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ark_ader:

Actually we will see devices get smaller and one die.  I was an Intel customer until I purchased an A10 processor.  The speed and cost made the chip more affordable, especially since most of the work I undertake is virtual.  Now that doesn't mean much at the moment, but when you see similar chips being manufactured into the latest consoles it makes you think of a bigger picture.

I believe technology will merge and it will be the usual suspects competing on a particular OS say Android - Arm or Atom while serving the console appliances.  I have declared this before and it will come to reality that the PC will be the dominate platform, tablets second and console third in that particular order.

The chip and OS will dominate the market, the software will be standardized and be cost effective.  Who likes porting code anyway?  Yes each machine or entity will have its merits but that is up to the consumer to decide.

  Waste, manufacturing costs will be reduced and eventually there will be only one kid on the block, and the software will the deciding factor.  We only have so much resources and everything will go green.

So Moore's law will come to an end.  Better save up for that upgrade.



lilshawn:


--- Quote from: ark_ader on November 18, 2013, 05:00:15 am ---but when you see similar chips being manufactured into the latest consoles it makes you think of a bigger picture

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yes, with both the XO and PS4 using x86 type technology, it won't be long before you can find emulators for these systems because you won't have to do a bunch of shitcoding to make it work

Lilwolf:

btw, I just upgraded my 2.8ghz c2q to an i7 quad 3.8ghz.  The speed is jump is more then just the increase in clock speed.  The i7 is faster as the same clock speed to the old c2q ect.

Cakemeister:


--- Quote from: lilshawn on November 18, 2013, 10:13:02 am ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on November 18, 2013, 05:00:15 am ---but when you see similar chips being manufactured into the latest consoles it makes you think of a bigger picture

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yes, with both the XO and PS4 using x86 type technology, it won't be long before you can find emulators for these systems because you won't have to do a bunch of shitcoding to make it work

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That's the current direction of development by the Maximo G+ folks.


cigardude:

Just because things are at 2-3ghz does not mean that they are not getting significantly faster. For example, we run engineering simulations all day long. We've gone from Dell Precision T3500 workstations to T3600 workstations. Our simulations now run at 1/3 the time. Just because there is a Pentium running at 3Ghz and an I7 processor running at 3Ghz, I can assure you that the I7 is way faster. You need to look at over all system speed, not just the processor. Believe it or not, there are a lot of bottle necks on that motherboard as stated previously.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

While the "clock speeds" do not vary that much, the speed doubles or triples depending on the processor.



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