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Originally Posted by unregistered
who is doing R&D ? gimme a list
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I had
thought that that was what Swiftech has been up to. There's been a progression of better and better blocks.
Oh - right, there's the whole issue of what you consider to be R&D. I am considering some of
your time designing, testing, thinking to be R&D, all be it on a very small scale. Maybe you're thinking of a fully staffed lab...?
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now we will see the onslaught of larger cos who have a budget for R&D...
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If it works the way the software business has, they will also have budget to
buy the smaller companies - which is not necessarily a bad thing if your're a principal, and budget to pay engineers a reasonable salary (you're now part of a revenue stream and should get compensated based on that). Sadly, they will eventually have budget to move development to India
and manufacturing to China
Long term (10 years) I woudn't be surprised if they figure out how to grow baseplates out of diamond - or for that mater, use diamond as a substrate and grow the cooling surface right into that. It
looks as though Intel is running into a "heat wall" already - AMD not yet, but they've taken more of a CISC route (oh - Engineer - you knew that anyway) and necessity is the mother...
Disregard this last paragraph if you think K. Eric Drexler's an idiot.
Come to think of it, disregard this whole post if you think
I'm an idiot
