t e c h i e - t a l k s ::: technology at its best

Canadian firm D-Wave Systems unveiled and demonstrated today what it calls “the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer.” Company officials announced the technology at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California in a demonstration intended to show how the machine can run commercial applications and is better suited to the types of problems that […]

[Read more →]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has already proclaimed that there is “More where that came from” when it comes to operating systems. According to PC World, 2009 is when we can expect more “wow” from Microsoft. During that year, Microsoft is expected to release the follow-up to Windows Vista which is codenamed Vienna.
Microsoft doesn’t want another […]

[Read more →]

Late last year, AMD executives alluded to a 45nm successor to the Barcelona core, dubbed Shanghai.  AMD’s Senior Vice President, Marty Seyer, claimed Shanghai would specifically “bring further performance enhancements, as well as cache efficiency.”
Shanghai is apparently more than just a cache-bump.  AMD’s documentation explicitly claims Shanghai will be the company’s first 45nm processor.  However, […]

[Read more →]

Intel’s latest partner guidance revealed the shipment numbers it projects for 2007.Two immediate things jump out for desktop projections: by Q4 2007, more than 85% of processor shipments will be at least dual-core; and by Q4 2007 the company only expects 5% of its desktop shipments to transition to quad-core.
Not only will dual-core take the […]

[Read more →]