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The ARM Diaries, Part 1: How ARM's Business Model Worksby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/28/2013 12:06 AM EST
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Crono - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkSo basically ARM is like an author who choose to work with a bunch of different publishers?
It amazes me how dominant they are, though, in the mobile processor industry, all without having to manufacture chips themselves. 45 billion chips... wow. And I'm guessing there is still plenty of room to grow with more embedded chips in more devices. Reply
airmanchairman - Friday, June 28, 2013 - link"It amazes me how dominant they are, though, in the mobile processor industry, all without having to manufacture chips themselves. 45 billion chips... wow."
Their philosophy has always been centred on the needs of their client industries, which extend far beyo Reply
airmanchairman - Friday, June 28, 2013 - link...nd the mobile processor industry into the vast all-purpose market (street lights, lifts, automatic turnstiles etc). These industries strictly specified the maximum power output the chips could be capable of (used to be 700mW) and ARM designed within those parameters. As such their entire R&D/Logistics/Marketing focus has been perfectly suited to the battery-power-constrained mobile industry.
Intel, on the other hand, after decades of dictating to the booming desktop industry with its faster/more cores/larger plants philosophy, is only just coming to grips with the power efficiency and discipline required to compete with ARM in the rapidly growing mobile sector.
The new Haswell architecture shows the promise and potential that Intel may Reply
airmanchairman - Friday, June 28, 2013 - link... bring to the battle against ARM. Reply
nadim.kahwaji - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkveryyyy nice post, anand i know that you are so busy, but we miss the podcast !!!!!! Reply
blanarahul - Friday, July 26, 2013 - linkUmm... Does Qualcomm also pay royalty for the chips that use Krait? Reply
blanarahul - Friday, July 26, 2013 - linkIs Qualcomm automatically eligible to use any of ARM designs since they are above the "Subscription Licence" level in the pyramid? Reply
dealcorn - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkI could not follow the sense of your statement "From Intel's perspective, it made the mistake of licensing the x86 ISA early on in its life, but quickly retreated from that business." I thought IBM required that Intel license X86 to competitors as a pre condition of IBM's selection of Intel's 8086 for the IBM PC. Did Intel made a boo boo letting IBM use the 8086 in the IBM PC? It was reported that Intel's selection of x86 license partners was driven by the dual criteria that the partner must be acceptable to IBM and also likely incompetent to exploit the benefits of the license. In retrospect, their selection of partners achieved these goals. What was Intel's licensing mistake?
The aphorism, "Knitter, stick to your knitting" has long been appreciated as a useful business strategy. ARM is properly commended for it's strict adherence to this truism in it's attempted optimization of architecture design. Intel appears focused on SoC level optimization. Intel's holistic approach is more time consuming and capital intensive. Consumers will ultimately vote with their wallets which approach is better in the contested ultra mobile space. Reply
SleepyFE - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkIntel licensed it's IP to AMD, but AMD didn't throtle it's CPU's so it would get more business with constant iteration of the same architecture with marginal improvements to it (Intel's tic toc development model). AMD made the best use of what they got from Intel. At that time their (AMD's) CPU's were faster and they were eating away Intel's business. Intel had since then made a new architecture and did not license it to AMD. Consequently AMD fell behind and had not recovered since. Reply
Wolfpup - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkAMD and Intel cross license x86. It's not fair to claim x86 is Intel's thing along, given how much stuff Intel has to license from AMD for it-heck, the most obvious is 64-bit. The updated ISA is AMD's design, and Intel started using it a few years later.
"At that time their (AMD's) CPU's were faster and they were eating away Intel's business. Intel had since then made a new architecture and did not license it to AMD. Consequently AMD fell behind and had not recovered since."
I can't remember if AMD ever actually licensed chip designs-if they did, it wasn't recent, would have been like the 486. Everything since then that AMD sells has been AMD's design. When AMD was faster, that was with entirely AMD designs. And no, Intel doesn't license Core, but that's not new like you're saying, that's been the case since the 486 days (if those were even licensed), and it's not why AMD's fallen a bit behind. Intel was making horrible decisions with their CPUs, and AMD was designing better ones. AMD's stuff is still really strong/good, it's just Intel's bigger, has thrown more resources at it, usually has a process node advantage, and since getting serious again has been able to have more powerful chips at the high end (though of course the reality is AMD's chips keep getting more powerful too, and are only "bad" in comparison to Intel's newest, and sometimes even then AMD looks better, like that platform comparison using integrated graphics where AMD's new $140 CPU was stomping on one of Intel's best i7s, often 50% better). Reply
Arbee - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkAMD's clones up through the 486 were true clones of the relevant Intel parts. For the Pentium Intel stopped allowing that and AMD started making their own designs, which at first weren't all that good. Reply
ShieTar - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkEven these days, AMD is somewhat forced to at least copy the INTEL instruction set. At this point, Intel definitly profits from the situation, whatever they decide to include for their CPU, AMD needs to support soon enough in order not to fall back. Reply
fluxtatic - Monday, July 01, 2013 - linkThe new arch Intel made was Itanium, as they were hoping to get away from x86. We all know how well that worked out.
What put AMD behind was Intel's incredibly dirty tricks around the days the Athlon64 was stomping all over Intel - all the backroom deals with Dell and HP, among others, to keep AMD parts out of PCs. Intel would kick in significant amounts of money in both marketing dollars and straight (very illegal) kickbacks to companies that were willing to play ball.
