CNET News.com spoke with Advanced Micro Devices' CEO Hector Ruiz about technology trends and his visions for AMD chips in consumer electronics. But Ruiz also revealed his belief that the $100 PC may be on the horizon.
"I don't think a $100 computer is out of the question in a three-year time frame," he said. "A lot of people forget that the first cell phones came out at $3,000 to $4,000 dollars and today are free. I think there's going to be some of that same kind of movement with computing and communications devices."
phones come with a service and people use the phones which are subsidized by the provider. There is no such concept in a laptop. We dont subscribe to services here. Its a one time investment. If laptops are free, believe me then what you will see is 5% of Technology companies wiped off from Nasdaq, 3-4 milion of people who work for these companies out of work.
The company didn't try hard enough to stop a 10-year incursion by hackers likely working from China, says a former Nortel exec cited by the Wall Street Journal.
Google creates an animated doodle that features a boy, a girl, Google's search engine, and a jump rope. But might there be darker, more analytical, more troubling interpretations to this tale?
When the sun goes down, that's when the iPad gets busy for folks with news readers. The iPhone? It's more of a daytime habit. If you're building an app for both devices, heed the lesson.
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
