[Info-vax] Sunway TaihuLight is the fastest supercomputer in the world

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 11:45:04 PM UTC+12, Kerry Main wrote:
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>> lawrencedo99--- via Info-vax
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>> The real high-volume CPU business is dominated by ARM. And in the
>> markets where that chip sells, both Intel and Microsoft have been taking
>> a hammering.
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> Shareholders likely hard to be upset with the way MS's revenue and margins 
> keeps going up:

Where is Windows Phone? Microsoft bought over Nokia’s entire mobile-phone business, and has run it into the ground. Windows RT? An embarrassing flop right from the get-go.

> "Hammering" is a bit of a stretch for Intel .. at least in the datacenter.

They have just announced effective abandonment of further development of their Atom line. You know, the ones that were supposed to compete with ARM? That were announced with great fanfare back in 2008 as being “two years ahead of ARM” and supporting the “full Internet experience” (which was code for “runs Adobe Flash Player”--which in the end nobody in that space cared about)? But it seems they only ever lost money.

One casualty of that is Microsoft’s “Surface” tablet line. Which now looks like it has reached its end. Not that it was ever particularly brilliant...