2007IT Wind Direction Forecast hardware article

It's a new 2007-year period. The new Year is a natural atmosphere, however, look at today's IT products and technology, it seems that every day there is a "climate" appeared, the rapid pace of its innovation, coupled with repeated "dramatic" performance debut, sometimes simply stunning. and to a certain extent, the New Year's turn is only an artificial concept of time, it's wheel forever with its not the human will of the faith, the 2007 is no exception.

There is no doubt that the battle between Intel and AMD will remain the main theme of the 2007 hardware market as a monopoly of the two processor giants, and continue to play the role of "locomotive", thereby making progress on other hardware outside the processor. AMD and ATI in the 2006 Alliance, Will imperceptibly on the 2007 hardware field has a significant and far-reaching impact.

Market: AMD eats up notebook big cake "Centrino" single Big become history

At the market level alone, the role that Intel and AMD assume in 2007 will be subtly interchangeable. In fact, the evidence has emerged from AMD's alliance with Dell that AMD will enter the machine market and downplay the DIY market. As an AMD competitor, Intel will replace AMD's K8 platform and play a more extensive DIY market impact in 2007 years. Prior to this, Intel was well known for its effective appeal to the machine market.

Not only that, AMD's big strides on laptop processors will also pose a huge threat to Intel in 2007. Thanks to Dell's help, the cheap tunion 64x2 notebook will make AMD an unprecedented breakthrough in market share, which is no doubt. The world of Intel's oligarchy in the laptop market has been halted for more than 3 years since the "Centrino" release, although Intel will release its fourth-generation "Centrino" in 2007.

2007 is destined to be a glorious year for laptops, and laptops will further erode the market share of desktop PCs. With the development of the mobile phone industry is very similar, with the continuous advancement of computer popularization, notebook computer put down the early "show" posture, no longer is unreachable objects. Of course, although not as a mobile phone like a hand, but also gradually become a fatigues and working-class life necessities. Because of the increase in the number of laptops, many people say that the market is the key to success or failure. Who can occupy the market side, who can control the overall situation. However, from the media point of view, we can not ignore an important factor. That's the product. Product is the core of this industry chain, its importance is unquestionable, no Sihoufi, only really good products to impress consumers Heart, is the decision to purchase an important factor.

Technology: Manufacturing process becomes the biggest clue to high frequency competition or will reproduce

In the machine/notebook computer, due to the advanced nature of Centrino Mobile technology, mobile processors will not be a rapid change in 2007, after all, Merom and Yonah not most revolutionary changes. But in 2007, other changes to the mobile platform will be compelling. It won't be long before the real fourth-generation mobile platform, Santa Rosa, is about to come out, and we'll see new technologies such as the new Merom processor, 802.11n, NAND flash acceleration, which will undoubtedly spur the growth of the entire notebook computer market.

2007, UMPC will also be the whole notebook computer market hot spot. With more and more manufacturers involved, UMPC is expected to become a new industry in the portable computer market, although it is currently attached to the laptop, but with Intel's strong support, the lower technology threshold will significantly increase the number of UMPC brand, so as to give consumers more choice.

In the hardware technical capability, the manufacturing process will become the 2007 hardware product the biggest clue. Intel discontinued the Pentium D8XX series at the end of 2006, which means the 90nm manufacturing process has become a complete history and replaced by a full stage of the 65nm manufacturing process. Meanwhile, AMD is also rushing to start shipping 65nm processors before the New year comes in 2007.

For the processor, the progress of the manufacturing process means three benefits. First, the cost of the product will be further compressed, second, the processor will be added to the internal more transistors and more complex, third, the processor will be more "cool". And taking this opportunity, the "Moore's Law", once thought to be outdated, will glow, and high-frequency processors will come back. In fact, after Intel releases the Conroe, 4GHz and even higher folk overclocking records are visible. On the technical reserve, the 65nm/core 2 Duo architecture provides a matching point between the power consumption and the frequency of the processor.

As for GPU products, 2007 will be the world of 80nm, the new architecture (G80 and R600) 80nm graphics card and its derivatives will be the first to come out. Coupled with the technical contributions of ATI in the AMD chipset, and Nvidia's collaboration with Intel, this has been a foreshadowing of the popularity of high-performance integrated graphics chips in the 2007.

Products: Multi-core variety increasingly popular graphics "pipeline" to become a history

Thanks to the rapid progress in manufacturing processes, multi-core is undoubtedly the consensus of the hardware manufacturers for the 2007. For 2007 years, Intel and AMD will be releasing their "last" single core processor products and will then be fully moved to multi-core platforms. In fact, not only dual-core, quad-core processors, graphics cards will be launched in 2007 its Tancado nuclear prelude to the year. At the same time, physical acceleration will also be integrated into the graphics GPU as a core, thus rendering the game picture more realistic.

In addition, in order for the new graphics card to cope with the increasingly complex processing and optimization of the rendering design, there are some traditional product performance metrics that will be dead. For example, with the release of the G80 core of Nvidia's "unified rendering", the "pipeline" that was used to judge the product is no longer there, replacing it with a new noun such as "vector processors". In addition, Intel will reform the FSB, which has been in use for years. For consumers, the 2007 hardware products will open up a new situation, how to keep up with the times to learn from scratch and understand them, will be a very small topic.