Back From Beijing off to Tunis

Ξ April 22nd, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |

Apparently my blog is so controversial China sees fit to block it, along with Wikipedia, BBC News and my email. It’s like being completely detached from the world, although I did thankfully manage to get through to bit-tech in order to get some work done.

Beijing is still as quality as it was back in ‘05, although the smog seems to have got substantially worse. The whole city is like a 24 hour building site in order to get it ready for the Olympics. The Birds Nest Stadium is complete, however, and looks mightily impressive. You think stadiums are just stadiums and whilst everyone is unique, the architectural ingenuity that went into the surrounding design of this is just incredible.

Now I’m in Tunisia, courtesy of AMD. It is an awesome country with some fantastic sights to see: I’ve already been to Carthage and taken some shots, but shooting in RAW takes forever to mull through the pics and I could really use some sleep. I don’t even know what time zone my body clock is on right now though. We’re going to get some info on future products which you can probably guess at but after signing my life away on a legal form this evening I won’t utter any more just yet.

I was going to write a whole load of detail here about how IDF works but I’m saving it for a column comparing the AMD and Intel events and how they both handle product launches and news.

I’ve still got to write about Tera-scale computing and the process design of CPUs as well, but half finished hardware reviews  in need of completion await my return unfortunately.