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Intel have announced an experimental chip the size of a stamp with 48 core processors! It's actually 24 'tiles' each with a dual core processor as well as a router, memory controllers and on-chip network.

They're calling it the Single-chip Cloud Computer or SCC as in many ways it replicates the features of a data centre.

This was the opening phrase that I heard this morning as I sat in front of the Head of Finance. He's fairly new to his job, knowing us from his previous employment, and called us in as we'd helped him a few years ago. 

I'm sure that his scenario is common to many companies. They use a software package, which for their industry is ideal, as it captures information (financials, stock inventory and manufacturing etc) well and can provide them with reasonable reports.

Welcome to my new blog, which will be a place where I intend to post fairly regularly about IT, software development, new technologies and, well, I guess anything which might be of interest to you.

So, a brief introduction...

I'm the CFO and a co-founder of Industrial CodeBox. Early in my career I began to qualify with CIMA, although when I left my employment to start my first business venture I put it on hold. I'm very close to finishing my qualification and will get round to completing the last exams...