Intel Core marketing campaign hit China with funny advertisement video. Recently Intel spend a lot on marketing campaign in Malaysia too, with the Multiply ads. Anyway, the China version is better!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
New Computing Experience - Microsoft Surface
It a touchscreen computing evolution by Microsoft. Although Microsoft is not the first company who aim on this, but the big force from Microsoft may help to drive this into your living room.
Official Microsoft Surface Site
Popular Mechanics Tech Review
Microsoft has quietly been developing the first completely new computing platform since the PC — a project that was given the internal code name Milan. This past March, when the project was still operating on the down low, I became the first reporter invited inside these offices. My hosts politely threatened legal consequences if I blabbed about the project to anyone not directly involved in it, then escorted me down a dark hallway to a locked corner conference room. Inside that room was Microsoft's best-kept technology secret in years ... a coffee table.
Official Microsoft Surface Site
Popular Mechanics Tech Review
Microsoft has quietly been developing the first completely new computing platform since the PC — a project that was given the internal code name Milan. This past March, when the project was still operating on the down low, I became the first reporter invited inside these offices. My hosts politely threatened legal consequences if I blabbed about the project to anyone not directly involved in it, then escorted me down a dark hallway to a locked corner conference room. Inside that room was Microsoft's best-kept technology secret in years ... a coffee table.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Understand More On History of CPU
The "History of Overclocking" from Atomicmpc.com.au is pretty good resource to understand history of CPU back to 80386 and 80486. The article did included background of obsolete CPU company like Cyrix.
History of Overclocking Part One
History of Overclocking Part Two
The K6 has an interesting history – unsatisfied by its own designs, AMD purchased a company called NexGen, that was developing a chip called the Nx686 at the time. As a result AMD got access to Vinod Dahm, the designer of the original Pentium who had moved to NexGen. AMD changed the design so it would fit Socket 7, included MMX support, and shipped the result. Eventually the PR ratings AMD used were dropped when it started matching the actual MHz of the CPUs. The last ever K6 used Super Socket 7, giving it access to a 100MHz bus. This is the first time AMD used a different socket to Intel, even though it was backwards compatible with other Socket 7 chips. It was a stop-gap solution to up the FSB while AMD was designing Slot A, as it no longer had rights to Intel’s sockets. This worked to AMD’s advantage – those who invested in a Super Socket 7 board had compatibility with both the upcoming K6-2 and K6-III.
Cyrix does get a mention in our little history for implementing the 75MHz bus on its 6x86 and 6x86MX processors. This meant the PCI bus ran at 37.5MHz, which caused problems with some add-in cards. Cyrix caused even more problems in 1998 when it upped the speed of its MII chip to 83MHz, forcing a completely unreasonable 41.5MHz on PCI. As a result things were unstable, particularly IDE controllers.
History of Overclocking Part One
History of Overclocking Part Two
The K6 has an interesting history – unsatisfied by its own designs, AMD purchased a company called NexGen, that was developing a chip called the Nx686 at the time. As a result AMD got access to Vinod Dahm, the designer of the original Pentium who had moved to NexGen. AMD changed the design so it would fit Socket 7, included MMX support, and shipped the result. Eventually the PR ratings AMD used were dropped when it started matching the actual MHz of the CPUs. The last ever K6 used Super Socket 7, giving it access to a 100MHz bus. This is the first time AMD used a different socket to Intel, even though it was backwards compatible with other Socket 7 chips. It was a stop-gap solution to up the FSB while AMD was designing Slot A, as it no longer had rights to Intel’s sockets. This worked to AMD’s advantage – those who invested in a Super Socket 7 board had compatibility with both the upcoming K6-2 and K6-III.
Cyrix does get a mention in our little history for implementing the 75MHz bus on its 6x86 and 6x86MX processors. This meant the PCI bus ran at 37.5MHz, which caused problems with some add-in cards. Cyrix caused even more problems in 1998 when it upped the speed of its MII chip to 83MHz, forcing a completely unreasonable 41.5MHz on PCI. As a result things were unstable, particularly IDE controllers.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Understand Intel's Culture
While I'm fresh grad and looking for job, I alway hope that someone from the company may explain more about the culture to me before I really step my foot into the company. As most of the fresh graduates like to enter MNC (Multi National Company) like Flextonic, Samsung, Seagate, Microsoft, Sony, Intel and Toyota. How is the culture inside? Do you think you choose the right company?
