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September 30, 2008—
There will be a new way to watch the turbulent stock market on the Michigan Tech campus. A new stock market ticker will be unveiled in the Academic Office Building on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 3 p.m.
Dean Johnson, associate professor of finance in the School of Business and Economics, says the addition of the ticker is appropriate for a couple of reasons.
"Of course, it is great for our Applied Portfolio Management Program as they continue to compete nationally," he said. The APMP has won the national RISE investment competition in the value category for the last two years and three out of the past eight.
"It's also important in that it brings the market into the everyday lives of our students, especially during these troubled financial times," Johnson said.
The ticker will show Bloomberg TV, headline news stories, stock quotes, US stock indices, market statistics, foreign stock indices, commodities prices, interest rates, and even the weather and the names of APMP supporters.
The unveiling will occur during the meeting of the School of Business and Economics Advisory Board and will also feature members of the APMP, faculty, and staff.
The ticker will be located on the main floor of the Academic Office Building just inside the main entrance.
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.


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BURNLEY'S traffic woes are set to worsen later this month as one of the main gateways into the town is closed for improvements.
Trafalgar Street is set to close from 6am to 9pm for a fortnight from August 29 to allow for resurfacing work.
County Coun Tony Martin, whose Burnley Central West ward includes Trafalgar Street, said he had been getting complaints 'daily' from residents fed up with lengthy tailbacks.
Road users have been advised to travel via Burnham Gate, which is already experiencing heavy traffic because of work on the Westway roundabout.
Four-way temporary traffic lights at the junction of Accrington Road and Rossendale Road, to allow for work by Electricity North West, have also caused misery for commuters trying to reach the town centre.
Coun Martin said: "It's a case of 'damned if they do and damned if the don't'. I'm getting emails from people daily because of the effects its had on their journey times. I've experienced it myself; you're trying to go this way and that and it's just all roadworks. It would seem this government has realised this area has suffered from under-investment for many years.
"And now they're falling over themselves to get all the work done at once."
Whittlefield with Ightenhill councillor Mathew Isherwood slammed the number of ongoing roadworks in Burnley as 'ridiculous'. But Lancashire County Council said that it had warned business and residents of the work in April.
County Coun John Fillis, cabinet member for highways and transport, said: "This investment will make a real difference to visitors' first impressions of Burnley."

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The Houston suburb of Missouri City is going to charge drivers extra to respond to wrecks.
It's known as a "crash tax." It's a fee to cover the cost of first responders who come to help you out, and that fee could add up to a couple thousand bucks.
Starting March 1, Missouri City's Fire Department will charge a fee for responding to traffic accidents.
"That really ticks me," said Missouri City resident Meredith Johnson. "I can't believe that. That's crazy!
Drivers involved will be charged even if they don't call for help.
"I think of how often they show up. I see them show up and everyone's walking around. I'm freaking out," said Johnson.
The charges range from $500 all the way up to $2,000. The amount depends on the severity of the accident. Those fees target drivers that are at fault, which is little consolation to those skeptical about how it's going to work.
"Everything's ridiculous right now," said Vicky, a driver in Missouri City. "Everybody's out to make money -- especially the government."
Fire Chief Russell Sander believes the so-called "crash tax" will help plug the city's budget deficit.
When asked what do you say to those people that are concerned out there, Chief Sander said, "They're not going to see something sent to their house."
Sander said the bills will be sent directly to insurance companies, and he doesn't want drivers to be worried.
"I don't think they're going to see much differences in our services or their cost that's out of their pocket," Chief Sander said.
For drivers like Meredith Johnson, that explanation isn't enough.
"Don't we pay them to do that already?" asked Johnson.
She wonders what will happen if insurance companies do not pick up the tab for the accident. That will now come with an additional price tag.
The city is bringing in a third party company to handle the billing for this. They estimate that this is going to pull in an extra $50,000 for the city a year.


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WASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick Leahy want the government to start affording same sex, married couples the same immigration benefits that heterosexual couples now enjoy.
Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, says he will introduce later Wednesday the Uniting Families Act, a bill that would provide spousal immigration benefits to same sex couples. Leahy discussed the bill briefly during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform.
Because the federal government does not currently recognize same sex marriages, U.S. citizens cannot sponsor their same sex partners for immigration benefits, including green cards.
The Justice Department is no longer defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. The Supreme Court is set to take up gay marriage cases later this year.
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I know many believe in Forest Gump's line, "Life is like a box of chocolates," but I'm here to tell you I think life is like a batch of cinnamon rolls. When done right, the delightful pastries come out of the oven filling your house with the heavenly aroma of cinnamon and freshly-baked rolls that are deliciously light, chewy and to die for good. Basically, they epitomize success; living life at its finest.
The process of getting them there,though, is another story entirely ...
I don't have too many things on my summer bucket list this year. I've had a few exciting, spontaneous moments with friends, and I'd like to attend a few country concerts and go boating and tubing for the first time. But other than that, anything out of the ordinary will be a surprise to me. Which is completely fine, considering I love surprises! Well, on second thought, please nobody surprise me by crashing into the rear end of my car again ... but that's another story for another day.
I do have one simpler goal this summer, though: learn to become a successful cinnamon roll baker. This might seem silly to some of you bakers out there, but for some reason, I have never had success with the little monsters.
I will add, though, that yeast is not my best friend either. I've had it work for me a few times, but I am not a patient person, so kneading for five minutes, waiting for the rising to take place, rolling everything out, and then waiting for some more rising just isn't always up my alley ... but three of the things I love are baking, good cinnamon rolls and a good challenge.
So, I'm determined to make it happen.
This is where I feel like the process relates to life. It is a long process, and there are a lot of steps, but if you do it right, then you will end up with something beautiful in the end.
First things first — you have to have all of the right ingredients, and the absolute most important one is faith and determination. Without believing that you can do something you won't get anywhere. After that, it's a little different for everyone, and some people aren't fortunate enough to have everything they need; but with a little work and creativity, it will usually work out. And sometimes the end product will be even better than imagined!
Next, after the ingredients are all mixed up comes the kneading. Life is hard, and it takes time. It wasn't meant to be a joy ride, rather something that we have to work at in order to make us stronger and to help us better enjoy the satisfaction of our labors. Don't skimp on the work, because shortcuts, while seeming good at the time, can leave us with some very bad or disappointing baggage later.
And then there's the waiting ... my very impatient self already squirms at the idea of it, but I want light, fluffy rolls, so I better buck up right now. My last batch of rolls were a little denser than I wished, so I know I shouldn't have been in such a hurry on the second rising ...
They weren't lying when they said patience is a virtue. These days everyone is rushing around, trying to make everything happen ASAP. It's good to be efficient, but too much haste leads to forgetting important pieces and end products that sometimes just fall apart.
Then it gets a little more exciting (sometimes a little frustrating): Rolling out the dough, sprinkling on the cinnamon and sugar, and rolling up some more. I've always struggled with my dough sticking to the counter, and then everything seems to stick to everything else and proceeds to fall apart from there. My last attempt went really well, though, so I'm having hope!
That's pretty much life in a nutshell, exciting and frustrating. I've learned, though, that anything worth doing is worth the work, so take the opportunity when it comes even if it requires a little effort or stepping out of your comfort zone. And don't be afraid to add a little extra thrill (a surprise raisin or walnut is always pleasant!) every now and then.
Smiles and laughter are the best medicines out there.
After a little more waiting, rising and baking, the real fun begins. The scent of fresh, hot, cinnamony goodness wafting through the house is only the beginning!
My favorite topping is a good cream cheese frosting. Yummmmm. After spreading it on thick, I can hardly wait to test out my masterpiece, except I haven't been satisfied with any of my test runs yet, but there again is another part of life.
