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I'm seriously curious about the future of computer hardware, what's coming out in the next couple of months?

After doing a quick google search I found nothing. So what is next?
 
Bulldozer is next around June22 (brand new CPU architecture from AMD), followed by HD7xxx GPUs (die shrink) around October/November. LGA2011 from Intel is out around Q4 as well. Think that covers most of it. Dont know when the next batch of Nvidia GPUs is due yet
 
Does anyone have links on this? Or more info? I'm curious about the new AMD cpu... big fan. Also what about concepts of the far future?
 
Just google "AMD bulldozer." There is plenty of info on it already. But basically it will have an AMD version of hyperthreading, and be available in 4, 6 and 8 core variants.
 
Bulldozer is the codename AMD has given to one of the next-generation CPU cores after the K10 microarchitecture for the company's M-SPACE design methodology, with the core specifically aimed at 10 watt to 125 watt TDP computing products. Bulldozer is a completely new design developed from the ground up. AMD claims dramatic performance-per-watt improvements in HPC applications with Bulldozer cores. Products implementing the Bulldozer core are planned for release during the second quarter of 2011.[1]
The Bulldozer cores will support most of the instruction sets currently implemented in Intel processors (including SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES, CLMUL, and AVX) as well as future instruction sets proposed by AMD (XOP and FMA4).[2][3]
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According to AMD, Bulldozer-based CPUs will be based on GlobalFoundries' advanced 32nm SOI process technology and utilize a new approach to multithreaded computer performance that, according to press notes,[citation needed] "balances dedicated and shared computer resources to provide a highly compact, high core count design that is easily replicated on a chip for performance scaling." In other words, by eliminating some of the redundancies that naturally creep into multicore designs, AMD hopes to take better advantage of its hardware capabilities, while using less power.
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...while the 4–8 core Zambezi will target desktops on Socket AM3+
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So what other interesting news do we have? And who's looking forward to the bulldozer cpu? I know I am.
 
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Google "intel roadmap", "amd roadmap" and search on wikipedia for "future intel" and for "future amd".
 
So what about GPUs and other hardware? Is there anything totally new coming out? Remember those physics cards that just died, well something unique like that... anyone?
 
Quantum cpu's with dark matter power supplies built into your forehead or left forefinger.
 
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