steveDec 28th, 2007 - 08:50:54

This article is hopeless.

There is plenty of scope for new improvements in silicon. More use of multi-core, etc.

Intel sends $5 billion a year on R&D. AMD spends $1.2 billion. Where does this prof get off on thinking his couple of million pounds is going to lead to anything substantial? (Note the absense of any actual technical detail in the article).

It just sounds like this guy is looking to sustain his research budget by appealing to the masses.

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SchmooDec 28th, 2007 - 09:29:00

Anyone who thinks immersion is a product of graphics is hopelessly outdated... unless you're planning to go back to the graphics of the 80s, just concentrate on the gameplay instead of blaming your weaknesses in that area on something that has already given way more than you need.

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SerioussamDec 28th, 2007 - 11:29:16

I think the article is a bit pointless too. The article is really talking about 'chip' advancements. Moores law seems to have stopped working and that is because of the limitations mentioned. The reference to games I think is more to make the article more mainstream than a boring techie article.

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A smart guyNov 20th, 2008 - 13:09:07

I would have to disagree with the first commentator on this page, as gaming producers HAVE been held back very much so by silicon processors, as they are expensive, and the ruthless companies that build them slow their advancement into the commercial world so people replace them year to year!

I've worked with 3d development programs, and the power of current video processors, and CPUs is definitely holding back loads of detail capability, and not only for games, but for movies as well! It is far too time consuming to try to develop a model if you have to wait for a good 10 seconds between every calculation for the screen change.

1/50 of a teaspoon of DNA solution (that volume includes the secondary ingredients needed to allow the DNA to trigger the processing) was used in the original test to make a DNA computer, and it presented a potential power of over 100 yottabytes! (it processed 100 x 10 to the 24th power answers in 1 second) IMAGINE WHAT IT COULD DO WITH ITS FULL POTENTIAL!

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