Skype and Intel Collaboration

gadys submitted by gadys 13 days ago (via http://sourcewire.com/releases...)

The companies are working together to optimize Skype for Intel dual-core processor-based PCs and are planning to further enhance voice and video over the Internet so that it delivers the richest possible communications experience for personal and professional users.

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  1. Not much optimizing there, they are just imposing an artificial limitation upon what an AMD X2 can do better.
    spikes posted by spikes (0) at 07:36 PM 2/08/06 score:
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  2. Hey it couldn't hurt...
    guardian653 posted by guardian653 (0) at 07:38 PM 2/08/06 score:
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  3. "Hey it couldn't hurt..."

    Actually, yea, it can. What they're doing, if you read the apple lawsuit post, is called tying, requiring you to have one thing, to use the other. It's anti-competative, and particularly nasty.

    "The new feature is available exclusively for home and business users with Intel Centrino® Duo mobile technology-based laptop PCs, and desktop PCs based on Intel® Pentium® D processors, Pentium Extreme Edition processors, and the recently introduced Intel Viiv™ technology. "
    MikeSD34 posted by MikeSD34 (0) at 07:45 PM 2/08/06 score:
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  4. iChat AV already probably has whatever Skype has up its sleeve... yawn.
    gaius_baltar posted by gaius_baltar (0) at 08:04 PM 2/08/06 score:
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  5. MikeSD34: No, it's not. It's not anything like that. You can still use Skype normally, and if you just so happen to have a Duo processor/chipset, Skype will run extra-better.
    ricodued posted by ricodued (1) at 08:06 PM 2/08/06 score:
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  6. So basically Skype just picked favorites and fucked all the non-Core Duo/AMD people up the ass.
    GhostFreeman posted by GhostFreeman (0) at 08:15 PM 2/08/06 score:
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  7. new skype edition just released today: http://digg.com/software/NEW_Skype_v2.0.0.81_Released_(February_8,_2006)

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    sahaskatta posted by sahaskatta (109) at 08:37 PM 2/08/06 score:
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  8. MikeSD34: Bah, they are _optimizing_ for the Pentium D. If they were to lock it out that would be different; don't try to start a flame war here. Intel is just doing the same thing with Call of Duty 2 with its "Dual-core" patch. Hell they're probably just making Skype more "threaded" which if you have and X2 same benefits for you.
    guardian653 posted by guardian653 (0) at 08:46 PM 2/08/06 score:
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  9. they are NOT optimizing, they are LOCKING OUT others from the extra features

    just like Intel compiler generating faster code for Intel processors .. but in reality generating SLOWER code for non intel processors, you disable "checking procedure" nd BAM, AMD runs Intel "optimised" code faster than Intel

    Marketing and extortion together from Intel & Skype
    kokobaroko posted by kokobaroko (0) at 10:00 PM 2/08/06 score:
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  10. bad skype. sneaky skype. skype can't resist Intel's precious marketing monies.
    this is one more reason to use google's GTalk, which supports and improves open standards, unlike skype.
    so come on google, release a mac and linux client.
    mieses posted by mieses (0) at 11:41 PM 2/08/06 score:
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  11. Now that Intel is a Platform company expect to see more of this. Intel has been investing heavily in software companies that can take advantage of all their new platform features (dual core, power management, optimized network stacks, TPM). Quite frankly, given how much Intel can now achieve with their platforms I can't see how AMD can hope to compete.
    thearchitect posted by thearchitect (2) at 12:37 AM 2/09/06 score:
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  12. Does anyone else feel a sense of impending doom when you hear "Skype & Intel" together? It's almost as bad as hearing that Microsoft and BestBuy have joined forces.
    coffeegeek posted by coffeegeek (0) at 12:51 AM 2/09/06 score:
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  13. If you read the press release, it looks like they are in deed locking out users:

    "...the availability of free, ten-way voice conference calling for up to ten people in Skype 2.0 — an industry first for peer-to-peer Internet calling. The new feature is available exclusively for home and business users with Intel Centrino® Duo mobile technology-based laptop PCs, and desktop PCs based on Intel® Pentium® D processors, Pentium Extreme Edition processors, and the recently introduced Intel Viiv™ technology."

    This is pretty hilarious considering that iChat AV has been able to do a 10-person audio conference for almost a year now. This is very much an arbitrary limit being imposed by skype and financed by intel.
    hexix posted by hexix (0) at 08:54 AM 2/09/06 score:
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