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[czone]

Shahrukh, on 14 July 2010 - 08:31 PM, said:

I wonder what these people would have said if they could read these posts again.

yep that 6.4 GHz processor.
There is already processors that can run at something approaching 800ghz,

so in 6 years time.......oppsss Chrystal ball upside down... kangaroos with GPS...
40" (yes inchs still in use) flat screen paper ink monitors
Cast of Jersey Shore all have AIDS
Snooki's TV channel available on wristwatch TV (HD of course)
Skin embedded wristwatch TV.
WoW players riot with scientology; moon server 4 needs to be reset.....

Edited by czone, 22 July 2010 - 05:06 PM.

[rpgsearcherz]

czone, on 22 July 2010 - 05:04 PM, said:

yep that 6.4 GHz processor.
There is already processors that can run at something approaching 800ghz,

so in 6 years time.......oppsss Chrystal ball upside down... kangaroos with GPS...
40" (yes inchs still in use) flat screen paper ink monitors
Cast of Jersey Shore all have AIDS
Snooki's TV channel available on wristwatch TV (HD of course)
Skin embedded wristwatch TV.
WoW players riot with scientology; moon server 4 needs to be reset.....

I don't know where the 800 GHZ thing comes from unless you mean using multiple motherboards. In that case, there was an interview with someone who worked on one of the Star Wars movies that said for their rendering of the video they had a farm of over 1200 CPU's and something like 15 Petabytes (15,000 Terrabytes or 15,000,000 GB) of hard drive and that they still struggled to get it to render due to the lack of power.

The closer we move to cloud computing the faster our PC's will run though.

[mahesh2k]

I don't know but looks like my point 5 years ago is still valid. Processors unable to make it to 4ghz. All that we see is multi-core processing innovation. That way we can say that single processor giving such huge speed is still in theory. I don't know but i'll wait to see any processor breaking this assumption of mine. I would love to see any processor with such high speed.

Till then processor maximum possible speed possibility is stagnated. I don't know how come cloud computing can be answer to this but atleast it'll give better performance.

[Shahrukh]

mahesh2k, on 23 July 2010 - 07:57 AM, said:

I don't know but looks like my point 5 years ago is still valid. Processors unable to make it to 4ghz. All that we see is multi-core processing innovation. That way we can say that single processor giving such huge speed is still in theory. I don't know but i'll wait to see any processor breaking this assumption of mine. I would love to see any processor with such high speed.

Till then processor maximum possible speed possibility is stagnated. I don't know how come cloud computing can be answer to this but atleast it'll give better performance.

Yup. And the problem seems to be the speed of electricity not being fast enough to allow faster processors.
I once read in the Reader's Digest someone's making a DNA based processor; don't know how that's turned out.
I also heard that someone is trying a light based processor. Rumour, probably.

[rpgsearcherz]

About two years ago we learned in a physics class about how there was going to be a CPU "soon" that has no speed -- it's instant. This was supposed to be out over a year ago and was going to revolutionize the PC by no longer limiting the speed of the PC to the CPU -- then the focus was going to be on the HDD and RAM.

Haven't heard anything since then though so I'm guessing it was another one of those "we'll brag about it and not complete it" things.

[mahesh2k]

rpgsearcherz, on 24 July 2010 - 02:18 PM, said:

About two years ago we learned in a physics class about how there was going to be a CPU "soon" that has no speed -- it's instant.

If i'm not wrong then you're talking about quantum computing. There is not much progress for it. Not sure which companies are doing the research on that.

[Shahrukh]

rpgsearcherz, on 24 July 2010 - 02:18 PM, said:

Haven't heard anything since then though so I'm guessing it was another one of those "we'll brag about it and not complete it" things.

That happens quite a lot these days.
We hear about so much awesome techs and yet see very few of them actually applied. I guess they sound good in theory but create complications in real-life.

[rpgsearcherz]

Shahrukh, on 26 July 2010 - 07:14 PM, said:

That happens quite a lot these days.
We hear about so much awesome techs and yet see very few of them actually applied. I guess they sound good in theory but create complications in real-life.

Last year there was talk about a HDD that uses water to store information -- they claimed in one drip of water you could store petabytes of information by polarizing it certain ways. The theory was that we could get a HDD that could store infinite information and would have no moving parts (so it would never break/wear out).

Haven't heard about that one in a while either.

[joycerimes]

As for myself, there will become more advancement but i don't imagine the future of computers as what the movie is picturing out.