http://venturebeat.disqus.com/News about Tech, Business and InnovationenTue, 09 Mar 2010 20:16:47 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/26/the-coolest-and-scariest-things-coming-in-the-chip-industrys-future/#comment-38796733<p>Development costs were high. So we needed high prices and significant volume to make any money. This pushed us to market hard to get them out the door during the early lucrative part of the price curve. Even then, the combination of high development costs and high fab costs made it a marginal to losing proposition, unless everything went just right.</p>allods goldTue, 09 Mar 2010 20:16:47 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/26/the-coolest-and-scariest-things-coming-in-the-chip-industrys-future/#comment-17030904<p>Scary 10: Indian engineers are good, but are their lifestyle same as their counter parts in US? Researchers are taken for granted in India. They invent, conduct research, do all the ugly things (coding, debugging, analysis etc etc) only to travel in Tata's or Maruti's low budget Nano cars and live in economy flats. I am not sure if this is the case in US. Tech forums like this also should high light these issues. Researchers/technologists do have life. If they do the same quality of work as in US, they ought to have the same liftestyle as there too. </p>GaneshMon, 21 Sep 2009 07:07:34 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/26/the-coolest-and-scariest-things-coming-in-the-chip-industrys-future/#comment-15666031<p>Dean meant to say: "It will be have 16 processing cores that can *each* do *four* tasks, or threads, at a time."</p>prsnr24601Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:21:56 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/26/the-coolest-and-scariest-things-coming-in-the-chip-industrys-future/#comment-15478849<p>Goodbye custom chips brought back memories of the many uses of a break even analysis. As an early investor in a developer of ASIC in the 1980s we used break even analysis to map out our strategy. Development costs were high. So we needed high prices and significant volume to make any money. This pushed us to market hard to get them out the door during the early lucrative part of the price curve. Even then, the combination of high development costs and high fab costs made it a marginal to losing proposition, unless everything went just right. And something always went wrong, despite having superior designs.</p><p>However, if doing a break even analysis can keep people out of marginal business models, it is sure worth doing. For other better uses of break even analysis take at the free information at www. <a href="http://selling-a-business-without-stress.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="selling-a-business-without-stress.com">selling-a-business-without-...</a> under the break even analysis tab.</p>martinschultzThu, 27 Aug 2009 13:50:57 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/26/the-coolest-and-scariest-things-coming-in-the-chip-industrys-future/#comment-15461204<p>Moore's laws slowdown ?<br>Maybe the industry is arriving at a sub-optimum, while the next new approach will be different.<br>This has happened before in other industries:<br>- propeller aircraft and jet engines<br>- tv-sets with a tube and lcd screens and plasma screens<br>- cars with engine in the back vs front wheel drive </p>engagoteamThu, 27 Aug 2009 05:32:12 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/26/the-coolest-and-scariest-things-coming-in-the-chip-industrys-future/#comment-15460929<p>In regards to "The complexity of parallel computing", not having a programming language capable of fully taking advantage of parallel computing shouldn't be such an issue. I personally believe that the chip should become "aware" of existing parallel chips and spread the computing among them without needing the intervention of the programming. </p>Sarwar FaruqueThu, 27 Aug 2009 05:11:51 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/26/the-coolest-and-scariest-things-coming-in-the-chip-industrys-future/#comment-15443909<p>When games "journalism" and the semiconductor industry collide...</p>grumpusWed, 26 Aug 2009 19:31:35 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/26/the-coolest-and-scariest-things-coming-in-the-chip-industrys-future/#comment-15438342<p>I particularly enjoyed this part : Meant to power high-end data center computers known as servers, this chip is due to ship in 2010. It will be have 16 processing cores that can do for tasks, or threads, at a time.</p><p>computers known as "servers". And then the next bit which made almost no sense.</p>NameWed, 26 Aug 2009 16:55:58 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/26/the-coolest-and-scariest-things-coming-in-the-chip-industrys-future/#comment-15435023<p>So, hardware engineering is now just some low-end job like working at a convenience store. I guess everyone in America should just become a banker now. Is it possible for Goldman Sachs to employ the entire US population? Or should ex-American hardware engineers just go into scavenging scrap metal from banker's houses?</p>BuckWed, 26 Aug 2009 15:42:33 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/26/the-coolest-and-scariest-things-coming-in-the-chip-industrys-future/#comment-15431928<p>SCARY 2: ..."Now it’s getting harder and harder to deliver performance improvements without generating excessive power."...</p><p>Change to: "...requiring excessive power..." or "...generating excessive heat..."?</p>KyleWed, 26 Aug 2009 14:32:52 -0000