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Moore's Law

Moore's law is about Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder of Intel who after studying Douglas Engelbart's observations in 1965, set a standard for his company regarding technological innovation. The standard is that Intel chips should double in productivity for the same cost every 18 months.

It wasn't so long ago that Intel had 10Ghz CPUs on the drawing board. Those plans have been abandoned owing, I believe, to the amount of heat and or power consumption produced and required.

Google, for example, now owns the old Alcoa aluminum plant on the Columbia River because of the power requirements for one of its server farms, which is now located there. The power is needed both for the servers and for air conditioning.

To maintain the standards set by Moore for Intel chips, and to reduce power consuption, which at its limit will require a slugo of new neuclear power plants in the US, the Itanium and Xeon lines were created. These use proven mainframe techology (IBM 390) that makes extensive use of multi-threading and virtual machines. Virtualization and multi-threading require different software coding than is now used for Microsoft products.

One of the great frustrations involving Microsoft is that the duopoly of old (Intel/Microsoft) has not carried through to today. Microsoft has yet to anounce support for Itanium and Xeon on Vista and owing to that fact, I do not see Microsoft's Vista as suitable for future development. (Unless Microsoft gets into the chip business). Vista based solutions will always benchmark slower than Linux based solution and with IBM ensuring that all of its development tools run on Linux, the future isn't bright for the Microsoft developers unless Microsoft management can be convinced to support Xeon and Itanium.

Bottom line - Intel is not on board with Vista and Microosoft is toast (as far as benchmarking products) without Intel. Am I wrong?

Frank L. Mighetto CDP

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