What Would You Like In The Next Generation Of Processors?

[Skeete_UK]

I personally would like an organic neural network capable processor using the brain cells from a worm.

I would also like to see the advent of a control set that can be effectively run on any number of cascaded chips 3, 6, 10, 15, 21 etc.. so it can split tasks to be processed and re-join the results so we can have generic parallel computing that does not require specialised instruction sets to be coded into the applications or games.

PCI plug in cards that contain a control chip and a number of processors so upgrades are easy and dont require CONSTANT motherboard changes.

It would also be good if the same chips ran the graphics processing as well so the entire system balances itself rather than having bottlenecks all over the place.

 

[LithiumSunset]

Samsung has that in the works now. Here's a pretty good article on it.

http://www.physorg.com/news4220.html

 

[ChipDeath]

I know such things are in the works, but it's still comparatively slow (150% of HDD speeds is still slow compared to RAM, although I guess seek times are probably a massive improvement which aren't mentioned in that article), is quite small (16Gb? :roll, and probably very expensive.

It's not a hard disk replacement, but might be worth picking one up to house your swapfile and a couple of commonly-used apps... I'd probably buy one if it was less than £50 or so (wassat? US$80 - 85?)...

Obviously it's a start, but it's not yet mature enough I suppose...

 

[sunangel]

I don't care what it is as long as it runs cool and I can steal a dvd in 30 seconds or less (im joking...unless you can really do it).

 

[gpfear]

Look for more encryption of DVDs, and more software to get around it.

 

[gpfear]

Here's what I'd like to see:

1. Replaceable chipsets in motherboards (socket them like CPUs) so you can replace the CPU and chipset and still keep the motherboard.
2. Better FPU and integer performance.
3. Cooler operation of CPUs (and GPUs, hard drives, chipsets, etc.) It's nuts how big of a PSU, heatsink, and fans we have use to keep our systems from melting. Laptops have efficient parts, why can't we copy more of their technology for desktop machines? It took YEARS to move CPU frequency scaling from laptops to desktops!
4. More efficient use of the existing processor resources by programs. A lot of programs are written generic i586 while we have SMP systems with at least SSE2. This also means to multithread programs.
5. Four or eight cores on a die- and it must have a very good memory interface and an IMC.

Honestly, I would like a system that I could run VMWare on. Then I could run Linux, Windows, OSX, etc..

 

[YO_KID37]

Yeah, me to i got a AthlonXP 1700+ and damn it barely works on it. And even if it does it goes Like slig Slow. i need Money for a new AMD

 

[MU_Engineer]

That's more or less what I got my rig for (two HDDs, dual cores, 2GB RAM), although for some strange reason VMware Server won't run properly on OpenSuSE 10.0 64-bit Version 10.1 ought to do it, and I can still run the player.