The biggest cuts were seen for processors that are on their way out.
The benefit of this scheme is reducing response time for individual processors and the overall system.
Undoubtedly, the owners didn't sense how much the market for processors had contracted.
A few have even used Lush to develop commercial software for embedded processors.
In the past, most price cuts came from falling prices for processors and other components.
Changing the structure of grains for processors - that's big money.
Yet, there may be little incentive for processors to change.
In other cases, an operating system may mimic the new features for older processors, though often with reduced performance.
The first big market for gigahertz processors will likely be Web servers.
Quiet power supplies are difficult to do well, particularly as current requirements for processors and video cards continue to increase.
