Technologies are developing rapidly – and best of all, this thesis confirm the dry figures of statistics. The experts compared the modern technology (smart phones, set-top boxes, supercomputers, etc.) with the computers of the second half of the XX century. Totals … admire! 
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore suggested: every two years the number of transistors on a chip will double. The guess was right. By 2015, their number increased to 5.6 million times (!) Performance – 3 500 times (!!), energy efficiency – 90 000 times (!!!). The result was a miniature computers (smartphones, tablets), each of which is many times more powerful than bulky computers from the time when “Moore’s Law” just formulated.
Take, for example, hard disk drives. In 1956, the then revered experts for happiness computers with 5 MB of internal memory. Even in 1992, their capacity rose not so much – only 20 megabytes. At the beginning of the two thousandth become the norm HDD with 100 – 200 GB, and in 2014 showed Segate 6 terabytes of storage. As they say, feel the difference.
How about we compare the performance of modern smartphones with old computers. In these examples, seven-league steps that moves technological progress becomes more apparent. For example, Apple iPhone 5. Smartphone 2012 has computing power is 2.7 times greater than the scientific supercomputers (!) Cray-2 comes from the distant 1985.
Also in 1985, scientists something it was calculated on his miracle machine, and won the entertainment market with its Nintendo Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). NES had already had half the processing power of the CPU, which in 1969 brought to the moon Neil Armstrong.
Yes there – who in those days could seriously believe that in the foreseeable future, everyone wants to be able to be in the pocket device with unlimited access to the information collected by all mankind? Samsung Galaxy S6 with its 1 gigaflops in 2 900 000 times more powerful than a supercomputer the size of a room IBM 704 (1954) – and has a much more modest size. And yet the Korean flagship 5 times more productive Sony PS2, which was published in 2000. If you compare the “apple” of the device, it presented last year smart watch Apple Watch 2 times more powerful than the absolutely the recent iPhone 4 (2010).
What is a modern supercomputer, how to measure its capacity to clear each category? The most productive machine of modern times – Chinese Tiahne-2 – provides 33.86 petaflops. To achieve the same power with, for example, Sony PlayStation 4 would require 18,400 Japanese consoles last generation!
That would be a “game console” on thirty petaflops so home … However, why not? Somewhere after 10 years this dream probably will not find such a pipe.
On materials Publishing Experts Exchange.
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