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Also, it appears that Real Networks is switching to AAC.

Nvidia hasn't announced a comparable chip, but they just joined the Khronos group that is promoting the OpenGL ES spec for embedded systems. Product demos are also being given by 3Dlabs, TAKUMI, Hybrid Graphics, Futuremark, Motorola, PowerVR/Imgtec, and NeoMagic at today's digital game summit.

And thank goodness SOMEONE is working to keep the computer field new and exciting!

I've heard of tech people supporting true innovation, but marketing innovation? Give me a break!

Instead, why not heap your praise upon REAL innovators, like the designers and implementor of Strained Silicon, which hits the market this year and will boost processor performance (and other transistor technology switching times, such as DRAM) by 25-30%. This is the type of invention which takes genius to discover and implement.

The mini-iPod is nothing more than a small multi-colored mp3 player. Gee whiz. It was conceived at a conference table, designed on a whiteboard, and handed to marketing for polishing. Talk about anti-septic. It's nothing more than an mp3 player. There is very little innovative there, aside from some good Apple UI which is honestly not very revolutionary. If Apple had innovated an improvement to the Modified Discrete Cosine Transform that magically made Mp3s better, I would consider that innovation. But Apple's gift is one of marketing, not invention.

The idea behind the Apple iPod seems to be: "Let's take a small mp3 player which is not technically any better than our competitors product (battery is actually inferior) and market it so well that people absolutely MUST have it and will pay a significant price premium to get it. These outstanding portable device profit margins will help to make up for our dismal 5% market share in the computer industry."

Anwsers here especially this one...

Anwsers here especially this one...

probably the most important news is that China will disallow standard 802.11 WEP security and mandate its own standard - WAPI for all Wi-Fi in the country. This could have wide ranging implications, from splitting the market to leading to a possibly improved system (on first glance, WAPI beats WEP hands down, except for privacy implications - big surprise) for the world.

In any case, it is a dramatic development.

...or at least it would be QUITE a coincidence if they did not use these drives.

ELiTeUI

I wonder how this will compete with Samsung's new one gigabyte (8 GBit) flash. With a storage capacity of only 2-3 GB, this drive is only 2 or 3 of these flash chips, so competing on size would be hard. Hopefully it's much cheaper.

I am somewhat fixated on the 60s, but having never been through them, I read a lot of old technical papers instead. I also keep old electronics from that era running. I have a Tektronix 547 oscilloscope with plug-ins that let me use the thing to 4GHz either as a scope or spectrum analyzer.
The one component that seems to get the job done in all these devices is the diode. All varieties of diodes especially exotic snap diodes and tunnel diodes. Tunnel diodes where supposed to be the next greatest thing 40+ years ago, but they came at a time were ICs were just starting up, and transistors were catching up in terms of frequency response. They are now only used for very exotic stuff like picosecond pulsers or UHF triggers.
But, there was always this fascination for tunnel diodes among the traditional analog electronics freaks, and there was always research being done.
And now, they will come back!

Actually... I don't know about this camera (slashdotted), but the similar Ritz version of this contains an 8051 CPU. There was a time when the 8051 was a top of the line microprocessor. So get out your centronics connectors and git working on a way to network these puppies- because we're gunna have a cluster of these!

The design of the G5 is to use two fans in each zone, one gently blowing, one gently sucking. The result is that you're never slamming air against a wall, which is actually where a lot of the fan noise come from.

The 2.0ghz G5 chip consumes97 watts of power

From a cursory investigation, a Pentium IV seems to take between 60 and 100 watts

As to whether its revolutionary, I doubt it - its just solid engineering without concern with having to fit old form factor bits into the box. (PeeCees have much more homogenous designs, since Macs always come from a single vendor.)

No. The lack of eavesdropping refers to the quantum properties of entangled photons used to encrypt communications in a theoretically unbreakable way. See here. There was also a slashdot story on this a few years ago.

Maybe today open hardware is an esoteric industry. But with self-assembling circuits being the way things are heading (What? IBM's announcement of self-assembling FLASH didn't make Slashdot? Shame on the mods.) that'll change. Why? Because the most practical way to make dense circuits will be as an FPGA where the self-assembling units are not FLASH modules but FPGA cells. In effect, all major components become FPGAs.

But it won't stop there. Turning this new capability to its advantage, it will make sense to re-compile the CPU cores to perform the task at hand with maximum efficiency. If you're going to start doing that, an open design is nigh on essential.

We are rapidly entering an era where it is worth designing things that cannot yet be built, because the manufacturing technology is catching up very rapidly. Even now, Sony are designing their consumer device chipsets as FPGAs to shorten time to market. The trend will not decrease.

