Recent content by cdimauro

Thanks for the feedback. It's really pity: he was an amazing professional. :(

I know that it's more than two years now, but I will be grateful if you can add more information about the test configurations. Test configuration for the Ryzen 1800X platform Motherboard: Crosshair VI Hero o.s.: Windows 10 Memory: 2666Mhz, but which model(s)? HD/SSD: which one? What are the...

Exactly. And of course, if there's some huge advantage, even big companies, with a consolidated partnership with Intel, can change. Never stated the contrary.

Right, a vendor can ask for some instructions, and AMD can provide them. But this requires time. A cannot disclose information about similar scenarios, for obvious reasons, but this process (going from the customer request to the final availability) might require yearS. And I'm not joking...

I never stated the contrary. I've just reported the current situation, and that it's not that simple to switch CPU vendor. BTW, Intel bought Altera, and has started shipping Xeons with integrated FPGAs...

No, they handled themselves merging the selected patches that they want to be applied to their customized software. It's a pain in the ass, but such big companies have resources to do it.

Well, it's very well known that at least Google has a proper, own Linux fork, which is internally maintained. Microsoft... is A BIT closed source. :D The same thing can happen with other big vendors which have proper, internal infrastructures, which run their customized software. The software...

And I think that Mark Bohr knows what he was talking about. ;)

The reported part was NOT talking about AES acceleration, which is common and a standard part of x86's ISA. Same think for video compression. The specific part was talking about OTHER, HIDDEN, chip features which are enabled ONLY for SPECIFIC customers.

So, here is it that hot part: Another way to make a chip faster is to add special circuits that only do one thing, but do it extremely quickly. Roughly 25 percent of the E5’s circuits are specialized for, among other tasks, compressing video and encrypting data. There are other special circuits...

No. Have you read it, or should I post just the quote from the specific part which I reported before?

My $0.02 are from the biggest CPU vendor for servers side. ;)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/how-intel-makes-a-chip

I just said that is not easy to switch CPU vendors, and I put a know reason for it. What else can I do to be more clear about it?!?

Absolutely with ... So... I beg to disagree. :) Then I better specified what's the states of the server market for big companies which make use of Intel's Xeons. ;)