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To: Dan3 who wrote (86161)	8/1/2002 1:58:22 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Thread, Food for thought: Since the beginning of the technological age, the US economy has benefited from our lead in technological discovery, innovation, and IP. I'm concerned that the benefit of this may be coming to an end. On the hardware front, we have long held the lead in processor development. Although I believe we will keep this lead, I fear that leading technology in CPUs and GPUs will not be needed in the mainstream market, where perfectly acceptable and low cost solutions will come from Asian sources. Are there any consumer applications where the CPU remains a bottle-neck? In another year, VIA will be fielding a processor that should be good enough for the needs of most: However, what about a successor that performs almost as good as a Pentium 4, but remains at this low a power level? That processor might just be called the C4! tomshardware.com In the area of 3D graphics, SiS is already posing a threat with their first generation Xabre chip: SiS should be taken seriously as a company. If the Taiwanese are able to pull of everything on their roadmap - and in a timely fashion - they might well be able to establish themselves as a third power in the graphics card market. tomshardware.com What about chips for convergence devices, and the devices themselves? Does anyone not think that Samsung will not lead here? So, I guess we can rely on the software industry, since programming languages probably aren't going to be defined using Asian character based languages any time soon. Not. Software siliconvalley.com Pravin