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To: Win Smith who wrote (73079)	3/3/2002 11:58:24 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Thanks Win. BTW, what do you think about current IDF? I have a very strong feeling of being scumbagged. When watching the webcast, it looks like a pop-show, with paid artist doing standard tricks like jumping out to the scene under rehearsed applauds. I wonder what they will do next time? Learn how to make double flip when entering arena? Hey, they even look like popular TV-show actors: Mike Fister == French Stewart from "3rd rock", Steve Brown == Matt Perry ("Whole Nine Yards") Now, why all this high praising of Moore "law", when technology moves close and close to it's physical limit? Yes, progress is possible, but at what price? Molecular transistor, quantum transistors, BS transistors... It looks like throwing scaling numbers, 200 - 300 - 500mm, or Micro - Sub-micro - Nano -what's next? Sub-nano, Pico-?, then Femto-transistors? What is the next scientific prefix for extra 10^-3? I see a pattern here: close to dead end - more public talking. Can you spell "Enronizm"? Then, the clean room video clip. Tray transportation of wafers? Two years after AMD implemented it? What will continue to drive PC industry? - excitement! What? Two HDTV movies on one screen... exciting? Just P4, no specialzed (can I suggest "cheap"?) hardware is needed, very exciting! Again, what happened to all those colored space-saucer shaped "concept" PC shown at IDF few years ago? The new "2003 concept"? CPU is placed near the air intake? What a new idea! Dell was struggling for years building air ducts inside PC box, ASUS making ducts, thanks to the stupid ATX form-factor. I wonder who proposed that ATX <ggg>?. Heat sinks. Wonderful. HP invented the radial curved fins when? Two-three years ago, right? Japanese Alpha heatsinks were making copper cores for years too. Heat pipe-based sinks are on sale at Fry's. Now Intel is showing same things as future ideas... And this pathetic example to show off pictures of your family to a buddy you've not seen in years? Why don't you keep few photos in your wallet, much cheaper BTW... After all, if your old buddy has not find time to be in touch with you, maybe he is not really interested in seeing faces of your relatives? Now, "new technologies"...Miniaturized Bragg cell, what a discovery! And where the excitement is? Price drop from $10,000 to $1,000? I am not going to buy this thing for my home anytime soon, so what's the point? Where is the volume? It looks like Intel is in process of re-discovering things that were known for decades inside national research labs... Is this only my screwed impression, or anyone else have similar concerns? - Ali