Also, I know where you live.

Ohh… fine, I’ll forgive their grammar

But who will forgive your abuse of commas?

Ok, actually, before I begin, I want to point out

Processor speed has hit something of a practical barrier. More cores are the way the future is going: looking ahead, massively multicore is the way it’s going to be.

Sure you might say that it’s REALLY expensive to add ram to a processor die. You’re missing the point. Currently, processor cache exists in the form of SRAM, which is really fast and has no refresh time but isn’t very dense at 6 transistors per bit. DRAM, on the other hand, has far fewer components and is far more dense on the die. The idea behind putting DRAM on CPU dies is that it gives you a large cache very nearby: just stick 256MB adjacent to the computational part and you’ve got a really nice L3 cache.

And to finish up, yes. Technology is unstoppable, and architecture will probably change significantly, ushering in the age of massive multicore.

The main point the article seemed to be making was that the data bus of modern motherboards aren’t speeding up at a similar rate as the processors. Technically, they would be right, the data bus would cause a bottleneck, greatly reducing performance, but I highly doubt manufacturers would be stupid enough to let that happen.

You also need to take into consideration, adding on-board “RAM” (or registers) to your processor is REALLY expensive. Those memory registers are exponentially more expensive than the RAM you buy and stick in yourself on your motherboard. However, they are very fast.

You are right though, technology will never stop. It will always move forward. If they can’t make the current architecture powerful enough to allow for faster data rates, they will make a new one. Although, you have to look at that IEEE chart and notice one thing, that is with “conventional architecture.” It is quite possible it is architecture that was not designed work as efficiently as possible when linked together 64 times. I’m pretty sure we’re not going to be using “conventional architecture” in the future. We will have a new architecture to suite the needs/demands of the time.

All right, find out how you could ever get purple eyes. Are they genetic? a half-albino trait? a mythical (?!) disease? (“Alexandria’s Genesis”) Oh, and Elizabeth Taylor doesn’t count.