You literally tune the system from the atoms and molecules to the software at the other end to get the maximum possible benefits.

In Power6, we basically combined everything we could (throw) at it in terms of fundamental atoms and molecules all the way out to what we knew would be the software that would run on top of that system.

Despite the speeds, it will have a lower power density than in some chips found in today's desktops.

You literally can squeeze silicon, and thereby give it properties to make it faster. The thing that is making it run faster is not just that it's smaller but because you're changing its basic physical properties.

PLM is growing. It was a $4 to $5 billion software market five years ago. It's now in $10 billion [in 2005]. With this landscape we can even grow no only our business, but total principal market.

Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio