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To: Snowshoe who wrote (9792)	7/16/2001 6:56:05 PM
From: Anthony Ettipio	Respond to of 10309

From the Yahoo Thread . . . Push the envelope, embedded EEs told By Charles J. Murray EE Times (07/13/01, 4:53 p.m. EST) CHICAGO — Saying the embedded marketplace was on the verge of a "quantum leap," author Robert Cringley this week urged embedded programmers and engineers to keep their designs simple and forge ahead with new ideas. Speaking at the Embedded Systems Conference here, Cringley told about 300 engineers and programmers that shrinking device costs and rising performance levels are about to cause a "technology explosion" in the embedded space, much like the PC industry's a decade ago. Cringley wrote Accidental Empires: How the Boys of the Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date. In a keynote speech, he said previously undreamed-of embedded applications will be cropping up for years. "If you have a multithreaded processor that runs at 50 Mips and costs 40 cents, can you find an application for it?" he asked