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A more positive way of expressing the sentiment might be "manufacturers will find a way of improving performance, though the gains might be harder to capitalize
by nihilocrat 18y ago
A more positive way of expressing the sentiment might be "manufacturers will find a way of improving performance, though the gains might be harder to capitalize on than clock speeds or core count". Either way, given that the industry can't survive selling old products, they will find a way of selling us more stuff. We can only hope that we actually get some benefit out of the new products.
On the plus side, notice that today, with a computer that is 5 or so years old, you can get on the internet, watch flash video, play music, etc. etc. Compare that to using a 5 year old PC in 2000, or even worse, a 5 year old PC in 1995.
- DabAsteroid 18y ago"manufacturers will find a way of improving performance, though the gains might be harder to capitalize on than clock speeds or core count". Don't count cores out. Intel isn't. http://www.ciol.com/Intel/CP-Intel-CIO-Update/Future-Intel-design-codenamed-Larrabee/8908110053/0/ http://www.ciol.com/Intel/CP-Intel-CIO-Update/Future-Intel-d... Larrabee is expected to kick start an industry-wide effort to create and optimize software for the dozens, hundreds and thousands of cores expected to power future computers.