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2010 Technology Preview (5 web pages).

We've seen the future and it's full of new and exciting hardware for power users

This article covers:
Core i7 Goes Mainstream: Intel's latest troika of new CPUs brings Nehalem goodness to the masses

AMD Pins Hope on 32nm Parts: New Orochi core, based on Bulldozer, will see the light in 2011

PCI Express 3.0: New spec removes bottlenecks and improves throughput, but when will we see it?

Graphics: Hang onto your wallets—a new generation of videocards is about to arrive

USB 3.0: Like USB 2.0, but 10 times as fast

DisplayPort: Smaller, simpler, faster

Touch: It's not just for your cell phone anymore

Storage: Bigger, faster, solid-state-ier drives await in 2010
* 6Gb/s SATA Will Give SSDs Some Growing Room

Mobile Broadband: LMDS is dead, LTE and WiMax are coming
* LMDS
* WiMAX
* LTE

Multiscreen Madness: If you think a 30-inch monitor insufficient, how about gaming on six?

What is your take on these new technologies? As for me, I am looking forward (someday) to purchasing a low-power multi-core system (32 nm or smaller) as I have a background in parallel processing as a system software engineer. I am still mulling over whether it will be a Cell processor, grid based, or a combo of that and the standard mix of homogenous processors. Of course, I am thinking beyond that to the day where graphene replaces silicon (SWAG: probably within the next 10 years), and whether the consumer marketplace will by then have any reasonably priced quantum computers (doubtful and probably not cheap) - but hey, by then it will probably be feasible to model quantum computations on graphene based computers (think 1 nm - typical half-pitch for a memory cell), i.e. possible to write quantum computing algorithms that would reasonably approximate what a quantum computer would compute exponentially faster, but within a reasonable approximation (a lot less aka polynomial time) of what would take current computers to compute in NP-complete time by then.

-- Tom