Intel rubbish at making chips, says Ballmer
MICROSOFT’S CEO, Steve Ballmer yesterday bellowed out some rather uncomplimentary comments about Intel at Technologies to Change Your Business, in London.
Interviewed on stage by a hack called Martin Veitch [Who he? Ed.], Ballmer laid into Intel big time.
“Intel is running to the limit of physics in chip design”, said the EmBallmer, “They can still double the number of transistors on a chip every 18 months but they can’t use the traditional transistors to make the chips run faster.”
Can’t is a very strong word. And what’s even more amusing is that Ballmer came out with this criticism shortly after mentioning that Intel was one of the sponsors of the event at London’s South Bank Centre.
Ballmer continued to condemn Intel’s innovation, saying there’s, “No material, science, physics way of cooling down processors that run faster than the current processors.”
Instead of giving us faster processors, Ballmer says Intel is giving us more processors (his emphasis). He speaks here of Intel’s “many cores” – however he obviously doesn’t like this idea either and says, “If we were to take advantage of the hardware, just that one change mandates and necessitates ongoing OS innovation”.
So, we’re not quite sure why Ballmer felt the need to bully Intel so much yesterday – but he’s clearly not that impressed with the sponsor.
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Nu har alltså även Microsoft vaknat och insett att Intel är skräp.
