Incidentally this is why you should be extremely skeptical of predictions by pure academics about the attainability of certain performance _at a given price_. I

Incidentally this is why you should be extremely skeptical of predictions by pure academics about the attainability of certain performance _at a given price_. It was the simultaneous increase in performance, and collapse in cost per transistor that only business at scale could deliver… that made Roy Lightfoot and his American contemporaries look foolish just a couple of decades later.