Replies to post #48006 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[Tenchu]

VBG, this is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard in my entire life:

> This is the first time that any company in the world has put 600 million transistors on a chip—and you can round that off and say it's a billion.

Right, and Barry Bonds hit 762 home runs, which you can round off and say it's a thousand.

I get pulled over for driving 65 in a 55 MPH zone, but the cop rounds it off and says it's a hundred.

The average home here in Orange County, CA, is worth $600,000, but the tax collector can round that off and claim that it's a million.

Anyone want to add to the insanity?

Tenchu

[Elmer Phud]

This is the first time that any company in the world has put 600 million transistors on a chip

And as we all know Hector is a liar.

http://www.intel.com/technology/magazine/computing/dual-core-itanium-0806.htm

Dual-Core Itanium 2 processors represent a significant leap forward for Intel’s highest-performing and most reliable server processor family. With more than 1.7 billion transistors, the Itanium 2 processor is one of the most ambitious chips ever built.

Barcelona is only about 1/3 the size of the biggest processor.

[drjohn]

RE:This is the first time that any company in the world has put 600 million transistors on a chip—and you can round that off and say it's a billion.


Hector to board I got 60 million lost year in compensation why don't we just round it of to 100 million. No wonder these bozo's don't even flinch at losing 500 million a quater.

[jay1000]

EXCITED Hector:
<..."This is the first time that any company in the world has put 600 million transistors on a chip—and you can round that off and say it's a billion....">

Brilliant and a "big picture guy"........
(Sounds like his AMD Financial projections, and Accounting methods).

[chipguy]

He is an idiot, a pathological liar, or possibly both.

[RGood]

600 million is roundable to a billion... my ars... yeah this is exactly the kind of bent logic this company is used to thinking. Its called lying ... Hector has lied so much he thinks calling 600 million is a billion - I guess when you lie as much as Hector, this is kind of truth bending is normal...
What's worse is he is leading a company based on even more lies...

Ronster