IBM was proud of its achievement. Pass-one hardware had to be fully functional, ... One week after CPU power-on, a demo game was running with full-chip functionality.
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Innovate, integrate, innovate, integrate, that's the way the industry works, ... Graphics was a stand-alone graphics card then it's going to be a stand-alone graphics chip and then part of that's going to get integrated into the main CPU.
I know it's fashionable in some circles to predict that all strips will be animated in the future, thanks to massive CPU power, wide pipes and powerful animation software, but I don't see it.
The idea was not to charge per server, or CPU, or agent, or target.
There's no sales rep, and we are not negotiating, so the price is fixed at 1 per CPU per hour. People are talking about software as a service. This is computing as a service, and no one else is doing this.
I look at 2005 as the year where, for the first time, Moore's Law continued but delivered more and more unique benefits in the CPU as opposed to just more speed. And I find that significant.
The other companies, like Intel and IBM, are trying to take existing CPU architectures and get to this massive threading. But they can't. We are probably five years ahead, maybe two or three generations ahead.
A CPU from 2003 is probably fast enough to run Vista but the PC might not have enough memory.
We disclosed this to Oracle on Oct. 25 last year. Around the same time, they were alerted to another high-risk flaw that is not as serious as this one. They fixed that one in the January CPU but neglected to fix this. It's not a case of not having enough time, because the fix is trivial and the risks are severe.
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.
To make it really work, the cost has to be cut in half. The cost of the batteries is very high. We fortunately control the cost of the CPU, the electric motor.