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have you seen the size of their prototype of the 80 core chip. well a "wafer" of the chip they said. it looks like this:
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Well, within the next 365 days, we will see more of the same I think. The trend of moving to having many slower parts making stuff faster will continue, 4 core CPUs, quad GPUs becoming more prominent. I think that PCIe 2.0 is going to be released this year as well, which will add a few new interesting things to the table, such as extension cables that allow you to run cards up to 10 meters away on simple copper-wire lines, as well as 225-300W of power being able to be drawn per slot. Other than that, not much. In graphics cards, we will see what the new cards can do; they are expected to be very quick this time around. DDR3 may also make it's appearence, but I doubt it. DDR2 has far from run it's course and it's still getting faster. It'll just be more scaling up otherwise. I don't think this will be a year of extreme change, just normal advancements. Oh, and of course, Vista will be released, so that may stir up a few things in the software world. It will probably end up being a major driving force in the software industry, but the control that Microsoft may have once had on the hardware industry is now gone, they need to fully adopt to the hardware industry, while the hardware industry has to adopt to them. Most notably, DX10 will become the new standard.
What is funny though is that the hardware industry has always had this trend of scaling things up to as fast as they can go alone, and then the start running those devices in parrallel until somebody figures out that it will again be easier to scale everything again. PCI to AGP, back to PCIe. IDE to SATA. Com ports to parallel ports, to USB ports. It's always the same, we jump form serial to parallel, then back to serial, and inveitably so on and so forth. This applies to buses, not sure how it will work for other things like CPUs and GPUs, though. I don't think the trend of multi-GPU systems will continue forever, though.
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