On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Peter wrote: > I am not an analyst but my opinion is that anything that does not > scale easily to 16-32x its current size, is not second courced and > widely available, will be a niche within a year or a few. > I've heard that the initial x86 patents are quite close to expiration, and that as a result we might expect to see large numbers of x86 clones from all over appear at about that time. That could be... interesting :-) BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist