Paul, <"..right: it goes to DEC." You have that all backwards.>
Yeah, it seems too hard for you to grasp...
You are a real retire, Pauleron.
You cannot think two steps in either way, nor
forward, nor to the past. Don't you
remeber why was all that boom about?
I can remind you: Intel stole the DEC
technology how to built microprocessors.
That was the technology boost Dinesh is talking
about. And now Intel has to pay for it, in the form
of buying the out-of date non-profitable FAB from
DEC.
If you are still not convinced, let me remind you
that all this has happen during EXCESS of FAB
capaclty, so Intel even stopped development of
the Texas fab. Remember? Actually, Intel did
had some benefits from the deal: since they
do not have creative engineers anymore, they
failed to design any good 64-bit PCI bridges
for their perspective servers (e.g. DELL uses
the Digital bridges in their servers), and the deal
gives to Intel this technology.
It looks more and more that Intel has turned into a
sort of dumb foundry, just a simple lithography,
and is totally incapable to debug their own CPU and
chipsets: look at Xeon/450NX scandal, all these
system bugs that require to block or reload half of
the microcoded Pentium-II instructions and dogs
the performance... |
