Gordon Haff Quotes on Power (4 Quotes)

Over time, the performance-per-watt equation is becoming increasingly important. Its power is relative to performance as opposed to raw power or lowest power consumption.

Certainly Power Everywhere, to some level, includes OEMing systems, though for the most part it's more focused on the use of the Power architecture by various partners in client devices, game consoles, whatever, than it is in computer systems, ... Power Everywhere and OpenPower are really about using collaborators to get Power into new types of devices.

This is a bigger story for Apple than for Intel. Apple liked Intel's roadmap better than that of Power PC, and the idea is that they will now sell a higher percentage of notebook computers.

Sun has to keep up with the other guys. IBM is going to be coming out with the Power5 soon. The reality is in this industry you have to put a lot of energy into running to stay in place. What happens if you don't make these kinds of advances is you fall behind. So this upgrade is in some respects about maintaining parity with the competition.