Some AMD products inside a Ferrari

daRk_heLmet · Jul 11, 2005, 06:08 PM

"Ferrari chief race engineer, Luca Baldisserri revealed that the IT heart of a racing Ferrari is its ECU – Electronic Control Unit. He wouldn't say what exactly was inside the ECU in terms of components – only that it uses 'some' AMD products.

Reading between the lines, we take that to mean Flash memory, not one of its 64-bit chips. More interesting was what he revealed about the race car's telemetry.

Ferrari collates the car's data in three ways. Firstly it gets info in real-time as the car tears around the track. Secondly, it provides a burst of data as it screams past the pits. Finally, 1GB of data is downloaded via a cable, once the car has stopped."
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Jul 11, 2005, 06:08 PM	#1
daRk_heLmet Keep firing, assholes! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Death Star Posts: 1,072 Rep Power: 0	Some AMD products inside a Ferrari "Ferrari chief race engineer, Luca Baldisserri revealed that the IT heart of a racing Ferrari is its ECU – Electronic Control Unit. He wouldn't say what exactly was inside the ECU in terms of components – only that it uses 'some' AMD products. Reading between the lines, we take that to mean Flash memory, not one of its 64-bit chips. More interesting was what he revealed about the race car's telemetry. Ferrari collates the car's data in three ways. Firstly it gets info in real-time as the car tears around the track. Secondly, it provides a burst of data as it screams past the pits. Finally, 1GB of data is downloaded via a cable, once the car has stopped." ____________________________ Read More/Source: The Inquirer __________________ [color=white]My Blog[/color]