It ended up settling a couple years ago, with Intel paying around $2 billion, as I recall, but that was far too late for the damage done to AMD.
And to Wolfpup's point - there's likely not even money changing hands between Intel and AMD these days - they've both got significant contributions to the x86 architecture that are covered by the cross-licensing agreement. However, likely a lot of the newer features Intel has developed aren't covered, and AMD has to clean-room reverse engineer them if they want to include them in their own designs. Reply
Scannall - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkThere were many reasons for them licensing x86 at the time. And there used to be a whole lot of licensees. AMD is just the last one standing. Other manufacturers were coming up with very good and compelling CPU architectures, and there was really no standard per se. Between contract requirements, and many companies using licensed x86 IP it became the 'standard'.
So it looks to me like it was far from a mistake. Use all the licensees to get your architecture king of the hill, then grind them into the grave. Big win for Intel. Reply
rabidpeach - Saturday, June 29, 2013 - linkso arm could be early intel.
1. build up cash pile thru licensing
2. buy a fab
3. make it make your exclusive next gen processor that isnt licensed
4. sell it and destroy all the commodity producers
this strategy would need intel to stay on the sidelines. Reply
TheinsanegamerN - Sunday, June 30, 2013 - linkexcept amd went and sold its fab. Reply
slatanek - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkGreat article Anand! It's actually something I have been thinking for a while too (ARM). But I have to admit I miss PODCASTS too! (I'm not the only one as it seems) Reply
Callitrax - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkI'm not so sure the statement "In the PC world, Intel ... ends up being the biggest part of the BoM (Bill of Materials)" is all that accurate. I know it hasn't been for me for 10+ years, the largest part of my BoM is I think the same as a mobile device - the display. Anybody running multiple displays or 1200+ vertical lines (which probably constitutes a large fraction of the readers here) spent spent somewhere between $300 and $800+ dollars which means that they would need an i7 at the low end or i7 extreme at the high end (+PCH) to for Intel's cut to exceed the display cost. And for that matter Samsung just topped the processor in my computer (SSD).
* okay technically you could break the monitor BoM into payments to a few companies, but my panel I would guess still exceeds my cpu since the display was $600 on sale.
** and the economics get fuzzed up a little since desktop displays can last through several cpus (mine is on its 3rd cpu and 4 graphics card) whereas mobile device displays are glued to the cpu. Reply
mitcoes - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkit is possible we will see future ARM64 models where the SoC is plugged in, even a standard connector / format, and be able to upgrade the SoC 2 or 3 times as we do actually with desktop computers. I suggested it to several brands, and I suposse they read the suggestions, and perhaps one will do it Reply
name99 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkIt makes zero sense to optimize for something that is cheap (and part of a cheap system). The days of replaceable cores are gone, just like the days of replaceable batteries. Complaining about them just reveals you as out of touch.
There is good physics behind this, not just bitchiness. Mounting which allows devices to be plugged in and out is physically larger, uses more power, and limits frequencies and so performance. There's no point in providing it in most circumstances.
Next to go (for this sort of reason) will be replaceable RAM. It's already not part of the phone/tablet/ultrabook experience, and at some point the performance limitations (as opposed to the size and power issues) will probably mean it's also removed from mainstream desktops.
Complain all you like, but physics is physics. The impedance mismatch from these sorts of connectors is a real problem. Reply
Spunjji - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkI think you'll find that for the vast majority of users it probably is. I know that I am a distinct minority in spending more than ~£120 on a monitor for a desktop PC, and notebooks are now the dominant segment in PC sales where the cost of the display is going to be reduced compared to a desktop unit. Reply
name99 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkLook at an MBA. That's a far more representative type machine than a multi-screen desktop. That's what, $1200 or so, of which, what, $3..400 or so is Intel.
No-one else is close. The display is, what, maybe $100 at the most. The storage is maybe $200 at the most (being charitable in both cases).
Lower end laptops which are still using Intel are cheaper and so the fraction is even higher. Reply
madmilk - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkIn the PC world, the usual display is a $70 (eBay panel pricing, which is definitely an overestimate of BOM costs) 1366x768 display, or maybe a $140 1920x1080 display for nicer laptops and desktops. Even the rMBP 15 panel is only $300. In comparison, Core i5 processors start at over $200, and are very common in anything mid-range or above. Reply
lukarak - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkAll of the iOS devices are Arm based as well. Apple just designs their own processors based on the ARM instruction set, like Qualcomm with Scorpion and Krait, and unlike Samsung, NVIDIA or TI.