Failure is bound to hit sometime. Yes, it's disappointing, but that's when I need to pick myself up, learn from the fall, and smile at the memories. I've had a few failed attempts at my cinnamon roll journey now, but you better bet that I don't plan to give up! My last batch wasn't too bad, but I know I can do better. Just like my life. I think I've done pretty well so far, but I've definitely screwed up on some things, and I know I can do a whole lot better if I really put my mind to it. And I can't wait to see what's ahead of me!
Hopefully at least one batch of absolutely-to-die-for cinnamon rolls this summer!
Danae Ross, 18, of Wyanet is a senior at Bureau Valley High School She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This article was published 21/12/2012 (1704 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
So, if you're reading this column, then the Mayan doomsday predictions about the world ending on Dec. 21 were wrong -- or at least off by a few days. Yesterday was supposed to be the day of reckoning. Perhaps the Mayan long calendar was misinterpreted.
Mayan people are South American Indians. We indigenous people of Canada have a few end-of-the-world prophecies of our own. Our stories, however, have been interpreted to mean that the end of a way of life is coming, not necessarily the end of everything.
If you follow our aboriginal predictions, 2013 might be when we'll see leaders making the environment a top priority. We are, after all, starting to see the effects of global warming wreaking havoc on many people. Or maybe the prophecies mean a new era of understanding between all people.
Well, just in case that Mayan calendar is just off by a few days, I've got a few things planned this weekend to make the most of life before the rapture.
-- Where's the fry-bread? If it's the end of the world, why not fry up a big batch of fry-bread tonight? I know I'm going to.
Fry bread is a staple of North American Indians from Manitoba to Arizona. And for good reason -- fry-bread is fluffy, a little greasy and delicious.
The aboriginal staple tastes great, but almost everyone knows it's not exactly good for you. A friend of mine often says we should be sticking a warning label on fry-bread just like we do to cigarettes.
Over the years, I've taken his advice to heart. I treat fry-bread like doughnuts -- I only indulge once a month or two.
If you don't know how to make fry bread, here's a basic recipe I found that will serve you well -- www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/the-best-of/indian-fry-bread-recipe
-- Make a doomsday playlist and get dancing.
Get onto iTunes and download some catchy beats for a doomsday playlist for your own private dance party. Don't forget to throw in some old tunes you remember fondly.
My playlist includes Britney Spears' Till the World Ends, Europe's The Final Countdown, Def Leppard's Armageddon It, Blondie's Rapture and some Bob Marley.
And there's a ton of playlists out there if you need a little help. Now get grooving. Who cares if your parents/spouse/co-workers/kids are watching?
-- While enjoying your fresh batch of fry-bread, make it a point to call up your old friends and family.
In this age of Facebook, Twitter and texting we don't always make time to pick up the phone and actually talk to one another.
Call up some people you haven't seen in awhile and catch up with each other. If you feel especially welcoming, you could invite a few of your friends over. They can help you eat up all that fry-bread.
-- Make a fresh start
There are a million ways to make a fresh start in your life.
Count yourself lucky the Mayan prophecies didn't come true and get happy about the new year coming up fast.
Try to do good things in your life, and try things that you've always wanted to do.
Learn to play piano, learn Ojibway or Cree, quit smoking, start exercising, painting and take a breather to enjoy the simple things in your life. Set small goals and stick with them.
Every day is a chance to do good things in our communities, live a good life and be a good person for our kids to look up to. It doesn't have to be a grand gesture; little things make a big impact.
Try getting involved by supporting grassroots causes such as the Idle No More campaign to support aboriginal rights. Find out more at idlenomore1.blogspot.ca
Protests and flash mob round dances in support of the cause are going on all over Canada -- there's one in Winnipeg today. Just show up at the Portage Place mall fountain at 3 p.m. and join hands in solidarity.
We've got to work together if we want to get things done.
Happy holidays, everyone, and all the best in 2013.
Colleen Simard is a Winnipeg writer.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Barely able to tie his shoes three days ago, Tiger Woods is ready to tee it up in the PGA Championship.
caused the biggest sensation of the week Wednesday afternoon simply by
driving his silver SUV into the parking lot at Valhalla. He has never
arrived so late for a major championship and had so little time to
prepare — just nine holes at Valhalla, which he had not seen since
winning the PGA Championship in 2000.
But at least he's playing.
much was in doubt Sunday when he withdrew from the final round of the
Bridgestone Invitational because of back pain that made it a chore to
switch out of his golf shoes. Woods said he suffered a pinched nerve,
but that it was not at all related to back surgery he had March 31 that
kept him out of golf for three months.
He said his trainer adjusted the area above the sacrum.
"Once he put it back in, the spasms went away," he said. "And from there, I started getting some range of motion."
latest injury occurred when Woods tried to play a shot from just above a
deep bunker on the second hole at Firestone, and his momentum caused
him to land hard in the sand. He kept playing, and hit some horrific
shots before deciding to withdraw after a tee shot on the ninth hole.
That was only his third tournament since his return from surgery, leading to concern that he might be done for the year.
was a different pain than what I had been experiencing," Woods said.
"So I knew it wasn't the site of the surgery. It was different and
obviously it just the sacrum."
His arrival put some life into what
had been an ordinary week. Dozens of cameras captured Woods putting on
his shoes with ease at his car. He got a big cheer just walking onto the
practice range and the crowd was six-deep down the first hole, about
like it was for the Ryder Cup at Valhalla six years ago.
In the nine holes he played with Steve Stricker, Davis Love III and Harris English, Woods looked the same as he did last week.
drilled his driver down the first fairway. He badly pulled his tee shot
on the third hole. It was a mixture of good and bad, about what can be
expected from someone who has played only nine rounds in the last five
"Nothing great," Woods said. "It's only Wednesday."
tees off Thursday alongside Phil Mickelson and Padraig Harrington. He
simply said, "Yes," when asked if he expected to win, which seemed to be
a tall order considering his return from surgery. Woods missed the cut
by four shots at the Quicken Loans National, had his worst 72-hole
finish in a major at the British Open and was in the middle of the pack
at Firestone when he withdrew.
Barring a victory, this likely will be his last tournament for at least six weeks.
is not eligible for the FedEx Cup playoffs, and he hasn't given U.S.
captain Tom Watson much reason to pick him for the Ryder Cup. Woods said
he would have to "play well" to give reason for Watson to take him.
"That's the only thing I can control," Woods said. "Try to go out there and win this event. That's all I'm focused on."
has said he wanted Woods on the team if he was healthy and playing
well. About the time Woods arrived at the course, Watson was
successfully dodging questions about his chances of making the team.
"It's speculation what's going to happen," Watson said. "I can't tell you what's going to happen with Tiger."
excitement over his arrival was sure to be tempered by the reality of
the task ahead. Not only has Woods gone more than a year without winning
— and six years since he last won a major — Rory McIlroy has replaced
him as the overwhelming favorite. McIlroy went wire-to-wire at the
British Open, then rallied from a three-shot deficit to win the World
Golf Championship at Firestone.
Sergio Garcia was a runner-up both
times. Garcia, who went 0-3 playing in the final group with Woods at
three majors, was asked about similarities between the two.
they are both at their best, to me it seems like Rory is less afraid of
hitting driver," he said. "And when he's hitting it as well as he's
hitting it now, he's hitting it very far and quite straight. So it's a
little bit of an advantage at that point."
Woods might have lost
his advantage from being a past champion at Valhalla. He missed the
Ryder Cup in 2008 while recovering from knee surgery, and course
architect Jack Nicklaus has made plenty of changes, particularly on some
of the greens. Woods spent much of his time chipping from collection
areas that weren't around 14 years ago.
