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

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf Of
> lawrencedo99--- via Info-vax
> Sent: 26-Jun-16 10:23 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Sunway TaihuLight is the fastest supercomputer
> in the world
> 
> On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 11:45:04 PM UTC+12, Kerry Main wrote:
> >
> >> lawrencedo99--- via Info-vax
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > 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.
> 

See the financials link I provided - one time write-off's, along with the big 
fine they got from EU. 
https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar15/index.html 

> > "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.
> 

Intel typically runs numerous projects with overlapping goals. That way, 
If/when one project tanks, they have alternative solutions they continue 
to pursue.

> 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...

I have seen discussions about Surface Pro 3 (SP3) being end of life, but not 
SP4. Where did you see any indication that MS SP4 was about to be EOL'ed?


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com