Also, all WP are also ARM based. Reply
aryonoco - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkI know it's OT, but since others have mentioned, I thought I'd add my voice as well: I miss the podcast. I REALLY miss the podcast :-) Reply
Deepak Chamarthi - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkNice info , Thanks Anand. Indeed ARM like companies needs this type of dynamic model. Mobiles everywhere -:) Reply
dishayu - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkSo, who would the chosen 3 be? I can guess Qualcomm and Samsung. Which one's the 3rd? Apple? TI? nVidia? Reply
PEPCK - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkWouldn't be Qualcomm or Apple, as they only use the ARM architecture, preferring to build their own designs. TI is a partner for the A15, but is unlikely to be for future chips, due to their retreat from the high performance SoC business. Reply
dishayu - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkHmm... But then same logic should apply to Samsung and their Exynos chips as well. Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkExynos uses standard ARM core designs though. Whereas Snapdragon and A6 (and beyond) are using custom core designs. There's a big difference between a custom chip using standard cores, and a chip using custom cores. Reply
pluto7777 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkExactly what is this IP they sell? Is it for hardware or software because Mali is a giant black box. Intel came to realize they could do more good for the end users by embracing open source. It's a shame this idea completely escapes ARM. Reply
ShieTar - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkARMs main IP is the processor design. Intel has absolutely no plans to make their Haswell-Designs open source. They also still sell their compiler and high performance libraries, so I really don't see how they are "embracing open source". Care to clarify your statement? Reply
Spunjji - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkI'm fairly sure they're talking complete nonsense. Reply
name99 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkAnd it's not even Haswell's design. Intel produces a ton of software (like ICC and their math libs) which aren't open source... Reply
pluto7777 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkTrue, but it's evident Intel is at least trying. Even AMD has made some positive steps. Do yourselves a favor and look into Lima. ARM apparently doesn't like people reverse engineering their stuff. Reply
pluto7777 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkIntel has open source drivers on Linux. They actually employee people to work on this instead of other companies who only have closed source drivers and force other people to backwards engineer everything if they want an open driver. Reply
iwod - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkSeeing both IMG ( MIPS ) and ARM are IP liscensing company, do both company's business mode work similary?
And When will Anantech do a piece on the newly annoucned MIPS v5 "Warrior". Reply
pluto7777 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkThat's another true loss. I can't Imagine how anyone could want anything from Imagination Technologies. I hope they only get Microsoft support and don't try to leech off the open source community through some loophole like Android does. Reply
munsie - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkI assume you mean the MIPS processor, not their GPUs? Because Apple has been shipping Imagination Tech GPUs since the first iPhone and Intel used them originally for their integrated graphics. Reply
ShieTar - Friday, June 28, 2013 - link"In the PC industry, the concept of a fabless semiconductor isn't unusual."
And most chemistry labs also work with fabless semiconductors. I think this sentence is missing a word ;-) Reply
Krysto - Friday, June 28, 2013 - link"It must frustrate ARM just how much attention is given to Intel in the ultra mobile space, especially considering the chip giant's effectively non-existent market share"
Well, it helps to have people like you Anand, who make baseless statements such as "Haswell will take over tablets and beat ARM", a whole year before you even know the details about the Haswell architecture or review it.
Maybe if the media didn't fall for Intel's misleading marketing and press releases so easily, Intel wouldn't get as much attention with nothing to show for it. Reply
cnxsoft - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkInteresting no growth at all forecast for the "Desktop PC and Servers" up to 2017. What about ARMv8 based servers? Or is it in another category (Networking?).
I also thought ARM had a bigger market share in micro-controllers, but 8-bit and 16-bit designs still have a significant market share, so I guess that's partly why. Reply
bill5 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkAnand might find it interesting that according to a forbes article, ARM was one of the two finalists for Sony/MS next gen consoles...
They supposedly had a performance "bake off", and decided on the Jaguars. With the caveat that although ARM would not be ready with enough performance in time for PS4/XB1, they would be soon after. So, evidently they just missed. Reply
bill5 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linklinkkkkk http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2013/0... Reply
A5 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkI believe it. I'm thinking A57 will match or beat Jaguar performance, but it wasn't going to be ready for a Q4 2013 mass production launch. Considering that the home console environment is particularly power-constrained, there was probably no reason to wait for ARM to be ready. Reply
A5 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - link*is not, damnit Reply
maybeimwrong - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkI've been a fan of AT since the 90s, and will undoubtedly continue to be; there's no better tech site out there. That said, I'm uncomfortable with these "Featured Reviews." Perhaps I'm making unwarranted assumptions, but I can't help but read that phrase as "this article was commissioned by a third party, and may remain at the top of the main page for longer than it would have in the absence of payment." I'm not interested in what advertisers think should be featured; I want to see what Anand thinks should be featured. I understand that advertising pays the bills, but there will be far fewer advertisers if readers stop believing in the integrity of the site. While I'm sure this reads as an overreaction, allowing money to dictate editorial content is a slippery slope. Anand, please be careful with these advertising programs. Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkIn this case I can assure you that you're reading into "featured review" a little too much. Anand likes to use that label for his major industry articles; this article wasn't commissioned by anyone.
It also won't remain at the top of the page any longer than any other article. All of our articles are bumped down sequentially based on date of publication. Reply
maybeimwrong - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkThanks for the clarification, Ryan. I was paranoid because some of the language in the advertising section seems to allow for the kind of scenario I described. I know articles are bumped down in order of publication, but that doesn't mean the timing can't be adjusted to feature some articles more than others. Keep up the good work :) Reply
THF - Monday, July 01, 2013 - linkWell, how is he able to publish the "please do not publish without approval" presentation slides then? Some degree of ARM approval must have been involved in this article. Reply
Wolfpup - Friday, June 28, 2013 - link8.7 billion chips in one year...that's mind blowing :-O And of course isn't even counting all the multiple CPUs in many chips.
