Evolution of the Species

UPDATED

Photo courtesy GM

ECOTEC 2.0L Supercharged

There is likely, in our judgment, to be a huge similarity between the computer industry and the automobile industry, starting now and stretching out over the next ten years or so:

1. IBM "owned" the computer industry when mainframes were essentially the only machines for computation.

2. Over time they were disintermediated by the PC platform and the Unix platform. IBM did not want to get into "low cost stuff," when their principal business was selling $1 million+ machines with 85% gross margins. They finally did, but only after their share of the overall computer industry had drifted down to about 13%. We know the rest of the story.

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You can't have a picture of the World Cup Pegasos Italia Team without all the players, so here is an updated photo.

Again: il "mondo" era coinvolto e il mondo stava guardando!

Here is another set of World Champions

Fulvio (left to right), Michele, Andrea and Omar

Thanks to you! Without you and others like you there would be no genesi.

When the Italian Team won the World Cup this past summer, we had this to say:

Congratulazioni all'Italia, che ha vinto il Campionato del Mondo. In questo caso, il "mondo" era coinvolto e il mondo stava guardando!

This past weekend, the Pegasos Italia Team came together. Michele (left) got things going a few years ago with the Pegasos Italia site (thanks Michele!).

The new and OPEN Dual 970MP/CPC945 Game Platform!

We have just finished the development of the next generation Dual970 based workstation. This machine will have development tools that include compilers for CELL. We will release binaries that will provide 3D graphics support for all our Power Architecture based platforms, including this one. We will even support other Power.org Member platforms.

What has happened in the last few years around Power?

1. IBM abandoned CHRP.

2. Apple left for Intel.

3. Freescale closed the Computer Platform Division.

That looks pretty grim from one perspective. We often hear: Power is the next Sparc. Interestingly, Sun took a very proactive approach to the challenges they faced.

We are looking forward to adding support for more operating systems, both closed and open source. The GRID idea is there. Developers can log in to the GRID to build and maintain their own images or applications for the Power Architecture. We have seen this in practice with the CELL Simulator on the ODW. The MyPowerPC GRID works. Users can also be supported in this way - In search of a total system solution. We have been doing this for a while.

Whew! This has taken time. Perseverance pays off.

We think Lou Gerstner will now answer that question. He is the Chairman of the Carlyle Group and the former CEO of IBM. Carlyle now owns Freescale. The PC market is still growing. Computing platforms in general are embedded in many places, but are headed everywhere else. Freescale is headed to everything, everywhere.

Voila!

That is what this is all about: power2people and this too:

Play It Again, Sam!

...please!

R&B

Who Cares About Bridging the Divide?

Jonathan.

We are going to explain the last post better. Remember: The Medium is the Message. Let's play it again...

Can You Hear Me Now?!

September 11th, 2006

Innovation does not happen by accident. That was the last blog.

That blog is called, Collaborative Innovation. You can find it there.

Before

The PC has created wealth on a massive scale. The combined stockmarket values of PC hardware and software firms exceed half a trillion dollars.