Yeah right. You think your paychecks and banking transactions are performed on a laptop let alone something that can be dropped in a toilet?
Desktops and notebooks are slow growing at best, but they're going to fade in relevance in due time.
Desktops and notebooks are task appropriate to a huge proportion of work and recreational computing. Until human eyes and fingers can be miniaturized this will not change. Form follows function.
Soon you will have enough power in your tablet/phone to dock it
Yes, a supercomputer the size of your fingernail!!!
Leave the pablum superlatives for popular mechanics to dish out to the great unwashed.
At ANY GIVEN TIME whatever computing/rendering/storage capacity you have in a X gram, Y cubic centimeter phone you can easily get at least 100x more of all of that in a 100X gram, 100Y cubic centimeter desktop case. That's the funny thing about Moore's rising tide in semi technology, it lifts all boats equally.
Another thing is that smart phones aren't really all that smart in any absolute sense. They give that impression to the uninformed because they typically perform tasks where the heavy lifting is done on a x86 server in some huge datacenter somewhere. They are effectively a hand-held thin client. The more phones that get sold, the more data centers have to be built and filled with x86 servers to service them. Ironically the overwhelming value of the phone is simply connectivity to x86 based data centers. But go on believing its all happening in your hand if it makes you feel better. ;-)
I don't think many people truly appreciate the threat from the ARM folks here.
Clearly Intel needs to bull its way into the smart phone SoC market to maintain growth and semi market share but anyone who thinks the bulk of computing silicon value is heading down into handhelds needs to pull their head out. The microwave oven was a great complement to the electric stove but it didn't replace it. Heck, IBM mainframes are still a lucrative ~$4B/year market with the highest growth rate of all server segments in 3Q. So aeassa, when do you think ARM servers will reach sales of $4B/yr? :-D
MEA x86 Server Market Enjoys Strong Growth in Q3 2013, Says IDC
...the MEA x86 server market expanded 9.9% in volume during Q3 2013, with revenue rising 10.6% over the same period.
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Shipments of one-socket servers grew an impressive 24.8% over Q3 2012, securing market share of 30.4%, up 3.6 percentage points higher than last year. Two-socket servers remain the dominant socket capability, however, comprising more than half of the MEA market with 65.1% unit share. Four- and eight- socket servers continued to grow in the third quarter of the year, recording year-on-year volume increases of 24.3% and 47.4%, respectively.
Soon you will have enough power in your tablet/phone to dock it, and this will be good enough for most people
....that's what I look forward to. I only need core I3 performance (currently running W7 on 2.8GHz Athon2 dual core 240 ) I'm hoping it keeps running (want no part of W8) until I can get a good android phone with the required docking. I wonder if the docking module can be engineered to provide clever additional cooling to the SOC so as to increase performance significantly when docked. ......that would put all CoreI3 level Intel chips at risk......What does Intel get for the average I3......perhaps $50?...........what happens when the ARM crowd offers similar for $30.
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