The future of CPUs?

Shane

Shane

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What do you think the future will be like for CPUs?

is it me or these days theyre just adding more cores but not realy gaining any more clock speed unless you have liquad nitrogen cooling at stand by lol.

we have dual core,quad core and that skull trail thing where you can have two quad core processors running together but for what?
no applications realy take advantage of them yet?

yeah some people can get 4Ghz out of a e8400 for example but i havnt seen any faster processors been released over those speeds so why do they just keep adding cores?

surely they cant do this forever?
 
I bet they can. :P

But no, it's a specific plot for the future. But as all things static, they don't tend to stay that way for long; Plots change. A different way of engineering processors may come to fruition that puts both High clock/low IPC/long pipes, and Low clock/high IPC/shorter more efficient pipes to shame. Maybe even multiple core chips.

I think it's possible for a company like IBM or maybe even an unknown to create a new standard, apart form the rest, with it's own strengths and weaknesses. Maybe just strengths. It would make choosing a chip all the more difficult..
 
hermeslyre said:
I bet they can. :P

But no, it's a specific plot for the future. But as all things static, they don't tend to stay that way for long; Plots change. A different way of engineering processors may come to fruition that puts both High clock/low IPC/long pipes, and Low clock/high IPC/shorter more efficient pipes to shame. Maybe even multiple core chips.

I think it's possible for a company like IBM or maybe even an unknown to create a new standard, apart form the rest, with it's own strengths and weaknesses. Maybe just strengths. It would make choosing a chip all the more difficult..
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Yeah that is true, just await for something new i suppose :)
 
Moore's law, every 2 years the size of a transistor will be divided in half. Its been proven true for the past ~20 years. This means more transistors in a cpu, more cores, more power, etc. However, if you look at this on a graph, youll see there is almost a vertical asymptote. Now factor in manufacturing techniques and limitations.

We have 4 years left before the technological world will come to a stand still.
 
kobaj said:
We have 4 years left before the technological world will come to a stand still.
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Don't you think you're being alittle dramatic? After moore's law looses it's momentum (i thought Gordan Moore himself recently [2006-2007] predicted a decade or more of continued adherence?) , surely we won't be left to twiddle our thumbs and scratch our asses. There are literally tons of ways to improve processor performance, shoving as many shrinking transistors on a single die wafer as we can is only one. Of all the different types of engineering mechanisms that exist, I'm sure someone will come up with some other "law" dictating trend in computer architecture. :rolleyes:
 
you know people in the early 20th century were saying we should close the patent office because everything had already been invented. Allright, maybe they weren't serious, but you get the idea.
 
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