Four Future Technologies Getting Ready to Deliver
Though
in the embryonic stage, these technologies promise to usher in a
fundamental shift in the way tech products are created and used. Let’s
take a look at IBM’s initiative to make a computer that will behave
like human brain, Intel’s Silicon Photonics and Larrabee, and
Qualcomm’s Kayak. The research is part of My Techbox Online Market
Intelligence Series.
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Tech
leader IBM believes that the present-day computer can deliver much
more than it’s doing. So IBM Research and five leading universities
are joining hands to create computer of the future that will behave
like human brain. The
cognitive computing initiative will
get $4.9 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA).
Intel
is working aggressively in the field of
Silicon Photonics, an emerging
technology that uses standard silicon to send and receive optical
information among computers and other electronic devices.
Taking its development forward, the company has produced a
high-performance Avalanche Photodetector (APD). It says that it’ll
lower costs and improve performance for optical devices. The
technology aims to address future bandwidth needs of data-intensive
computing applications such as remote medicine and lifelike 3-D
virtual worlds.
Another leading company Qualcomm has decided to simplify computer
design. It has introduced a PC alternative named
Kayak for Net connectivity in
developing markets worldwide. The company says that manufacturers can
make a wide range of devices based on the Kayak reference design.
Initial Kayak PC alternative units are being manufactured by
Taiwan-based Inventec Corporation.
Intel
has also announced its "many-core" architecture codenamed "Larrabee."
It’ll deliver a new approach to the software rendering 3-D pipeline, a
many-core (many processor engines in a product) programming model and
performance analysis for several applications.
The
first product based on Larrabee will target the PC graphics market and
is expected this year or the next.
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