The Vault.com did had specify page for Intel's culture,
Intel has a very particular culture - on the one hand emphasizing egalitarianism and meritocracy, on the other hand bestowing upon its insiders featureless cubicles and a healthy dose of paranoia. Insiders say "Intel is a flexible meritocracy. It increases responsibilities of people who show they can do the work and want to do more. Raises and promotions are also based on meritocracy." Don't expect to relax at this firm. "Intel is a little more uptight compared to other big Silicon Valley companies. There is more discipline and more of a business-oriented focus. That is one reason why the company is so successful." And don't expect a lot of hand-holding, either. "There is no executive training programs where you are eased into the culture. I loved it, because you have the freedom to take risks and make things happen, but many people found it a difficult environment."
Article source link
The information is pretty complete with background and business revenue. This link at Vault.com had information like
jobs available and located sites.
Intel employs 85,000 people in 55 countries worldwide. The company has manufacturing facilities in China, Costa Rica, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, the Philippines and the United States. Positions are available in 16 departments: integrated circuit engineering, integrated circuit manufacturing, software engineering, facilities, hardware engineering, hardware manufacturing, finance, research and development, information technology and services, human resources, sales and marketing, legal, e-business, materials, supply network and Intel capital.
This is a search of "Agilent" and bingo, it did had the detail info of related Agilent.
Visit Vault.com and do a search of your employer.
The Vault.com did had specify page for Intel's culture,
Intel has a very particular culture - on the one hand emphasizing egalitarianism and meritocracy, on the other hand bestowing upon its insiders featureless cubicles and a healthy dose of paranoia. Insiders say "Intel is a flexible meritocracy. It increases responsibilities of people who show they can do the work and want to do more. Raises and promotions are also based on meritocracy." Don't expect to relax at this firm. "Intel is a little more uptight compared to other big Silicon Valley companies. There is more discipline and more of a business-oriented focus. That is one reason why the company is so successful." And don't expect a lot of hand-holding, either. "There is no executive training programs where you are eased into the culture. I loved it, because you have the freedom to take risks and make things happen, but many people found it a difficult environment."
Article source link
The information is pretty complete with background and business revenue. This link at Vault.com had information like
jobs available and located sites.
Intel employs 85,000 people in 55 countries worldwide. The company has manufacturing facilities in China, Costa Rica, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, the Philippines and the United States. Positions are available in 16 departments: integrated circuit engineering, integrated circuit manufacturing, software engineering, facilities, hardware engineering, hardware manufacturing, finance, research and development, information technology and services, human resources, sales and marketing, legal, e-business, materials, supply network and Intel capital.
This is a search of "Agilent" and bingo, it did had the detail info of related Agilent.
Visit Vault.com and do a search of your employer.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Robbery at China's Highway
Robbery happen in China's highway. Don't have more info about the event. Anyway, it is silly!!!
* The video is forward from friend and upload to youtube.com.
---APPEND---
I tried to search youtube.com and get this video clip. Basically it the same content. The incident took place in GuanZhou's railway station.
* The video is forward from friend and upload to youtube.com.
---APPEND---
I tried to search youtube.com and get this video clip. Basically it the same content. The incident took place in GuanZhou's railway station.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Jackie Chan's Lancer EVO
I like Mitsubishi's car, and back in my primary school day (15 years ago), my father did owned a Mitsubishi Galant. What about super star like Jackie Chan? Do you think he like Mitsubishi? Yeah, he did. Lancer EVO is his favorite!!!
Youtube: Jackie Chan's EVO
Youtube: Jackie Chan's EVO 9
Youtube: Jackie Chan's EVO
Youtube: Jackie Chan's EVO 9
NBC's Conan Visit To Intel
A joke from Conan at Intel office, fab, and everywhere of Intel. Nice to watch and it let you have the idea how Intel "Inside" look like. Anyway, don't expect something like Google......
