Recent content by Voltron

Could you be more ridiculous? TSMC has 20,000+ employees. It does not matter if they are in bunny suits or pulling teeth. They are part of TSMC. My guess is considering how efficient TSMC is compared to its competitors that most of the employees are productive and necessary to the business in...

Some people seem to think that labor costs are not all that relevant to capital intensive industries. For those that think that I owuld just look to any number of capital intensive industries that have moved to China. There is a reason. It will be interetsting to see how many AMD employees...

I'm with silent_guy here. How could The Foundry Company possibly compete with TSMC, which just has so many many competitive advantages? Scale, expertise, and relatively low labor costs being soem of these advantages. Moreover, because of these advantages it will be seemingly very difficult to...

That they are investigating potential insurance coverage perhaps says the fault may not necessarily lie with them. I'm not sure insurance would cover poor engineering, but it might cover in this case a material that did not conform to supplier promises. Just a guess. And from the wording of the...

The funny thing is that Intel was so disinterested in this. Sure they have had a graphics business, but it prety much seems that it was only there out of chipset necessity. Out of all the businesses they bought and continued to pour money in to become leaders, GPUs were just not one of them...

I mean honestly hands tied or not by regulators - that has very little to do with Google's success versus Microsoft and if you believe otherwise you are a simpleton. Google innovated in search, an area that was previously not thought to be lucrative. None of the other search engines were big...

All the people who think otherwise and there are many because Intel is such the industry darling need only to look at Microsoft and Google. Just because you are bigger doesn't mean you will automatically create a superior product or win in the marketplace. I have an argument here. How lean is...

Of course it's not really about analysts caring in the short term. It's this financial discipline that's helps them grow and become more profitable and invest in more initiatives. It's like Marv says, they have tons of projects they'd like to do, but haven't gotten around to yet. There is...

It's probably also a matter of resources. Which is likely one reason they waited so long too really trumpet the GPU. And having a supercomputer on the desktop is pretty revolutionary for science and potentially huge for profits. Who wouldn't want 100 Tim Murray's except for maybe you and his...

This seems like an incredible leap of logic here - that JHH saw the H.264 and had a moment of realization. Obviously he was excited. But we really don't know about NVIDIA's efforts to push CUDA with software developers, and developer relations is not an area where NVIDIA is known to skimp...

You are not alone Arun. Maybe it just needs a little time.

You are not alone Arun. Maybe it just needs a little time. Maybe it doesn't have to be limited to semiconductors though. There are a lot of other interesting and relevant tech companies - Autodesk for instance.

Though clearly the underpinnings of CUDA are very, very important to NVIDIA and I basically agree with your thoughts, it is unlikely that he was just referring to just this since the process of designing and bringing these things to the market is so complex. But obviously they have some...

This is probably one of the stupidest and lamest things I have ever read on these message boards. Talk about not knowing when to admit someone else might have an iota of a point. Are you aware of the vast advances in medical imaging the past few years that have been made because of the...

Well I think a more interesting question is when will GPUs be used to design future GPUs? Maybe they already are but at the least it's coming. http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2280791.html