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Rickface

08/05/13 9:35 PM

#6850 RE: WisePolicalEconomist #6849

Thanks Wise,

I don't remember reading or hearing that. It sounds very deep philosophically and at the same time also very deep scientifically.

Unrelated, this WSJ article is not directly related to Lightwave but it involves a consortium with IBM.

"The alliance the companies plan to announce Tuesday would allow many companies to license IBM microprocessor designs—based on a technology dubbed Power—that are now only found in Big Blue's own server systems. Licensees could incorporate IBM-designed circuitry in their own chips, with members of the alliance working on related products such as servers, networking and storage devices, participants said.

Other initial members of the group, called the OpenPower Consortium, include Silicon Valley chip maker Nvidia Corp., NVDA +0.47% the Israel-based networking-technology maker Mellanox Technologies Ltd. MLNX +1.77% and Taiwan-based Tyan Computer Corp., a server supplier that is a unit of MiTAC International Corp. 2315.TW +0.48%

The effort is the latest aimed at one of Intel Corp.'s key strongholds. The x86 chip design that Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD +0.53% popularized in personal computers thoroughly dominates servers—particularly machines sold for Web-based applications now being purchased in the greatest numbers."

Unfortunately a subscription is probably needed for this link:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323420604578650412719931232.html?ru=MKTW&mod=MKTW