[GoodOlBoy]

About like I expected Fabs.

You may not believe in corporate headhunters (not the kind looking for new employees) but I do. And if the research to prove what was out there was the easily available it would be too easy for a common machinist to build and like some high end conversion parts for rice rocket racers you would have black market machinists making them.

You want to know why intel doesn't put AMD in its place? Because they can't afford to. Check out who owns the copyright to the mathcoprocessor buried in the intel procs. They tick AMD off bad enough and AMD can sue them until tomorrow afternoon. Why doesn't AMD do it anyway and shut them down? Two reasons. One since AMD forced Cyrix out of the American market in 1997 with a BS lawsuit over Cyrix's use of the AMD CPU pipeline technology (which was reinvented by Intel two years later) if they shut down Intel they would be facing some of the same monopoly lawsuits that Microsoft has gone through, and two intel owns the copyright to the socket technology that AMD uses for its procs. It's a catch-22 for both companies so they play nice nice and keep the competition as friendly as they can in the process. It might be of interest the Cyrix stil owns the copyright to the MMX proc feature and AMD pays them a fee yearly for its use. It might also be of interest that Cyrix still has a LARGE following in the asian markets.

In early 2001 AMD released information that they had developed a cutting edge technology that allowed them to go green (a side effect to be sure) They had found a way to manipulate a biological algae in order to speed up processing in a CPU. The result was a CPU that used an almost human like logic and had a throughput rate almost as fast as the human brain. AMD closed down the project (offically that is) after protests by Christian groups that they were creating the artifical intelligence for the Beast described in Revelations, and by groups who claimed they were violating God or Mother Nature by trying to replace humans. Both of course were BS claims (I am Christian I didn't have a problem with it) but caused AMD to wipe out the public showing for both that project and the FMD disk project that they had cofounded with a cmall company called C3D (Constellation 3D ). Why? because the FMD (Fluorescent Multi-Layer Disc) Held 140GB of data on a single disk using a flourescent dye that was basicly a vat grown offshoot of the same algae used in the processor technology.

to quote one source on the FMDs

It appeared that this technology will never become available since C3D's links and whereabouts were untracable from the 2nd halve of august 2002

They weren't kidding. After the fights over the possiblity of AI controlling the chips, etc etc etc. C3D literally dissapeared off of the map. Naysayers later claimed

After Constellation 3D shut down due to a scandal (the scandal essentially involved the prototype "demonstrated" at COMDEX 2000 being a hoax — the content was actually playing on a hard drive — the device was faked) and the company consequently running out of money, a new company called D Data Inc. (4) was formed which acquired the entire patent portfolio of Constellation 3D in 2003. The company is determined to bring multilayer optical disc technology to the market, and so has introduced the technology again under the new name of Digital Multilayer Disk (DMD) (5).

promising to have the technology available at the end of 2006

of course said technology never arrived, and no instance of the claim that the technology was faked was ever produced to ANY credible media outlet. By the way D Data Inc is just as much a Ghost as C3D was afterwards. The most information you can find easily about D Data Inc is from the US patent office which lists it as

D Data Inc. -
City: New York
State/Country: NY US

No other information is available to my knowledge. And NY has no listing for D Data in any form or fashion last time I checked.

It is also of note that AMD spent two years worth of advertising budget whiping out information reguarding a biologically link processor from their sight, and any other websight available. The fact that the dye for the FMD also came from the same AMD labs was supressed information after the dissapearance of C3D. Up until that time it was listed on the C3D website as a joint venture useing AMD Biogen technology. Wisely AMD has since backpeddled as hard as they could run away from anything to do with biologically grown CPUs or parts. On of the many reasons they rejected the green fiber circuitboard project preposed to them by . . . . . . dang I forget the companies name offhand it will come to me. . . . anyway it is why they rejected the green fiber circuitboard project, that and the fact that in high humidity enviroments with tempurature increases often seen in overworked systems the board would fall apart. Not something to be seen as a workable solution to them since the only refrigerated case at that time was being made by a small company outside of atlanta who could only supply around 50 a day at max run of the cases.

AMD was also the first company to embrace liquid cooling technology so that overcloced processors would not be fried in a few heartbeats. However due to concerns over people using standard water instead of denatured non-conductive liquid in the cooling systems AMD quickly left the idea behind. However they sold the design for the liquid cooled heatsink to a german company (whose name I also forget because I only used their product once in a test platform to prove that it was unsuited for our needs at the time) and left the plastic housing on their processors the same so that they could be easily removed even though there was no "offical" support for the liquid cooling system.

Now back to storage. The officall reason seagate technologies gave for failure to release the micro drive in a 1TB size in the early '80s was cooling failures as the drives initially spun at 25K rpm and would heat up enough to fry an egg on. As the drives were designed for use in "cold rooms" in server chasis with metric tons of fans it was a BS excuse to keep the drives out of the hands of computer users. This would have been a nice excuse except for the fact that they DID release the original 9GB Ultrawide type 1 SCSI drives (the original barracuda line) at that time that had the SAME spin rate and heating problems. It should be of note that until the SCSI II drives were released some years later the spin rate and heat rate stayed the same as the "not released" 1 TB drives. When Fuijitsu rleased the first 12 GB IDE hard drives that spun at 7500rpm they burst the seagate bubble. In order to avoid being a target for seagate hostility they released the technology as open source to Maxtor and Western Digital (although not their superior memory caching technology on the daughter boards) and thus the HD boom was born. Western Digital beat everybody to the punch by releasing a 40GB HD less than six months later (although you had to format it using their special software as 90% of motherboard chipset would not see a drive larger than 18.2GB at that time. And no I don't have a clue why the software work around worked to this day. It should not have.) Via released the first chipset to allow up to an 80 GB hd to be used and AMD quickly copyrighted the slip socket (early K4 style) integration to try to get the jump on microsoft. Maxtor followed WDs lead, but fujitsu bent them both over a barrel by working with Viagra technologies (yes just like the little blue pill) and working out a "rocket chipset" for use with the intel procs that would allow up to a 100GB IDE drive to be used. Via countered by inventing the ATA2 standard and farming out the add on board though a crappy little company called promise technology. However the boards would allow a 160GB HD. Intel told them all where to stick it and created the ATA100 standard chip that would take at that time a 250GB HD (although a minor tweak in the next revision removed all limitations for all intents and purposes). This all happened in a three year period. And caused several companies to bite its nails as they cut a 7 year sales plan to ribbons and HAD to release their products or lose the markets.

IE we need a car company to start the same kind of tech war. I though Saturn was going to be the one to do it way back when but after the first few years they let me down by taking the Big3s lead.

If you wish I can right a more detail account of the tech wars Circa 70s ish to 2008 even though I didn't come into play in them until 1995. I actually handed off several improvement patents like a dumb arse when I was younger just to help the industry I had faith in at the time. They would have given me a nice cash flow for about 6 months of the tech war in the early 2000s if I had sold them instead of waving rights to them. After 6 months my improvements were made obsolete as they were replaced by the parent companies. All the while the guy next to me in the office was trying to get Amiga off of its behind to keep up since they had a far superior technology base but even when he provided them with two major improvement patents they turned up their noses and you see where they are after the smoke cleared.

GoodOlBoy