Richard Doherty Quotes (48 Quotes)

A chip is just a chip until you know how to use it right.

It's a 'technology' we've been invited to see. That could be all kinds of things. But a device that is near to shipping would be surprising. If Microsoft was working with any of the major chip makers on a new device, it would be a long shot that that piece of information would not slip out until the product was almost ready.

LG is better positioned than some smaller companies like Creative to compete in the portable media device market.

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We all went through this more than a year ago, ... There isn't a radical difference between what was said today and what was said last year under a different chairman and CEO.

You need to have fresh blood looking at chip technology and how it can be applied.

This is the first music product that people consider to be an emotional statement.

Toshiba didn't have any choice because they don't want to launch even one player commercially that doesn't have a secure foundation to it.

It's your choice since there's only going to be a fixed number of slots in a week where (broadcasters) can put a three- hour movie or a three-hour sporting event.

It's a tremendous opportunity, ... There's no lower cost, high bandwidth way to reach consumers.

Stern alone can make Sirius bigger than XM within a year.

This is the green light that a lot of companies have been waiting for, ... Unless your name was Novell or Red Hat, you couldn't be sure you had clear legal title to Linux.

A manufacturer doesn't have to build a managed copy maker into their device. It is certainly possible to still build players that look just like DVD players, where you put a disc in the slot, it plays that disc, and you're good to go.

Toshiba can't back out of this format war for face-saving reasons, ... But pushing ahead means dealing with the Chinese sooner rather than later. They'll risk dealing with the Chinese if it means getting the format out quicker.

This is too big the genie is out of the bottle and consumers are embracing music over the Internet.

A lot of lawyers are going to throw their hands up and ask, 'How do we make money from this The answer is 'Maybe they don't.

A player that's licensed under the interim agreement will not be able to do managed copy.

It's a very big deal because Palm, for many, many years, has relied on its homegrown operating system.

The people who set that up (in Rancho Bernardo) were promoted within Sony ... because they were able to make what was perceived then as Japanese quality with American workers. So long before Toyota and Nissan and others moved in the U.S. with car manufacturing, Sony was producing very high quality products in the U.S.

There are up to 8 layers in an average power chip, and IBM ( Profile , Products , Articles ) appears to have used just the right technology that gave them the fastest speed and least heat needed in each layer of the chip.

In the consumer electronics world, there's always talk now about Apple, the way people used to talk about Sony. At the water cooler or in boardrooms, they're asking, 'What is Apple doing next' or 'How do we stay out of their way

They pour glass and copper and zirconium and tungsten in one end, and come out with these very beautiful picture tubes on the other. There's just not enough volume to justify this amazing plant.

Do you want to wait six more months for an A plus Not the gamers I saw in line on Tuesday.

Some of the policy matters around managed copy are still being worked out.

We think it's going to be a very strong earnings call, with no heavy expenditures, and we expect earnings and growth to continue with the transition to Intel. We haven't seen any slowdown in sales since the close of the quarter.

That was higher than we thought they might have gone.

Some people here joke that next year, this will be called the cable-less show. Their business models are under attack.

The labels have been talking to Amazon for several months.

Bill Gates is a very accomplished software architect. A lot of people are cheering them on and a lot of people are very leery.

In the 28 years that I've been attending CES, this is the first one that's had such diversity of consumer electronics, PC and content industries.

It's a model that every studio is looking at.

If you see the future of computing as 'give me the answer now,' it favors something like Cell, a computer platform designed for photorealistic modeling.

Damage to Microsoft and 360 is growing every week with no clear explanation.

There is no middle ground with a meeting with Steve Jobs. You are either contributing to something he has thought of, or you are agreeing to something he has thought of.

If there was a simple acronym for greed, I'd use that. There's a lot of money at stake.

Media center PCs the size of suitcases haven't done that well.

The big debate at E3 will be over whether graphics and sound are king as in console games or whether we want to be able to play others at any time as in Internet-connected games. Nobody has the answer yet. If network gaming wins, you can bet game console sales would slow.

This new commitment to the chip will result in more training, for starters.

The forecast seems optimistic because so many factors are out of Sony's control,

They can't control retail prices, for example. Today, Sony's TVs are one-third less than they were a year ago. And still, their products are 40 more expensive than the other brands. That's a disaster. And there's no indication that things will get better.

Microsoft doesn't seem to be that accomplished at spotting threats. The routine of the last few years has been, if a company spots a virus, they let Microsoft know and the company takes its 'own sweet time,' as it's been put to me, in dealing with that.

Every month this battle wages, more people are getting used to getting video in other ways. That's the real enemy of this indecision.

We essentially are giving up holiday 2006, and for notebook makers that is going to impact their bottom line quite a bit. The first quarter is the slowest quarter of the year for any PC (sales).

If anything, the talent from Burbank might have to move up to Emeryville. The animation center of the universe is moving to Emeryville.

Folks (at the FCC) are rubbing their hands as to how wild it could go and at the same time popping aspirins as to how disappointing it could be,

They have managed to create business where there was none. There was no personal computer until Apple. There was no digital video business until Apple. Today, the digital living room is a zero-billion-dollar-business. And it will probably stay that way until Apple gets into it.

His magic is seeing value where others don't.

If there were 100 million music players shipping a year, which we think will happen by the end of the decade, people might go with Dell. Dell never broke out of the 'everybody else' category.