Microprocessor
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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4 statements about Microprocessor, every show
Andreessen: AI wave is bigger than the internet, comparable to electricity
“First of all, I would say this is the biggest technological revolution of my life. And you know, hopefully I'll see more like this in the next whatever, 30 years, but I mean, this is the big one. And just in terms of order of magnitude, like this is clearly bi…”
Malone: Technological productivity gains no longer show up on corporate balance sheets
“Productivity was always tied with economic strength, but now we're having non-monetizable productivity, and it began really with the microprocessor. It got cheaper and cheaper, and more and more powerful. So on the balance books, it wasn't producing that much …”
Hennessy: IBM and DEC missed microprocessors by building increasingly complex machines
“They were building machines which were getting increasingly complicated rather than simpler. And they missed the whole importance of the microprocessor and VLSI and how we completely changed the industry.”
Kaganovich: Genetics is undergoing a horizontalization phase similar to early microprocessors
“The way we kind of see it is that, that, that inflection point has already happened. It's somewhat akin to the microprocessor that forced a lot of horizontalization, de-aggregation of the industry. I think that's happening in genetics”