"Vincent Cate" wrote in message
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Sander Vesik
Vince
Incrementally advancing the state of the art is still advancing
the state of the art, even when it is not particularly novel.

Uhh... But "not particularily novel" = definitely not new technology.

If in 2005 they can make larger capacity hard drives, faster
CPUs, and bigger memory chips, you won't count that as new
technology because it is "not particularly novel"? I think
most computer guys count it as the "latest tech".
If the larger HDD capacity comes from increased platter count, it aint new
tech.
If CPUs and and memory chips ramp up clock speeds or go through die shrinks
it aint new tech. If you simply put a bigger data cache on chip it aint new
tech. In a case of die shrink, you might be employing a new manufacturing
tech to achieve smaller semiconductors, but the chip itself stays the same,
although smaller.
New algorithms on chip, new physical principles of inner workings of a chip,
like copper interconnects, it might be called new tech.

-kert