"It's a totally different
golf course than what I played in 2000," he said. "The greens are all
different. I have my book from 2000 — it's useless. There's some new
things that we have to learn out there."
With that, he headed to
the back nine to walk the remainder of the course with his putter. He
had 15 hours before teeing off in the final major of the year.
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About the Book
I would have called this book "Adam's Rib", but the story of how a human body part was used to create something new has already been told in another best-seller. Besides, I work with both male and female models. But my purpose is quite similar: I usually use a small part of a model's body, and try to transform it into something new, more abstract, using tight framing, wide-angle lenses, slow shutter speed, refraction/reflection from the water, or a combination of these effects. I am also quite interested in exploring the relationship between the body and its natural surrounding and I try to capture the harmonious symmetry of the human form in nature. As humans, we use our bodies as a yardsticks to understand our surrounding universe, we use it to DEFINE what is beautiful. I am convinced that if we looked like spiders or cockroaches, we would be attracted by spider- or roach-like shapes. What I am trying to do is use parts of the human body, extract them from their context and transform them to create something that "looks" like a human body, an object abstract that has become abstract but has conserved its beauty and erotic load.
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Born in Fribourg, Switzerland, in 1964, Christian Waeber lived in Boston for 20 years, and recently relocated to Ireland. His photographs have been featured in View Camera, Preservation Magazine and Art-Photo-Akt, and exhibited at numerous locales in the US and in Europe. "Like Gregory Crewdson, Waeber brings an outsider's eye to nocturnal urban locations, loading the familiar with a transcendent significance. As Waeber puts it, he wants to give his pictures the sense that they are "a beginning of a story." Crewdson is most known for his pictures of tense protagonists who look like they're on the cusp of a major life event. Waeber's photographs, on the other hand, carry more oblique menace. Unlike Crewdson's anonymous suburbias, Waeber's images often contain recognizable landmarks in the Boston area. These differences add up to a more intensely personal interaction between the picture and viewer. " Minying Tan, Artscope (November/December 2008)
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For Audi, premium-quality automobiles mean high-quality car bodies – thanks to efficient production systems and new high-tech solutions. AUDI AG has one of the most flexible and efficient production systems in the entire automotive industry: the Audi Production System (APS), which is based on the principles of cycle, flow, pull and perfection. Audi systematically applies these principles in production and throughout the company, resulting in short cycle times, low inventories and large gains in productivity – up to 10 percent per year. A major focus here is on the continuous improvement process (CIP), because companies that neglect continuous improvement risk their long-term success. Increasing digitalization is paving the way for the smart factory – the intelligent, digitally connected production facility. New high-tech solutions in manufacturing are further increasing the already very high level of quality, while making assembly work easier and resulting in better ergonomics.
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Audi TechDay Smart FactoryAudi is making its production fit for the future with the smart factory. In this factory of the future, big data – the creation and intelligent connection of large volumes of data – will facilitate data driven and thus highly flexible and highly efficient manufacturing. A method of production in which Audi might no longer build its cars on an assembly line but according to a radically new, disruptive concept is modular assembly. In addition to this major project, Audi is pursuing many other exciting projects for the production of the future – from the application of virtual reality glasses to metal 3D printing.
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Human robot cooperation: KLARA facilitates greater diversity of versions in production at AudiNew robot colleague in the assembly of Audi A4/A5 models: People and robot now work there side by side without a protective fence. With this human-robot cooperation (HRC), the smart factory comes closer to reality at the Audi plant in Ingolstadt. "Adhesive application with robot assistance," abbreviated from the German as KLARA, provides support with the installation of roofs made of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) in the new Audi RS 5 Coupe (fuel consumption combined in l/100 km: 8.7; CO2 emissions combined in g/km: 197*). So for the first time, Audi is using an HRC light robot in its main plant for applying adhesive in final assembly. Similar robots are already integrated into production in the body shops in Ingolstadt and Brussels as well as in engine assembly in Győr.
Smart Factory Hackathon: coding for Audi's production of the futureAnyone who masters algorithms and programming is exactly right for this event: From October 4 to 6, 2017 the Audi Production division in Ingolstadt is holding its second Smart Factory Hackathon. In this competition, talented young data scientists from all over the world have the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. The goal is to work out practical solutions for production processes of the future within 25 hours. Interested students and young professionals can apply immediately.
Audi Tool Trophy: Prize for talented young engineersSharp edges, tight radii – it is the design of their bodies in particular that makes the Audi models so unmistakable. In Production these precise lines can often only be manufactured with specialized tools from the Competence Center for Plant Equipment and Forming Technology. In its search for innovative toolmaking ideas, the "Audi Tool Trophy" student competition is now entering its ninth year. The winners received prize money of up to 2,500 euros on May 3.
New ratings system at Audi: sustainability is decisive for placing orders with suppliersAUDI AG has introduced sustainability ratings for its suppliers this April. The objective is that in the future, orders will only be placed with suppliers that obtain a positive rating. Audi is therefore increasing its commitment to achieving a sustainable value chain. The ratings are based on checks carried out at the suppliers' production plants as well as on self disclosure. The premium car manufacturer is starting the ratings system with the selection of suppliers for the new Audi e-tron* electric SUV and for the successor to the Audi A3.
Looking ahead to the new Audi A8: Space Frame with a unique mix of materialsAudi is writing a new chapter in its lightweight design success story. For the next generation of the Audi A8*, an intelligent mix of four materials is being used for the first time in the weight-bearing body structure – more materials than in any of the brand's previous production models. The luxury sedan is thus once again rightfully claiming its role as an innovation driver in automotive lightweight design: Its low weight and impressive rigidity offer greater performance, efficiency and safety.
Audi wins VDA Logistics Award for automated vehicle transportA prize for a pioneering achievement: Audi has won the Logistics Award for 2017 from the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) in recognition of its FTS driverless vehicle transport system. The autonomously operating system has been in production operation at the Ingolstadt site since the beginning of the year. The parking robot named Ray sorts up to 2,000 cars per day for loading onto railway freight cars. This application is the only one of its kind to date in the automotive industry.
Audi etches symbols into car paintAudi has developed a process for the partial matting of painted surfaces. A special powder roughens the clear lacquer on the surface to a depth of a few thousandths of a millimeter so that individual markings become visible. With this process, the Audi exclusive program offers personalized design of the side blades for all R8 customers.
Audi Brussels wins environment award "Trends Business Tour 2016"Audi Brussels has received the environment award "Trends Business Tour 2016." The brand with the Four Rings succeeded against strong competition, including the energy giant EDF, the consulting company Energiris, and the bio-drink producer Simone a Soif. The jury stated that the key criterion for the decision was the convincing overall sustainability concept of Audi Brussels.
Audi uses wearables in logisticsScanner-gloves now make work easier for international logistics employees at the Audi plant in Ingolstadt: For the worldwide dispatch of car components, they now use the "ProGlove" by the name of "Mark" with its embedded barcode scanner. This means they have both hands free and can work more ergonomically. After a four week pilot phase, Audi employees are now using these wearables in five positions in the Ingolstadt plant.
Audi production in Münchsmünster in full swingAudi is reaching top form in Münchsmünster. In 2016 alone, the competence¬ center for high-tech chassis components, aluminum structural components and pressings will turn out more than 23 million components. That is far more than the original planned output of 21 million. The location now employs over 800 people and all sections of the plant are operating on a three-shift basis. The smart factory – intelligent and connected – is likewise gradually becoming a reality in Münchsmünster.
