52 Quotes by Gordon Haff

Those do not appear to be cherry-picked numbers of some particular benchmark on a blue moon with a tailwind blowing.

When the Pentium 4 first came out, the performance was very disappointing to a lot of people initially. It's hard to call the Pentium 4 a failure, given how many they sold, but it was certainly an evolutionary dead end.

With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, there would not be an Itanium today.

Enterprises must either adopt multi core or stick with slower chips.

I see this as fine-tuning more than changing direction. Obviously, they're struggling financially, but in general this is a small number of people in the scope of things at Sun.

They are all comparable in performance for high-end, non-X86 architectures.

Programming Cell is relatively hard. Certainly a higher-level, more abstracted model makes programming a lot easier.

People do not typically leave companies if they are deliriously happy with their roles, but sometimes even people who are reasonably content with their jobs find better opportunities that come along.

A fast chip got faster. This certainly helps to cement their strong current position.