I guess I should really be supportive of what they do, given their model is probably healthier than Intel's, but I'm still biased against ARM because of how low end their stuff is (not to mention that it's never been used in a really great PC before...I suppose since Android is technically open it could be considered a PC, but...yuck). Reply
Qwertilot - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkNot never - they did start out in very decent computers. Not for a long while of course. Wonder if we'll ever see arm linux devices in any sorts of real numbers. Reply
dealcorn - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkAs Android is branded linux, I think we are already there. The open source community is very supportive of ARM on Linux, but products available in the marketplace generally lack contemporary ARM chips at affordable prices. Linux clearly works on select non cutting edge ARM products such as the Rasberry Pi, but the performance falls short of mainstream appeal. Reply
Qwertilot - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkThat's the main issue I guess. I guess that (seemingly very popular) Samsung chrome book might be closest to counting. Suppose its mostly whether anyone bothers putting a workable thing together, all the interfaces you'd like on the SoC etc. Reply
ShieTar - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkSir, for the atrocity of calling the ACORN "not a really great PC" I will have to formally demand satisfaction from you! I propose we meet at the break of dawn, and duel by throwing Monkey Island style insults from 20 feet distance!
The truth is, while Black-Hat-White-Hat thinking is fun in terms of you favorite electronic implementation of the overcomplicated abacus, its never been very relevant for my own decisions in reality. I've grown up an absolute Commodore addict, both on the C64 and the AMIGA, only leaving an Apple IIe in for a bit of latenight-programming (The commodores were connected to the family TV, the Apple had a tiny monochrome monitor and was firmly located inside my own room). But once I joined university (College for you US guys) and I needed a cost-efficient platform for simulations and LaTeX-editing, I've jumped over to the PC-platform quickly enough. And about 3 month after grudgingly admiting this "Wintel"-Thing into my home, I tremendously enjoyed myself playing Starcraft.
Of course I still yell "AMIGA 4 Life" at anybody who proposes I use an Apple instead of an IBM compatible for my PC needs. Which confuses the hell out of everybody, but luckily building a satellite takes 5-10 years, so the team has pleanty of time to get used to my antics.
Still, when some new platform comes around that can do what I need to be done, I will end up buying it. I will complain, I will point out to people that "The Cloud" is really just FTP with a better front-end, and I will yell "AMIGA 4 Life" from time to time. I may be affected by PC-Tourette.
So, when it comes to ARM, I'm just about to earn them annother 0.4$. I went to our local tech-search-engine (http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich for those not scared of german) and figured out that of the 933 tablets sold in germany, there is exactly one that offers a 10 inch screen at a weight of 320g, with everything else starting at around 500g. Now I personnally have exactly 2 tasks which really require me to own a table: I need something to read comics without killing trees, which my Kindle won't really do due to a lack of pictures and colours. And I sometimes need a map when I visit a city which is not the one I live in. For both tasks, the exact kind of processor does hardly matter. The screen resolution is a point, but not critical. Cameras are irrelevant. SD-Cards are nice, but not critical. And so on. So while the majority of tech-sites goes on to discuss Apple vs. Samsung vs. Asus vs. I'm not sure what else, I will go and by myself a "Cube U30GT". I don't know anybody who owns one, I have never read a review from a credible site recomending one, but I know how to use a search engine, and this thing turns up as the best thing for my exact needs.
To come back to the point:
Intel engineering is probably "better" than ARM, but I will buy an ARM device next.
Apple and ASUS are VERY likely better overall designers of tablets than Cube (If that is even the company name), but I will buy a Cube product next.
I have a specific need, so I will buy a specific product.
Mmh, and while on the subject, a somewhat random but remotely relevant comment on your post, Mister Wolfpup: "Long-Forgotten Guy from Sumeria" has found and refined the grain of wheat, of which we now trade 650 million tons each year (whatever that means in actual number of corns. 650 trillion corns? Maybe.)
So, my point? Stop obsessing who is best, or most relevant, and let your voice be heard on what you want and need. This is how we progress, by understanding the needs of people and the capabilities of science and engineering. Random comments on "I won't buy your stuff because people don't buy your stuff" don't really progress anything.
So, while we're at it: I want a 200g ASUS-Infinity-Tablet to go on a Keyboard-Dock. And I want that dock to have a big battery and a decent 2.5" SSD included, and nice mechanical keys and a decent number of USB-ports.
Thanks. Reply
hazydave - Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - linkNice to read the Amiga love... but keep in mind, real Amiga development at Commodore pretty much stopped in 1993, given the troubles with mismanagement and other crimes. The great effect of the x86-PC was democratizing the personal computer, at least at the system level. Anyone could (and can) build their own. Heck, even Apple's Macintosh evolved into a bog standard PC.
ARM has managed to take that to the next level, by basically doing the same thing for chip designers that Intel and AMD and the huge industry behind them did for system integrators. I doubt that Amiga would have gone x86 in 1994, had Commodore been healthy, but it would have moved off 68K, that's for certain -- the successor to the Amiga 3000/4000 architecture was CPU neutral at the system level, and the custom chips were headed that way as well. But certainly, had things lasted, the Amiga would be x86 today. And maybe looking at ARM versions as well.
I actually feel a little better about running Android on my Galaxy Nexus or Asus Transformer Infinity (128GB total storage... plenty for Android, you don't really need a larger SSD) than Windows 7 on my "home made" PC. Microsoft WAS the Evil Empire; I'm pretty sure they're still Evil, but not sure about the whole Empire thing anymore. ARM, Asus, Linux and Google... much less so.
