We knew this day was coming, the sci-fi film and literature industries have taught us well: A Japanese corporation called “Softbank” announced that it will begin sale of personal robots by February 2015. These personal robots are meant to be used as baby sitters (or maybe monitors?), nurses , emergency medical workers and even party companions …
As Intel and AMD grew close to the physical limit of the smallest transistor they could build, they had to find ways of packing more transistors and continue to increase computing power. Their solution was to add more processing units – all working together in tandem, and sharing some of the cache memory provided. Since …
Recently, as a result of doing a lot of technology related reading (for work), I have started giving some thought as to where we are headed in terms of personal computing. There is a shift in the paradigm. A change in the standard line of thought. So far, it has been the PC that reigned supreme, …
