Itanium Rising: Breaking Through Moore's Second Law of Computing Power

Adoption Curve—A Recognized Phenomenon

In the past, we've seen that the first to adopt new technology are the customers that require pure performance—those in the 'hard' sciences such as physics and chemistry. The next group to latch on to a new system may be the remaining high performance users that may be more cost conscious or dependent on third party applications—those in engineering and industrial design. Then clients such as financial traders look at the performance gains made by the scientists and engineers and realize that the same technology will make a blinding fast workstation do equally fast trading and market analysis. At that point, it is only a matter of time before more widespread interest is achieved as more customers show interest ...