DEC veterans prepare chip challenge for Intel, AMD, IBM and S un

[Jon_norstog AKA "Thursday"]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:43 -0700, Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:

> The PA Semi story was all over the financial headlines for
> related stocks symbols yesterday (Oct. 24).  While the chip
> is supposed to be much lower power than conventional chips,
> it is supposed to have very good performance.  For a given
> FAB process and such, if you graph performance as a function
> of power consumption, the curve is strongly concave up.  On
> the end denoting high power and high performance, the curve
> is extremely steep, nowhere near linear from the lower part
> of the curve.  Put another way, the last 90% of power
> consumption may only give 20% extra performance.  A good
> macro-architecture, a good micro-architecture, and a
> brilliant design team can gain back most of that 20%
> performance while keeping most of the 90% power reduction.

> Robert Riches
> rm.riches at verizon.net
> rmriches at ieee.org
> 
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I read the stories, all I could find. I'm going to buy some stock if I
can.

jn