[Info-vax] Poulson at hot-chips 2011

[Michael Kraemer]

John Wallace schrieb:

> Presumably you're not aware, or have forgotten, that two people who
> had that notion, indeed perhaps started spreading it around, were
> Intel's Chief Executive, Andy Grove, and Chief Operating Officer,
> Craig Barrett, interviewed in the Wall Street Journal in 1996 (August
> 26th)?

well, WSJ is not my usual reading ...

> E.g.
> 
> "the world's biggest chip maker copied and improved upon approaches
> already laid out by minicomputer, mainframe and supercomputer
> designers. But Intel has decided that won't cut it anymore.
> 
> "Now we're at the head of the class, and there's nothing left to
> copy," said Craig Barrett, chief operating officer of the Santa Clara,
> Calif., company. Adds Chief Executive Andrew S. Grove: "We're a big
> banana now. . . . We can't rely on others to do our research and
> development for us."

so what, if it's knowledge in the public domain,
everybody can copy it, nothing wrong with that.
If it's patented, feel free to file a lawsuit,
but then evidence has to be strong enough.
In that DEC vs intel case it obviously wasn't,
or DEC didn't view Alpha as a strategic asset
anymore, which were my original points.

> 
> Can't find the original but it's referenced at
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986396,00.html and
> elsewhere.
> 
> More recently than that, can readers think of anything original and
> successful that Intel have come up with?

one might accuse them of not being very inventive,
but they don't have to be, they just have to be
profitable in selling chips.
intel, the MacDonalds of IT (that's what they
called themselves a couple of years ago, istr).

But then, if intel belong to the axis of evil,
why are so many people here happy running on x86?