Very interesting.

Thanks for the read.

It made me wonder whether we really need competition in the market. It's obviously evident that most of the research money that has gone towards these engineering processes must have come from income taxes and other taxes of people around the world.

Do we really need this much power now? So that users can have 99% uptime on their mission critical search engine :banana::banana::banana::banana:ography queries? And so that governments can set up huge data harvesting warehouses?

To be honest, I would have been happy with a good optimized dual core Dothan, as we've anyways seen that most optimizations have come from better communication busses, and not pure processing power.

Coupled with that that programmers would have been held responsible for their bloated software (Cough *microsoft* cough *linux too*), more programmers would have been employed, and thus more people would be able to afford adequate technologies for their purposes.

What you have here instead are systems and platforms which will always cost a fortune, with only financial respite coming from the fact that they or their platforms will be manufactured under slave labor.

*clap clap* A huge modern accomplishment for the "evolved man".

/rant