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Another thing that would be most awesome is coming at the same idea from a different angle - if Amazon could just let EC2 instances grow arbitrarily gigantic, so you get one instance and it simply can use more and more compute cycles as necessary - or if it's a logistical effort, instead of adding more instances you add more "cpus" to a given instance.

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Also you can not compare the clock speeds of two different brand cpus, meaning you can not compare a AMD processor which is (1ghz) with a intel processor which is 2. 4ghz), the AMD one might perform faster than the Intel CPU, but because of the different ways the CPU work, it is not possible to compare two different brands.

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Well theres separate optimizations for Intel and AMD cpus and then you have separate x86 and x64 optimizations too.

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May 15, 2009 at 1: 50 PM sony should be making both the cpus with ibm and toshiba and the oses with directx and ogl they actually do more with what they have microsoft finds the easy way out

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Also intels xscale cpus are still fast even if they are not made any more.

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Apple does a great job of offering plenty of choices in hardware and software — high and low-end consumer and business cpus and software — so why not a low-end iPhone plan, and some low-end (read: refurbished, last-generation) iPhones? —

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Turns out that microprocessors were the wave of the future and small cheap microprocessor-based PCs were the new dominant force in the market, and DEC was too late to become significant there the Alpha cpus were a good try, though.

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May 15, 2009 at 1:50 PM sony should be making both the cpus with ibm and toshiba and the oses with directx and ogl they actually do more with what they have microsoft finds the easy way out

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Well theres separate optimizations for Intel and AMD cpus and then you have separate x86 and x64 optimizations too.

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Too bad all Qualcomm cpus are inferior because no fpu.

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She doesn’t zoom through glowing datascapes; instead, having suffered from “too much exposure to the reactor cores of fashion,” she practices a kind of semiotic hygiene, dressing only in “CPUs,” or “Cayce Pollard Units”—clothes, “either black, white, or gray,” that “could have been worn, to a general lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000.”

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