Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Prescient Processing: A Q&A with Intel Futurist Brian Johnson and Why We Shouldn't Fear the Future

Link: Prescient Processing: A Q&A with Intel Futurist Brian Johnson and Why We Shouldn't Fear the Future

Much of Intel’s success as a microprocessor-maker over the past four decades has come from the company’s ability to anticipate the future of technology. Since company co-founder Gordon Moore’s  famous assertion in 1965 that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit would roughly double every two years, Intel’s microprocessors have grown steadily smaller, faster and cheaper, helping to give birth to personal computing and mobile devices that once existed only in the realm of science fiction.

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