Link at Youtube.com
Link at Youtube.com
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Leak Perodua Viva Photos
Perodua Viva will launch tomorrow. We heard a lot of rumour about this car, even PaulTan.org did a lot of posts regarding this car too.
Anyway, now you able to see the leak spy shot of the Perodua Viva photo!
Yeah, it look like mini Avanza..... LOL
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
The price are as below :
660cc
-----
(SOLID) RM28,400
(METALIC) RM28,800
850cc
-----
(SOLID) RM32,500
(METALIC) RM32,900
1000cc
------
(STANDARD) MANUAL
(SOLID) RM36,800
(METALIC) RM37,200
(STANDARD) AUTO
(SOLID) RM39,800
(METALIC) RM40,200
(PREMIUM*) MANUAL
(SOLID) RM40,800
(METALIC) RM41,200
(PREMIUM*) AUTO
(SOLID) RM43,800
(METALIC) RM44,200
(*with dual air-bags,ABS brake & rear spoiler)
--------------------------------
Thank for my friend's forward mail.
Anyway, now you able to see the leak spy shot of the Perodua Viva photo!
Yeah, it look like mini Avanza..... LOL
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
The price are as below :
660cc
-----
(SOLID) RM28,400
(METALIC) RM28,800
850cc
-----
(SOLID) RM32,500
(METALIC) RM32,900
1000cc
------
(STANDARD) MANUAL
(SOLID) RM36,800
(METALIC) RM37,200
(STANDARD) AUTO
(SOLID) RM39,800
(METALIC) RM40,200
(PREMIUM*) MANUAL
(SOLID) RM40,800
(METALIC) RM41,200
(PREMIUM*) AUTO
(SOLID) RM43,800
(METALIC) RM44,200
(*with dual air-bags,ABS brake & rear spoiler)
--------------------------------
Thank for my friend's forward mail.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
CPU Wars Part 1: General Trends
Informit.com has a series article on CPU Wars that talking about the real competition between CPU manufacturers and general trends in the CPU industry. Worth to spend some time to read through it (note: a long article), a lot of technical stuff in the article and you may gain something for your computer knowledge on CISC and RISC.
Article links:
CPU Wars Part 1
Early RISC designs had very few instructions. Most omitted even multiply and add instructions, since these operations could be implemented using a combination of adds and shifts. This turned out not to be such a great idea. The minimum amount of time in which an instruction can complete is one cycle, and chips with divide instructions eventually were able to complete them in fewer instructions than a chip that executed the shifts and adds, especially on floating-point values, where extra normalization steps are required and the mantissa and exponent must be handled separately.
Intel’s x86 architecture is the last surviving CISC chip, and has a particularly baroque architecture, including things like string-comparison instructions. All x86 CPUs since the Pentium have contained a more RISC-y core and have translated these instructions into sequences of μops that are executed internally. Starting with the Core microarchitecture, Intel has done this in reverse, reassembling sequences of μops into sequences that can be executed with a single instruction.
The only real difference between a RISC and a CISC chip these days is the public instruction set; the internal instruction sets are likely to be similar. RISC and CISC are not the only possible alternatives, however. RISC came from a desire to simplify the core, and a group at Yale in the early 1980s worked out that you could take this design even further. A pipelined CPU has to do a lot of work to determine which instructions can be executed concurrently.
Article links:
CPU Wars Part 1
Early RISC designs had very few instructions. Most omitted even multiply and add instructions, since these operations could be implemented using a combination of adds and shifts. This turned out not to be such a great idea. The minimum amount of time in which an instruction can complete is one cycle, and chips with divide instructions eventually were able to complete them in fewer instructions than a chip that executed the shifts and adds, especially on floating-point values, where extra normalization steps are required and the mantissa and exponent must be handled separately.
Intel’s x86 architecture is the last surviving CISC chip, and has a particularly baroque architecture, including things like string-comparison instructions. All x86 CPUs since the Pentium have contained a more RISC-y core and have translated these instructions into sequences of μops that are executed internally. Starting with the Core microarchitecture, Intel has done this in reverse, reassembling sequences of μops into sequences that can be executed with a single instruction.
