The impact of the declining cost per MIPS

Summary form only given, as follows. The personal computer (PC) cost per million instructions per second (MIPS) is projected to decline to less than $100.00 per MIPS by 1995, and to a few dollars per MIPS by 2010. This cost reduction will be achieved through very large scale integration, multi-chip modules, and operating voltage reduction. Cheap computing power will allow many problems currently handled by workstations and minicomputers to be handled on a PC, such as advanced graphics and extensive financial analysis programs. PCs will become highly specialized to address these markets