Smart Factory Hackathon: Talented data-science specialists develop solutions for the factory of the future"Data drives our production – you innovate from our data" is the motto of the Smart Factory Hackathon, which was held at the Audi Forum Ingolstadt from October 19 to 21. Talented young data-science specialists from the fields of IT, mathematics and engineering developed innovative software solutions for the factory of the future, based on genuine but anonymized data sets from Audi's production. On Friday afternoon, the winners of the IT competition were awarded their prizes: The "Happy Unicorns" team won first prize with its idea on the subject of container management.
Audi México: state-of-the-art technology for top qualityThe Audi plant in San José Chiapa officially opened today. The guiding principle here is "made by Audi": The Audi Production System (APS) implements a uniformly high standard for quality worldwide. To validate its premium quality, the company is networking its new plant with other sites in the Audi global production network. Working in the production control center, known as P-Control, are 105 employees from various technical disciplines, who monitor how the new Audi Q5 is produced from a bird's-eye view. In combination with the site's quality laboratory and training center, Audi ensures compliance with the quality standards that apply to its production facilities worldwide.
Audi opens new, highly efficient paint shopAudi has put a new topcoat paint shop into operation at its plant in Ingolstadt. Board of Management Member for Production Prof. Dr. Hubert Waltl opened the 12,000 square meter building (129,000 sq. ft.) on Tuesday together with Plant Director Albert Mayer and Group Works Council Chairman Peter Mosch. Up to 900 car bodies a day can be painted there on three floors. Thanks to environmentally friendly technology, the modern application equipment will conserve resources. Ergonomically designed workplaces will make the employees' work easier.
Audi awards prevention prizes for health and safety at workPrevention is better than cure: That's one of Audi's fundamental principles, especially in connection with health and safety at work. High standards of working safety and promoting good health traditionally have high priority at the company. Employees contribute towards continuous improvements with their optimization suggestions. This year, the brand with the Four Rings once again awarded certificates and trophies in several prize categories for such suggestions. Teams from the German and international production sites received the awards in Neckarsulm on Thursday.
Audi wins Digital Economy AwardOn its way to becoming a digital car company, Audi is making its production sites fit for the digital future. In recognition of this, the company received the "Digital Economy Award" from Initiative Deutschland Digital (IDD) in Bonn this Tuesday. The brand with the Four Rings took first place in the category Company 4.0.
A small car makes a big impression: the new Audi Q2A new car for the main plant of AUDI AG in Ingolstadt: The Audi Q2 has now entered series production there. With this compact SUV "made in Ingolstadt," the brand with the Four Rings has entered a completely new segment while showing its commitment to its main site on the River Danube. Innovations such as a fully automatic module store in the assembly process help to master increasing production complexity.
Audi Tool Trophy: prize for innovative student workWhether developing efficient tools for production, applying alternative production concepts like 3D metal printing or new methods for checking the quality of components in the press shop – the spectrum covered by toolmaking has many aspects. That has been demonstrated once again by student work in the areas of press-shop tools and car-body assembly equipment, which was given recognition with the award of the Audi Tool Trophy by the Audi Toolmaking division on Tuesday. For the eighth time now, the company has organized this student competition that is unique in the whole of Europe. The six best entries in the categories of "Master's Dissertations" and "Bachelor's Dissertations / Term Papers" were awarded prize money of up to 2,500 euros.
Audi develops a new generation of toolsAudi Toolmaking is racing into the future. The company's tooling specialists have now passed an important milestone. They have developed a new, highly efficient generation of tools that is up to 20 percent lighter and ten percent more stable than the previous generation. This has been made possible by lightweight and composite construction methods that are used in car body construction. The new tools are already being used in the press shop in Ingolstadt.
Albert Mayer to be new plant director in Ingolstadt – Fred Schulze to be product line manager as of AprilAlbert Mayer is to become plant director at the Audi site in Ingolstadt as of April 1, 2016. He will succeed to Fred Schulze, who will move to a newly created key position as product line manager for all top end SUV models. Mayer is currently head of production and plant planning at AUDI AG.
Audi production network: ready for electric mobilityAudi is preparing its international production network for the mobility of the future. Large series production of the first purely electric driven SUV from Audi will begin at the site in Brussels in 2018. The plant will also assembly its own batteries. The company will transfer production of the Audi A1 from Belgium to Martorell in Spain. The Audi Q3, which is currently produced in Spain, will be built in Győr (Hungary) in the future.
Audi's logistics of the future: Goods being commissioned move autonomously to employeesThe process of commissioning the other way around: Starting today, logistics employees at Audi will no longer have to fetch the required goods from the material shelves. Instead, the goods will come to them fully automatically on driverless transport systems (DTS). Audi is thus the world's first automobile manufacturer to implement such a DTS based goods to person concept. The company is currently testing the new method with the commissioning of driver's manuals at the Audi plant in Ingolstadt.
Medical gloves for improved ergonomics in production at AudiAudi's Production division is improving ergonomics as well as health and safety in its factories. Employees at the plants in Ingolstadt, Neckarsulm, Brussels and Győr are currently testing new medical gloves. These so called production orthoses reduce pressure stress with many assembly tasks by more than 50 percent. It is planned to put the special glove into series application this year.
Audi Toolmaking is the best in the industryAudi is for the fourth time the "Toolmaker of the Year." That is the result of the renowned industry competition "Excellence in Production" organized by the Toolmaking Laboratory (WZL) of RWTH Aachen University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT). Audi Toolmaking succeeded against more than 290 toolmaking and mold making departments from companies in the German speaking countries. Michael Breme, Head of Toolmaking at AUDI AG, was presented with the winner's cup at the 15th "Toolmaking with a Future" international colloquium in Aachen on Wednesday evening.
Audi shows toolmaking innovations at the "formnext" trade fairAudi Toolmaking yesterday, today and tomorrow: The brand with the Four Rings is presenting numerous exhibits at the "formnext" trade fair for toolmaking and mold making in Frankfurt am Main. From November 17 to 20, visitors can find out about toolmaking developments and gain an insight into the production methods of the future.
Audi Toolmaking prints "Auto Union Typ C"From powder to a component: With a 3D printer, Audi Toolmaking has produced a model of the historical Grand Prix sports car "Auto Union Typ C" from the year 1936. The company is now examining further possible applications of metal printers for the production of complex components. At the same time, Audi is creating important synergies with toolmaking in other parts of the Volkswagen Group.
Hybrid locomotive at Audi plant in IngolstadtThis Audi drives on rails: A 1,000 horsepower plug in hybrid locomotive manufactured by Alstom replaces the plant locomotives previously used at the Audi plant in Ingolstadt as of today. This means that components and finished Audi models will now reach the plant's loading stations in a more climate friendly way.
Audi tests gesture control for virtual assemblyEven before Audi produces the first prototypes of a new car, engineers in the Pre Series Center check individual assembly steps in a 3 D projection. They assemble components virtually, thus determining whether this process is feasible and ergonomic for the employees on the production line. As part of a pilot project, they are now for the first time moving the components in the virtual space using simple gestures.
Audi A3 celebrates 20th anniversaryA production milestone has been reached at the Audi plant in Ingolstadt: Exactly 20 years ago, on September 18, 1995, the first Audi A3 came off the assembly line here. Since then, the Audi Group has built over 3.5 million units of the successful model worldwide. Today, one out of five Audi cars delivered comes from this model line. At the same time, the Audi A3 is a ground breaking car when it comes to alternative drive systems – as demonstrated by the flexible production of the A3 Sportback e-tron, A3 Sportback g-tron and classic A3 models. They are all built on the same production line at the Ingolstadt plant.
Audi production in Münchsmünster is picking up speedThe new Audi production site in Münchsmünster is approximately 30 kilometers (18.6 mi) east of the main production facility in Ingolstadt. Hot and cold formed pressed parts, high tech chassis components and lightweight aluminum structural components, among others, are being produced here for the new Audi Q7. By 2017, a total of 900 employees will be working at the site and shipping out 26 million parts worldwide annually. The production site in Münchsmünster, the high tech Audi Neuburg complex and the future innovation campus (abbreviated "INCampus") are making the Audi Ingolstadt site a key force behind growth in Bavaria.
