For the very same reasons -- that is higher levels of integration -- it will continue to move down to the next level which is embedded computing, where you have computers embedded within products making them smaller, intelligent and with more functionality.

When you think of trying to design highly customized computer systems, each one customized for a particular smart product, and you think of doing that on a very wide scale, you have to automate the process.

You need very high performance in many cases, and you also need low cost so that it can be a consumer product, and the only way you can achieve that is by customizing the computer system to the particular application, so you throw away what is not needed, and provide only what is required.

[Intel is keeping mum on its plans to introduce a 64-bit desktop version of its Itanium processor, but don't look for the industry leader to take AMD's affront lying down.] I don't think [Intel's] in a hurry, ... They'll wait and see how AMD does, but they have their own road map in mind and they're sticking to it.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally.