Nathan Brookwood Quotes (37 Quotes)


    Intel seems to have kicked the megahertz habit. It's probably music to Steve Jobs' ears.

    Multi-core is the new megahertz. If you want more performance rather than ramping up the megahertz, now it's all about ramping up the number of cores.

    I don't know how much Apple pays for that IBM chip, but you can bet it's absurdly low. Apple has this crazy idea that it shouldn't have to pay as much as everyone else. And whatever it's paying for the IBM chip, I'm sure it's paying more for the Intel chip.

    PIC does a lot of different things. It does address a variety of needs.

    They clearly are at the tail end of what has been a pretty painful period for Intel. They had to tear up their road map and scramble to find new products to drop into the places where the old products were going to appear.


    Even two years out, I think what P.A. Semi brings out will be impressive because very few companies have focused on high performance and low power for less heat, and fewer still have focused on using the PowerPC architecture with all the software that's evolved for that.

    Intel gets some bragging right here we do something ahead of AMD for a change.

    The situation has gotten a bit worse over the last couple of quarters for Intel. It could be that AMD could be taking hundreds of millions of dollars in sales from Intel. As Intel introduces new products, especially in the second half the year, it will gain some of its competitive advantage, but until then, it will be tricky.

    What I'm hearing today is that AMD's performance advantage is going to narrow in the next six months or AMD may even lose its performance advantage. That doesn't necessarily mean they're going to lose market share.

    He had a pretty good relationship with Dirk Meyer AMD's number two executive. It is hard to say who precisely was behind the Athlon 64 development, but Fred certainly was a big contributor. Most of the technology changes that AMD has made while he was there turned out to be good ones.

    He certainly goes for unconventional, creative approaches, like licensing Sun's software based on the number of employees that a customer had. So in that regard, I'm optimistic.

    AMD will face tougher competition once Intel moves to the new architecture. But it's far too soon to be able to predict who's going to be ahead 18 months from now.

    Now consumers can buy a Mac that is three times faster and for the same price.

    When they did the Pentium M, they were under tight constraints on power. Now, desktop and server are facing similar kinds of constraints. It's not so much battery life as it is noise, just the physics of cooling a really hot, small chip.

    The original theory was Netburst would show increasing performance benefits with increasing frequency. It didn't work quite the way Intel had anticipated.

    Napa will make Intel a more capable competitor against AMD's products. AMD is having a modicum of success in mobile.

    I would say 18 months is not an unreasonable amount of time.

    It's very unlikely that Intel would win, ... But once Intel does release that chip, AMD will have the challenge going forward of demonstrating that its dual-core technology is superior to that of Intel, while Intel will be saying to its customers, 'If you want a dual-core processor, we've got it.'

    If ever there was a time when Dell needed AMD, this is probably it.

    Tualatin is a dynamite server chip. One of the reasons (Intel) decided not to go forward with the Foster-based Xeon chip was because Tualatin, with its larger cache, had better performance in server environments.

    It's like the way writing has progressed from pen-and-ink to PCs.

    My expectation is that Intel's new products are definitely going to narrow the gap with AMD, and in some cases may even close the gap.

    There are 25 years of PC industry and 40 years of computer industry history that says there is never enough performance. My article in faith is that you will never have enough computing performance for things you want to do. Having said that, there are clever software people somewhere who are thinking of even cleverer things to do.

    But here the performance per watt is dramatically better than the industry standard and that to me is an adequate motivation to consider Sun. The cores themselves may not be very elegant, but what's relevant here is whether they'll do the job companies need them to do. From what I've seen Sun plans to deliver that.

    Intel wants to get them out in a hurry. I would assume they have a longer-term plan, probably around 45-nanometer technology, to provide a more comprehensively designed quad-core.

    I've long believed that Dell will ultimately have to do something with AMD if it doesn't want to lose some key server business. That may also be an imperative in the gaming business.

    That, of course, is the 64-bit question, ... Whether the AMD box can perform like IA-64 on Itanium. If the AMD box can do it, we'd be looking from a purely architectural point of view at a superior solution, because Intel is forcing people to make a compromise.

    Having a more intelligent quad-core, as opposed to the dual dual-core, translates to better power usage and, in theory, far better performance. The advantages are that you get a higher degree of sharing with caches and buses.

    AMD's performance advantage is going to narrow in the next 6 months, and it may even reverse.

    The digital watch was actually the first important application of CMOS technology.

    If someone came up with a 64-bit desktop application, then AMD would have an advantage, ... As soon as the application base on PCs demands more than 4GB to run any particular application, that's when you will start to see pressure on the desktop for 64-bit processors. But the average use for a Windows 98 configuration is just south of 128MB, so we still have several years, as that demand tends to crawl forward at around 50 to 100 percent a year.

    I don't know that Apple's market share can survive another architecture shift. Every time they do this, they lose more customers.

    If you're asking 'How do I get more done with the same amount of electrical power' this is one of the few solutions out there. And I think there are plenty of companies in this bind that will see this as manna from heaven.

    You won't see a Cell server. You'll see a blade center that has some x86 blades in it, and they will have a few Cell blades to handle the number crunching that is best done using a Cell.

    What Intel is trying to do is put some distance between multiprocessor configurations, which will be Xeon-based, and Pentium 4 chips for the desktop and low-end workstation environments,

    AMD is clearly ahead on performance and per-watt power advantages, which more and more customers are sensitive to. And for the first half of this year at least, AMD's lead in these categories will accelerate.

    As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.


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