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Wednesday September 1, 2004 - 10:58PM EDT

Hocus Pocus the linked article makes me very skeptical. Everytime Intel comes up with some new chip or process they are cheered. Frankly Intel isn't impressing me. They slowly leak out technology and milk as much money from people using their sub-par technology. Then haven't innovated anything since putting the math coprocessor on the main CPU. There have been a lot of smaller advances (MMX, SIMD, on-die cache, etc.) But the fact it has taken them until recently to make a 64-bit chip is ludicrous. They say beacause there is no market for it they haven't pushed it. Well, when you define the chip market you can pretty much push whatever you want into it. They invested way to much in 32-bit chips and need to get as much money out of them as possible, so they hold back 64-bit chips. I don't know that much about CPU design but lack of innovation at Intel is really sickening. Is there anything out there that is impressive. Organic LEDs certainly have promise and maybe soon we will see large paper thin, ultra-low power consuming displays. I still haven't seen the instant-on operating system. Better yet the OS that doesn't need to boot up. It is integrated into the hardware. Solid state storage may help that along, it is get cheaper all the time. When you study how computers work you have new respect for all the work that has gone into making computers what they are today. But you also get the feeling that the type of innovation it took to create computers is being stymied in today's environment. Profit was not a consideration when computers were created. It was just scientests working together and competing against each other to create the best equipment. Now it is who can make the most money.

I have found more jokes from the clowns. I am not even suprised anymore. I just expect to find more and more. Makes me look better in the end. Unfortunately people probably won't learn from this crap and it will probably happen again. I have nothing more to say.