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"The test chip also demonstrates chipmakers' ability to continue to increase dramatically the number of processors placed on a tiny sliver of silicon. Just 10 years ago, a cluster of supercomputers capable of processing the same amount of calculations took up more than 2,000 square feet and consumed a half-megawatt of electricity.
The new Intel chip, which does not yet use the standard x86 architecture common to most PCs and servers, consumes an average 62 watts of energy—less than some chips on the market today. It also takes a novel approach of stacking memory in three dimensions directly on top of the chip, creating an architecture that would transfer information at lightning speed. "
[businessweek.com...]
The chip’s design is meant to exploit a new generation of manufacturing technology the company introduced last month.
[webmasterworld.com...]Here's a question. In what ways could this technology directly affect or improve the websites that we have today?
Here's a question. In what ways could this technology directly affect or improve the websites that we have today?
Until the backbones get bigger, not much. The current servers can basically stuff a pipe with ease. It will make the server data crunch and Google lookups faster, but I don't see it significantly affecting data rates.
However, at some time in the [probably not so] distant future, we'll have 1TBps ubiquitous wireless networks (maybe at a premium). Even though there will likely be a fashion craze in tinfoil headgear, this tech will be required to feed the fast little gizmos we'll be using.
5 years to develop this into commercial use.
I cannot help but wonder what the military, secret services etc use such machines for. There must be a lot of advanced technology out there which has not yet made it into the public domain.
you mean much faster processors that we find out years later? I doubt it. Intel and IBM are both private and the US cannot (or doesn't make sense to) pay them enough to delay by a few years a new chip release. Of course they can limit exports, but that's another matter.
It's already in the works, via satellite no less. The last spec I read stated that the pipe could transmit the equivalent of all the world's written text in under a second, uploads at the same rate. Prediction was that the tech would be available by 2012. I'll dig up the link.
