[jayrunner]

I wish IBM would get a new advertising agency as their ads aren’t funny, don’t make sense, or requires a smarter person than me to understand them.

BTW, what ever happened to the Apple and PC ads, I love them.

[taxcontrol]

While this is a great step forward, there is a lot of work still required in order to make a viable replacement for the x86 and x86_64 architecture. 10,000 transistors is 1978 density and slightly more than the Motorola 6809 chip

For comparison:
Pentium III 9,500,000 transistors 1999
Pentium 4 42,000,000 transistors 2000
Dual-Core Itanium 2 1,700,000,000 transistors 2006
POWER6 789,000,000 transistors 2007

[uncommonsense]

If I had a dime for every IBM announcement of “break through”, “game changing”, “quantum leap” developments, I'd be rich. They're always at least 10 years away, but somehow a game changer now.

IBM has many spectacular successes, but it's now more of a service company then an R&D / manufacturing powerhouse.

[ShadowAce]