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Market Expansion? ISV’s hold the reins

Posted by Jon Peddie on October 31st 2010 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, Engineering and Development
Tags: market software isv semiconductor

The major volume and/or super expensive software suppliers have had a free lunch for the past fifteen or more years. Basically making bug fixes and a few feature improvements they got performance boasts from CPU clock and pipeline improvements, plus I/O improvements, and dropping DRAM and disc drive costs with increased capacity – the ISVs have been the biggest benefactors of Moore’s law.Now they have to do something. Now they have to embrace Heterogeneous Processors (HPUs), GPU-compute, multi-threading, and parallel-processing.Having spent the last three decades trying to obtain silo dominance with proprietary and incomprehensible file formats, obnoxious, infuriating and incompatible (within…