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A new twist on the conventional wisdom of Intel's math

Moore's law may yet be in need of an update to keep up with the times. SWOP has offered a hidden equation - dubbed "SWOP's Law" - which may also need updating...but that's another story.

NY Times 6/30/08 - Intel’s Dominance Is Challenged by a Low-Power Upstart

NYtimes.com: From mainframes to minicomputers and then PCs, each new computing generation has displaced its predecessor by reaching a broader audience and costing far less. And each time, the dominant company in one generation loses control in the next.

Intel hopes its tiny new Atom chip will fend off a British rival. That’s why the PC industry’s commanding chip maker, Intel, might do well to be alarmed by the computer chips being designed by Qualcomm, a maker of chips for cellphones. An engineer at Qualcomm’s gleaming corporate campus here demonstrated a palm-sized circuit board capable of displaying high-definition video. What was striking about the demonstration was not the quality of the video images, which is now commonplace. Rather it was that the microprocessor chip, called Snapdragon, drives the display with less than half the power of a similar chip recently introduced by Intel. Qualcomm designers say it will also cost less.
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Putting the "Anti" in Trustiness

NY Times 5/7/08 - In Turnabout, Anti-trust Unit Looks at Intel

NYtimes.org: WASHINGTON — A global legal battle between the two largest makers of computer processors took an abrupt turn this week when the Federal Trade Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation of the Intel Corporation.

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NY Times Editorial 5/15/08 - The Intel Investigation

NYtimes Editorial: It certainly took its time. But the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to open a formal antitrust investigation of Intel is very welcome.
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Labels: Anti-trust, corporate accountability, Intel, Moore's Law