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JAC



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:39 am    Post subject: CPU's of the future Reply with quote

ok.. I know science fiction is hardly the best indicator of future technology, but they have come up with ideas we now use ( satellites, wireless etc. )

So on that tenuous thread.. cpu's of the future.....


Stargate series- "cpus" appear to be a bunch of glass rods of different colours. Lame.


Is that what we have to look forward to?

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I find current modern cpus plain and dull. Ya, they work great, but they lack the appeal of older cpus (pentium pro and older).
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:50 am    Post subject: Re: CPU's of the future Reply with quote

JAC wrote:

I find current modern cpus plain and dull. Ya, they work great, but they lack the appeal of older cpus (pentium pro and older).


I agree with that statement.. but early P4s & P4 xeons also have character.. well for me at least Very Happy

modern CPUs are like modern cars... if they didnt have a badge to say what they are... u would neva pick between them Laughing


thinking about it P2s & slot P3s have a bold character...
not willing to hide under a heatsink Twisted Evil .. they stand tall & pronounce their presence Wink

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:59 am    Post subject: Re: CPU's of the future Reply with quote

Neon_WA wrote:
JAC wrote:

I find current modern cpus plain and dull. Ya, they work great, but they lack the appeal of older cpus (pentium pro and older).


I agree with that statement.. but early P4s & P4 xeons also have character.. well for me at least Very Happy



I agree, the early P4 and P4 Xeon's are cool looking and is where my collection stops at.

Although I am looking for to finding some funky looking quad core thermal samples Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, modern cpus are rather bland. If only they'd use black print and a large logo! They should be easier to collect as they don't have much gold in them so the scrappers won't get them all.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No big surprises there for the next ten years.
Then they might become opto-electronically
one day with "micro toslinks" for the >100Gbits
per channel (and there will be a lot).
Maybe bit thicker packages with a well known
metal cap and the newest intel-logo.
Then thirty or fourty years later the first
quantum processors might become usable
at home in mini- or amazingly non-cryogenic devices.
I bet the first of them have quite big packages,
still the intel-logo somewhere....
That time all password proteceted systems
should be able to prevent brute-forcing
or one of that beasts will brute the valid
pass (that used a 131072-bit key) within seconds! Razz

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

131072bit key = number
with 4 in the beginning and approx.
40000 decimal places....

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the future, collectors won't have the chance to collect a CPU because it will recycle it's self Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, collectors will only be able to collect the organic-neural CPU shells, as entomologists gather husks of dead insects Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wizzard1 wrote:
No, collectors will only be able to collect the organic-neural CPU shells, as entomologists gather husks of dead insects Smile


Hey, maybe... who knows. Maybe one day your PC will 'die' for real. Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats what I was thinking, is that they will be some kind of organic living cells that are able to regenerate themselves, You throw a little extra voltage to it and burn a few cells out.... no problem it will regenerate them so its all back to normal.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Overclockers drop a spray of alcohol in for overclocking headroom Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Help, I overclocked my Hexion CPU and now my PC is drunk! It will not shut down and always shows "What shall we do with a drunken mobo" on Youtube.
It saved electricity for at least four more hours in its ElStoreUnit (organic USV) and that beast bites when i try to disconnect it!

Be aware all: never try to overclock a hexion CPU with full fat milk!

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From my point of perspective it looks like nVidia and ATi/AMD might become the next-level competitors to Intel. GPUs nowadays feature massively-parrallel processing with astonishingly high computing power. I think it'll only become a matter of time until "business logic" is moved to GPUs as well and/or GPU ogic is moved onto the mainboard for general-purpose processing. However there's still one thing missing in this train o fthoughts: There's still some kind of high-level programming language & compiler support missing to make full use of really many cores in parallel; maybe this is due to the fact that human beings (who create code) tend to concentrate rather than to thing in parallel.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Grampa wrote:
From my point of perspective it looks like nVidia and ATi/AMD might become the next-level competitors to Intel. GPUs nowadays feature massively-parrallel processing with astonishingly high computing power. I think it'll only become a matter of time until "business logic" is moved to GPUs as well and/or GPU ogic is moved onto the mainboard for general-purpose processing. However there's still one thing missing in this train o fthoughts: There's still some kind of high-level programming language & compiler support missing to make full use of really many cores in parallel; maybe this is due to the fact that human beings (who create code) tend to concentrate rather than to thing in parallel.

-Grampa


Yup, look at how fast the Nvidia Tegra is being adopted.
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