Intel: Notebooks, Tablets Eradicated in a Decade
In the near future, we won't have tablets, netbooks and notebooks says Intel.
During his keynote address at the SEMICON West conference in San Francisco, vice president of Intel's architecture group Rama Skukla said that the lines between a netbook, laptop and tablet are disappearing faster than today's designers can even realize. That said, it's quite possible that these form factors will be gone within ten years.
"It's going to be very difficult to see where one device goes and the next one takes off," he told the audience. Even today, the concept of PCs is already outdated. He added that future PCs will probably serve as "personal companions" instead of bulky devices, synchronizing around the owner in an individual cloud of information that users will be able to share with others or keep private.
To achieve this oneness with the cloud, Skukla suggested to the captive audience that hardware manufacturers will have to address this cloudy trend by working closely with software developers and distributors so that end-users will have a solid way to manage their identity while also experiencing a seamless, secure computing environment.
Intel is already gearing up for this change, he said. In fact, the industry will see major advances in processor technology within the next five years. Graphics performance on mobile chips alone is expected to rise by a factor of 12 by 2015 – just look at what Intel has achieved with its second generation Sandy Bridge processors.
Unfortunately, Skukla didn't really explain what he envisioned consumers would actually use in ten years. Looking back on the last decade however, desktops still look like desktops, laptops still look like laptops (although they've gotten bigger and thinner), and consoles still look like consoles. The biggest change that's taken place, or so it seems, is in the mobile sector. Tens years ago phones were bulky, ugly and had enough brains to store a few phone numbers; now they can load Flash-based websites, play Angry Birds and stream video content straight to our palm.
So if all of our familiar mobile form factors will be eradicated in the future, what will we use? Smart-watches that can project HD+ imagery on any surface while detecting our finger motions, making mobile keyboards obsolete? Will it connect to Bluetooth glasses that are capable of displaying HD video and audio directly to our eyes and ears? Will the desktop grow wheels, a domed head, and toot electronic beeps while it projects holograms for our entertainment?
There's definitely some fun with speculating.
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Augmented reality?
Has anyone ever seen wall-e? because the fat lazy and tech absorbed from birth humans on the axiom is how i see this going.
"i didn't know we had a pool!"
Who the hell is Rama Skukla ?
I know his position is mentioned in the article, but........um.....cant find him on google, in fact googling him leads to this article......
and yet
as far as im concerned, this guy is cr@pping....like that old Intel statement about 10ghz CPUs by 2010
in 10 years we will have implanted computers that connects to the collective (cloud/ borg?)
Or am i just making up cra p like this guy
Cloud is the way forward but I don't believe touchscreen or augmented reality is going to be a game changer in the most part.
Work out how I can more easily edit and format a spreadsheet without a keyboard and mouse and you will make millions
... Intel Will Be Eradicated in a Decade ...
1) No powerful GPU with DX11, OpenCL support...
2) Apple is looking to shift laptop CPU's to ARM...
3) M$ Windows 8 will be ARM compatible...
4) AMD will work with ARM on OpaenCL...
5) nVidia haz TEGRA...
Salvation sold separately?
Whatever we will be using I will need large, crisp displays where I can look at 10 things at once.
I'm hoping for images beamed directly to our eyeballs by tiny lasers and controlled by virtual controls and subvocalization.
Still I'm predicting that this mobile craze is just a fad and that people will have less and less reason to be mobile. After all there's nothing for you out there except humiliation and defeat, better stay in the basement where it's safe.
Cloud is their way of making everyone pay a monthly service fee to use your computer. The FEDS (sieg heil) love it too, they can easily see what you have stored away.
... Intel Will Be Eradicated in a Decade ...1) No powerful GPU with DX11, OpenCL support...2) Apple is looking to shift laptop CPU's to ARM...3) M$ Windows 8 will be ARM compatible...4) AMD will work with ARM on OpaenCL...5) nVidia haz TEGRA...
lol thanks for that! I needed a good joke to get me going this morning.
+1 to ReggieRay. Mobile rates are so high now I see dark cloud forming in the future where I'm shaken down by a few internet providers every time I want a little data. Paying for data by the MB isn't going to cut it.
Can you please start blurring the line between servers and PCs a bit more, too.
We need cheaper 8-slot boards so that games can actually increase their scale and unit-counts instead of just their graphics.
No we won't be moving to some "cloud" for data storage, that would be a very very bad thing for both privacy and freedom in general. When groups like Lulzsec run around playing cops and robbers with companies, that demonstrates what the world is ~really~ like. Just like IPv6 the "cloud" concept is based on a flawed utopian world idea that doesn't take into account very determined bad guys who want to screw with you, "just for the lulz".
Yeah, the "cloud" is a trendy way to have everyone willingly give up their stuff and then pay to access it! No thanks.
Yeah, the "cloud" is a trendy way to have everyone willingly give up their stuff and then pay to access it! No thanks.
Yeah, the "cloud" is a trendy way to have everyone willingly give up their stuff and then pay to access it! No thanks.
