Alliance for smaller chips
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TechRepublic
Software is free on the Web. When was the last time you paid to have your mails, messages, voice, images and video uploaded onto a storage you did not own and streamed from servers you did not pay for? Well, it call comes for a price, the price of your privacy but that is another topic. The point is, more features mean more crunching (bit crunching) at the silicon level and that means more R& D in to better technology that can get those electrons past the ever shrinking layers in the transistors.
And this R& D does not come cheap. Processors are a costly business. And now, the chips giants ( Not all of them actually), have decided to form an alliance for research and development of the processors based on the 32 nanometer process. Of course, the real biggie here, Intel, has decided to chart its own path.
So, more R& D means more better products in the market sooner. This competition has been really driving the market. Its all a cycle. I have deliberated on this before. First there comes the hardware then the software that first runs on it and then lags on it and then comes more hardware that removes the lag only for more software that brings in the lag again. And the cycle goes on. Its the really bitter and fierce competition in the chip industry that sees all this innovation making its way.
And this R& D does not come cheap. Processors are a costly business. And now, the chips giants ( Not all of them actually), have decided to form an alliance for research and development of the processors based on the 32 nanometer process. Of course, the real biggie here, Intel, has decided to chart its own path.
So, more R& D means more better products in the market sooner. This competition has been really driving the market. Its all a cycle. I have deliberated on this before. First there comes the hardware then the software that first runs on it and then lags on it and then comes more hardware that removes the lag only for more software that brings in the lag again. And the cycle goes on. Its the really bitter and fierce competition in the chip industry that sees all this innovation making its way.
