Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini says that nanotechnology is going to drive rapid changes in personal computing.
"By 2005 our processor transistors will be down to 65nanometres (nm), with all the benefits in reduced size and power consumption that that will bring," said Otellini.
"By 2007 we'll cut that to 45nm, then 32nm by 2009, and in 2011 we expect to be at 22nm, smaller than DNA molecules are wide."
The result of these developments?
By 2010, one billion PCs and 2.5 billion handheld devices as powerful as Pentium 4 systems will be linked in a global computing network,
Otellini also believes that economic good times will soon be back:
Posted by Phil at September 18, 2003 06:43 AM | TrackBack"There's a collection of tipping point events going on," he added. "I believe this year we will see double-digit growth in PCs again. I think this is because we've been investing in new products that people want to buy once more."