But at the end of the day, you have stuff to do on that PC. I took me a little while to figure out the whole retro-computing thing, but it's the basic idea that, in the early home computer days, certainly when the C64 and Amiga first shipped, the computer WAS your hobby. You bought a computer to "do computing"... probably writing some code, sure, some store-bought programs as well, but the central focus was that computer.
That hasn't been the case for ages, though. Unless you're buying a Raspberry Pi or some-such, you're probably buying a PC as an engine for something else: web entre, CAD, music, video, gaming, office automation, etc. A few are still coding, of course, but even that's probably more about a specific project than learning every tiny detail of a specific bit of hardware and code. The PC itself is an easily replaceable part. And I think, at least in part, if you're nostalgic for Commodores or Amigas or Apple ][s, you're missing that bit of "soul" that emerged in exploring those machines' depths. Reply
mali_07 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkIntel's brand new haswell benchmarked against A9 which has been in Market for like 3 years that too on Intel optimized platform giving misleading data. Can Intel now dare to benchmark it against Cortex A12 which is 30% faster than A15.
What about A50 series which will be 3x faster than present series of Cortex. Intel only has survived owing to its money which it uses in ads through you guys.
ARM infact is one generation ahead of INTEL. Reply
name99 - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkOh for crying out loud. Reply
ShieTar - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkYou need to be more vocal and explicit in your responses. I have extracted almost no amusement at all from your response. I suggest you go ahead and outright call this person an Idiot. Or go for Imbecile, he seems to have problems to count to 15 anyways. Or maybe you want to go and make my day and declare him a "Cortex-loving son of an ARM-brained RISC-lover"
Seriously, Kids today just don't know how to start a serious riot anymore. Reply
zifuxyx - Friday, June 28, 2013 - linkarm will finally defeat by intel
it is no reason to doubt, just about the time
in 1 or 2 years ? Reply
3dcgi - Sunday, June 30, 2013 - linkAnand, do you have info on how the cost of an architecture license differs from a regular IP license? I assume it's a higher upfront license cost and lower royalty cost, but haven't seen this specified anywhere. Thanks. Reply
hazydave - Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - linkI actually wonder how much of Intel's fortune is really within their control anymore. On the one hand, it's hard to imagine why Intel, the only company really making a consumer-oriented CPU selling retail at about $1,000 every year, working so hard to match price, power, and performance against a market based on SOC's that OEM at $15.
On the other hand, Intel's superpower has always been cash, and cash has always depended on volume. Intel clearly sees the Windows marketing contracting, and feels they need to make the jump to whatever's next. Android can of course run on Intel, it's actually been a standard thing for the last few versions. And that could be key... it's expected about 850 million Android devices ship this year, versus about 350 million Windows devices. Not as much cash, clearly, but it does suggest that this doesn't have to happen for too many years in a row to see Android going to replace most of the desktop uses, and desktops becoming niche.
Intel did a pretty good job destroying every niche processor within range of the x86. SPARC and Power still hang on at the high end, AMD used their x86-64 to kill off Intel's IA-64 (ok, sure, Intel helped a lot there too). MIPS and PowerPC are mitigated to embedded... only ARM is a primary application processor against Intel (and occasionally AMD) these days.
But Intel's definitely risking getting dragged down with Microsoft. Maybe Microsoft will bounce back on better x86s, maybe not. Intel doesn't seem willing to take that risk, and you can't exactly blame them. Reply
goo.gle - Saturday, July 20, 2013 - linkGive us the next one already! :D Reply
EN10 - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkLooks like Charlie Demerjian is taking your images & article notes and putting his stamp on them. Bit naughty, or just a coincidence?
http://semiaccurate.com/2013/08/08/how-arm-license... Reply


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Victim critical, three confess to crime; one more detained
Three accused Mukesh, Pawan and Vinay were today produced in court where they confessed to the crime. Pawan however, refuses to undergo test identification parade saying he committed a "heinous act." Petition: swifter justice, strickter punishment | Victim conscious, fighting for life | Govt announces slew of stepsdelhi Updated: Dec 19, 2012 19:03 IST
Three accused Mukesh, Pawan and Vinay were on Wedesday produced in court where they confessed to the crime.
Pawan refuses to undergo test identification parade saying he committed a "heinous act."
Mukesh agrees to undergo test identification parade by victim's male friend, the TIP will take place on Thursday in Tihar Jail.
Vinay reportedly refused to undergo test identification parade and said before the court that he assaulted the boy, not the girl.
Pawan and Vinay have been sent to four-day police custody while Mukesh sent to Tihar jail for 14 days in judicial custody.
A fifth accused, Akshay Thakur has been detained from Aurangabad in Bihar and is being brought to Delhi, sources said.
Water canons were used on protesters who had gathered outsite Delhi chief minister Shiela Dikshit's residence on Wednesday, to demand immediate action in the gangrape.
PM say incident 'upsetting'
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described the incident as "very upsetting". He directed Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to ensure that culprits are brought to book and such incidents are not repeated.
"It's a heinous crime...it is very upsetting," he said.
In Parliament, Shinde said that there will be an immediate crackdown on buses having tinted glass and heavy curtains. They shall be impounded immediately, if they do not remove them.
All buses will be asked to keep their lights on while plying at night in Delhi and these must be parked with their owners and not their drivers, Shinde told Rajya Sabha.
Three days after a 23-year old woman was assaulted and gangraped in a moving bus in the national capital, she continues to fight for life in Safdarjung Hospital.
According to TV reports, vital organs of the girl are permanently damaged.
