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Microsoft lost 31 billion Today - Same Issue? Gadzooks Mgmt is Bad

Background:

In May of 2004, Intel suffered an embarrassing setback when it was forced to concede that its chip technology had hit a "thermal wall" and that the company was forced to make a "hard toggle" of its entire product line.

Those of us who have been adding more and more air conditioning to support our servers knew what was happening even before that concession. Google located a server farm at an old Aluminum plant on the Oregon and Washington border just to get the contracts for the power needed to cool off its server farm. It likely looks to China's new hydro power source for the same reason.

Response:

Intel scrapped previous plans and shifted to work on dual-core processor technology, which obtains more computing power by stamping multiple processors on a single chip rather than straining to increase the speed of a single processor.

This technology shift has been known about for almost two years now and Intel has been telling Microsoft for at least that long that multicore would require making code libraries "thread safe" as well as retraining coders to take advantage of threads for speed because the processors would be clocked slower not faster in the future.

Today:

We see from Microsoft financials that two billion is being spent next year - I suspect its going to be on reworking the code libraries. Intel provides tools and compilers to assist in this process. Its a sign of not abandoning the business in any case. So in a year or so Microsoft will be back on track.

In the mean time Java coders benefit. Java was built for threading and it will appear to run faster than current Microsoft code on the new hardware, which includes new phone hardware.

Conclusion:

AMD likely will do fine. They tend to take scientists from Intel and this is proven technology from mainframes, not rocket science. It really has been around a long time. IN fact, consumers have been harmed by not moving to this technology years ago.

AMD's slowness in moving to multicore might be chawked up to collusion with Microsoft. Microsoft's managment may have been counting on delay so that inferior software technology could be dumped on US and China consumers. If that dumping program is off then Huzzah, Huzzah. Let the shareholders blame managment. Perhaps managment can make them whole.

Frank L. Mighetto CDP

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