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Faster! Faster!Author/s: Dan Littman THE SPEED OF COMPUTER PROCESSORS AND CONNECTIVITY options has kept pace with--but never exceeded--home business needs. But with a slew of performance breakthroughs coming in the near term, PCs might actually become too fast. Speed Wireless phones are about to hit 64Kbps data transfer rates, comparable to 56K modem speed. IBM chief technology officer Phil Hester foresees 1Mbps wireless phones within a couple of years, and adds that tomorrow's smart phones will pack enough computing power to make speech recognition viable. Need Hester says such speed will not only let you talk to your handheld, but will quickly instruct your desktop PC to find information or conduct transactions. And since these super-handhelds will cost as little as $100, "that touches a whole new user base that couldn't afford previous technology." Speed Archrivals AMD and Intel are now shipping 1GHz CPUs. That's a good jump over today's blazing 750MHz to 850MHz processors. Need More CPU clock cycles accommodate real-time video compression--the keystone to affordable, high-quality videoconferencing. And a CPU that crunches through encryption algorithms can handle stronger e-commerce privacy and security. Speed AMD's 64-bit, Athlon-compatible Sledgehammer processor should ship next year. Sledgehammer CPUs will let Windows support more than 4GB of memory, a capability currently restricted to exotic Unix boxes. Need That much memory lets you work on four 200MB Adobe Photoshop images at once, each with a dozen undo commands stacked up, or inspect a street map of the entire country. Speed At a recent conference, Intel subsidiary Level One showed working HDSL-2 transceivers, which will allow DSL rates of 1.5Mbps in both directions. Need Since HDSL service should cost the same as today's DSL, home-based businesses will be able to compete with large firms, even if that means running a full-scale Web site. Speed Intel recently demonstrated working prototypes of the USB 2.0 standard, which allows PCs and peripherals to exchange data at 480Mb per second, versus today's 12Mbps. Need Say good-bye to that wait while your PC and Palm synchronize data. COPYRIGHT 2000 CURTCO Freedom Communications COPYRIGHT 2000 Gale Group |
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