But servers divided into low-end commodity systems and high-end machines that tended to be sold as part of a solution, and competition hounded the joy out of commodity servers, too.
Galloping petrol and grocery costs have driven up inflation, so they look to core inflation as a proxy of where things end up once commodity prices stop rising.
That market was also destined to end up on the commodity pile, so Endoh in 1994 assigned 50 researchers to a challenging task: Cut plastic chip package costs by one-third.