Cheap Bastards. (Score 4, Interesting)

Rick Merritt, who wrote the lead article also posted an opinion piece in EE Times lambasting Wintel for their lackluster funding efforts in parallel programming. I thoroughly agree with this guy. To quote:

Wintel should not just tease multiple researchers with a $10 million grant awarded to one institution. They need to significantly up the ante and fund multiple efforts.

Ten million is a drop in the bucket of the R&D budgets at Intel and Microsoft. You have to wonder about who is piloting the ship in Redmond these days when the company can afford a $44 billion bid for Yahoo to try to bolster its position in Web search but only spends $10 million to attack a needed breakthrough to save its core Windows business.