Americans are biased towards the iPhone, europeans not so. Apple will loose market share in europe for sure
I just came back from a big warehouse retailer. http://bit.ly/YNPJWG Their scanning machines and till machines were running XP on a Pentium 3 processor. Sure a new machine would be a couple of seconds faster, but there has been no business case to do the upgrade and testing of obsolete software.
Investing In Gold: Is A Bubble Popping? [View article]
Gold is world reserve currency, and unless you close your eyes, non of the modern fiat currencies are trouble free. They are all hostage to the whims of governments, politicians and bankers.
Long term trend is a return to the Gold World Standard.
If it does happen, there is not enough gold to allow everyone to own a single coin.
(in middle ages all international trade was in Gold)
This is almost guaranteed to happen when no economy is safe.
Some Thoughts On Nvidia's Tegra Strategy [View article]
But it had unique features. It took them 3-4 years to reach the peak of the market and get a product that really shined.
If they can repeat this Tegra 5 should really be a QCOM kiiller at the same power and price point. Otherwise, they will be just another ARM design house.
Some Thoughts On Nvidia's Tegra Strategy [View article]
Some Thoughts On Nvidia's Tegra Strategy [View article]
1- Power Consumption
2- Performance.
Nvidia's presentation had me worried they switched the Tegra line to
1- Performance (4 or 8 x A15)
2- Power Consumption.
Would you not agree? That's why AMD had problems in tablets, they meet only the performance criteria.
Some Thoughts On Nvidia's Tegra Strategy [View article]
Your concerns are valid, but have you changed your position on Intel?
Performance metrics (also of Atom in mobile) are not relevant as much as you made them seem last year. Timely execution and power consumption is what matters. If performance only mattered, AMD with jaguar or brazos would be the mobile winner.
More on Nvidia: The chipmaker has updated its mobile processor/GPU roadmap. The next Tegra processor (after the Tegra 4), codenamed Logan, will enter production early next year, contain a Kepler GPU (found in PCs), and support Nvidia's CUDA GPU computing tech. Its successor, Parker, is expected to arrive in 2015. It'll include a Project Denver ARM CPU (much-delayed), as well as a GPU based on Nvidia's next-gen Maxwell architecture, which will find its way into PCs in 2014. Maxwell's successor, Volta, will support PC GPUs with stacked DRAM. (live blog) [View news story]
Investing In Gold: Is A Bubble Popping? [View article]
And central banks buying gold means a gradual return to a com-oddity standard.
Otherwise, the argument was gold is not needed and central banks are wasting their money. UK central bank sold gold when it was $250/ounce 15 years ago based on such reasoning by economists who do not understand market psychology, only theory. Now the UK central bank is significantly poorer as a result.
Ok so you are so smart, and all these central banks are wasting money? That is what the US treasury wants you to believe.
Investing In Gold: Is A Bubble Popping? [View article]
Do your own research!
One example:
http://onforb.es/AifT2i
Investing In Gold: Is A Bubble Popping? [View article]
Google's (GOOG) Nexus 5 phone will have a Nikon camera module that's "better than everything else," a source tells Phone Arena. He also claims the device will have a 5" 1080p display and a Qualcomm (QCOM) Snapdragon 600 processor; a Snapdragon 800 will reportedly go into the next Nexus 10 tablet. Google+ chief Vic Gundotra recently hinted future Nexus phones will deliver major camera improvements. Qualcomm supplies the app processor for the Nexus 4, and has been rumored to be the supplier for the next-gen Nexus 7. [View news story]
The Galaxy S IV shows the contrast between Apple's (AAPL) minimalist approach to smartphones and Samsung's (SSNLF.PK) "maximalist" approach, writes Forbes' Anthony Wing Kosner. Whereas Apple carefully weighs the impact of product changes and lets the iPhone speak for itself, Samsung is constantly making big upgrades while promising its phones will change your life. Kosner thinks Apple's low-key approach resonates better in the U.S., but TechCrunch's John Biggs argues Samsung's approach has its strengths. "[Samsung] figured out that people didn’t care about specs. Instead, they care about use cases." [View news story]
Apple will loose market share in europe for sure
Once Again, Nokia Gets Downgraded By Goldman Sachs [View article]
Microsoft: What's The Upside? [View article]
Microsoft: What's The Upside? [View article]
Microsoft: What's The Upside? [View article]
Their scanning machines and till machines were running XP on a Pentium 3 processor. Sure a new machine would be a couple of seconds faster, but there has been no business case to do the upgrade and testing of obsolete software.
Investing In Gold: Is A Bubble Popping? [View article]
Long term trend is a return to the Gold World Standard.
If it does happen, there is not enough gold to allow everyone to own a single coin.
(in middle ages all international trade was in Gold)
This is almost guaranteed to happen when no economy is safe.