Audi celebrates topping out of new paint shopThe Audi plant in Ingolstadt continues to grow: A new paint shop is being built in the north of the plant site. Just over a year after the start of construction, the company is now celebrating the topping out. As of June 2016, Audi employees will paint the first series car bodies for the new Audi A4.
New managing director at Audi Hungaria: Peter Kössler to succeed to Thomas FaustmannPeter Kössler (56) has been appointed managing director of Audi Hungaria as of October 1. He will move from the automobile manufacturer's main site in Ingolstadt, where he has been plant director for more than eight years. Kössler will succeed to Thomas Faustmann (52), who, after eleven years as managing director in Győr, will move to Neckarsulm. There, he will succeed to Fred Schulze (48) as plant director. Schulze is to become the director of the plant in Ingolstadt.
Audi Production Lab: journey into the futureIn the Audi Production Lab, production planners of the premium manufacturer are working together with experts from various departments of the company on innovative technologies for the production processes of the future. A promising technology is hand projection. In the future, it could support production employees with testing and installing components.
Smart factory: Audi shows intelligent productionHumans and robots working hand in hand, car-body parts emerging from a 3D printer and cars driving in piloted mode from the assembly line: Audi is pursuing this vision of the factory of the future: the smart factory. In the Encounter magazine under that heading, the automobile manufacturer is now providing a wide-ranging insight on how intelligent Audi's production processes already are and which leaps of innovation will occur in the coming years. Audi presented the publication on Friday at the company's annual shareholders' meeting.
Audi plant uses robots to move carsAudi is testing systems for the intelligent factory of the future: In a pilot phase at the Audi plant in Ingolstadt that started in February, two robots independently transport cars from production to an interim storage area. From there, they later place the sorted Audi models into position according to their shipping destinations, so that logistics employees can load them onto railway wagons. Audi is now preparing the first industrial application. The company is also examining additional areas of application for such robots.
Chairless Chair for improved ergonomics in Audi's production plantsThe health of its employees has top priority for Audi. For this reason, at its plant in Neckarsulm, the company is testing a new technology that eases many assembly activities: the so-called "chairless chair." This high-tech carbon-fiber construction allows employees to sit without a chair. At the same time, it improves their posture and reduces the strain on their legs.
New human-robot cooperation in Audi's production processesDirect cooperation between man and machine: At its main plant in Ingolstadt, Audi has for the first time deployed a robot that works "hand-in-hand" with humans – without a safety barrier and ideally adapted to the employees' working cycles. It is the first human-robot cooperation at the Volkswagen Group to be applied in final assembly. This innovative technology makes work easier for the assembly employees and makes ergonomic improvements.
On the line and on time: Production of the Audi A3 Sportback e-tronApproximately 50 cars every day, with the same timing and on the same assembly line as the other models: Audi is now ramping up production of the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron*. The premium manufacturer is producing its first plug-in hybrid model at the brand's main plant in Ingolstadt.
On the line and on time: Production of the Audi A3 Sportback e-tronApproximately 50 cars every day, with the same timing and on the same assembly line as the other models: Audi is now ramping up production of the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron*. The premium manufacturer is producing its first plug-in hybrid model at the brand's main plant in Ingolstadt.
Audi's production wins innovation prizeAudi's production has won the "Best Open Innovation Award" in the category "Best Cross-Industry Innovation." The Dr. Manfred Bischoff Institute for Innovation Management of the Airbus Group at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen recognizes the most innovative companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with this prize. Alois Brandt, Head of Technology Development Innovation Management, and Felix Schwabe, Innovation Management Production, accepted the prize on Audi's behalf at the flagship event "Innovation 2014" in Munich on Tuesday evening.
Audi Logistics: 30 years of the car loading platformJubilee at the Four Rings: 30 years ago today, Audi put a new loading station into operation at its site in Ingolstadt – with a car-loading platform that was unique in the European automobile industry at that time. The innovative idea for the moving platform came from an employee at Audi Logistics. Since then, approximately eight million automobiles have left the Audi plant in Ingolstadt by rail via this platform – faster and more efficiently than before.
Audi Hungaria: Start of production of the new Audi TT CoupeThe third generation of the Audi TT* and the TTS Coupe is now going into series production at AUDI HUNGARIA MOTOR Kft. Following last year's start of production of the Audi A3 Sedan, the S3 Sedan and the new A3 Cabriolet, the new Audi TT is now also leaving the assembly lines at the automobile plant in Győr. Audi produces this model there with the full depth of manufacturing. The most impressive features of the Audi TT are its sporty character and emotive design, as well as innovative technologies in its drivetrain and its operating and display concept.
Audi brings automotive logistics to life"Logistics makes it possible." True to this motto, AUDI AG is again participating in the nationwide "Logistics Day". On Thursday, April 16, students and university graduates, young professionals and all other interested people will have the opportunity to learn about this exciting area from Audi through a series of presentations and discovery tours. Last year the initiative met with great interest, with around 200 participants coming to the Audi sites in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm.


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Tickets for the top event at this August's Ilkley Summer Festival are about to go on sale as the official programme is launched this week.
The month-long festival will see the return of favourites such as the Dolce Vita cabaret on The Grove, and this year, Take That 2 a tribute act will perform on The Grove in an afternoon of fun family entertainment.
These will take place on the weekend of August 16 and 17.
For the first time this year, a studio theatre will also be set up on The Grove, providing a venue for more musical performances.
The festival programme will be available this week from Ilkley Visitor Information Centre, Ilkley Town Hall and also on the festival website.
Tickets for the Dolce Vita cabaret are also expected to go on sale this week, and tickets for the Studio Theatre concerts are expected to go on sale shortly.
The Studio Theatre will be set up from August 22 to 24, showcasing four differing genres of music.
Themes include a folk trail, international day, and jazz.
The festival's artistic and managing director, Councillor Anne Hawkesworth, said: "Programmes have arrived and some tickets will be released this weekend.
"We have kept old favourites but also, as usual, pulled something out of the hat. When the concept of the Studio Theatre was developing, a new group, The Hurricanes, sprung to mind for International Day – music from Memphis with traces of Johnnie Cash and Elvis but also fresh new original material is a snapshot description of these talented musicians.
She added: "Coincidentally Ilkley's favourite, Dominic Halpin, happens to front the Hurricanes."
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Sounds like a fashionista's worst nightmare. And yet, Aimee Lambert Poor '84 dreamed up the idea for herself last fall in an effort to suspend the mental energy spent thinking about what to wear and to simultaneously raise awareness and money for those who may only have one outfit because they are homeless. She asked friends, family and colleagues to pledge money for each day she completed wearing the dress. She then donated the funds to a Swedish charity.
A government major while at Wheaton, she teaches fourth grade at a bilingual school in Stockholm, Sweden, where she has lived since 1995. Her effort, which she dubbed "One Dress 50 days: Uniform Hunger," took place from September 1 through October 20, 2010.
Her model behavior became all the rage in the media, including in Metro Stockholm, a Swedish national public radio program; on a morning TV show; and on fashion blog scandinavianfashion.net/2010/09/03/one-dress-50-days-uniform-hunger/.
"Several years ago I decided it was time for me to support a local charity in a concrete way. I have been so lucky in my life, and had made a new friend whom I greatly respect, and she influenced me in this regard. At about the same time, I read about a young designer who created a dress that could be worn for 100 days. I thought that was really interesting. I kept that idea in mind and casually wondered if I could find a dress I could wear for 100 days. After consideration, I thought 50 days was more realistic. I also decided it was time to examine my relationship with clothes and the excessive time and energy I spent on thinking about clothes, shopping for clothes, dressing in the morning, packing for trips.
