Intel Quad-Cores

While AMD's quad-core processors don't seem to be gaining much bandwidth compared to their previous architectures, Intel's quad-cores are quite the opposite. Their newest design plans indicate a capability to process up to a single teraflop from the cumulative cores. They're able to achieve this by grafting 20 MB of SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) below the cores. Therefore supplying the cores with large amounts of bandwidth. However, this specific model of quad-cores will not be released for quite some time. Intel's first array of quad-cores will merely be two Core 2 Duos stuck together, increasing both processing power and bandwidth.

Will AMD's quad-cores be able to outlast Intel's first & second editions?

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GeForce 8800 GTX

Nvidia's G80 series of cards are expected to be released towards the beginning of November '06. What's even more exciting about the GeForce 8 series is that they will have a new type of anti-aliasing (VCAA), 16x anti-aliasing, 768 MB of video memory, 384-bit memory interface, & GDDR4 RAM. The most astounding advancement is the fact that it's over 2.1 times superior to the 7900 GTX; which means that even if the 7900 GTX were in SLI mode, this new card would beat it out.

Will AMD-ATI's cards prove to be as significantly improved?

Hybrid Silicon Laser

This development might not sound like much, but it will immensely change the way computers process data. We all know light can be used to transmit data through an optical fiber network, so that's nothing new; but what makes this hybrid silicon laser so special is that overheating wouldn't be an issue. An elemental compound, Indium Phosphide and Silicon are used in unison to accomplish this. Phosphide in its solid form is just as capable of emitting light as it is as phosphorous (It's gaseous form). So using Indium Phosphide to produce a low radiation laser that shines throughout mirrorcoated silicon networks is quite viable. This development allows for optical data transfer rates up to around 125 gigabytes a second.

Can you imagine what this means for extreme multi-core processing?

Seagate Reaches 2.5 Terabyte Capacity

Desktop hard drives have been measured in gigabytes for the last twelve years or so. Seagate plans on ending this pattern by introducing their new drives. They will be released in varying capacities depending upon platter size and quantity. Their largest platter density consisting of four platters is 750 GB x 4. Which equals 2.5 Terabytes in a single drive.

Are gigabytes about to become a term of the past such as megabytes have?