AMD Piledriver rumours ... and expert conjecture

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We have had several requests for a sticky on AMD's yet to be released Piledriver architecture ... so here it is.

I want to make a few things clear though.

Post a question relevant to the topic, or information about the topic, or it will be deleted.

Post any negative personal comments about another user ... and they will be deleted.

Post flame baiting comments about the blue, red and green team and they will be deleted.

Enjoy ...
 
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$1M seems like small potatoes compared to some other CEO salaries. IIRC Hector Ruiz (AMD's CEO before Dirk Meyer) got around $15M in salary, options & bonuses, and if anybody could be said to have driven AMD nearly to bankruptcy, it was him.
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Hector was getting way more than Paul Otellini. :pfff: Talk about enriching oneself at the expense of shareholders. :non:
 
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It's those brown furry things....

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oh wait.....
 
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I got my net+ and my A+ certs and i can tell you using something like testking works great. All my answers on the real test where close to the ones on test King.
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Wish I had my certs. I just have a degree in Information Systems Administration. Sad thing is that even before I got it I knew more than those with it or with certs. Kids these days don't seem to have the same desire to know the stuff. I know people with great paying jobs who know nothing.

My wifes work is one example. The PC guy there built her a new PC, finally, with a 6 core Xeon, 12GB of RAM, and a SSD. But did not add a data HDD and she moves a lot of data at work. I am pretty sure that SSD will die very fast with what she has to do.
 
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It's pretty sad, I know a kid who has a 4 year degree in Information Systems and he had to call one of my buddies who has no degree or certs for answers. I just go for my certs because it'll bring more credibility to me in the company's eyes. And yes, these days you need to specialize in a certain field to make any decent amount of money. I'm thinking of moving to database and away from networking.
 
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I can do better than that.

When I was a tels tech in the army my new AO (a Captain) came to visit my section while we were repairing some Southcom Data gear used for encrypted burst transmission of sensitive infomation.

I was doing a small track repair job on a PCB as the earth strap on those were problematic.

He pointed at one of the blue things on the PCB and asked me what it was ... so I told him it was a tantalum capacitor.

He smiled and said they looked pretty neat and then told me all about their electrical characteristics ... and he was spot on.

I asked him come he knew so much about electronic theory ... and he replied he was a CPU engineer.

He then told me he worked on the 6800 cpu while at Motorolla ... in his fourth year.

True story. Top bloke.

Good AO ... not so good with the hand skills or fault finding.

He gave me a gold 6809 milspec part for my collection and signed my papers when I left.
 
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I haven't looked at any Trinity roadmaps in a long time - are you saying there's no 6 or 8-core versions on it?

However S/A thinks AMD is making a 'monumental mistake' by going with an ARM license and entering the cellphone/tablet market, due to even more competition and incredibly small margins. But that seems to be what the BoD wants, according to the rumors floating around as to why they fired Dirk Meyer back in January.
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I would totally agree with S/A on this one. The ARM crowd already has years of advantage here. AMD really is doomed if they go this route. NVidia, TI, Qualcomm and Samsung are well entrenched in the ARM space. And on top of that Samsumg has their own FAB. Heck even Microsoft is making an ARM processor. Who would AMD even sell theirs to? Way too late to move into ARM cores now. AMD would need a miracle and I think they used up their last one with the Athlon 64.

 
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never used testking.
I just knocked them out first try with the real exams, but then I already had 10+ years in IT.
A+, Net+, MCDST and at one time a DSCE.

but they are just pieces of paper on the wall is all.
nowadays you need to be MSCE to really have things your way or specialize in a certain field and certify in it.
I ran out of time and money to continue.
(kids and old age....😉)
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True that! I only had 3 years and all i know is a little hands on work on networking and a decent amount on hardware. But it like having some knowledge and Company's like the Net+ and A+ that's how i got my job at Geek squid before i quit to go to college! Good luck though i'm going to try getting my security + cert soon.
 
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