On Feb 27, 10:34 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > The x86 platform is full of legacy and > inherently inefficient, only because Intel invest billions of $ a year > in research and production, can they pull this off.
Indeed, all the big companies "only" survive because they invest heavily, in R&D and in leveraging their existing product lines. It's a normal and sensible strategy that you make sound like despairation. > In fact, NetBurst > (Pentium 4) almost cost them this throne, only to be saved by the > small satellite team in Israel working off a fork of 1995's Pentium > Pro destined for a new mobile micro-architecture (Pentium-M), that > would eventually become known as "Core". Sounds like Intel had a sensible strategy in place (lots of different teams working on different stuff) for managing project failure, even on the core (sic) product line. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
