thinking perch

Thought based on an article in the Economist . In a world where data (and information) is key where lies the advantage? In the ones that create the data in the first place (content) or in the ones that distribute/store/analyze it? There is a layering of sorts here: we first create data, which needs to be stored, distributed to others so that it can be analyzed (and action taken at the end)? Who controls the choke points?

This article in the "Economist" only focuses on "hyenas" and "cheetahs" but the chip-making industry is a far more diverse "zoo"... Just in the recent months I've read about processors that are specialized "bitcoin" miners or another example with analog(!) computers being better at certain kinds of tasks than the digital, more common counterpart. It seems chip-makers are finding new ways to compete through differentiation now that the strategy of cramming more transistors per squared nanometer (i.e. Moore's law) is reaching its limits.