Disclaimer: I am a student in computer science and electrical engineering.
No. The CPU is about two orders of magnitude faster than RAM - you can execute a hundred instructions in the time it takes a memory fetch to occur. Take off one of those orders of magnitude like these people claim, and data-heavy programs will […]
I think we’ll still have a larger, slower chunk of memory for cost effectiveness and redundancy for quite some time. MRAM will probably cost a lot more than the older hard drive technologies. Future computers will likely have a hard drive for larger data files, data files that don’t need to be read […]
Big benefit of this RAM is that once you load your most important programs and parts of the OS to it, you never need to load them again unless you overwrite them. MRAM keeps its data, even when it has no power. It makes much of the hard drive woes moot. Computers […]
Widening the bus does NOT reduce latency. The only solution for latency is to reduce the duration of read/write operations. Widening the bus is what we’ve been doing for the past few years because it’s been all we could do, and it lets us do more at a time, which–in some cases only–hides […]
Latency and bottle necks seem to be a big part of the crysis challenge. A quicker solution would be to go wide. Going wide with the memory bus would give lower latency. Perhaps timing issues related to multi cores are part of it.. One solution that seems to follow the directional trend […]
look at flash drives serving things such as readyboost. Solid state hard drives are here. RAM is close to never forgetting you’re boot sequence. Meaning 10 second or less boot times. That’s not even fast because I’m not talking about recovering from stand-by. In the future you’re RAM will be your hard drive and […]
Almost no desktop PC’s reduce the clock of the CPU when idle. That is a technology that has stayed in only the highest performance laptops, and they only do it when on battery power. You can prove me wrong with links to 5 PC chipsets that do this. But they don’t exist.
I’m […]
@InfiniteNothing: You don’t really “stream” data from your external drive, though, usually. . .
@davidlow: FireWire supplies more amps to the device, but that sometimes makes it less useful - for example, on a laptop where you would want less power consumption so your battery lasts longer.
I’m not saying FireWire is bad or useless or anything, […]
USB 1.1 is the spec that made it to market. I’ll assume you mean that. That actually does suck, if true. A lot of keyboards and mice run on that, and I’d be surprised if manufacturers saw any reason to update them with chips for proper support for USB 2.0 when no […]
@Krisrm: Can you also plug in a mouse, keyboard, TV tuner, modem, printer, scanner, external hard drive, and coffee warmer on an HDMI port? Didn’t think so. Man, if this is a technology as easy to hub as USB 1.1/2.0, anyone who makes those is going to make a killing with this technology. […]