She is on a ventilator in the hospital's ICU and is getting a regular infusion of morphine to control the pain, doctors treating her claim that the pain is so excruciating that despite the morphine dose she is conscious.
But the victim, despite her critical injuries, is putting up a good fight.
The victim had received severe genital and abdominal injuries and lost a lot of blood during the assault. Doctors claimed that they had never seen such brutal assault.
"Her condition is critical but she is conscious and communicating by writing notes. She is a spirited girl and is showing tremendous will to fight her condition," said Dr BD Athani, Medical Superintendent, Safdarjung Hospital.
To boost her spirits further, the hospital authorities had even considered the idea of showing her television so that she realised action was being taken against the culprits.
"We did think of it initially but then decided against it as it would have meant moving her from her bed," said a doctor in the hospital. Her parents are anxiously waiting outside the ICU, but doctors have not allowed the father to meet her and even the mother has met only twice to avoid infection.
The condition of the girl had marginally improved on Tuesday morning, and she had even started communicating with the doctors by writing small chits. 'Lift my leg', 'pain in my right leg', 'clean my throat, it's burning,' and 'have they been caught' were some of the notes written by her through the morning.
However, later during the second assessment, doctors found her condition had deteriorated.
"She needed more ventilatory support, her pulse rate is high at 130 (normal is between 70 and 80), her platelets have dropped to 48,000 (normal is between 1.4- 4 lakh) and her blood pressure has also dropped considerably, which indicates developing of the infection," said Dr Athani.
Doctors may perform another life-saving surgery on her to remove dead tissues, if required. "The surgery we performed on her was absolutely necessary to save her life and if need be, we may perform another one in coming days," said a surgeon.
"We are performing life-saving measures right now, and reconstruction surgeries will be performed after she has survived the life-threat," he added.
Sonia writes to Shinde and Sheila Dikshit, wants immediate action
Congress president Sonia Gandhi shot letters to home minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit after visiting Safdargjung Hospital for immediate action against the rapists.
In her letter to Sheila Dikshit, she said, "It's a shame that these incidents recur with painful regularity and that our daughters, sisters, mothers are unsafe in the capital city." She directed the chief minister to take "whatever steps are necessary to undertake community action, to strengthen law and order, and to step up vigilance to protect women."
To the home minister, she wrote, "It's a shame for all of us who are responsible for security of our cities. This monstrous crime deserves not only universal condemnation but also the government's most urgent attention. It is imperative that the police and other agencies concerned are sensitise to the danger our daughters, sisters, mothers face every day. The security agencies must be motivated, trained and equipped to deal with this menace.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday night visited Safdarjung Hospital to inquire about the condition of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim and asked the government to take the strictest possible measures to ensure that there is no recurrence of such a barbaric incident that has shaken the country.
Gandhi was at the hospital here for about 15-20 minutes during which she inquired about the condition of the girl from the doctors and met her parents, according to Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi.
The doctors told Gandhi that the girl was in a critical state, he said.
According to doctors, the condition of the para-medical student, who was gang-raped and brutally assaulted by a group of men in a moving bus here on Sunday, had deteriorated in the evening after which she was put on "full-time ventilator support".
Four of the six accused were arrested and sent to police custody for five days on Tuesday. Two are still missing and the police are reportedly searching for them in Rajasthan and Bihar.
The police have added three more sections of Indian Penal Code against the accused.
The accused had decided to "punish" her for trying to stop them from attacking her male friend who was accompanying her, police sources said.
The men, including the bus driver Ram Singh, had taken out the bus for a joy ride on Sunday evening. They spotted the student and her friend at the Munirka bus stop in south Delhi and called out to them saying the bus was headed to Dwarka, where the woman lives.
The six men were apparently so confident they will not be caught that the assailants carried on with their routine chores the next day while one brought back the vehicle to his house.
But luck ran out for the men within 24 hours as police, who were aided by the description provided by the victims about the vehicle, zeroed in on them and even arresting one from Rajasthan where he was in hiding.
Just before raping the 23-year-old para-medical student in a moving bus on Sunday night and beating her male friend who tried to protect her, the gang of six men, two of them still absconding, looted a carpenter by providing him a lift in the bus.
Police investigators discovered that Singh has criminal records: He is wanted in an accident case. Plus, sources said, his elder brother, Suresh, was jailed after being convicted in a rape case six months ago.

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High school notebook: Seneca Valley coach likes view from above
Seneca Valley coach Don Holl took an unorthodox approach when he abandoned the Raiders sideline, but the results have been exceptional.
In three games since the move, Seneca Valley has outscored opponents, 147-21, including a 34-7 victory over No. 6 Central Catholic. Holl will watch from above again Friday when No. 5 Seneca Valley (5-1) faces No. 8 North Hills (5-1) at Martorelli Stadium, a key game in the Quad North.
"I think (the move) was productive," said Holl, who calls his team's offensive plays. "It was exactly what I expected it to be. I think I was better, and as a result, we were better."
In their first three games this season, with Holl on the sideline, the Raiders scored 77 points. But after a 45-3 loss to North Allegheny in Week 3, Holl moved upstairs. It was an idea he'd considered before, having once been a college coordinator. But he was reluctant to leave the sideline, knowing there might be logistical issues.
"I had a feeling I would be more effective, but I was never quite convinced that the downside wouldn't be significant," Holl said. "But the more we thought about it, I realized I'm saying one thing and doing another. I do believe I'd be better up there, and maybe what I needed to do was give it a try."