Vik :v)

I wouldn't call a software economy that's worth roughly $30/billion year, with $10 billion being outsourcing, to be merely "nascent." Unless, of course, you consider that in 2008, the Indian IT Ministry plans to have $50 billion in outsourcing (meaning: your students' jobs, and possibly yours as well) and $90 billion overall.

Indian Economy Report

Indian IT Plans

I'm surprised such Indian localizations weren't done sooner. Perhaps one day, we'll have to navigate them -- at its current growth rate, India will dominate the world in software roughly by the time this year's new CS students graduate.

See this EE Times article on a partnership between Matrix Semiconductor (3D write-once ROM technology, spun off of Stanford) and Nintendo. Also note the large number of "flash cards" included for the price (4), and a description of using the cards that make it sound like a "write-once" technology.

the iQue was not a version of the Gamecube. It was a new console that played old N64 and SNES games. The flash cards was inserted directly into the controller, with no 'console', per se. Here and Here contain articles on the iQue. The controller also is remarkably reminiscent of an xbox controller. Thought someone might be interested.

They have done so. It's $32 per device. RD

More Specs are available here.

"The HD DVD format is a violet laser-based optical disk system with a capacity of 15-20 Gbyte per side using the same disk structure as current DVD disks."

A quick comparison of existing specs here shows that the blue lazer DVD's are well ahead of these higher-density DVD's.

The Blu-ray Disc, supported by nine major makers, including Sony, Panasonic, Philips and Pioneer, could store up to 50 GB of data (more than six times the data capacity of today's DVD) by using a blue laser beam instead of the current red laser. Blu-ray recorders and players could play current DVDs, but Blu-ray discs could not be played on current players.
Advanced Optical Disc, a second blue-laser system proposed by NEC and Toshiba, brings disc capacity to 20 GB. One advantage touted by backers: Today's DVD-making equipment could easily be modified for the new discs.
HD-DVD-9, based on the current DVD format, uses improved software compression to pack 135 minutes of HD video onto the disc. It was developed by Warner Bros.

The most interesting one is the final option... Upgrading the software codec. The MPEG consortium was attempting to get mpeg-4 out the door in time to become a standard for DVD's. They didn't meet that lofty goal, but MPEG4, DIVX, and many other codecs are significantly better at compressing video than MPEG 2. A new codec would require a new decompression chip, but it would cost less than a new laser system, and would provide a platform from which to move up... After all, codecs probably won't see the same growth over the years that hardware will, so using an MPEG4 or other codec could last for many years, at least until Blue laser systems come down in price, at which point you could keep the codec.

In fact they already have devices that do this, but they are not (yet) implanted. They are called ankle transponders and have been used as an alternative to prison. Have a look at this or this article.

Worse, in the near future, you probably won't even be able to hide your cash transactions. RFID tags embedded in bank notes are on their way. The EE Times reports that in Europe it's planned for 2005.

Oh, but how will they know who I am when I spend tagged cash? It's pretty simple, by one of the following methods:

• You took the money out of an ATM and the ID numbers were logged with your name during the withdrawl.
• You had your mobile phone with you, which pings the local cell.
• Got the money from someone else, but it's detected because (the currently faulty) facial recognition software attatched to the video camera in the shop (or streetcorner) where you made the purchase.
• The passivly track cash moving through the city, just like they track the people.

Technology is amazing, and the current convergence of computing power, large databases and tiny radio transponders even more amazing. I don't know about you, but I also find it pretty scary.

While plextor was the first to release this, they are no longer the only one! Philips DVDR824P is available as well as Memorex's 8X entry.

Sony is also releasing the DRU 530A in Decemeber at about the same time as the Pioneer DVR-A07 and Cyber Drive 8X DVD+R drive.

Pretty soon we'll see 16x DVD recording speeds.

300nm does sound right since that is right were the cutting edge is for modern fabs.

Second, state of the art has been under 200nm for some time now, so 300nm would be a big step backward. For instance, see this article from three years ago touting 130nm, and then this one from over a ago touting 90nm.

300mm definitely does not refer to "wafer (?) slices" whatever the hell that is supposed to mean.

And it may not be Motorola for long, MOT is looking to spin off the Semi Products Sector.

Please cite your references or evidence to this statement if you wish to be taken seriously.

Several companies are currently working on complex and high-performance designs using asynchronous techniques. It's true that it is currently more difficult, predominantly because current design tools are all geared towards generating and testing "standard" clocked logic, but it is being done and it does not by any stretch "blow".

It will be quite some time before all of the components on a motherboard are asynchronous, but groups -have- designed processors, memory controllers, and other components in asynchronous.

For but the briefest of examples... check out this article or this article. No, it isn't the answer to everything... but it's much farther along than you seem to realize

Is Bluetooth Dead?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 15, @04:28PM
from the stopgap-on-the-way-to-wireless-networking dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the EETimes, Bluetooth is dead. From the article: "In a few short years, many will look back on Bluetooth as a lesson on marketing gone awry". So what do ya'll think? Does he have a point, or is Bluetooth not quite dead yet?"

