HBM, Congo and Five years


예전에 읽었지만, 최근 다른 이유로 생각나서 찾아본 Congo의 문장.

In an industry where competitive edges were measured in months, companies had made fortunes by beating competitors by a matter of weeks with some new techniques or device; Syntel in California had been the first to make a 256K memory chip while everyone else was still making 16K chips and dreaming of 64K chips. Syntel kept their advantage for only sixteen weeks, but realized a profit of more than a hundred and thirty million dollars.

Michael Crichton, Congo

소설에서는 매력적인 이야기이지만, 주단위의 기술적 우위로 큰 수익을 얻을 수 있는 방법은 없다. 최소한 현재까지는..

HBM이 여기에 가장 가까운 실례.