Record pace
Springdale's Sean Dugan could be the Dynamos' career rushing leader before the end of the month. The senior has 3,513 yards and stands 361 from the mark set by Wayne Mundekis (3,874) from 2002-05.
Dugan ranks fifth in the WPIAL this season with 999 yards on 127 carries. He averages 166 yards per game.
Freshman game
Bethel Park's Levi Metheny, Kiski Area's Lincoln Clayton and Avonworth's Zach Chandler certainly didn't play like freshmen last Friday.
Metheny completed 8 of 12 passes for 176 yards and two touchdowns in a 31-7 victory over Penn Hills. Clayton rushed for 187 yards and two touchdowns in a 36-14 victory over Norwin. Chandler led two scoring drives in a 19-15 overtime loss to North Catholic.
Chris Harlan is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Miggy hits two of Tigers' five homers in rout of Tribe
Detroit pads lead for second AL Wild Card spot, puts pressure on KC
CLEVELAND -- Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera's right ankle figures to be sore for the rest of the season. His arms, however, remain as strong as ever.
Cabrera hit two home runs, drove in three runs and had four hits Monday, powering Detroit to a 12-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians. His 29th career multihomer game helped the Tigers pull 1 1/2 games ahead of the Mariners for the second American League Wild Card spot.
Detroit remains a half-game behind the Royals in the AL Central after Kansas City won on Monday night.
"We won, that's the most important thing right now," said Cabrera, who went 4-for-5 and scored four times. "What I did was fine, but we won, so that makes it even better."
The two-time reigning AL MVP left the Tigers' game Saturday against the White Sox when his ankle flared up, then sat out the series finale in Chicago on Sunday.
Cabrera returned to action in the Labor Day matinee as the designated hitter, while Victor Martinez flip-flopped with him to play first base. The strategy worked perfectly as both players homered in the first three innings, as did J.D. Martinez, off Indians ace Corey Kluber.
Detroit wound up with a season-high five home runs when Cabrera went deep off Bryan Price in the eighth and Tyler Collins hit his first big league blast in the ninth off Austin Adams.
Cabrera's initial homer was his first since Aug. 2, while his second moved him into a tie with Harold Baines for 61st place on the all-time home run list with 384. He also upped his average against Kluber to .566 over 30 career at-bats.
"Miggy looked good, obviously, but we had guys hit up and down our lineup today," said Tigers manager Brad Ausmus, whose squad had 20 hits. "It had been a while for him in terms of home runs, so who knows, maybe this is a flashpoint for him."
Detroit left-hander David Price (13-10), who leads the AL with 210 1/3 innings and 232 strikeouts, allowed one run in seven frames to snap his two-game losing streak. Price scattered eight hits and struck out eight, improving to 2-2 in six starts since being acquired from Tampa Bay on July 31. He is 6-1 with a 2.86 ERA in eight career outings against the Indians.
"He's been pitching for a while now, and he knows what he's doing," Cleveland manager Terry Francona said. "He's got the stuff to go with it. We had hits; it's just hard, because he's really good."
The Tigers battered Kluber (13-9) for five runs and seven hits in 2 2/3 innings. The right-hander ranks third in the AL in innings and strikeouts, but he saw his ERA rise to 2.72 in his shortest start of the year.
Price was pleased with the way his teammates responded to the challenge.
"Our offense did a great job against Kluber, getting two runs in the first and a couple more in the next two innings," he said. "That made my job a little bit easier, for sure."
Nick Castellanos added three singles for the Tigers, while Alex Avila and Victor Martinez both had a pair of hits and drove in a pair of runs.
Detroit right fielder Steven Moya made his big league debut in the ninth, singling as a pinch-hitter. The Eastern League MVP was recalled from Double-A Erie earlier in the day.
Catcher James McCann also played in his first Major League contest for Detroit, entering as a defensive replacement in the ninth.
"This was a day that Moya and McCann will never forget, and it was nice for Tyler to hit his first home run up here," Ausmus said. "You always enjoy a game like that. We were pitching good, hitting good. It was a lot of fun."
The Indians' lone tally occurred in the first when Carlos Santana doubled home Michael Brantley. Al Alburquerque and Jim Johnson pitched one scoreless inning apiece in relief of Price.
Brian Dulik is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Big Day Out celebrated a spectacular coming-of-age 21st at the Claremont Showground, with more than 30,000 fans streaming through the gates for the last stop on the national tour.
The entertainment started from the moment people queued up at the gates, with security guards yelling "if you aren't wearing your party pants then take your pants off" at waiting punters.
With the two main stages facing directly into the sun, not even the bands had respite from the heat; it was still so hot by the time Yeah Yeah Yeah's took the stage, at almost 6pm, that front woman Karen O tipped her bottle of water on her head.
If the crowd was suffering in the heat, they certainly didn't show it and were at their most energetic during Heads Will Roll.
Perennial crowd-pleasures The Killers packed out the "D-section" in front of the main stages after they kicked off with their debut single and best-seller Mr Brightside, followed by Spaceman and Smile Like You Mean It.
The sizeable crowd was impressive given the temperature hadn't dropped below 30 degrees by 5pm, by which time the majority of festival-goers had arrived to see Vampire Weekend kick off.
The introduction of "Chow Town" to the Perth BDO was extremely well-received; for the first time punters had a choice of something that wasn't deep fried or slapped between two pieces of bread.
