<div dir="ltr"><div>Intel is reportedly thinking of spending big money to acquire Silicon Valley chip builder Altera.</div><div><br></div><div>"Altera builds what are called FPGAs, or field programmable gate arrays. These are chips you can program to perform very specific tasks, and they don’t require as much power or as much space as the chips that traditionally have powered our internet services. They’s why Microsoft used them to help power Bing. People...believe these chips could help power a wide range of services, including the new breed of artificially intelligent services, such as Apple Siri and Microsoft Cortana."</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/03/intel-exploring-biggest-takeover-ever/">http://www.wired.com/2015/03/intel-exploring-biggest-takeover-ever/</a></div><div><br></div><div>And I am reportedly thinking about being young, snug in bed, listening to the clip clop of the horse in the street drawing the wagon delivering the early-morning milk bottles.</div><div>One day I dared to run out in my pyjamas to see him. He looked happy. That made me happy.</div><div><br></div><div>I started feeling very old until I realised that the horse had inbuilt HPS (Horse Positioning System) and could travel their entire delivery route without input from the driver.</div><div>Fifty years later, DARPA has spent millions to sponsor teams using driverless cars with powerful computers and sensors to replicate that happy horse.</div><div><br></div><div>Sigh</div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>"The more you learn, the less you know for sure."</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Mark Kelly<br></div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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