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Obviously there’s a trade-off going on here – more registers and some more efficient opcodes versus increased memory usage (and therefore cache, and memory bandwidth) caused by 64-bit pointers.

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On the old 64-bit P4s, it could be argued that the CPU was designed to run x86 code and wasn’t “optimised” for running 64-bit code, but that’s not the case with the newer Core 2 CPUs. However, Intel’s CPUs show virtually no performance advantage in 64-bit mode compared to 32-bit mode. Generally, AMD’s CPUs are significantly faster in 64-bit mode than they are in 32-bit mode. You will generally find that AMD’s CPUs gain a lot more by running in 64-bit mode than Intel’s CPUs do.

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Windows and Mac OS X has had support for hardware decoding of video streams for.umm, god knows how long :O It’s unfortunately one of those things where Linux is still lacking behind.

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:/ Nowadays when graphics hardware is so fast and powerful, and even programmable, it is quite amazing that there is not yet support for hardware-aided decoding of video under Linux, atleast not without some very specific drivers and proprietary software (and I don’t personally even know of any such combination). But XV doesn’t mean hardware-aided decoding. It’s XV which matters more but I imagine the open-source drivers will have a working XV implementation. It can only be used for MPEG-2 streams, not for f.ex. I don’t own any recent ATI/AMD card so I can’t confirm but well, XvMC isn’t really that useful anyways.

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They made progress, a few driver versions back it used to crash the X server when playing back videos. The videos are horribly pixelated and the diagonal tearing is gruesome. Incidentally, video playback is where the closed source driver is at its worst. Linux users are not a large group(relatively speaking) but are passionate and VERY VERY vocal, and getting their support means tons of good pr on the web. Hopefully they find a way to skirt the DRM and can win back the Linux fanbase, who are a big deal. Thus we are seeing a wave a new hardware that is going to compete on par with Nvidia’s best at most likely a lower price and an outreach by AMD/ATI to users they have alienated in the past a.k.a. At any rate, with AMD looking to be hurting in the CPU wars in the near future, the ATI branch is what really needs to shine to keep the company afloat.

AMD did not develop the Geode, they bought it from National Semiconductor who had basically given up on it for dead, and AMD made out of the deal by getting it in the OLPC. Additionally the OLPC is questionably a contribution from AMD to the open source world. Also the have applications like PowerTop and the website to help linux users maximize battery life on laptops. If you have an intel mobo, the intel site also has sound drivers and some other chipset goodies for linux. At any rate, intel has contributed alot to the open source community, and not only graphics drivers. While the radeon 3870 looks to be a great card at a much lower price then the 8800, the Phenom release was an utter bust, and intel has a whole new wave of chips waiting to strike. I would say this could definitely be a pr move, and they need it more then ever. Free software is helping to flatten the world, empower society, and strengthen the global economy. Vendors that attempt to sell the same old stuff into the same old markets will have trouble competing with those that are positioned to exploit the incomparable economic force of hundreds of millions of people being pulled out of poverty. Smart CEOs look at transformational effects of free trade on the global economy and realize that demand-side stimulus from emerging middle classes in the developing world will be the predominant engine of growth in the 21st century. I think that most hardware vendors now realize that free software is going to play a major role in emerging technologies and emerging markets.

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AMD has to open up in order to win contracts in this evolving competitive landscape where free software is crucial to the ongoing incursion of PC hardware into the consumer electronics industry. Intel is pushing aggressively into these environments in part by embracing Linux and open graphics drivers. Not gonna happen.ĪMD beginning to head down the long road toward open graphics specifications has much more to do with convergence and globalization than it does about their current and future competitors in the PC market.įrom subnotebooks and smartphones to set-top boxes and grid computing, free software will play a more influential role on post-PC platforms than it did on the PC. Heh, as much as I appreciate the vision of projects like OGP, they’re never going to be commercially viable, let alone on the same radar screen as the big three.