Tuesday Breakfast sponsored by AMD
This morning, a beautiful sit-down breakfast was provided by AMD corporation. PR man Jonathan Seckler (jonathan.secker@amd.com) was on hand to extole the virtues of the new AMD 64 processors and how his company is working towards providing a level of protection from spyware and spam in the very chips that make up our computers.
This year (and I understand last year at APCUG), the two biggest chip manufactures suddenly discovered that PC User Groups are supporting both new and after-market PCs, breathing new life into older technology by the various PC placement programs out there. Therefore we have support from both AMD and their rival chip maker, Intel.
I had high hopes for a door prize, but had nada luck this morning, which has been the way it's gone in the casinos so far - time to switch to the 2 cent slot machines!
The message from AMD this morning was:
PCs are evolving into machines that will ultimately be masters of the household, but in order to do this will have to be multi-threaded and multi-cored. Multi-threading is the ability of an operating system and the processing unit that powers it, to execute different parts of a program, called threads, simultaneously.
A multi-cored processing chip is one that has more than one complete processing engine on each CPU silicon die. This manufacturing technique challenges programmers, operating systems like Windows and even the legal pundits with new design hurdles, but the net effect provides a PC that will stream full screen high-definition video to your TV set, answer the phone, defragment your hard drive, while constantly policing the network for spyware and trojans in the background.
Operating system designers (Microsoft and Linux, mostly) must work hand in hand with chip designers to make this happen on a scale where we can both afford it without a money tree, and use it without a master's degree.
Michael Moore
This year (and I understand last year at APCUG), the two biggest chip manufactures suddenly discovered that PC User Groups are supporting both new and after-market PCs, breathing new life into older technology by the various PC placement programs out there. Therefore we have support from both AMD and their rival chip maker, Intel.
I had high hopes for a door prize, but had nada luck this morning, which has been the way it's gone in the casinos so far - time to switch to the 2 cent slot machines!
The message from AMD this morning was:
PCs are evolving into machines that will ultimately be masters of the household, but in order to do this will have to be multi-threaded and multi-cored. Multi-threading is the ability of an operating system and the processing unit that powers it, to execute different parts of a program, called threads, simultaneously.
A multi-cored processing chip is one that has more than one complete processing engine on each CPU silicon die. This manufacturing technique challenges programmers, operating systems like Windows and even the legal pundits with new design hurdles, but the net effect provides a PC that will stream full screen high-definition video to your TV set, answer the phone, defragment your hard drive, while constantly policing the network for spyware and trojans in the background.
Operating system designers (Microsoft and Linux, mostly) must work hand in hand with chip designers to make this happen on a scale where we can both afford it without a money tree, and use it without a master's degree.
Michael Moore
posted by Michael Moore @ 1:07 PM
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