Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : CYRIX / NSM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert scheb who wrote (33001)	7/19/1999 2:53:00 PM
From: AB	Respond to of 33344

Scheb, looks like my memory id failing as well and/or some links have expired. The first one does mention MMX however. theregister.co.uk dailynews.yahoo.com To some extent, I think this debate about CPU power misses a more subtle point. The issue is not whether more processing power is needed at the client side, in general more will be needed as the BW goes up to handle the extra data, the question is whether this power will be concentrated in a high power general purpose CPU with fuctions such as video, DVD, LAN, xDSL, etc. done with software as much as possible, or whether this power will be distributed over specialized hardware. The usual flexibility, upgradeability, time to market, etc. arguments for SW vs HW still apply. Anthony