So is Intels next initiative to have optical LAN as standard on some chips in the future, as well as communication between cores?
Could this possible lead to the blade servers comunicating directly via a optic cable to the CPU of the next blade? Or something along those lines?
What a coincidence this is, i was reading only this morning about a breakthrough in nanotubes with single atom wall thickness, now this, all good steps towards optical computing :) and speed increaces for everyone.
Stacking cores is an interesting theory, would love to be doing some of the thermal work and modelling on that!!
If things keep going down this path (DRM) pretty soon, our TV's will have coin slots in them and require a nice chunk of change to turn on, and will only operate for the duration of a single show before we need to put more change in. Boy am I glad I do everything on my computers, at least them I have some control over.
I'll just take a moment to point out that 'tera' is three orders of magnitude above 'giga', not one as was implied in the snippet.
As to DRM, screw it. I refuse to buy content with DRM, full stop. I'll take freebies (25 songs a week from apple for being on facebook? sure), but I won't pay a cent for them. CDs, thanks - and I'm hesitant to get even those now. I'd bring movies into the picture, but there's hardly anything worth watching now. And TV shows... I consider bit-torrenting them fair use, since I could just as easily have recorded them in a number of formats, seeing that I pay for access to the networks (albeit indirectly).
Originally Posted by Phil Wennblom from Intel's Standards and Regulations group "There needs to be a balance between the rights of consumers so that they can exercise their legal rights, and the developers and owners of those content. We didn't intend to emphasise one over the other. We don't believe you need a legal mandate to do that."
Frankly that scares me. Corporations own all the content? How long before music & movies come with the same EULA as software? (You own the disk, they let you use the content as they choose and can revoke that as they see fit)
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Originally Posted by MortarHeadd If things keep going down this path (DRM) pretty soon, our TV's will have coin slots in them and require a nice chunk of change to turn on, and will only operate for the duration of a single show before we need to put more change in....
This misconception of the industry that if you provide it, no matter the cost, you will sell it. Needs to be destroyed. DRM is getting stupid now, in the good old days you would buy software/music under the condition that you did not alter it to make money off it.
Now they are saying you are renting music? Then reducing the ***********************^&%^$£^%$ prices.
Originally Posted by Tyinsar Isn't this the same Intel that predicted 10Ghz from "Netburst" in the very near future?
Thats different, the scalability was there but Intel decided it'd be much more effecient to develop an architecture that did more work per clock cycle. Probably one of the best moves they've ever done!
Look at who Intel's customers are. Sure, they sell some processors more or less directly to customers, but the vast majority of their output goes to companies, not consumers. They are not going to risk pissing off the people who can actually do them harm to placate the end user who basically has little or no impact on their business.
Originally Posted by DougEdey Wait, since when did Bit-Tech go American?
We're English, its AUTUMN
lol...what's worse is I'm the only American on editorial staff, and I didn't write this ;) I always say autumn. But that's from dealing with all you stuffy brits!
Originally Posted by ChromeX Thats different, the scalability was there but Intel decided it'd be much more effecient to develop an architecture that did more work per clock cycle. Probably one of the best moves they've ever done!
Excuse me but i have to call BS on that statement. For the last few generations Intel, AMD and IBM have pushed each generation of technology until it was broken... then they pushed it some more.
I'm sure the parallell stuff will come but I dunno about the timeframe, i mean, in terms of hardware seems to me that serial interfaces are making a come back. SATA, PCI-Express and FB-DIMMS for example.
And then the software side, which is where the real multi-core gains will come from, is going to drag it's heels all the way. Hardly any consumer software even has optimisation for 2 processors.
As for the communications between cores, and using a network-like structure - isn't that how PCIexpress works already? So, to a certain extent, the technology already exists, albeit not at the speeds necessary for inter-core communication.
In regards to the You Tube bandwidth argument, isn't what intel is saying that through more powerful processors for post processing and decoding and more efficient algorithms the quality of the videos will increase. Whilst moving to high def would increase the bandwidth if all things were equal in terms of codecs used etc. But if more efficient algorithms are used bandwidth needed can be cut down albeit at the cost of needing more processing power to decode, or the quality of the video can increase at the same bandwidth levels.
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ReplyCould this possible lead to the blade servers comunicating directly via a optic cable to the CPU of the next blade? Or something along those lines?
Stacking cores is an interesting theory, would love to be doing some of the thermal work and modelling on that!!
Renting a flat or even a TV is one thing, and when you rent a DVD you know it has to go back - but renting music?
As to DRM, screw it. I refuse to buy content with DRM, full stop. I'll take freebies (25 songs a week from apple for being on facebook? sure), but I won't pay a cent for them. CDs, thanks - and I'm hesitant to get even those now. I'd bring movies into the picture, but there's hardly anything worth watching now. And TV shows... I consider bit-torrenting them fair use, since I could just as easily have recorded them in a number of formats, seeing that I pay for access to the networks (albeit indirectly).
Oh, wait, I see you knew this in post 1 - but it is a little confusing since you have 2 topics in one thread.
Now they are saying you are renting music? Then reducing the ***********************^&%^$£^%$ prices.
Thats different, the scalability was there but Intel decided it'd be much more effecient to develop an architecture that did more work per clock cycle. Probably one of the best moves they've ever done!
We're English, its AUTUMN
I think the words you're looking for are "Trusted Computing Module"
The way the title is written its like you're writing the time period in which it is taking place. ;)
Just so people know, I am taking the Piss.
ahhhhhh ok, thanks for the enlightment.
please define IP in this context.
Excuse me but i have to call BS on that statement. For the last few generations Intel, AMD and IBM have pushed each generation of technology until it was broken... then they pushed it some more.
I'm sure the parallell stuff will come but I dunno about the timeframe, i mean, in terms of hardware seems to me that serial interfaces are making a come back. SATA, PCI-Express and FB-DIMMS for example.
And then the software side, which is where the real multi-core gains will come from, is going to drag it's heels all the way. Hardly any consumer software even has optimisation for 2 processors.
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