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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (451300)	1/26/2009 9:36:37 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575193

>By the way, did you know that Intel has hired Dianne Feinstein's former chief of staff to be their legal representative in Washington? Not surprising. Feinstein's pretty pro-business. I'm not a fan. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (451300)	1/26/2009 10:10:32 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575193

Eventually AMD may go away and Intel may become the stagnant one. It depends on how paranoid Intel continues to be after AMD is gone. Plenty of players in silicon ready to pounce on Intel, including Samsung and TSMC. I don't know what becomes of the computer industry, really -- chips, software, whatever. VISTA was a flop, but not just because it had problems. It was a flop because people just don't NEED a new operating system every couple of years. How many people really need 1TB of disk storage? How many people really need quad-core processors? When I worked on PDP 11s, we had three or four 2.4MB drives (two fixed, two removable). As drive densities grew, time and again I saw the usage of disk space grow to fill the available capacity. But now, the capacity of systems is far outpacing the real needs of most people. So, why is anyone buying new computers? I used to buy a new workstation every year or so. Not anymore. Absolutely no reason to. Hate to say I think it is dying industry, but it is hard to see what would make it be a "growth" industry again. I'm very envious of my son who is studying nanoscience engineering. If I wasn't too old I'd go back to school for a few years.