Comments on: Can 3D Keep Intel on Top?

By: Chip Industry to See Slow Recovery in 2010

Chip Industry to See Slow Recovery in 2010 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:47:46 +0000

[...] will be dampened by firms selling cheaper chips, such as Intel’s Atom, which can cost almost 10 times less than Intel’s processors for notebooks. That’s good for consumers, who get cheaper gear, [...]

By: vinay

vinay — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:36:49 +0000

Indeed 12M is peanuts. Taking some capital expenditure into account, this can feed a team of ~8 to 10 researchers per year for 5 years. Wish Intel’s future was so easy to secure !
On the other hand, the 12M can be well spent, if it results in vital technologies and patents being created. Clearly 3D is becoming mainstream, and who knows, there could be a lot of interesting stuff waiting to be invented..and not necessarily waiting only for some smart folks on San Thomas Road to stumble upon. I’d wish luck to the Saarland folks!

By: Jason Lackey

Jason Lackey — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:44:42 +0000

I suspect that everything Intel needs to learn about 3D can be learned down the street on San Thomas Road (where Nvidia is) rather than some place in Germany.

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Fri, 15 May 2009 14:06:00 +0000

[...] is working on 3D imaging. Gigaom wonders if that can keep the company on [...]

By: Wesley Faulkner

Wesley Faulkner — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:02:13 +0000

This is a smart move for Intel, but $12 million over the next five years sounds more like a NFL player’s salary than a real investment. With the amount of money that company makes I am not sure if they have faith that area of research will pay off anytime soon.