NEWS: Intel Reports a Research Leap to a Faster Chip

BE0RN wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:21 AM
The article talks about a chip that can "switch light on and off like electricity, blurring the line between computing and communications and bringing sweeping changes to the way digital information and entertainment are delivered."
another excerpt..

It's from the NY times....

Here's the URL

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/technology/12chip.html

Comments

MarkFoley wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:25 AM
Unfortuanetly you have to subcribe to theTimes to be able to read the article
BE0RN wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:30 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/technology/12chip.html
flashlight wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:36 AM
Here it is on intel's site

http://www.intel.com/labs/sp/index.htm?iid=HPAGE+low_news_040212a&
BE0RN wrote on 2/12/2004, 11:41 AM
"One potential application, Mr. Huang said, would be an interactive digital television system allowing viewers to watch a sports event from several angles, moving the point-of-view at will while the game is being played. With only a limited number of digital cameras, it might be possible to synthesize a virtual movable "seat" anyplace in the stadium. Such a feature now exists in video games, but is far beyond the capacity of today's digital TV systems.

"Experts said the Intel researchers appear to have achieved
one of the rare performance increases known in the industry
as "powers of 10,'' or exponential change, that has the potential to remake the modern computing world.

"There is a big difference between 10 megabits and one gigabit,'' Terabit's Dr. Huang said, noting that the advance should ultimately make it possible to create computers that "will be everywhere that you are.''
corug7 wrote on 2/13/2004, 6:57 AM
So that means when I win at solitare, my cards will bounce REALLY FAST!!!
TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/13/2004, 7:39 AM
And yet no 64bit.... Hmm... me thinks Intel is still trying to tell us 32-bit is the future (they said that too in the early 90's with the 386!) :)