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I've been taking a little break from food this week, doing my partial juice cleanse. Although I haven't exactly indulged lately, it feels good to kind of re-calibrate your body and your relationship to food every now and then. I think it's also important to realise what kind of cleansing suits you best - I am trying to be kind to my body and I don't want to deprive it from all the energy, hence I prefer having one light meal every day during my cleanse. Some people might find it easier to stick to all juices, whilst some others might not find juice cleansing suitable at all. In all dietary preferences, I think it's important to remember bio-individuality - since we are all so different, no one diet can work for everyone.
This mostly raw kelp noodle salad is a perfect light meal to fit in to your cleansing routine or enjoyed even off the cleanse! Kelp noodles are literally only made of kelp (a sea vegetable) and can be eaten raw in salads, stir-fries, hot soups, etc. I've used kelp noodles previously in this recipe. Since the noodles are very mild in taste on their own, they are perfect paired with stronger flavours. Here, I've used red cabbage, peppery white radish, cucumber and green onions and seasoned the dish with some toasted sesame seeds and Bragg's All-Purpose Seasoning and some chilli flakes. You could use any seasonal vegetables instead - carrots, broccoli (preferably raw or very lightly steamed), zucchini or leafy greens would be great. My suggestion is to keep it mostly raw and light, especially if you are cleansing.
Mostly Raw Kelp Noodle Salad
(serves 2)
340g kelp noodles*
small 1/4 red cabbage
10 cm piece white radish
1 cucumber
2 green onions
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
2 tablespoons Bragg's all-purpose seasoning (or 1 tablespoon tamari)
1/2 lime, juiced
pinch of chilli flakes
freshly ground black pepper
* kelp noodles are available at health food stores
1. Rinse the noodles under warm water and place in a large mixing bowl.
2. Thinly slice red cabbage, peel and thinly slice white radish. Remove the seeds from the cucumber and thinly slice that too. Chop the green onions finely.
3. Toast the sesame seeds on a small pan until just browned. Combine all ingredients with the noodles and season the salad with Bragg's, chilli and pepper.


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AMD Reveals More Llano Details at ISSCC: 32nm, Power Gating, 4-cores, Turbo?by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/8/2010 12:00 AM EST
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kenyee - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkIntel has some cool features like virtual port assignment, etc. that AMD currently doesn't have (so databases and gigabit network cards go faster on Intel VT hardware in the upper end Xeons).
Does the new AMD core have any improvements in this? Reply
mino - Saturday, February 13, 2010 - linkNo.
AMD does not produce NIC chips. Go ask Broadcom about that. It a pure NIC feature.
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haplo602 - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkI think I recall that AMD expects the GPU to take the most of the FPU load in the future, so maybe the APU chip will be an FP op monster when the GPU part is not used much. Pair that with an external GPU and theoreticaly unused on die GPU in AM3 and there is actualy no problem for AMD to make the chip AM3 compatible..
Anyway I don't give a damn about Direct Compute whatever version it is. I want good OpenCL performance and finaly decent OpenGL drivers from ADM. And finaly a working and usable Linux driver would be nice. Reply
mjw25a - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - linkCorrect, worth taking a look at http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/amd-in-2010-part...">http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/amd-in-2010-part...
If there's sone thing interesting about the two next generation (Bulldozer and Bobcat)architures (modules) it's that they both appear to have been designed with far less floating point power than previous AMD CPU's.
This tends to indicate that both next gen modules will likely have a GPU on the same die to shunt floating point operations to.
Traditionally GPU's completely smash the x86 architecture when it comes to floating point performance so this will be a good move.
The Llano looks to be a the use of the current gen Propus (Athlon II) core with an APU to massively boost floating point performance.
Not a big deal as it looks like they're positioning Llano as their mainstream product whereas Bulldozer will fit into the same niche as the i7 is currently in. Bobcat is their atom equivalent which should beat that handily.
I'll be keenly watching the renewed CPU wars next year. This integration of the GPU has the potential for AMD to leapfrog Intel in all performance segments if they can pull it off. Intel's graphics chips so far have been abysmal.
The Larabee will not help them in this respect as it's essentially a large grid of dumbed down x86 cores. As I've previously mentioned, floating point operations have always been x86's weakness.
Next year will be interesting indeed. Reply
hwhacker - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkWe pretty much already know from the die shot the 'APU' is 480sp, which implies 8 ROP and 24 TMU. A little stronger than 5670 architecturally speaking.
GF has said 28nm bulk should allow for a 40% increase in clock speed compared to the same size die and TDP of a 40nm bulk chip, and 28nm is a 10% linear shrink of 32nm. Of course SOI should have better characteristics than bulk, but that gives you an idea of what to expect. Because of the given die size of the core minus L2 in the article, we now know Fusion is 13x13mm2, 169mm2, or exactly the same size as Propus (Athlon II X4), so THIS DOES APPLY.
Imagine a very possible scenario where the GPU is clocked at 1/4 of the CPU standard. It's very plausible this could start at the 3.2-3.6ghz (800-900mhz gpu) and creep up to 4ghz with a 1ghz GPU clock contained in a 95W TDP. Wouldn't be surprised by an ~875mhz set clock either.
Add to that the probability of Sideport going to two chips instead of one. When the 900 series chipset(s) launches, GDDR5 will be in 2Gb form. This means a likely 512MB of decent on-board memory, perhaps of the 7Gbps variety. That's 56Gbps on a 64-bit bus.
What we'll likely end up with is a GPU that will be faster than an 8800gt, sometimes by a lot, slower than 5750/gts250, likely questioning the usefulness of a 128sp 64-bit 28nm Fermi for either platform, and perhaps a xfire partner to the smallest Northern Island. This also brings the defacto standard for gaming to this level, which is GREAT news, because lots of people own old 8800gt or similar-performing cards as hand-me-downs.
On the CPU side, just simply compare Athlon X4 to Clarkdale. I would imagine the 2c version of Sandy Bridge is essentially Clarkdale with GPU on die, with similar cpu clockspeeds, tdp, and die size to fusion. That would mesh with the 4c die shot that's been on the net for 6 months (Citing 3-3.8ghz clocks and 1-1.4ghz gpu). The thing is, AMD will have a CAPABLE gpu.
Personally, I think it's going to be cake-and-eat-it for anyone gaming below 1680x1050 at that point, say a 720/768p htpc, or a good casual all-arounder + GPGPU perks. Plus, If you look at a 5670, there's plenty of stuff it can run at decent rez...This could be up to a third faster in some cases, if such speculation pans out. Reply
tcube - Saturday, March 20, 2010 - linkYour asumption that the gpu will not have the same clock as the cpu is kind of odd to say the least... It's the same(exactly the same) process as the cpu why on earth would you want to have it artifically downclocked? Since a) soi is much more efficient and dense and b) you're working on a smaller node with much better technology with much less heatdissipation and so on... The 2 things aren't even 2 dies like in the intel solution ... they are on the same friggin silicon... If it will feature 480 sp's @ 3+ GHz it would behave as a ~1600 sp bulk gpu (eerm... remember HD5870...) so what's the deal? Plus think of all the v/frequency synch you need to do between the 2 cores to get them in one line... Why even bother with all that if you can put a gpu+cpu on a silicon that can outrun any current generation laptop solution at far less power drain?? Reply
LeftSide - Wednesday, September 01, 2010 - linkI don't think you understand the difference between GPUs and CPUs. Because of the way they are designed CPUs clock higher. This has to do with the pipeline in a CPU. Ever wonder why the highest clocked Pentium 4 still runs faster than the fastest i7? Reply
iamezza - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkno way the GPU would be THAT fast. It would completely destroy ATI sales. Reply
Am1R - Thursday, February 11, 2010 - linkwell by that time Ati discrete GPU will be twice as fast Reply
knowom - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkI hate new socket boards hopefully AMD will make some 32nm cpu's for their current AM2/AM3 motherboards. Reply
Kiijibari - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkSure they do .. ever heard of the Bulldozer core ? Take 8 of them, put them on a die together with a memory controller, caches and Hypertransport and say hello to the Zambezi - fitting into AM3.
