Hold on to your butts, it’s gonna be a helluva ride.

You know that teraflops video card a few of us own? Basically the supercomputer of a few years back, on a board, animating your little army games so you can shoot your friends. 6 years from now, Nvidia’s Chief Scientist predicts we’ll have about 20 teraflops on the top end video card.

And these predictions are pretty easy because technology so far doesn’t fail to disappoint in it’s increases. He may be off by about 6 months, but that’s it, barring a dissolution of the global societal order.

Dylan McGrath and the EE Times did the heavy lifting on this article, I’ll let you click through and appreciate their hard work on it’s own terms.

Tags: high tech, how crazy does that shit look?, nerd with a capital N, so awesome it sounds like science fiction, wow, yes please i'd like it now

This entry was posted on Monday, August 3rd, 2009 at 21:51.