IBM’s Latest News… Or Is It?

Okay, I could go ahead and write what would possibly be the 4,732nd article about The Big Blue Teddy Bear’s supercomputing “breakthrough” that seems to be making the rounds, or I could just poke fun at the blogging and newsmaking community as a whole… Let me think about that one for just a minute…

If you are like hundreds of Tech Geeks out there (myself being one of them), you probably jumped on the first few articles that came out concerning IBM’s ”Supercomputer on a chip” and kept reading right up to where the retractions started eeking through the ether.

As one blogger put it: “Production, can you colour my rotund features a tad more rosy?” While some are blaming IBM themselves for a faulty press release, I prefer to blame myself and others like me for not actually reading the entire release before getting all peck-happy with the keyboard. Thankfully, I opted to write the piece about Microsoft’s bad handling of the XO affair as I so correctly judged that everyone and their babie’s momma would be writing about IBM.

Now instead of walking around with egg on my face, I can take the high road and snubb all the early-birders whose bungling of the entire affair makes Dewey Beats Truman look like a simple typo in comparison. Of course I could be blowing the whole thing out of proportion, but then that’s what I do best:-) Okay, so what exactly am I talking about?

Seems a few hundred bloggers and newsies incorrectly stated that IBM has made a major breakthrough and is close to creating the first “Supercomputer on a chip”. Shortly after the blogs started rolling and newspapers printing, IBM came back and explained in a little more layman’s terms that what they were able to do was work out how to make an existing process smaller. Instead of Intell’s 500nm board, IBM has created a system that allows a possible 400nm board to be created in the future, sometime, which may or may not be faster or cooler than Intell’s board. Seems the whole thing was actually part of the original press release, had anyone taken the time to actually read the stupid thing. Serves IBM right for not printing the original release in large letters composing easy-to-read words like “Its smaller“. I blame the whole thing on them, after all this is America where reading is not as important as the actual experience…

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