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Glimpses of the Future from the Intel Developer Forum
km790816 writes: "Lots of cool stuff on CNet about the Intel Developer Forum, including the next version of the P4, followed by 3GIO on the desktop (1st version 0.5 gigabytes per second of data-transfer capacity but bumps up to 1, 2, 4 and 8 gigabytes per second with the use of more wires.), and Intel's work to embed wireless in silicon. Quote from the CTO: 'We could get it to the point where radios are built into every product we make, giving every device seamless, roaming connectivity. You will see orders of magnitude of cost (decreases) through integration into silicon.'"
Maybe it's the new XM radio which you can have Snopp Dogg falling to your office. That must be neat.
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The R&D engineers at Intel have an impressive record of coming up with innovative designs, but I think they have been going in the wrong direction lately. For example, take their research into reducing the size of silicon transistors. Right now they are making transistors at something like .07 micron(I think). How much smaller can we go?? Eventually, we'll make a transistor the size of an atom and then there will be no more advances. And that day could come very soon.
What Intel should be doing is reasearching new materials. For example, silicone. The advantages silicone has over silicon are numerous. For example, if Intel made an entire microprocessor out of silicone then they could corner the market on embedded systems in female breasts. Think of the possibilities: You could expand and shrink the size of your girlfriend's breasts!! By remote control!! So when you are getting nasty in bed you can make then watermellon size, but when she leaves the house make sure to shrink them to almost nothing so studly pimps(like myself) don't steal her. And if you break up then make her breasts the size of skyscrapers!! She won't even be able to walk!! There's no way you could do cool stuff like this with lame old silicon. Remember: Silicone is the future!!
...but when can we turn the damn pc on INSTANTLY? like a calculator or a palm!