Evolution of the Species

We watch (and sometimes trade) Semiconductor HOLDRS.

Note who is *not* included in the "broad" market index...

Things are looking up here too:

...and again.

Between (Broadband HOLDRS) the two of these market indicators we can get an idea of where the trends are over time. We will keep working on the strategy to stay ahead of the others:

...but *in general* this tells us as we look back that we are doing OK.

Developing computing platforms is hard work. Here is our update...

We spent a lot of time bringing all the ingredients of success together. It was not easy work! Make sure you have all the dough you need!

Sometimes even when you think you are ready, you need to wait.

That is a bread winner!

May it also be said well done!

Back to work! We are still getting things ready...

When we think about the Internet we think about two way process - from the user to the world and the world to the user. Accessing that world at the most simple level requires an end user device and a means to get to and from everywhere else. Population density often drives adoption and availability as the probability for increased human interaction is higher. Sharing the device or connection can increase demand/use to a level of justification.

CELL Simulator on the ODW

The CELL Simulator on the ODW is another solid example on the future being built on the past (thanks Luca!). The PegasosPPC is said by some to be getting "old" as a platform, particularly with a 1GHz processor. That may be, but we are selling more than we ever have.

Andrew Carnegie agreed to donate $44,000 to build the Oil City Library given that the citizens of the town provided a site and guaranteed $3,000 annually to maintain it. He sent the money to the Library in 1910. Carnegie once said, "A library outranks any other thing a community can do to benefit its people." Carnegie contributed an estimated 150 million dollars to about 2,800 libraries in the United States and Great Britain. Oil City was fortunate to be one of the recipients.

Learning is a life long process. We were reminded of that this past week at Cornell University where we are participating in a number of events, including this Math Review for Graduate Students in the Department of Applied Economics and Management.

AEM, Cornell, August 2006

What impressed us about this particular group (Graduate Students entering the Department this fall) was their diversity.

Power in Budapest, August 2006

You have to go where people are if you want to get them involved. Community and collaboration are just meaningless buzz words without associated action. That is Bill Laumeister, Chair of the Power.org SoC Design Hierarchy Technical Subcommittee, in Budapest last week with the Hungarian Pegasos Developers. It is a notable group!

From left to right: Peter Czanik, Bill Laumeister, Karoly Balogh, Balazs Szaszak, Istvan Stefan and Tibor Szakacs.

We will do a proper Press Release tomorrow, but this has been a l-o-n-g time in coming. The Open Desktop Workstation has been System Certified by ATI. That makes the ODW a first! We are pretty proud of that, especially since the ATI-AMD marriage. Thanks ATI!

It is the firmware that makes off-the-shelf ATI cards work so well on our Power Architecture technology based systems.