Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Unclevername-

I look at it not as whether a particular company benefited from something like a USB standard, but rather that the standard drove technical and business opportunities for everyone involved. Everyone associated with PCs directly or indirectly benefited from USB because of the new capabilities that it drove, the new usages that it created, upgrades etc. Concrete examples: Intel benefited by selling new chipsets (the PIIX3, PIIX4, ICH1, ICH2....._). PC manufactures benefited by having a higher speed interface to get data into and out of the products they sold. Microsoft benefited by treadmilling a reason to upgrade their OS from Win95 to Win98. Peripheral manufacturers benefited by being able to provide higher bandwidth fuller featured peripherals. And of course consumers benefited with a better overall PC experience (most of the time... :) ). With USB came USB2 and even richer and fuller usage models. The list goes on. I think it's this way with any industry-changing standard. Wifi is another example.

So that's why, in my opinion, he's cites this. Just plug in "trusted computing" in areas above, and that's probably the vision Wave has for the future.

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