More EE-Times articles regarding Intel, memory, flat panels:
I agree with this guy regarding the future decline in the number of new processor designs. Eventually, though certainly not any time soon, I expect processor technology to stagnate completely, with the human race using the same processor design for thousands of years at a time, due to the high costs of switching processor designs...
Why Intel may have the last say in MPUs
In fact, it's my belief that the IA-64 is likely to be the last successful new ISA in general-purpose computing.
techweb.com
Embedded DRAM will eventually (5 to 10 years) eliminate Rambus's low end market niche. As I have mentioned before, Rambus does not have a market niche at the high end. The low end niche will get filled by embedded DRAM. This is a classic solution to the problem of a short memory needing a very high bandwidth, which is exactly what rambus provides. They end up with a Rambus chip's worth of memory bandwidth, but without the extra chip required. So here's a preview of the next memory revolution, one that will also affect the memory producers badly, as well as reduce the number of options available to the low end box makers:
Startup tips first of Net appliances -- MediaQ's display controller features embedded DRAM
MediaQ's first general product, the MQ200, is a 128-bit graphics display controller with 2 Mbytes of embedded DRAM.
The company's engineers worked with several partners to design the embedded DRAM block that delivers 1.6 Gbytes/s of bandwidth to the graphics display controller on the MQ-200.
techweb.com
SDRAM marches onward, rambus follows about a generation behind:
Samsung ramps up 256-Mbit sync DRAM
Samsung Electronics said it has begun commercial manufacturing of 256-Mbit synchronous DRAMs, while NEC Corp. said it was ready to start sampling 128-Mbit Rambus DRAMs in April.
techweb.com
I can begin to smell the demise of the CRT display. LCDs are knocking on the door....
Flat-panel systems feature big LCDs
An 18.1-inch-diagonal color liquid-crystal display (LCD) with a 1,280 x 1,024-pixel SXGA format graces Computer Dynamics' new series of flat-panel products, which the company dubs Clarity-18.
techweb.com
-- Carl |
