Today’s
announcement was really directed at
Wall Street, there was no cell chip to demo in a room full of
electrical engineers!
So many things can go wrong in chip development;
IBM knows this as well as
Intel does. Thomas Edison spoke of 1% inspiration 99% perspiration, but today that perspiration comes from weary investors.
If this chip and its new architecture works they will need to port it to Windows,
Longhorn,
Embedded and
Mobile to make back the billions they have invested in development.