Martin Reynolds
Martin Reynolds
Martin Edward Reynoldsis a former British track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 200 metres...
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It's really the next step in the evolution of desktop management systems. Today, management systems rely on the integrity of the operating system that they're trying to manage, and most of the time the reason you want to manage something is because the operating system is broken. Intel is breaking that link with these new systems.
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I don't think there can be another one. Microsoft is sort of a fluke.
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In the long term, we're going to need media players on our PCs. It's going to be part of the standard digital content. And this just makes it a fraction harder for it all to be Microsoft.
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Intel has pretty much dominated the computing environment, but it made some decisions that cramped its progress. It hasn't been able to handle the needed performance increases.
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In places where this processor works well, it's going to provide a big advantage over everybody else,
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It is impossible to stop the market gain of the x86.
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This is going to keep us rolling for several more years before they have to do something different.
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For Dell and IBM, the HP-Compaq merger is a win,
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They are well on the path to delivering. Delivery of multiple cores, in a way, is easy because it's just extra copies of the existing processor.
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But a lot depends on how the case finally sorts itself out.
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If any computer maker benefits from Microsoft's woes, it will probably be Apple.
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The market is too competitive for a business that's not operating at peak efficiency.
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With a 60 percent profit margin, even after spending $10 billion on promotion and development, the participants still stand to make an $8 billion profit.
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We were optimistic and expecting some turnaround in the third quarter with strength in the fourth quarter. But what's happening is that the signs are so poor, we're not confident we're going to see that now.