Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff
call came certainly dead given hard people performance
When the Pentium 4 first came out, the performance was very disappointing to a lot of people initially. It's hard to call the Pentium 4 a failure, given how many they sold, but it was certainly an evolutionary dead end.
comparable performance
They are all comparable in performance for high-end, non-X86 architectures.
believe competitor enjoyed hard intel lead maintain market past performance sneak
Intel let a competitor sneak into a market where they weren't before. Still, it was hard to believe that AMD would be able to maintain the kind of performance lead that they have enjoyed over the past one to two years.
devil question
It is a question of the devil you know.
favor game late microsoft overcome
Microsoft is going to be very late to the game and will need to overcome a presumption that it will favor Windows.
attempts company few key market microsoft player position success
Microsoft has made a few unsuccessful attempts to become a key player in the supercomputer market but the company could be in a better position for success this time.
built business expertise leverage microsoft party software third wants
Microsoft has built its business on working with third party software vendors and wants to leverage that expertise to the supercomputing arena.
intel likes messages michael option send
Michael Dell likes to periodically send messages to Intel that Dell does have the option of introducing AMD.
running stay
You have to do a lot of running just to stay in place in this business.
arguably devices exceptions floating general graphics people point processing purpose special tried won
People have tried a lot of special purpose processing devices over the years and, with the exceptions of graphics units and arguably floating point units, general purpose processors have always won out in the end.
benefit
With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, there would not be an Itanium today.
believe clients desktop efficient fat particular potential thin tied types users various
The potential here is a lot more efficient use of hardware, better centralized management, and potentially more flexibility with users in that they're not tied to a particular desktop device. I don't believe there's a one-size-fits-all approach, we'll probably end up with a combination of thin clients and various types of fat clients.
basically binary computer concept fallen flat good history job says thrown
History says that binary translation basically doesn't work. The day may come when someone can do a good enough job with it, but that concept has been thrown out there many times in the computer industry, and it's always fallen flat on its face.
almost business efficient margin money narrow order selling
Business desktops are a narrow, narrow margin business; they are almost a commodity. You have to be very efficient in order to make money selling desktops.