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THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL
THOMAS MCDONALD
THE LIST
9 Tech Developments
THE LIST
9 Tech Developments
THE LIST
to Watch
for in 2009
9 Tech Developments
for in 2009
9 Tech Developments
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Up to 4.8Gb/s bi-
directional transfer—
a tenfold increase in
speed from USB 2.0. 6
The many-cored GPU archi-
tecture with a shared cache
is perfect for distributed
computing tasks.
8
LINUX ON
THE DESKTOP
9
AMD’s been working
feverishly to get its 45nm
next-gen chips out of the
fabs and into our PCs.
PHENOM II
USB 3.0 LARRABEE
3
SECOND-GEN
NETBOOKS
The fi rst generation impressed us
with their small sizes and good price/
performance ratios. Now let’s work
on the battery life!
2
BETTER SOLID
STATE DRIVES
Watch as storage-capacity increases
and the price per gigabyte drops.
Nanoscale switches with variable resistance and persistent memory can
replace transistors in circuits, and now HP has built a hybrid memristor-
transistor chip prototype. This won’t become commercialized in 2009, but
expect big strides in both calculation and storage if these take off.
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THE DESKTOP
MEMRISTORS
5
BETTER OLEDs
Organic LED displays are fl ex-
ible and don’t need current to stay
bright—and now blue OLEDs fi nally
last as long as reds and greens.
4
ANDROID
Sure, the G1’s already here, but
it’s no iPhone killer. Expect one in 2009,
once the OS matures and manufactur-
ers turn out second-gen handsets.
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BETTER OLEDs
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fabs and into our PCs.