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Quotes About Microprocessors

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.
~ Larry Ellison
As quickly as it started, our business model evaporated. But while Traf-O-Data was technically a business failure, the understanding of microprocessors we absorbed was crucial to our future success.
~ Paul Allen
They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
~ Jack Kilby
ICs with ten to a hundred million components? ICs whose basic operating units are not transistors but entire microprocessors, built by the million into chips smaller than a thumbtack? Incredible as it may seem, such devices are a distinct, and utterly glorious, possibility.
~ STAN AUGARTEN
We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.
~ Paul Allen
Microprocessors were instantly attractive to us because you could build something for a fraction of the cost of conventional electronics. That's essentially what we did with the Traf-O-Data computer - only it was too narrow and challenging an area to try to build a service business in.
~ Paul Allen
Qualcomm—quality communications—betting that ever-more-powerful microprocessors would let them stuff more signals into existing spectrum bandwidth. Jacobs
~ Chris Miller
Un futuro invadido por microprocesadores, en el que la información es la materia prima.
~ William Gibson
images quickly because, unlike Intel's microprocessors or other general-purpose CPUs, they're structured to conduct lots of simple calculations—like shading pixels—simultaneously.
~ Chris Miller
The availability of all this data means that virtually every business or organizational activity can be viewed as a big data problem or initiative. Manufacturing, in which most machines already have one or more microprocessors, is increasingly a big-data environment. Consumer marketing, with myriad customer touchpoints and clickstreams, is already a big data problem. Google has even described its self-driving car as a big-data project.
~ Unknown