Re: RC Transmission Lines (Wafer-Scale)

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Intel must be running scared; some day pc's will be good enough and
become as exciting as toasters, and $5 Taiwanese cpu's will be
powerful enough.

You can bet that they do nothing but encourage Microsoft to build OSes that
consume vast quantities of CPU power performing, e.g., animation,
transparency, 3D effects, etc. The IT "industry" also seems to encourage
greatly increasing PC resource usage -- it's very common today that computers
in larger companies run on-access virus scanners and create backups of every
single file as soon as it's re-saved.

Intel does have a pretty smart pricing strategy -- the prices of their new
CPUs drop almost like clockwork, to keep them competitive with offerings from,
e.g., AMD, VIA, etc. AMD was doing well for awhile with their Athlon CPUs,
but Intel came back with cheap dual-core units and now AMD is back to being
not much better than an "also ran."

There is plenty of emphasis these days on "performance per MIP," which is a
good thing for just about everyone -- large data server farms care about power
consumptions just as much as battery-powered laptop users.




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