“Humans a while ago stopped being the major generators of data,” points out Gary Dickerson, chief executive of chip equipment vendor Applied Materials.
Rather, it is the rise of the machines, and the sensor networks comprising the Internet of Things, that are creating masses of volumes of data that require ever more chips to process, says Dickerson.
“And everything is getting smarter in our world — eyes and ears that are deployed, smart sensors that are deployed” at the edge of networks.
Dickerson made his remarks to ZDNet in a phone call following the company’s report Thursday evening of fiscal
