Hi Lucretius Taurus; I'm still alive, just swamped... Some EE Times articles of interest:
Should OEMs add features or drive prices ever lower? -- Designers split on future of sub-$1,000 PC
Some say at $599, price points have bottomed out and engineers will now move back to a more familiar scenario of bundling ever more features into the new, lower price points. Others foresee the dawn of a family of even lower-cost dedicated information appliances on the near horizon.
Our 'XC' machines will be in the marketplace in the late first quarter, early second quarter of 1999," said Lin. "Our focus for these $300 machines isn't so much cost, but performance."
techweb.com
Shrinking pentiums:
Compact multichip module packs Pentium processor
MicroModule Systems Inc., is rolling out a Pentium processor module that it says puts much of a system in a package not much larger than a Pentium itself.
techweb.com
A note important to the future of system on a chip:
Bucking conventional EDA wisdom, Berkeley study claims interconnect delays subside at 50,000 gates -- Researchers rethink submicron challenge
The paper shows new data claiming that interconnect delays will actually decrease at the 50,000-gate module level as feature sizes shrink.
techweb.com
-- Carl |
