Intel execs predicts 15B devices will be connected to the internet
Intel executive Kirk Skaugen said today that his company expects 15 billion devices will be connected to the internet in the coming years. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Skaugen said that the growth of data on the internet is racing ahead and data center computing is being pulled along with it.
Skaugen spoke because his boss Paul Otellini, chief executive of Intel, was sick. He said that Moore’s Law, the prediction made by Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore back in 1965 that the number of transistors on a chip would double every two years, is expected to hold up in the next few years.
Because chip technology continues to advance, the servers that use those chips can handle more and more traffic in data centers. As a result, users are able to upload 48 hours of video to YouTube every minute. Users can also send tweets about 200 million times a day. The internet now supports more than 4 billion connected devices today, and about 7.5 billion photos are uploaded to Facebook each month.
In the past, the number of processors in data centers grew two-fold in ten years, from 2000 to 2010. Skaugen believes we’ll see another doubling in five years. The average price per server has dropped in that time from $58,000 to $3,800.
Virtualization, or software that helps spread processing loads across more processors, will be so popular by 2015 that about three fourths of the time you will get a virtual server when you order a new server. Skaugen said we generated 245 exabytes of data last year and we are spending $450 billion on data centers each year. During 2011, we’ll generate 300 exabytes of data.
The data and the processors will be needed in the future to make increasingly accurate weather predictions. Skaugen said that servers will become 125 times more powerful by 2018 and they will consume about twice as much power. At that point, weather forecasters will be able to predict the landfall locations for hurricanes within a 100-mile radius. Eventually, forecasters should be able to predict the exact zip code where a hurricane will hit, days ahead of time.
While there are concerns that power limits will curtail Moore’s Law, Skaugen said, “Moore’s Law is alive and well.” He said that Intel is working on several generations of chips now that will enable faster processing for the next few years that stays on the pace demanded by Moore’s Law.
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Time for FDA to get tough with medical device approvals
amplify.comChutzpah. The Yiddish word “chutzpah” is one of those words with a meaning that is best defined anecdotally, as it applies to audacity, but audacity of a very specific kind and it can be easily applied to medical device companies. Allies of the medical device industry waged an extraordinary campaign in Washington to discredit a report by one of the country’s pre-eminent scientific groups that examines possible new regulations on the industry. The report, by a panel at the Institute of Medicine said the government’s system for regulating many medical devices should be abandoned and replaced because it fails to examine their safety and effectiveness before sale. A new study by the Times on hip replacements only proves they are right and that the FDA needs to take a harder look at medical device approvals.
DeepShot - Migrating tasks across devices using mobile phone cameras
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Conversation and Distractions
I don’t mean to come off as anal or anything, but I would like people to know I get really irked when I’m trying to talk with them and they’re playing video games of some sort or fiddling around with their handheld devices.
Unless they were already playing their game by the time I spoke with them, then I generally don’t mind. But when they start playing in the middle of a conversation, I’m really tempted just to stop talking until they’re finished. Or possibly just leave all together.
I just find it rude in a way. I know this really shouldn’t be a huge deal, but I feel slightly ignored, or possibly even given half-assed attention, which I really prefer not dealing with. People wouldn’t like it if they were trying to talk with me, and suddenly I start singing out loud or whatever. Yeah, I’m still technically hearing the person, but I’m not truly listening to them.
To sum this up, when people talk with each other, what’s so wrong with giving your full attention? those little devices are just so distracting.
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Thunderbolt devices - Harder to find than hens teeth
amplify.comLooks like we still have to be patient and wait for our Thunderbolt devices to appear on the Markets. We do have the Apple Thunderbolt cable and the Apple Cinema Display with Thunderbolt. There is the Lacie Thunderbolt hard drive, even though that is a bit expensive for what you get. There are also a few Thunderbolt breakout boxes available that allow you to connect PCI cards via Thunderbolt to your Mac. What we are all dreaming about as early adopters are the single drive Thunderbolt enclosures that we can connect up and get some speed without breaking the bank.
