Remember that Mac OS X, with its support for computers with more than one processor chip, was still in development and Mac OS 9 was still king.
Jerome Svigals, a California-based card technology consultant, predicts that Asia will own at least a third of the more than one billion chip-based cards he believes will be in circulation by 2000.
Both Intel and AMD are committed to multi-core processors, that is more than one processor in a chip.
MAJC's advantage lies in putting together lots of identical high-performance processors on one chip that can split up computing tasks better than can a conventional chip.
The Sony PlayStation contains a chip more powerful than one in a Sun workstation.
The development means that modems in future mobile devices will require just one chip, rather than two chips required in many conventional cases, in order to operate on multiple mobile standards.
The sheer size and diversity of the chip market will allow more than one winner, but margins will be as thin as a silicon wafer.
One final note if you're still feeling jaded: NVIDIA promises the production chip will be 25 to 30 percent faster than the one on display today.
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Bigger screen than rivals, two cameras vs. one, fastest WiFi, higher-performance chip, unibody enclosure.
Messi capped the win with a deft chip for his ninth goal of the season overall -- one more than Ibrahimovic -- and Keita headed his third of the night from a corner in the 86th minute as Barca moved three points clear of Real Madrid, who were held 0-0 by Sporting Gijon on Saturday.
One 32-chip Itanium system would be capable of 290, 000 MTOPS, more than twice as many as the new level allows.
None of that would have happened if the chip companies had settled for making the next generation of transistors just a little better than the last one.
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