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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

7

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.

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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.