Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff
arguably devices exceptions floating general graphics people point processing purpose special tried won
People have tried a lot of special purpose processing devices over the years and, with the exceptions of graphics units and arguably floating point units, general purpose processors have always won out in the end.
ability awareness certain code customers elements feedback greater influence microsoft mirror ongoing open openness source visibility
In the sense of having this ongoing awareness of and feedback mechanism, it does mirror certain elements of open source development. If not openness of code and standards, there is greater visibility into what's going on. Customers have visibility more than an ability to necessarily influence Microsoft greatly.
delusion frequency intel woke
Intel woke up from its frequency delusion and is now going full-bore on dual-core.
believe competitor enjoyed hard intel lead maintain market past performance sneak
Intel let a competitor sneak into a market where they weren't before. Still, it was hard to believe that AMD would be able to maintain the kind of performance lead that they have enjoyed over the past one to two years.
backup based general intel products reason shown statements
Intel has shown preliminary benchmarks that backup their general statements about performance. Based on what I have seen, there is not reason to think the products will not live up to their billing.
energy intel strategy
Intel has inconsistently put energy into storage. It hasn't had a real comprehensive strategy in the past.
bottom buy choice line market microsoft product
I don't think Microsoft had much choice in the matter. The bottom line is there is not a whole lot of market to buy that product from Microsoft.
anybody chip exactly knows open result technology
I don't think anybody knows exactly what the end result of open sourcing the chip technology is.
assume company financial good paint preferred reality results track until waited
I assume Scott will paint it as things are back on track and the company is in good hands, but I think the reality is he would have preferred to have waited until the financial results were really there.
apple developers intel transition windows
If developers don't make the transition to Apple and Intel, they'll probably be making the transition to Windows and Intel. Intel doesn't have a lot to lose.