My baby Vic has been born

Dear all, just FYI and to share our happiness, wanna inform you that my firstborn son, ‘Vic Marcell Wu’ has been born on March 19, 2009 at 8:35 AM. Weight 2.8 kg and length 49 cm.

Here are some of his early photos :-)

First Day :


Day 2 :


Day 3 :


Also check out my Photo Album on Friendster specially dedicated to my little boy.

Intel and AMD in licensing dispute

Intel has formally accused AMD of breaching the two companies' 2001 cross-licensing agreement.

Here's why Intel thinks AMD is breaching the agreement:

Intel believes that Global Foundries is not a subsidiary under terms of the agreement and is therefore not licensed under the 2001 patent cross-license agreement. Intel also said the structure of the deal between AMD and ATIC breaches a confidential portion of that agreement. Intel has asked AMD to make the relevant portion of the agreement public, but so far AMD has declined to do so.

AMD responded with the following statement:

Intel's action is an attempt to distract the world from the global antitrust scrutiny it faces. Should this matter proceed to litigation, we will prove not only that Intel is wrong, but also that Intel fabricated this claim to interfere with our commercial relationships and thus has violated the cross-license.

Our Asset Smart transaction and the creation of a game-changing company, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, pose a threat to Intel’s business model and illegal dominance in the x86 market, as does our mix of intellectual property and our technology roadmap. And as the spotlight is cast ever more harshly on Intel’s anticompetitive practices by regulators around the globe, Intel is attempting to do whatever it can to limit competition, stifle customer choice and constrain AMD’s market share.

According to AMD's form 8-K filing, Intel isn't kidding about taking away AMD's license—it "purports to terminate [AMD]'s rights and licenses under the Cross License in 60 days if the alleged breach has not been corrected."

Some background: The Patent Cross License Agreement benefits both companies by granting each company license to the others’ patents. This is not a technology license. To put it simply, the pace of innovation is fast and furious in our market, and the agreement’s purpose is to ensure that each company can innovate freely in its product designs, without threat of patent infringement litigation over our respective innovations. To be clear, Intel leverages innovative AMD patents critical for its product designs under the cross license. This includes AMD patents related to 64-bit architecture extensions, integrated memory controller, multi-core architecture, etc. The cross-license is very much a two-way street.

Intel currently uses AMD's x86-64 technology in all shipping Pentium and Core processors, while AMD, naturally, uses Intel's x86 tech in all of its PC processors.

AMD Launches World’s First 40nm Graphics Processors

AMD today announced the world’s first graphics processors to harness 40nm process technology: the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830. These feature-rich graphics processors redefine mobile PC entertainment with advanced capabilities including support for the latest Microsoft DirectX® 10.1 games, a home theater-quality HD multimedia experience, and energy-efficient features for long battery life at work, at home or at play.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 graphics will be featured in the forthcoming Asus K notebook.

The new 40nm production process allows notebook manufacturers to deliver more graphics horsepower in a smaller ASIC die size, giving people access to highly capable discrete graphics ideal for smaller notebooks. This milestone marks the fifth consecutive first-to-market process transition for ATI graphics processors.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830 graphics processors feature powerful 3D engines derived from the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4800 desktop series architecture with support for DirectX 10.1. Take crisp, detail-rich images and outstanding visual effects wherever you go for unparalleled levels of 3D gaming realism. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 supports GDDR5 memory technology contributing to stunning improvements in game play and performance with nearly twice the memory bandwidth of GDDR3.