Hot Gadget: Speed Up Your Home With 4 THz
February 14, 2025 - Today is the release of the first home computer with the new 4 THz microprocessor, currently the highest performing processor available. Several analysts have doubted of the need of the 4THz processor for the home market, but the pre-sale for the last couple of weeks look positive according to the manufacturer.
The computer has the 100TB memory drive that became standard about 5 years ago, basically because the lack of interest in more storage for home computers. It's nice that they have included 1,000 movies in the package but as you can guess they are not the latest releases.
It has 512 GB RAM memory, the size of the box is 10.3" x 7.9" x 1.2" (WxDxH) and it is of course compatible with all the wireless screens that you have at home. The introduction price is set to US$ 399.
Argument: According to Moore's Law the number of transistors that could be placed on a computer chip would double every 18 months which has been the case since the 1970s. Gordon Moore has though revised his law since then which could give us a microprocessor of 4 THz by 2025.
Questions: Will there be need for more than 100 TB storage memory for the home market? What else can drive the development of home computers than moving images, as in movies and games?
By Pontus Edenberg
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computer power will always be pushed to its limits because there will always be the newest game or 3d effect or vitural relativity that everyone will want. Computer power may slow but never stop.
SilverDemon
Posted by: silverdemon
I think there will be a limit when it comes to home computers. For the storage, moving images (movies) will be the most consuming, and I believe people will settle for thousands of hours, which means 100 TB will be more than enough (development in compression might help further). When it comes to processor speed the limit will most likely be games that are as realistic as moving images. Or will there be any other need for more power for home use...?
Posted by: Pontus Edenberg
In 2025 'the web' won't be a web but a supercomputer. It already is in some ways.
We'll see way other concepts and functionality as every electronic device, even nanoscale devices, will be interconnected. Most electronic (by then mostly replaced by 'photonic') counterparts will also function as a supernode. Private computerpower won't be that important anymore. The concept 'PC' will disappear. Any functionality will be available anywhere at any time.
Moores Law, which states that certain capabilities double every 18 months, is not the whole story: acceleration rates are accelerating also. Right now we already see some effects. In some fields capabilities already double within 12 months. Within twenty years you may expect doubling within a few months or even faster. And you won't need to buy another expensive computer or PDA to take advantage. Hitech becomes cheaper and cheaper, also at an accelerating rate. Development, production and distribution become easier and easier.
When nanotechnology in combination with AI is capable of intelligent improvements and constructing we'll see some very surprising things and we'll enter a complete new era. That is: if we, as mankind, don't blow ourselves up in the next 40 years.
Posted by: furture
SilverDemon's right. Whether it's on the web or a local device, the capacity needed for a few thousand hours of movies won't be the limit. Full-immersion virtual reality programs, especially ones which involve interaction with other people via the internet, will require vastly more power than that -- and there's no doubt such programs will be very popular once we get the computer-to-nervous-system interface worked out. Just look at how popular games like The Sims and Second Life are today.
Posted by: Infidel753
300 terabyte hard drives are said to come in 2010, they announced it a month ago or so...
Posted by: kr3ml
Thanks for you note kr3ml. 300 terabytes have mistakingly been reported for a new Seagate hard drive in year 2010, but it is actually 300 terabits, which is 37.5 terabyte. But they are well on their way...
Posted by: Pontus Edenberg
100TB drives and 4 TB processor? i want one now. think of how real graphics would look (ps3 is almost as good as the real thing now with the right HDTV setup), most of the extra cpu power would be used up by AI in games making them almost as intuitive as . humans are. and with big improvements in neural control systems they would probably require huge amounts computer power to work..
Posted by: David
I think its cool
Posted by: me
Interesting idea with included films on the harddrive. That could be a nice extra benefit which influences the buying decision.
Check out my calculation of the Home-PC of 2014:
http://www.newsofthefuture.net/index.php?/archives/7-June-03,-2014-Home-PC-of-the-future.html
Notice the size of the screen...
Posted by: Andreas - News of the future.net
i think u will need all that powerful processors n large hard drives cuz in the future things would b beyond high def they b like 3d or holorgraphic n for things like that u would need alot of storage n power to handle thoese stuff
Posted by: pappu
100 THz would be quite difficult do do. To have a 100 GHz processor, you would have to cram a microprocessor into a space smaller than 0.3 mm because of the speed of electricity. However, they might be able to get up there soon with the development of carbon and 3-d processors. I don't think people will ever need this computing power as there will be many new inventions and only so much time in a day. As for me, I think in 2025 about 5-30 TB will be sufficient, unless they start mass producing real virtual reality 3-d projection games which can easily take up a few hundred GBs.
Posted by: Ray