Is There Life After Silicon Valley’s Fast Lane?
“Productivity should be about producing more with less rather than more with more.”
Interesting article, looking into how the relentless pursuit of transistor density at lower prices has created and burned out so many adrenalin junkies. Some have moved away from the valley, some remain, but on their own terms.
Of course, the next article from the Times is blurbed thusly: ” Two Silicon Valley start-up companies will unveil new products that will make it less expensive for Internet and phone carriers to route their data traffic.” So where chip speeds may peter out as the benchmark of performance, networking metrics — throughput or some other measure — will take its place and we’ll do it all again.
Maybe.