Clarences, Greenhouse, Andaluz, Lalla Rookh and Snags And Sons were eaten out of house and home by 7pm, with the lonely El Compa still pumping out $5 tacos and quesadillas.
Anyone wanting to get front-and-centre once they'd taken stage was out of luck; the line to get into the "D" was easily 500-strong and the entrances to the over-18 drinking areas on either side of the stage were soon blocked off.
British five-piece Foals were firm favourites on the comparatively chilled-out Green Stage, but as the crowd thinned out at all stages and fireworks were fired off from the main arena it was obvious the Red Hot Chili Peppers were about to start.
Artists onstage at the same time as the Chili Peppers – including 360, Animal Collective, Sleighbells and Nina Las Vegas - had to resign themselves to having less-than-capacity crowds and the "No Noise" silent disco tent, which had hosted hundreds throughout the day, was completely empty by the time the Chili Peppers' 8pm start time rolled by.
When headliners the Red Hot Chili Peppers took the stage there was barely a spare inch of step, stair or fence left by those craning to get a glimpse of the band and by the time they'd warmed into Can't Stop, people had even clambered onto Claremont train station's barbed wire fences to watch them play.
With standing room only right to the back, girls in bikinis who'd long since forgotten to hold their stomachs in clambered onto the giant carnival rides to get a few minutes' vista above the sea of heads and hands.
The American rockers could do no wrong and even telling the crowd they were "motherf...ers" elicited nothing but cheering in response.
Even those outside enjoyed the show; as revellers headed home, many still singing along to The Zephyr Song and Under The Bridge in their best Anthony Keidis and Flea impersonations, they joined dozens of festival piggybackers who had surrounded the Claremont venue to listen in.
And as capacity trains whizzed the sunburnt bodies home, it was clear that for every Claremont resident who might have been disgruntled by the noise, there were a couple who was still knocking back beers on their balcony, in just as good spirits as those making their way home.


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Creative Coalition
The Lowdown #1: Sticky Fingers
"We didn't want to have another boring art-world dinner," says art adviser and curator Raphael Castoriano, who, with colleagues Ginevra Caltagirone and Claudia Cisneros, five years ago launched Kreëmart, an organization that invites artists to explore dessert—yes, as in cake—as a medium. "Art isn't necessary to sustain ourselves and neither is dessert, but we wanted to draw the parallels between the two—they both give you pleasure," explains curator Jovana Stokić, who works with Castoriano.
James Franco and Michael Stipe munch chocolate casts of Marina Abramović's mouth in 2010.
The Lowdown #1: Sticky Fingers
There's no set schedule to Kreëmart's freewheeling performances and no mandates—artists set the agenda, and are then paired with partner-in-crime pastry chefs. The latest, in September at Christie's Haunch of Venison gallery in New York City, included an Olaf Breuning–orchestrated spectacle in which performers dressed as monkeys handed out plastic bananas filled with ice cream made by Il Laboratorio del Gelato, as well as a candy maze by Janaina Tschäpe, constructed by pastry maestro Guido Mogni and West Village pasticceria Sant Ambroeus.
Breuning's monkeys.
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SANTA FE, Texas - A missing 21-year-old woman from Santa Fe, Galveston County, was found safe late Sunday night.
Ashley Collard, 21, disappeared from her home Friday night. She was found by Santa Fe Police and Galveston County deputies around 11:40 p.m. Sunday.
Investigators said Collard was in the 11000 block of 32nd street walking in the road. While she did not appear to have any injuries, she was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
Over the weekend, family members told Local 2 that Collard has the mental capacity of an 8-year-old and may not realize she needs to ask for help or even accept help if it is offered. The family said Collard had not taken medication for her mental health issues or seizures since she disappeared on Friday.
Searchers found Collard's cellphone in a water-logged ditch on Saturday, but found no other clues regarding her current whereabouts.
Family members said Collard left her home because she was angry about cleaning her room.
"She may be 21 years old but she is an innocent little girl," said Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo with the Galveston Sheriff's Office.
Collard has no friends outside her home, according to the family, and has not been communicating with anyone on the Internet.
"Ashley doesn't have anyone outside her family, friends, or contacts," said Laura Collard, Ashley's mother.
Investigators have not revealed if Collard's 6-month-old black and white Shih Tzu puppy, Krissy, was with her when she was found. She was seen with the dog when she left her home Friday.
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Durante il webinar offriremo una panoramica sui principali strumenti offerti da COMSOL Multiphysics per simulare la propagazione di onde elettromagnetiche a frequenze ottiche.
Learn how to use the Application Builder to turn your validated models into custom applications with a restricted number of inputs and controlled outputs for use by colleagues without simulation expertise.
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This one-day course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of performing analyses of AC/DC electromagnetics using COMSOL Multiphysics.
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Learn how to simulate heat transfer with COMSOL Multiphysics and the Heat Transfer Module. Topics include conduction, convection, radiation, and phase change.
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Durante questo webinar, realizzato in collaborazione con il Centro Ricerche Eni per le Energie Rinnovabili e l'Ambiente, scopriremo le potenzialità e gli strumenti offerti da COMSOL per rendere il processo di progettazione più semplice, veloce ed efficace.
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Durante il webinar scopriremo come la simulazione con COMSOL Multiphysics® offra un approccio innovativo alla modellazione dei processi di additive manufacturing.
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