Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust  —  REDMOND, Wash. — When he was chief executive of Intel in the 1990s, Andrew S. Grove would often talk about the “software spiral” — the interplay between ever-faster microprocessor chips and software that required ever more computing power.

Source:   New York Times

Author:   John Markoff

Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/technology/17chip…