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2005 Good Year for Power Architecture
An anonymous reader wrote to mention an IBM article looking back on what the piece calls the best year ever for the Power Architecture. From the article: "While IBM is considered by many to be an 800lb. gorilla, in the microelectronics space, it is actually very small -- last year IBM was way down at number 21 on the iSuppli list of the top 25 semiconductor suppliers worldwide. Now, that isn't necessarily a bad thing: for instance, it means that IBM Semiconductor solutions is small and nimble and competitive -- and this agility (coupled with the fact that we do get to share Research and some other resources with the parts of IBM that are 800lb. gorillas) has led some to predict that the IBM chips division will be named the fastest growing semiconductor supplier of 2005. In fact, there is a very good chance that IBM may regain the coveted #18 spot on iSuppli's list this year!"
Whats so special about spot 18?
It's twice nine which is a magic number because it's three threes.
KFG
This is the bit that jumped out at me from the "anonymous" submission:
.we do get to share Research and some other resources . . .
. .
A story about corporate blogging just two stories ago; and now a practical demonstration of astroturfing a public forum.
Happy New Year, same as the old.
KFG
It's barely legal.
I thought, the chimpanses were the researchers?
;)
Nah, they're busy writing Shakespeare, remember?
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
"small and nimble" was management speak for "underachieving".
"IBM may regain the coveted #18 spot on iSuppli's list this year!"
My, my, my, but aren't we smarmy. And the year just a day old too.
Yes.
in the microelectronics space, it is actually very small
I thought everything in the microelectronics space was very small...
Man, I remember back when it was just a 500lb Gorilla!
Times certainly have changed.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.