Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Microsoft the software company appears to be morphing at a great rate of knots into a hybrid software-hardware company, with the latest move being the establishment of a chip design laboratory. According to a report in the New York Times, a new Microsoft chip design group will have teams in both Silicon Valley and Redmond.
Apparently the evolution of computing into
multi-processor chips and devices other than desktop PCs, such as games
consoles, music players and mobile phones, is leading Microsoft into
areas where it needs to more tightly control the integration of its
hardware and software.
The result is the Computer Architecture Group lead by one of Silicon Valley's computer engineering pioneers Charles P. Thacker.
According to Mr Thacker, one of the first projects of the new design
group will be to look at the next generation Xbox platform and voice
recognition will be one of the areas of exploration, taking advantage
of the power of multi-core processors.
Some reports have raised the question of how Microsoft's move into chip
design will affect its long standing relationship with chipmaker Intel.
Microsoft has already shown that it is prepared to use the chips it
believes are best suited to individual platforms, moving from Intel to
PowerPC for its Xbox 360 console.
However, the so-called Wintel alliance would seem to be firmly cemented
for Microsoft's desktop computing software and the new chip design
group is unlikely to effect any change in that area. Even the
archetypal hardware and software integrator, Apple Computer,
acknowedges that Intel architecture is the most suitable platform for
desktop computing.
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