What Would You Like In The Next Generation Of Processors?

better memory addresing and more cache

A smarter and less flaming group of people that support AMD

i would like expandable cpu that you can stack
think of the cell processor only you can stack them, cpu running too slow? buy 5 of them and stack them together 8)

a processor that can do the work of a GPU and can do almost anything.

>= 2.0 GHz A64/Conroe dual-core for < $100

More cores and higher clock speeds!

One other thing, more audio and video optimisations. Hmm I guess that's two, shut up!

living, self-enhancing chip that physically upgrades via software instruction downloads that end up being pirated so certain people may choose not to pay anything to have the next generation of tech

on a more serious note, a completely revamped technology that dumps the use of transistors (be it crossbar latches or whatever), anything that'll get us out of this transistor-size/density race.

What do we need more processors for - AMD rulz over Intel and they are the best in the world and dont need to get any better, and a FX-60 will beat a Celeron D any day of the week so why do we need more processors or properly structured sentences, cause AMD can be rearrange to MAD...

Jokes.

Cheaper, faster, better, this is what we get every processor upgrade, to varying degrees.

Oh yeah, something that will actually Run vista, becuase seeing what they want these things to have as minimum system specs, am wondering what they will need to run it properly, like a X2 or a 9** runs XP today.

What i would like is Single CPU Chip with Physical Quad-Processer, and those Quad Processers Divided into Quad-Cores Giving us 16X Total Prosessing Power. Yay. and those Fiber Optic Motherboards without Bottlenecks. Yea. and those Carbon Nanotube RAMS and some of those Virtual Electron Processers for my SChool server yea. like 300 Procesers in one CPU chip but. there's no way to read the information yet. but i'd like that. yeah and i'll like more things when the Koreans or the Chinese or anyone Says its been done before and we can Mass produce it. Yay Fantisies

I'd like to see higher cashe, more registers (>32 would be nice), and a risc arcitecture. Alphas so pwned x86s for the longest time.

Well, the SAE did establish an industry-wide method to rate engines' horsepower in the 1970s, and that was a much worse inflationary problem than CPU benchmarks are. How about we get the IEEE to make a net performace rating system?

I personally would like an organic neural network capable processor using the brain cells from a worm.

I would also like to see the advent of a control set that can be effectively run on any number of cascaded chips 3, 6, 10, 15, 21 etc.. so it can split tasks to be processed and re-join the results so we can have generic parallel computing that does not require specialised instruction sets to be coded into the applications or games.

PCI plug in cards that contain a control chip and a number of processors so upgrades are easy and dont require CONSTANT motherboard changes.

It would also be good if the same chips ran the graphics processing as well so the entire system balances itself rather than having bottlenecks all over the place.

I know such things are in the works, but it's still comparatively slow (150% of HDD speeds is still slow compared to RAM, although I guess seek times are probably a massive improvement which aren't mentioned in that article), is quite small (16Gb? ), and probably very expensive.

It's not a hard disk replacement, but might be worth picking one up to house your swapfile and a couple of commonly-used apps... I'd probably buy one if it was less than £50 or so (wassat? US$80 - 85?)...

Obviously it's a start, but it's not yet mature enough I suppose...

Look for more encryption of DVDs, and more software to get around it.

Yeah, me to i got a AthlonXP 1700+ and damn it barely works on it. And even if it does it goes Like slig Slow. i need Money for a new AMD