Intel CTO Justin Rattner on the Future of Computing

Dr. Dobb's Journal  @ 01:51 EST | January 21, 2009
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Memory, battery power, and multi-core will be in the forefront

In this YouTube video, Intel CTO Justin Rattner discusses the future of computing, focusing on massively multi-core processing ("systems based on processors with large numbers of individual processing elements is going to be a major part of what we're going to see in the middle of the next decade"), advances in memory hirarchy ("there are also important advances and changes taking place in the memory hierarchy and perhaps the most important one of those is the use of non-volatile memory"), and what he sees as infinite battery life. When will we see all this? Perhaps by the middle of the next decade, says Rattner.

And to what end? According to Rattner, "all of this is aimed at building a range of information products that are smarter, that have more natural interfaces, that are more portable, and have either much longer battery life or infinite battery life."

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