Btw, it's Rama Shukla, not Rama 'Skukla' Tom's.
as long as people need a physical keyboard, laptops will never die
"Graphics performance on mobile chips alone is expected to rise by a factor of 12 by 2015 – just look at what Intel has achieved with its second generation Sandy Bridge processors."
Yeah look what Intel achieved, mediocre graphics that are already sunk by AMD's new A8 apu's.
The cloud scares me...
Cloud computing is not going to happen as it is unlikely to break the laws of human greed. The biggest bottleneck of them all, your ISPs. They are going to impose bandwidth cap, throttling, and high price to make all cloud computing slow and intolerable. Until all ISPs are run by governments and provided to public using tax money, like road, there is no chance cloud computing is going to be a common consumer's service.
Do you use Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Facebook and any other similar service? Then guess what, you're using The Cloud
Stopped reading at the mention of "the cloud".
Clouds on the sky are nice, hell even rainbows!
But my data/games/etc... will remain on hard drives no matter what "cloud" they are smoking.
"Intel is already gearing up for this change, he said. In fact, the industry will see major advances in processor technology within the next five years. Graphics performance on mobile chips alone is expected to rise by a factor of 12 by 2015 – just look at what Intel has achieved with its second generation Sandy Bridge processors."
Yeah right... like it was pounded in smithereens by A8-3850...
LOL Intel walks all over AMD processors and by AMD having a faster graphics on there processors doesn't mean nothing as any real gamer is going to have a graphic card Period. No cpu with grapics on it is going to replace graphic cards anytime soon and when it does get there Intel will be able to step up there game. AMD and NVIDIA hasn't been around as long as Intel and doesn't have the R&D of Intel. Intel will alway be here as AMD and NVIDIA one day won't be here. People used to say how great 3dfx was and they started 1994 and was bought by NVIDIA because they were bankrupt in 2002. AMD is here just so Intel won't be a monopoly. If you go back threw the years Intel has bailed out AMD a couple of times. So saying Intel will be gone one day is the most Stupid and Idoit thing I've heard in my life. I usually don't post but a comment like that had to come from a teenager that doesn't know his facts. Only kids and people that don't want to spend alot of money buy AMD these days. Pro use INTEL and expecially when it comes to the server world I look over 200 servers and the only servers that ever break on me are the AMD pieces of shits. All the servers are made by IBM so they are not thrown together black box servers. AMD has taken up to much of my time and the company to were we will never by another AMD server period.
Definitely, be careful of where you put your data. The closer to you that it is, the easier it is for you to secure. Relying on private companies - who can change their license agreements AFTER you have signed it - to act ethically is to fundamentally misunderstand how little accountability big corporations really have. The cloud really is about charging us to access our own stuff and worse; monetising our stuff for their own gain.
In ten years time, the landscape won't be too dissimilar than it is today. There will be products that are light and small that you can carry around with you that can do computing and there will be products designed to be stationary that can do bigger and better computing. They will look similar, but different, be able to crunch vast numbers in even shorter amounts of time, their interfaces will be different, but the same tasks will be done with them: gaming, spreadsheets, databases, web, email, printing and so on.
"Intel walks all over AMD processors and by AMD having a faster graphics on there processors doesn't mean nothing as any real gamer is going to have a graphic card Period."
Intel has been cheating the benchmarks, and they deserve to be brought to task for that. I hope they are taken to court and ruined for it. The Vikings used to say: Laugh for laugh, gift and gift, and lie for lie. So I hope intel are brought down by lies from within if the courts do not do it. They make good processors but they are more expensive and in real terms, for me and for you, they are poor value for money compared to AMD processors.
"They make good processors but they are more expensive and in real terms, for me and for you, they are poor value for money compared to AMD processors.
What you say is very true, but there are some people who are less concerned about value, and more concerned with performance. Each company has a legitimate place in the market, both catering to different types of consumers' interests.
"Intel walks all over AMD processors and by AMD having a faster graphics on there processors doesn't mean nothing as any real gamer is going to have a graphic card Period."Intel has been cheating the benchmarks, and they deserve to be brought to task for that. I hope they are taken to court and ruined for it. The Vikings used to say: Laugh for laugh, gift and gift, and lie for lie. So I hope intel are brought down by lies from within if the courts do not do it. They make good processors but they are more expensive and in real terms, for me and for you, they are poor value for money compared to AMD processors.
i3 2100 dominates any AMD cpu in that pricerange, and if you live near a microcenter, they sell for 99 bucks. pretty inexpensive to me
i remember when e6750s were around 250, so I would say Intel is not more expensive
When Mr. Skukla stated that the notebook, netbook, and tablet would be erradicated I don't think he meant that there would be no mobile/portable computer. I think he implied that the lines of distinction between them would vanish. I think his vision of the future is of a world where those three varieties of computer no longer exist but have become merged into something new. If tablets become more functional and powerful, it's easy to see where the need for a notebook or a netbook would be less necessary. However, certain portions of the the notebook or netbook may remain in a new form factor that is somewhat different from these three and combines the best qualities of each.
Yeah, and we will have flying cars that autonomously navigate, too.