Re: a dozen cpu's on a chip

John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:08:00 +0100, Martin Brown
<|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:


And this is what we have.
Of course this is what we have. But what will we have 10 or 20 years
out?

In this particular case for desktop PCs we have reached a point where the available hardware is more than adequate for most peoples needs.

Famous quotes from Bill Gates:

Nobody needs more than 640K

That was clearly false even when he said it, although at the time memory came in small chunks and populating all 640k was *very* expensive.

Lets turn the question around for a moment. What is a home user going to do on a PC that cannot be done on a system already capable of decoding HDTV broadcasts and rendering a virtual world at TV frame rates?

Home entertainment systems and PCs will likely converge as digital media become increasingly dominant.

The Internet isn't going anywhere

Did Bill Gates *actually* say this and in what context?
Reference please.

In most places where this exact statement occurs the meaning was "The Internet is here to stay". I think he did said something silly about the Internet in the pre WWW era but I don't think those are his words.

OTOH he did get $1 license fee off IBM for every IBM PC sold (IBM failed to anticipate the size of the market) and the rest is history.

Famous quote from Ken Olsen:

Nobody needs a computer at home.

I don't think things will stay the same, but I don't think your idea of a processor for every task is even remotely where things are headed.

So, speculate.

I already have and in this thread too but you were too busy cut & pasting adverts for newly launched multi-core research chips to notice.

You are begining to take on the air of a netkook harping on how a CPU per thread will solve all problems and bring sweetness and light to the world.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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