No, coppermine wasn't about using metal on gates. It was an all-aluminum (go figure!) interconnect scheme that used a low-k dielectric and thick wires for faster speeds. Only later did copper get used (and then again, only for the interconnects, not the gates)

I'm not saying that I think this thing is dumb, I just don't see how they can call this a commercial application. Guiding missles isn't something I shop for at Walmart. It's surely a useful research tool (like I previously mentioned) and apparently useful for military applications, but I'm still left wondering what type of commercial application this thing would serve. If you'd like to read a great article that explains this, check out: EE Times Story from 2001.

It mentions this is very useful for "fast Fourier transforms/inverse fast Fourier transforms (FFTs)/(IFFTs), discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete Fourier transform (DFT), compression, vector-matrix multiplication, equalization and correlation". ALl of these are very useful for processing communications signals such as in cell phones or high-quality recievers (HDTV in rural areas?).

It also mentions that the optical light is modulated at 10 GhZ frame rate (but remember, this is quite parallel processing) and no ordinary computer we have today could possibly crunch 10 billion FFTs in a second. So the terrahertz number is mostly them just stacking it against existing computers.

Cheers,
Justin

They used to use regular electronic circuits to solve differential equations and similar problems too. They didn't get an exact solution, but they got a usable value. I think that's what you're talking about here.

You're talking about old analog electronic computers... yeah those weren't very precise (one of the reasons they are no longer used).

What I'm talking about is a little different. Those electronic ciruits would solve differential equations in the time domain (requiring a bit of time to compute) whereas these optical processors process information in the frequency domain (almost instantly, the bottlneck is as you say how fast they can moduate the light from an electronic signal).

Frequency domain computing is fundamentally different from the time domain computing in that in time domain analog computers, tiny errors accumulate very rapidly. For instance, an operational amplifier that is used to perform an integration will have a small bias current which will slowly charge the integrating capactor(s), requiring the integration to be rezeroed every so often (at least every few seconds, if not many times a second). In frequency domain computation, the error is not accumulative like that. There is error, and it does add up, but its pretty much orthogonal (the error is spread throughout the frequency space, rather than adding up towards the end of the time space in a time domain computer).

A really great article I found (this is the one I originally read back in 2001) is here. Anyone interested in the more technical side of the processor should read it. It explains why the processing is so fast (because it's essentially parallel rather than serial, along with being based on photons rather than electrons).

That's where I got most of my information from, along with my optics and mathematical physics classes :)

Cheers,
Justin
Disclaimer: I'm still a semester away from my BS in physics

I agree that you are much more likely to take a cheap throw away radio to the beach, but then again, 3 years ago you probably wouldn't have taken your $350 MP3 player to the beach. That same player now is under $100US. Eventually, there will be the $20 portable Sat radio.

Back in the 30's radios weren't cheap. Back in the 50's Televisions weren't cheap. Back in the 80's computers weren't cheap. If history bears repeating, we will soon have cheap satellite radio.

Incidentally it might be the speed commodification that causes the access question to go away. It seems like technology goes mainstream in less and less time these days. Think of the DVD burner versus the CD Burner, or the rise of the "Pre paid" cell phone. Maybe this is just the way the modern world works?

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

You are speaking with confidence, but you are just plain wrong.

IEEE standards for the operational characteristics of the black box recorders used in auto manufactuering are still being hashed out. The duration of time that different boxes record for, whether they record after an accident (some do) and the number of different events (throttle position, brake position, seat belt buckles engaged, vehicle yaw, time of airbag deployment, etc) vary from box to box.

That's only the beginning. Consider the collection of patents that are of interest to the NHTSA. These include vehicle-mounted audio and video recorders.

I find it amusing how people who would jump out of their skin at the Orwellian aspects of black boxes in their vehicles that record all the things that these little devices ultimately will record have little problem with them recording just a few things now.

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

REALITY: Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

REALITY: "Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

ElectAura-Net. NTT Docomo researchers in Japan have created a 10-Mbit/second body network based on electrodes embedded in floor tiles that make a capacitive-coupling connection through the human body and into a receiver plugged into a PocketPC handheld. When a user steps on a given tile, video is streamed to the PDA

"The nation's largest intelligence agency by budget and in control of all U.S. spy satellites, NRO is talking openly with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively denying the use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any time--not just adversaries, but even longtime allies, according to NRO director Peter Teets.." This is from the article you can find here. I came across this when a read a review of a new book by Chalmers Johnson which has been published in Germany already and which will be available in the U.S in early January. This is really disturbing. Especially when you read the full article.

Now if Kyocera 7135 series II would support BlueTooth the world would be a cooler place!