The only real difference between a RISC and a CISC chip these days is the public instruction set; the internal instruction sets are likely to be similar. RISC and CISC are not the only possible alternatives, however. RISC came from a desire to simplify the core, and a group at Yale in the early 1980s worked out that you could take this design even further. A pipelined CPU has to do a lot of work to determine which instructions can be executed concurrently.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
What Is Apostasy?
Apostasy is a term generally employed to describe the formal renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy [sentense from Wikipedia.org - Apostasy].
Below is EveryWomen show that reporting real world apostasy in Malaysia. Spend some time to watch it, good info for your knowledge.
To further understand about Apostasy:
Wikipedia.org
Apostasy in Islam
Below is EveryWomen show that reporting real world apostasy in Malaysia. Spend some time to watch it, good info for your knowledge.
To further understand about Apostasy:
Wikipedia.org
Apostasy in Islam
Basic of Semiconductor - Semiconductor Production 101
To understand more about semiconductor? What about the 101 article offer by www.tomshardware.com, it pretty useful. Go ahead and point your browser to Semiconductor Production 101 - By Tomshardware
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
最大姓氏 - 李·王·张
This is a very useful finding for Chinese, and may help to understand why most Malaysia chinese surname is Tan and Lim.
依据各地人口的比例等距离抽样，严格按照统计学原理研究发现，全国最大的三个姓氏是李、王、张，分别占总人口的7.9％、7.4％和7.1％。三大姓氏的总人口达到2亿7000万，为世界上最大的三个同姓人群。
中国的同姓人群在地区分布也是不均衡的。在北方地区，以王姓为第一大姓，约占人口的9.9％，其次为李、张、刘；在南方地区，则以陈姓为第一大姓，大约占人口的10.6％，其次为李、黄、林、张；在南北过渡型的长江流域地区，第一大姓为李，大约占人口的7％，其次为王、张、陈、刘。
在中国每一个省区中，都有一些出现频率比其他省区高得多的姓。如广东的梁和罗姓，广西的梁和陆姓，福建的郑姓，台湾的蔡姓，安徽的汪姓，江苏的徐和朱姓，浙江的毛和沈姓，江西的胡和廖姓，湖北的胡姓，湖南的谭姓，四川的何和邓姓，贵州的吴姓，云南的杨姓，河南的程姓，甘肃的高姓，宁夏的万姓，陕西的薛姓，青海的鲍姓，新疆的马姓，山东的孔姓，山西的董和郭姓，内蒙古的潘姓，东北三省的于姓。
Original article at: http://www.kwongwah.com.my/kwyp_news/news_show.asp?n=81440&cls=103&rlt=1&txt=2007/4/11/gj2007411_81440&rt=N
依据各地人口的比例等距离抽样，严格按照统计学原理研究发现，全国最大的三个姓氏是李、王、张，分别占总人口的7.9％、7.4％和7.1％。三大姓氏的总人口达到2亿7000万，为世界上最大的三个同姓人群。
中国的同姓人群在地区分布也是不均衡的。在北方地区，以王姓为第一大姓，约占人口的9.9％，其次为李、张、刘；在南方地区，则以陈姓为第一大姓，大约占人口的10.6％，其次为李、黄、林、张；在南北过渡型的长江流域地区，第一大姓为李，大约占人口的7％，其次为王、张、陈、刘。
在中国每一个省区中，都有一些出现频率比其他省区高得多的姓。如广东的梁和罗姓，广西的梁和陆姓，福建的郑姓，台湾的蔡姓，安徽的汪姓，江苏的徐和朱姓，浙江的毛和沈姓，江西的胡和廖姓，湖北的胡姓，湖南的谭姓，四川的何和邓姓，贵州的吴姓，云南的杨姓，河南的程姓，甘肃的高姓，宁夏的万姓，陕西的薛姓，青海的鲍姓，新疆的马姓，山东的孔姓，山西的董和郭姓，内蒙古的潘姓，东北三省的于姓。
Original article at: http://www.kwongwah.com.my/kwyp_news/news_show.asp?n=81440&cls=103&rlt=1&txt=2007/4/11/gj2007411_81440&rt=N
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)