Much better than an old K10 @32nm :) Reply
GaMEChld - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - linkI suspect that the Zambezi will be 4 Bulldozer modules, each showing up to the OS as 2 cores. I think they will market it as 8, but it will be 4 Bulldozer modules. Not that I'd mind that or anything (My current 4 Cores / 4 Threads aren't exactly being strained). Just want to make sure they aren't trying to slip one past us.
The main thing I want is for Bulldozer to be much faster clock for clock than STARS. Reply
DigitalFreak - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkEssentially a quad core Athlon II vs Intel's next gen technology? Gee, I wonder how that will work out. Reply
JKflipflop98 - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - link:) I don't think it's going to work out so well for the little guy. Reply
Calin - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkThey will hit a lower price bracket than Intel is doing right now.
Same computing power at lower cost? Bring it on! Reply
Calin - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkThey will hit a lower price bracket than Intel is doing right now.
Same computing power at lower cost? Bring it on! Reply
GaiaHunter - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkThis is just their test run on APUs.
They will pit (or hope yo) Bulldozer vs higher end Intel. Reply
Blessedman - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkSo with the integration of CPU/GPU, who cuts through the muck and produces a CPU that is more like a GPU as far as parallel processing goes? To clarify it seems GPU's are innovating faster and becoming quicker at doing all purpose functions of mainstream CPU's. So when do they ditch the idea of 2-6 thick core CISC chips in favor of thin mass multi core RISC chips that can emulate CISC commands quicker then native CISC CPU's? Or am I just way way off base? Reply
tcube - Saturday, March 20, 2010 - linkYou see, basically you're right ... practlcally you're not. To create an emulator you need extra power. Creating generic wireing for a jack of all trades cpu you need technology that's in my opinion at least 10-20 years out. Besides the fact that you need to manage the entire wireing of small unified processing units, you need to translate the input than you need to make this entire thing happen quicker then to have command->dedicated wireing->output(per cicle). That means that your jack-of-all-trades needs to be so insanely efficiently engineered that it does not waste extra energy cost you extra clock cicles and so on and so foth. And this my friend is not on anybodys drawingboards at this moment. Even AMD has sensed that this is the future back then when they decided to go ahead with fusion (And only now intel has gotten the idea and are going with larrabee)... but they just didn't realise how complex the task is... luckilly for us intell did, and gave us some good cpus while AMD was in the s(t)inkhole... now they seem to come back, let's wellcome this advancement and hope for the best competition 2010+ Reply
Calin - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - link"that can emulate CISC commands quicker then native CISC CPU's"
We already did. The last x86 processor that was entirely CISC (I too may be off base) is the 386. The 486 started using the pipeline (I think), Pentium used , and by the time of the Pentium M the micro-ops fusion appeared (CISC instructions are broken into RISC-like micro operations, and Pentium M could "fuse" together micro-ops to execute them in a single clock cycle - even if the micro-ops were from different x86 instructions).
As for emulating x86 with a different internal architecture, you should look at the Transmeta processors (which were very wide RISC-like internally, and ran x86 code thru some kind of interpreter) Reply
qwertymac93 - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkWith DX11 support, comes support for the latest direct compute model. This support is meaningless for games as these "APU"s will be too weak to play games making use of it, but applications like video rendering might make use of this and accelerate encoding dramatically, we are already seeing this with the avivo video encoder, and 3rd party apps that use ati stream(and CUDA). the support of dx11 tells me this apu will be much more powerful then 3300/4200. with the launch of 5450, we saw that adding support for dx11 took up a very large amount of space, which is why 5450 has the same amount of stream units, despite using the much smaller 40nm process. I think dx11(and open cl) will play a bigger part in these new cpus and an igp with say, 120spu's would accelerate encoding(and general fp performance i bet) dramatically. all of this makes sense as bulldozer will have half as many FP units as integer, the igp will have to pick up the slack. Reply
Griswold - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkIts not meaningless per say because that GPU could be used to calculate physics via direct compute and leave the horsepower of the discrete card to the rendering of graphics. Reply
ExarKun333 - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkLet's see some benchmarks, otherwise this is just PR stuff I could get from AMD.com... Reply
Basilisk - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkto me why a new socket is necessitated. I'm not doubting you, and I can think of ways that on-chip graphics might benefit from a few pins, but I'd appreciate a clarification. Reply
Jellodyne - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkI dunno why the completed frames could be sent out on the HT bus -- a relatively simple HT-to-video out device, either standalone or in the southbridge, could unpack them to DVI or a DAC if you're going to a VGA out. And the MB would work without cpu with onboard video -- the vid outs just wouldn't function. Reply
Calin - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkI don't know how much of the integrated graphics are on the microprocessor. However, to output a high definition image (1920 by 1080 at 60 Hz, 16 millions colours) one needs to send out about 480 MBps of data (8 MBytes for a frame, times 60 frames a second).
Now, the processor has quite a bit of memory bandwidth, and quite a bit of HyperTransport bandwidth - but it will be eaten into by the need to use some of it for GPU memory access (remember that current generation graphic cards use tens of GBps of memory bandwidth, and are in some cases limited by memory bandwidth). Contrasting this, CPUs hardly go over 10 GBps memory bandwidth.
These being said, I think the processor will have direct video output, and for this reason it needs some more dedicated pins (nine for VGA, maybe another ten for DVI, and some others of those pins for HDMI, DisplayPort, whatever else). This will make the mainboards cheaper and easier to build, would allow the use of existing north/south bridges and so on. Reply
JKflipflop98 - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - linkWe try to keep as few pins on the processor as needed. I would imagine there's only 8-10 video out pins that will need to be ran though a conversion chip of some sort to convert to monitor output. The CPU die itself is incapable of handling the +/- 5V needed to power your DVI connection. Reply
FaaR - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkNo reason to add piles and piles of extra pins to the CPU to support the current mess of analog and digital interconnects, as well as waste die space on DACs, TDMS transmitters and so on when all of that belongs much more in the chipset.
Consider AMDs current infatuation with multi-monitor support. Just how MANY pins would you like AMD to add to support 3+ monitors? It'd require dozens. You pack all that shit into the chipset instead and voila - you can support virtually as many monitors as you like. The hypertransport bus will be virtually unused with on-die graphics (save for some intermittent disk and network I/O which is marginal compared to the total bandwidth of the interface), it could support an almost "unlimited" number of outputs, or at least as many as the system has room for on the backplate. :)
Not sure how you figure monitor outputs coming from the CPU would be "cheaper" or "easier to build" than them coming from the chipset. Seems about the same from my perspective. Reply
GeorgeH - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkThat threw me as well; Intel doesn't need a new socket for P55 vs H55, so why would AMD? Reply
qwertymac93 - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkthey did need a new socket, what did you think socket 1156 was? Reply
GeorgeH - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkMarket segmentation?
AM3 was only released ~6 months before 1156 (and not in 2006), so it doesn't seem entirely out of the question that AMD could have planned for video out just as easily as Intel did. Reply
stlbearboy - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkThey could have, but then socket AM3 processors would not fit into Socket AM2+ boards. AM3 was designed to be backwards compatible with AM2. The question is will AMD at some point stop including IGP on their north bridges after the 800 series chipsets. Reply
Kiijibari - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkBecause intel already designed the 1156 socket for that purpose, it is just some month old.
