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Intel Eyes Smartphone Chip Market
MojoKid writes "Intel has been rather successful at carving out a large percentage of the netbook market with their low power Atom processor. Moving forward, Intel's executives believe there's a good potential to increase Atom's traction in adjacent markets by targeting its low-cost, energy-efficient chips at various multifunctional consumer gadgets including smartphones and other portable devices that access the Internet. Code-named Moorestown, a new version of the chip will offer a 50x power reduction at idle and reportedly will deliver enough horsepower to handle 720p video recording and 1080p quality playback. It is with this upcoming chip that Intel will begin targeting the smartphone market In 2011. Intel also plans to introduce an even smaller, less power-hungry version of the chip known as Medfield, which will be built on a 32nm process with a full solution comprising a PCB area of about half the size of a credit card."
It would be terrible if a la carte cable TV meant that networks like BET would go away due to lack of funding.
Do you remember when, overnight, every black person in the USA started saying "are-uh" instead of the correct, monosyllabic pronounciation of the letter "r"? How about when that silly "raise the roof" gesture became trendy? What about yellow t-shirts? Speaking of who is or isn't in "the house" in a loud annoying voice? Who could forget shizzle and nizzle and other black contributions to our culture? I used to wonder how they managed to coordinate these trends because one day none of them would exhibit such behaviors and then the next day all of them do it as though they had been doing so all of their lives like some kind of long-established tradition. I mean, that sounds like it would be quite the logistics problem and would take a lot of work. Then it dawned on me! BET is how they do it. Ah well, as they say - monkey see, monkey do!
I wonder if any of the group-identity type of blacks would be surprised or shocked to learn that most of the commercial trends belonging to "their people", especially music but also designer clothes and the like, were actually the products of market research performed by some very white people wearing business suits and doing other things that are quite non-thuggish. Amazing how they hate "acting white" when it comes to getting an education and bettering yourself but they love following whitey when it comes to market trends.