Technology Evolution

[_____V_____]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

they seem to have hit the wall as far as processing speed goes ... getting things smaller seems to be the focus now.

i'm sure the technology exixts to make a computer the size of a watch now (or soon) it's just cost prohibitive at this time

Very true.

But with dual core, Core 2 duo, Quad Core chips flooding the market, I am sure we will see a ground-breaking innovation in that field too.

Its just a matter of time...we will have a superchip with blazing processing speed soon.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Very true.

But with dual core, Core 2 duo, Quad Core chips flooding the market, I am sure we will see a ground-breaking innovation in that field too.

Its just a matter of time...we will have a superchip with blazing processing speed soon.

intel particularly is looking into making spuer multicore chips: 32, 48, 64, 128 and even 256. the problem is that without applications that are designed to use the multiple processors, you can have a million 2.2 ghz processors, and it will only run on one, so no faster.

Intel is investing a ton in teaching programmers to write multithreaded scalable programs (that means it can change how many processors it can run on all by itself) to take advantage of the technology. If anyone has ever run a multithreaded program next to a single threaded version of the same thing (i have written a few), you would be amazed at the difference. maybe ill make a sample just so people can see.

They have hit a wall with the speed of the chips, with modern technology at least, so they are stacking them next to each other now. think of it this way, if you can have, maximum, 8 cylanders in an engine, do you figureout how to make the cylanders smaller, or do you stick another engine in the car?

[novakru]

Whatever happened to those scientists ( I have no idea who exactly "those people" are)
working on quantum physics??

[Abominus]

They're all here in Kitchener/Waterloo plotting to take over the world.