-- Multics

Just like I figured. Maybe you should do a little more research on the A64 design before you even attempt to speculate. AMD has been working on this over the past few generations of the Athlon XP and has gotten the A64s running very cool (they aren't supposed to go any higher than 85W, including any unreleased chips in this current generation - though the jury is out on whether that will actually happen).

Of course Apple chips have always run cooler partly (though not fully) because they have always run slower. According to the EE times, the chip is significantly hotter and the elaborate design that you speak of is to address that as well as cut down on the noise generated by said design.

Now I could be totally misreading all of this and someone will surely correct me if not. Whatever the case, it sounds like you're assuming that all past trends were staying constant when they certainly aren't. AMD took a big leap with SOI and Apple wanted significantly faster speeds. These decisions among others make both of these chips a bit different from previous iterations.

Building multiprocessor chips, or chips from arrays of processors has become a fairly hot design approach. There are a number of companies using it. It seems to be especially popular in the reconfigurable computing area. There is an interesting paper here. These processors go well beyond the current crop of dual CPU core chips like the P4, Power 5, and Ultrasparc IV.

Clearspeed's chip is a static 64 processor array chip aimed at FPU intensive applications, but there are many more things that you can do with array designs.

Mathstar is building a reconfigurable chip with hundreds of elements availble in various mixes of processors, memory blocks and other components. They are trying to replace ASICs and FPGAs as a platform for some part needs. There was a story on their architecture in EE Times a couple of months ago.

Intel is wokring on an array based processor aimed at the radio / communications market. I will be interested to see if their work with these chips ends up being used in other Intel chips. That could be deadly. So, the Pentium-X sucks at that task today? [Morph] Not now!

Phillips has what they call Silicon Hive technology which is another reconfigurable processor of functional blocks.

There have been plenty of companies using arrays and reconfigurable techniques too, like Altera and Chameleon.

Sun bought up a start up and is developing massivly multithreaded processors based on the start-up's technology. They call it Throughput Computing. They claim that in about two years they will have a chip 30x faster than todays designs. I'll be very interested to see if they can do that.

The next couple of years should be very interesting on the processor front.

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

It looks like Smart Dust

The primary reason Smart Dust wouldn't be a good fit (aside from the relatively high cost of deploying it, compared to using a cheaper, less miniaturized commercial solution) is the power problem. A big challenge for networking researchers involved with this type of sensor net is that each dust "mote" has very limited power reserves, which once consumed are typically not replenishable. (There have been ideas tossed around about recharging by harvesting solar or vibrational energy, but those are just idle speculation at the moment.) This is great for something like a battlefield network, which only needs to be up for the duration of your conflict, but is unsuitable for a persistant network.

Sorry to reply to my own post - I was wrong. The G5 dissipates 95 watts of heat. The PIV dissipates between 85 and >100 watts

Does anyone seriously use anything other than an Award BIOS anyway?

I must have built dozens of systems for the past few years and seen very few Pheonix BIOSes in that time

Eetimes.com.

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

A repeat of an earlier post (sorry about the dupe, but this article may be of interest.

See http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030522S0050 in EETimes.

If you're not the Big Dog, you get to follow.

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

"Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

REALITY: Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

REALITY: "Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

MYTH #3: "R&D jobs don't go overseas. Hell, they don't even leave the US east and west coast, for the most part."

REALITY:

• GE Corporate Research in Bangalore and Shanghai
• HP Opens New Research Center in Singapore
• HP Bangalore Research
• IBM India Research Center
• IBM China Research Center
• Microsoft Research Beijing

REALITY: Per nasscom.org, "A recent study on the biotech market by business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young, has shown that India has the potential to become a leading hub of biotech projects. Indian companies have the capability to enter segments such as manufacturing biogenerics, contract research services, clinical trials and even areas such as bio-informatics."

MYTH #5: "Ultimately, what xenophobes need to realize is that writing shitty code doesn't make anyone "high-tech." You're no more entitled to an inflated salary than the auto workers who saw their work moved overseas - if someone with no education can do your job cheaper, you don't deserve your job."

REALITY: "Accenture in India has also been moving into front office work such as doing clinical data management for its pharma clients. Accenture's pharma team here, which consists of doctors, dentists and biologists, analyses data from tests and helps its pharma client to gain `time-to-market' advantage. "Normally, for a BPO, back office activities are the target, but we are beginning to spot opportunities in front office activities as well," Cole said."

Really? What do you think these laid-off chip designers are gonna do when they get back to Chennai? Sell trinkets to tourists?

"Privately, in meetings we've had with them, some very large companies in the IT industry have told us that they have a lot of problems with the GPL," said the SCO Group spokesman. from the article

I wonder WHOSE dirty work they are doing...?

Let me see, large - no VERY large company, in the IT business... My guess is ... MICROSOFT!

Did I win??