In Silicon Valley, stock options have had a powerful effect: they lower the barriers between small firms and large.

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The idea of security as a killer app, if you will, of security driving silicon, and utilizing features in silicon, we have a way of which can really effect not only the P and L and the income statement of McAfee, but that of Intel, as well.

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The cheap revolution is a first-order effect of Moore's Law. (Moore's Law predicts the transistor density on silicon chips will double every 18 to 24 months.) For years if you said "Moore's Law, " people presumed you were describing a future of ever more powerful computers.

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