"Since the invention of the transistor, silicon semiconductors have been king. But now silicon-based transistors are nearing the limit of their potential. Excess heat and manufacturing hurdles are impeding the development of ever-faster and -smaller processors. Advances in materials and chip design to resist extreme heat and move huge amounts of data, quickly, will be crucial. Experts are exploring three technologies to overcome these challenges: spintronics, graphene and memristors. They are what will someday make ultra-energy-efficient supercomputers small enough to fit anywhere—even in the palm of your hand."
Then courtesy of Charlie Bess of EDS i saw this article about ten other ways PC will change in the next few years:
- Hundreds of cores
- Mind-machine interfaces
- Ultrafast broadband
- Optical computing
- New user interfaces
- Ubiquitous computing
- Real-time ray tracing
- Cloud Computing
- Laptops powered by fuel cells
- Virtual Reality / 3D displays
Hey I'm with HP now that EDS's been purchased. :-)
When they change the blog address I'll probably loose everyone who reads the TNBT blog.
Posted by: Charlie Bess | October 19, 2008 at 07:46 AM
Charlie, show those HP guys how to do a well planned transition and change management project to migrate the blog :)
Posted by: vinnie mirchandani | October 19, 2008 at 09:57 AM