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"Everybody has been looking at hydrogen. And hydrogen is a great solution, as are all inert gases, because as you burn it, it basically turns into water vapor. It really doesn't hurt the environment at all," explained Jim McGregor, an analyst at In-Stat In addition to using di...

"This is a focus of new programming models and new computer architectures," Jim McGregor, an analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "It is great to see this type of innovation in the market now, because where we're going in the next few years will be phenomenal "For the first...

"We have a lot of people trying to position different processing architectures. You've got Nvidia trying to position the GPU with CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), which is basically a programming structure to use it as an accelerator, as a general purpose CPU (central processing unit) or whatever," Jim McGregor, an analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "Basically what Intel is doing is trying to leverage the x86 architecture in a way that it has not been leveraged before, as really kind of a head-end core to a high-end processing element that can be used as a server accelerator, as a graphics accelerator."

Indeed, "all this stuff is great, but we have to remember that we already have billions upon billions upon billions invested in the silicon manufacturing technologies we have in place today," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst with In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "Even if this new technology can be produced on the technologies we have today, it probably has a 25 percent chance -- or less -- of actually coming to market."

That's all just smoke and mirrors: "I think Microsoft will keep XP alive because they've got sufficient feedback from the corporate environment, and that's a critical part of the market," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "They're not stupid."

"There is a percentage of the market there that consists of international corporations and some of the large international corporations would not be exempt from licensing issues if they were raided," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst at In-Stat, told LinuxInsider...

Parallel processing is essential because "every processor architecture is now available in multi-core configurations," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "Programming, however, remains a challenge, which is why there is interest in research and development at the university level."

"In Japan, you can use your cell phone as an electronic wallet; you can use RFID; you can use all kinds of things -- but you have to have something that's transmitting information," Jim McGregor, a research director at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times While capturing URLs fr...

Hardware piracy is a growing problem, Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst with In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld "It's a huge problem -- much bigger than most people realize, especially in developing regions," McGregor said. "Software is what usually comes to mind ...

The move to a new direction is not surprising: "Microsoft said from the beginning of the multi-core era in 2005 that new programming models and a new generation of engineers trained on these models would be required to support these multi-core environments," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld...

"When you talk about billions, everyone thinks it's a real high number, but, for a really big corporation, so what?" Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times Microsoft has the largest installed base for computing platforms wor...

Microsoft's announcement is too little, too late, Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times "You can say there's a lot of things Microsoft promises that it hasn't done, but the bigger question is, how much longer is it going to...

Intel's incorporation of industry standards is also encouraging, as is the fact that it's continuing to enhance the features it began with rather than starting from scratch in the new generation, Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst with In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld...

Then there's also the fact that the market has changed substantially since investigations first began, Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst for In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times During that time, Intel has gone "from being behind the eight ball to being in fr...

"The power use and the processing cores -- that's going to help. And they are also incorporating the deeper sleep mode," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at InStat, told TechNewsWorld. "But then when you look at it, Intel already has that level of power management granularity and even more so...

"This is a direct result of that," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst for In-Stat's semiconductor group, told TechNewsWorld. "Once the federal government finds companies to be violating laws or restrictions, then we see these kinds of lawsuits, where affected companies seek compensation."

The biggest significance is that Intel is bringing cutting edge technology down to the embedded market, according to Jim McGregor, principal analyst and research director of Enabling Technologies at In-Stat "This means that Intel is going to support quad-core for embedded for ...

"The way they're timing this, with a big process change in Penryn and a processor change in Nehalem, is a very good strategy," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst for In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "Though in terms of competitiveness, it's really just bringing them more in line with AMD in some respects."

"We're looking in a couple years to put 16 to 32 processors on a single chip," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst for In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "Imagine taking a rack of supercomputers and shrinking it down to the size of a PC. We face some roadblocks, but over the next 10 years the semiconductor industry will continue its march toward innovation. I don't see that stopping."

"Making products more energy-efficient doesn't necessarily require more effort or more resources, it really is just a change in the design methodology," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "For a computing standpoint, [reducing power] is the key topic driving future designs of everything from microprocessors to LCDs. We are no longer in the performance age of computing, we are now in the efficiency age."