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blattimwind
on Aug 27, 2018
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GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development
"I predict that within one-hundred years computers will be twice as powerful, ten-thousand times larger and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."
GenerocUsername
on Aug 28, 2018
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I assume 3 of the kings are Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS) and Google (GCP)
samstave
on Aug 28, 2018
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The other two being the USG and China.
snaky
on Aug 28, 2018
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And they will be called mainframes (again).
http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h...
theyinwhy
on Aug 28, 2018
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Comment can be improved by adding source.
ddebernardy
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The source seems to be the fictional professor from the Simpsons (John Frink):
http://wiki.c2.com/?FrinkLanguage
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