IVY BRIDGE - Not content with its 32nm Sandy Bridge parts, Intel is already talking about fabricating a line of CPUs on a 22nm process technology. The first processors in this series are currently code named Ivy Bridge and may debut as early as late next year in notebooks and mainstream desktop chips. The 22nm process will also be the basis of intel's next big "tock," which is code-named Haswell, and will likely debut in 2012.
ETHERNET 10GBASE-T AND LIGHTPEAK - yes it cost more than $1000 per port in 2008, but by 2012, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE or 10GBE) will be standard on motherboards. yeah, really, 10x the bandwidth of Gigabit Ethernet fer freaking free! We won't bet the bank on it, but we also believe that by 2012, Intel's LightPeak will be available as a pretty low-cost add-in and may be standard on some higher-end motherboards.
SATA 12 - with SATA 6Gb/s here, the SATA international Organization is already looking to open up the throttle even more. The next speed notch isn't set in stone, but the roadmap targets speeds of 10GB/s or 12Gb/s. When will it happen? We,re guessing 2013 to 2014.
4K RESOLUTION - In 2015 or so, we'll likely start seeing 4k video take hold. This higher-resolution "standard" will offer four times the pixels of 1080p and pack more pixels than a 30-inch panel running 2560x1600 resolution. It's too early to say for sure, but we're hearing about resolutions approaching 4096x3072. No, this won't happen overnight, but with 4k videos already on YouTube, you can bet this resolution revolution will happen faster than you think.
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