AMDs socket AM3 however is based on AM2 and that was already 4 years ago ... nobody thought about onchip graphics back then. Reply
weilin - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkIt's very likely, when Intel overhauled their chipsets going from 775 to 1156 (Late 2009), they took into account the pins necessary for video whereas when AMD overhauled theirs from 939 to AM2/AM3 (~2006), this idea of fusion was just that... an idea... Reply
StevoLincolnite - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkI personally think that the new processors will work in AM3 boards, however doing so would then deactivate the Graphics, AMD has enjoyed some great backwards compatibility as of late and it's a good selling point, so it wouldn't surprise me if they engineered a solution around it.
Plus if you were going to throw this chip into an AM3 board chances are you have a Radeon 3xxx or higher IGP anyway, and the GPU on the CPU wouldn't be required in such a case. (Especially considering there is a substantial amount of boards with Side-port memory, why make that go to waste?)
I guess we have to do the waiting game for awhile yet for more details to emerge, but Currently I'm running an AM3 Athlon 2 620 in an ancient AM2 board (Not AM2+) and works a treat, if a new board is required for me to upgrade that system I wouldn't loose any sleep over it. :P Reply
mesiah - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkBuying this chip then disabling the gpu would totally defeat the purpose of the chip. Reply
Griswold - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkYou mean just like many are doing with the current clarkdales? Reply
mino - Saturday, February 13, 2010 - linkCPU vs. GPU usability :
Clarkdale usability 10:1
Liano 10:5
Hope you get the picture. Clarkdale has just a on-package bundled G45 northbridge.
Liano is/will be a fully integrated design. Reply
Jjoshua2 - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkWhat I would like to know is if there is any advantage for the common user, and if there is any advantage for the common AT reader. I think common user is fine with atom that can play hulu, while AT reader wants games and is interested in CUDA projects like folding@home, while this help that? Reply
techwriters4breakfast - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkwent to this cpu article with anand as the usual author,
then read first phrase: "After cashing Intel's check..."
i was prepared for some intel propaganda hehe. Reply
acejj26 - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkDoes no one edit slides before they publish them? "Across the broad?" Shouldn't PR slides go through several editors before being made public? Reply
jjjpflynn - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkPerhaps you should read more carefully.
"...across the broad operating range of this core..."
Nothing wrong with it at all. Reply
UNHchabo - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkThe sentence involved the phrase "...across the broad operating range..."
I can see why you thought the line ended there though. Reply
Kibbles - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkIn that X ray, can you tell where the CPU/GPU are? Reply
Kiijibari - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkNOO, because it is just a plot of the x86 core ... it says so on the picture ... Reply
Kibbles - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkso that's one single core? Reply
Calin - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkYes, one single core.
The final processor will have four of those (each core includes L2 cache), then some "glue" logic, memory controller and so on, then the graphic unit. Reply
Hiravaxis - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkI don't think DirectX 11 is of much value to a first iteration CPU/GPU integration like this.
The GPU won't be powerful enough to take advantage of any of the Dx11 functions, so it's really just a check box for AMD.
But kudos to them if they can get this out to compete with Sandy Bridge! Reply
tcube - Saturday, March 20, 2010 - linkjust do the math man... this is NOT bulk we're talking about this is SOI/HkMg ... that means you will get it in 3ghz flavours, meaning it can push about 2TFLOPS at that horrendous power it is an equal match to todays descretes. Think: 4x the speed, 32 nm vs 40 nm, think much denser SOI vs bulk process.(provided it will not have less then 4x less rops then HD5870) This baby is going to play crysis like a charm.... not to mention new games. All this provided this thing is not going to be memory starved! So hell yeah! Give me 4 laned 2ghz DDR3 and I won't need a discrete any longer! This thing will prove or fail depending on io it will have... let's pray amd gets the balance right this time around! And let's pray we get a SOI incarnation for the HD5870 as the next generation... Reply
stlbearboy - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkThey are not using DX11 for the graphics, they are the DirectCompute/Open CL functions. The hope is that software will be compiled using those API calls and thus will be faster on AMD silicon. Reply
MadMan007 - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkIf a program is compiled for a standardized API it won't favor one architecture over another due to the compiler, rather the architecture that is a better implementation will run the code faster. Reply
Tanclearas - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - link... so the "architecture" that has DX11 hardware (the "AMD silicon") would presumably be faster (or "favored") if a program is compiled with the standardized DC/OCL API.
That's pretty much what was said, so I'm not sure what you were getting at in your reply. Reply
stlbearboy - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkDX11 has more compute features than DX10. So if a program is compiled in OpenCL, it will be able to perform more functions using the IGP on the AMD system than the Intel system. Kind of a reverse of optimizations on the CPU in which Intel normally included the instructions first. Reply
Alexvrb - Monday, February 08, 2010 - linkBingo. DirectCompute 5.0 requires a DirectX 11 chip. With DX10 you get DC 4.0, with DX10.1 you get DC 4.1. Both are largely inferior to DC 5.0. Reply
Hiravaxis - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkWill DC 5.0 go anywhere without Intel backing it?
Or will this tech overlap at all with Nvidia's efforts with Fermi? Reply
Alexvrb - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkAs Mr Perfect points out, DC 5.0 runs on any DX11 card. I'm sure it will run on future DX12 cards too. Even integrated DX11 solutions from Nvidia/AMD will be able to run DC 5.0 code, and thus accelerate a lot of parallel code. Not to mention that a piece of software can be written with both DC 4.0 and DC 5.0 code, much like having multiple rendering paths in 3D games. Reply
Mr Perfect - Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - linkAMD/ATI, Nvidia and Microsoft have all signed onto DX11 (which contains DirectCompute 5), so it's not waiting on Intel. Reply


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That is the unenviable question facing the New York Mets. We know the alternatives at that fifth starter spot are unpalatable. Dillon Gee is not likely to return for months. Harvey is raw- nearly four walks per nine, still learning to harness his secondary stuff- but likely to give the Mets better production than the alternatives.
So what are they to do? How much do they prioritize 2012 over maximizing Harvey's development, both immediately and in total?
There's no easy answer here. About the only positive is that this is a decision that will be made by Sandy Alderson and his crew, rather than Omar Minaya and company, who apparently never met a prospect they couldn't prematurely promote.
From my perspective, this is a defensible decision, no matter which direction the Mets go. It reminds me of the choice whether or not to let Johan Santana continue pitching as his pitch count elevated on June 1, that no-hitter closer with each passing batter.
In both cases, the long-term impact on a pitcher had to be weighed against the short-term payoff. In both cases, the short-term payoff is pretty significant- ending a 50-year curse, making the playoffs for the first time in six years.
The consequences of the Santana decision are still unknown. He had a 2.38 ERA in 11 starts through his no-hitter, a 4.93 ERA in six starts since. And we'll never really know what the Harvey decision meant, one way or the other.
If he comes up now, and fails to develop into an ace, it might have been the premature call up- or it might have been that Harvey was never going to get there. If he doesn't get called up, and the Mets fail to make the playoffs, he might have been the difference- or this was a team destined to fall back anyway.
Rest assured, no matter the decision, the Mets will have more time to make it than during the developing in-game situation facing Johan Santana on June 1. It should be re-assuring how much thought they are obviously putting into it. And it is a lovely change that the Mets even have prospects to consider for such an assignment.
If I were voting, I'd probably lean on the side of not promoting Harvey and seeing if I could find a starter rental as a salary dump first. But there's no real wrong answer here, I don't think, unless you have a Clarence around to help you decide.