This post got me started thinking about computer hardware, and I made some predictions for the next five years, along with technical explanations of what they m

This post got me started thinking about computer hardware, and I made some predictions for the next five years, along with technical explanations of what they mean and why they're likely: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970884 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970884 tl;dr summary: More cores; optical off-chip interconnect; network-on-chip interconnect; 3D integration for better yield, as well as memory bandwidth and latency; tighter integration of CPU and GPU. Widening gap between server and desktop/mobile processor designs. Also solid state drives, but that's pretty obvious.