[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Gavin Hubbard]

>So what exactly do we do. We've gone as far as we can go vertically, now
>its time to go horizontally. 
>
>Chris Byrne

I'm not sure I'd agree that we've pushed silicon to the limit (I can
remember when HDDs were about to reach 'the limit' before GMR heads were
developed). Haven't solid-state research labs turned out working logic
gates at 100s of GHz?

I know the simple gates are a long_long_long way from a modern
microprocessor, but Intel sure spends a lot of money on R&D.

Regards,

Gavin