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Hardware piracy is a growing problem, Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst with In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld "It's a huge problem -- much bigger than most people realize, especially in developing regions," McGregor said. "Software is what usually comes to mind ...

The move to a new direction is not surprising: "Microsoft said from the beginning of the multi-core era in 2005 that new programming models and a new generation of engineers trained on these models would be required to support these multi-core environments," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld...

"When you talk about billions, everyone thinks it's a real high number, but, for a really big corporation, so what?" Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times Microsoft has the largest installed base for computing platforms wor...

Microsoft's announcement is too little, too late, Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times "You can say there's a lot of things Microsoft promises that it hasn't done, but the bigger question is, how much longer is it going to...

Intel's incorporation of industry standards is also encouraging, as is the fact that it's continuing to enhance the features it began with rather than starting from scratch in the new generation, Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst with In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld...

Then there's also the fact that the market has changed substantially since investigations first began, Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst for In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times During that time, Intel has gone "from being behind the eight ball to being in fr...

"The power use and the processing cores -- that's going to help. And they are also incorporating the deeper sleep mode," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at InStat, told TechNewsWorld. "But then when you look at it, Intel already has that level of power management granularity and even more so...

"This is a direct result of that," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst for In-Stat's semiconductor group, told TechNewsWorld. "Once the federal government finds companies to be violating laws or restrictions, then we see these kinds of lawsuits, where affected companies seek compensation."

The biggest significance is that Intel is bringing cutting edge technology down to the embedded market, according to Jim McGregor, principal analyst and research director of Enabling Technologies at In-Stat "This means that Intel is going to support quad-core for embedded for ...

"The way they're timing this, with a big process change in Penryn and a processor change in Nehalem, is a very good strategy," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst for In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "Though in terms of competitiveness, it's really just bringing them more in line with AMD in some respects."

"We're looking in a couple years to put 16 to 32 processors on a single chip," Jim McGregor, research director and principal analyst for In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "Imagine taking a rack of supercomputers and shrinking it down to the size of a PC. We face some roadblocks, but over the next 10 years the semiconductor industry will continue its march toward innovation. I don't see that stopping."

"Making products more energy-efficient doesn't necessarily require more effort or more resources, it really is just a change in the design methodology," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "For a computing standpoint, [reducing power] is the key topic driving future designs of everything from microprocessors to LCDs. We are no longer in the performance age of computing, we are now in the efficiency age."

However, in the short term, slashing prices isn't necessarily beneficial for either company, stated Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat. Both companies are coming out with competitive products and don't really need to drop the prices. Once a company begins doing so, customers start to expect it, he told TechNewsWorld...

Intel has sustained an innovative advantage in the mobile market, though AMD has flexed its muscles in the desktop and server chip areas, according to Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat. Now, Intel is making a push there, he told TechNewsWorld. "Desktop servers and the PC market is the new battleground. It's going to be a very competitive landscape for at least the next year."

"AMD's new family of energy efficient desktop processors nicely complements PC manufacturers' need to design and deliver smaller, sleeker form factors into the market," said In-Stat Principal Analyst Jim McGregor Efficiency Ebb...

Its Athlon 64-bit PC chips followed that August, but Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld that Intel is not far behind in the PC market "Most of the ground gained by AMD has been in servers, where Intel has both a 64-bit Xeon and Itanium," he said....

Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat/MDR, told TechNewsWorld that the slightly higher speed chip will have no impact on the market "This is simply a process called a 'binning,'" he explained. "Products are binned according to speeds they pass testing at. Typically as a p...